mxfh

74 ms·

691.
by mxfh 11y ago
Since state area alone doesn't produce anything (maybe it's a rough indicator for general access to share of natural resources, but that's not relevant here) The comparison could be done on province level though. If you add u
692.
by mxfh 11y ago
Maybe it's simply that (civil) engineering is the go to higher education path that is vouched for by parents in arabic cultures? As it is considered one of the few pathways of upward mobility plus and crisis/future proof. At least
693.
by mxfh 11y ago
should add a well deserved head tip to: @superlevel https://twitter.com/superlevel/status/702134669500923904
694.
Minefield: HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Online Minesweeper(mienfield.com)
248 points by mxfh 11y ago|65 comments
695.
Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging(nature.com)
19 points by mxfh 11y ago|2 comments
696.
Mike Winkelmann Has Spent the Last Decade Drawing an Image a Day(io9.gizmodo.com)
4 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
697.
Responsive Man(niravigad.com)
1 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
698.
Numbers That Don't Add Up: Tibetan Half Digits (2007)(babelstone.blogspot.com)
3 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
699.
by mxfh 11y ago
Effectively Switzerland is pretty much a one-dimensional (only 30 to 70 km in width) multi or triple center city-(cluster) state due to it's economically usable geography wedged in between the Jura and alpine Mountain ranges. This 300
700.
The Urban Archipelago (2004)(thestranger.com)
1 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
701.
by mxfh 11y ago
This whole topic is probably not inititated by Netflix, but by the contracts they sign with the distributors. Distributors don't care about this, they care about geographically determined licenses. And apparently they want to see that
702.
by mxfh 11y ago
The worrying scenario is just any powerful system that optimizes for something that's different from what humans want. Like AI based-HFT? Which humans want what? I'm pretty sure, that if there's one constant, that there alw
703.
by mxfh 11y ago
Or also read W3C's version of the SVG Origin Story: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Secret_Origin_of_SVG
704.
by mxfh 11y ago
Regarding the state of web graphic standards for animation, I would like to know where SVG animations[0] are going. With SMIL animations being pushed into deprecation[1] by chrome devs while CSS animations are a inferior replacement, web an
705.
1980 – Nobel Winner [Dr. William Lipscomb] Looks at Future of Big Data(youtube.com)
1 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
706.
The Future of Big Data – Leonard Schaeffer in 1979(youtube.com)
1 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
707.
Computer Store Manager Predicts Future (1979) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
708.
by mxfh 11y ago
I'm not sure either; it's kind of random, yet loosely related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10632961
709.
by mxfh 11y ago
Don't worry the German language has lot's of Ms to throw around, so we had to start stacking them: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_18...
710.
Safe Road Trains for the Environment(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
711.
by mxfh 11y ago
In commute mode self-driving interconnected cars or shuttles could enter in some kind of virtual train mode that would enable them to drive at much lower safety distance or virtually bumper to bumper thereby vastly improving the road capaci
712.
Slip coach(en.wikipedia.org)
39 points by mxfh 11y ago|12 comments
713.
Eating Heavily: Men Eat More in the Company of Women(link.springer.com)
1 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
714.
by mxfh 11y ago
Sure. But Anne Frank is the wrong target here. What about apologetic memoirs of active perpetrators or works of propagandists? Albert Speer † 1981; Fritz Hippler † 2002; Leni Riefenstahl † 2003
715.
by mxfh 11y ago
While this move is questionable, it highlights a justice dilemma with the current copyright term practice of death of author + x years. Especially when arguing that that the descendants should benefit from the works of an author, now it is
716.
by mxfh 11y ago
Just what http://shapecatcher.com/ put out in a few minutes seems to render more reliable as a compromise than the proposed composition Ƭ̵̬̊. Ŧ̊ (Latin capital letter t with stroke + combining ring above) or Ankh, ቶ (Ethiop
717.
Google Searches Put Consumers at Risk(theatlantic.com)
7 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments
718.
by mxfh 11y ago
Temperature is one thing, but without knowing the air pressure you couldn't even cook an egg properly. Assuming unstated conditions, like normal air pressure, is just as well an entry point for error if you want to reliably describe th
719.
by mxfh 11y ago
The patent mentioned only covers projecting a light pattern to the ceiling of a room for indoor-navigation of household robots.
720.
Elastic Terrain Map(elasticterrain.xyz)
1 points by mxfh 11y ago|0 comments

More ›