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by naravara 6y ago
I believe the version I saw uses a polarized filter and some kind of film that works similarly to e-ink to control how much light goes through. They had a White Paper on it called JustTint.
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by naravara 6y ago
Honestly I'm surprised I don't see more instances of the technology being used for things like windows or sunglasses with controllable opacity/tinting. It's a much less price sensitive market at least. I've seen the
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by naravara 6y ago
Irrespective of how justifiable the anger is, the root issue that compulsive anger is both poisonous to mental health and that it gets in the way of critical thinking in ways that make it easy to be manipulated are both true. Things don&#
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by naravara 6y ago
This seems expensive to do for the host. Maybe specifically snapshotting pages for "Read it later" purposes but I can't imagine having to load up every web-page from every site you follow whether you're going to read it
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by naravara 6y ago
Why does everyone need a meaningful yard? The point of mixed use development is that you mix housing aimed at people at various phases of their lives. There's no reason why everything has to be one or another. You can have a 10 unit mu
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by naravara 6y ago
This could maybe be viable for malls, stadiums, or huge residential buildings. But I don't see it working for rowhome/townhome heavy areas. Just not enough scale to be worth it.
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by naravara 6y ago
> I suspect it could never be, because the inherent low density required for that means that places nearest the city with that density will be bid up beyond what the median household can afford. I see no reason why. Cambridge was, once u
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by naravara 6y ago
> That hasn't been my experience at all (living in the DC suburbs). In my experience what "first we make car transport less and less appealing" translates to is "we should allocate some of this land dedicated to free
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by naravara 6y ago
Though unlike the Camry, the “affordability” is a mirage derived from being heavily subsidized by state and federal tax codes, decisions about how to prioritize infrastructure spending to promote sprawl, and zoning and housing policies that
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by naravara 6y ago
Cool. I'm a novice piper myself but I suppose it's probably too nicotinic for me. I have some Orlick golden sliced and even that gets me uncomfortably light headed.
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by naravara 6y ago
Interesting. I'm surprised it's not grown commercially then, especially for the more intentional nicotine delivery systems like gum and patches. Falling over unconscious after a hit also seems like a strange thing to do recreation
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by naravara 6y ago
It's interesting how early European accounts of Native American tobacco smoking don't seem to bear much similarity to my experiences of tobacco use. In this it describes the Taino becoming "almost drunk" off it. But the
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by naravara 6y ago
> 1. They cannot be monetized via anything but ads. Sure a few people will pay for access to a social network. But the majority will not pay $0.01 because the friction of the transaction will prevent them. Moreover, an SN operator can ma
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by naravara 6y ago
I have no "purpose" when I go to a party besides drinking, eating, and socializing. Yet they rarely devolve into tribal bickering and infighting. Human beings have plenty of natural regulating mechanisms to keep social interaction
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by naravara 6y ago
Around independence many Indian families kind of chose their last names (or had a choice imposed on them, in the case of lower caste members). Surnames were kind of a European import and traditionally people were identified by a personal na
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by naravara 6y ago
That sounds like an uncharitable interpretation of what HAF said, but I can't verify because they never link to the source statement and the article she points at is behind a paywall. Come to think of it this "Attribute quotes to
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by naravara 6y ago
This sounds like someone else might be using your account.
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by naravara 6y ago
I'd kill for YouTube to start recommending short videos again. All I get recommended now are 20 minutes worth of content on something interesting stretched out to an hour long video. The recommendation algorithm seems to prioritize lon
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by naravara 6y ago
One thing I wish RSS readers were better at is more granular controls over how they do workflows and notifications. Podcasts actually do this well, but regular old text-RSS does not. There are some feeds where I just do not care about anyth
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by naravara 6y ago
Wordpress has an RSS feed by default. If they can tweet or post to a blog they can post to RSS. It's just about reaching a user base.
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by naravara 6y ago
> I can't ask a journalist for more details or check their work. I don't know how well they translated the niche knowledge required to understand the story for public consumption. I only follow outlets and journalists whose tho
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by naravara 6y ago
Nothing has happened in US-Iran relations in the past two years to suggest anything in this article has changed substantially: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/15/apple-blocks-app-store-in... If your app is us
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by naravara 6y ago
Iran is under embargo by the US. Consequently, Apple doesn't do business in Iran. If someone buys an Apple product in Iran they're getting smuggled hardware that has likely been jailbroken. It won't be connected to anything A
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by naravara 6y ago
Tibetans aren't Westerners.
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by naravara 6y ago
GOI's handling of relocation during the lockdowns was a negative indicator in the same way famines are indicators ( https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/does-democracy-avert... ). It was directed t
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by naravara 6y ago
That’s because Apple’s ad personalization doesn’t revolve around cross-site tracking. It’s based on demographic information you provide them and preferences you select within Apple’s universe of services. The only place it arguably starts t
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by naravara 6y ago
The reward loop works much better when it can be in your pocket and be accessed during moments of boredom/idleness. The lack of friction before getting pulled in is at least as much of a causative factor as the three issues the article
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by naravara 6y ago
> And all of this comes up against the simple and obvious truth that all someone in this position has to do is speak what so many would like to hear; that they didn't understand what this person was doing, that it isn't what th
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by naravara 6y ago
> but there's also nothing to stop "the Right" from buying the idea that everything is just about Power. I think this ship sailed long long ago.
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by naravara 6y ago
I agree with you. I also thought it was odd that this piece's author specifically called out "the humanities and social sciences" as the main purveyors of "pseudophilosophy" before directing all his fire at Foucault

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