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by nkoren 7y ago
Survivorship bias is absolutely right. Technology adoption really doesn't work that way. Another example: scurvy. Known to be cured by lemons since 1601; took 200 years and the better part of two million lives for this news to be prope
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by nkoren 7y ago
It's kind of worse than that: typical aerospace management is actually very good at their game. They're just playing the wrong game. This is part of the reason that it can take so long to comprehend a genuinely innovative new tech
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by nkoren 7y ago
We're in the middle of a few different technological revolutions right now, and the kind of conservatism / lock-in that this article talks about is very much in evidence. It can be surreal to observe. One revolution which I follow
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by nkoren 7y ago
The XPS is alright. Its touchpad hasn't been as big a transition as I'd feared -- although the loss of kinetic scrolling is certainly lamented. My main issues with the XPS are: - Only slightly quieter than a vacuum cleaner. - Unle
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by nkoren 7y ago
> * No way to adjust mouse scroll speed; official answer seems to be "don't want that". (Or install imwheel and change your mouse scroll to be equal to hitting the down button (!) which breaks other stuff) Oh yeah, that! L
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by nkoren 7y ago
Ironically, in those days I was at my OS happiest. I'd built a multi-core BeOS monster, and felt like I was a decade ahead of the rest of the world. Two decades later, and I still can't find as performant or useable a system as
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by nkoren 7y ago
Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-boot
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by nkoren 7y ago
Did you ever see the WTC in person? I found that it had a surprising number of sensitive human-scale details. Didn't read as such from afar, but up close it was no less humane than the Gherkin.
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China is destroying Uigher burial grounds(theguardian.com)
60 points by nkoren 7y ago|2 comments
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by nkoren 7y ago
At the time, the whole world had a total population of about 5 million people. So both this city and modern-day NYC would have about 0.1% of the global population. The comparison seems apt.
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by nkoren 7y ago
How long exactly is "from time to time"? 'Cause it's been 36 years for me and I haven't felt the need for meat yet...
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by nkoren 7y ago
Nit: unless the video is running at a reduced speed, the claim is false. You can clearly see that the pizza takes 18 seconds to pass over a single location. If you were to run then pizzas through edge-to-edge, then the fastest production ra
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Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1(inkscape.org)
603 points by nkoren 7y ago|164 comments
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by nkoren 7y ago
Snort! I am imagining a bunch of microdosing firangi sitting in their gravity pods, asking each other what Indians do to be, like, all cool and stuff. "Build a successful business" is, like, way too square an answer, daddy-o. Anyb
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by nkoren 7y ago
I think your comment about disregarding the accelerating expansion of the universe is a key point. We can't actually move anywhere in space; reacheable space is constrained by our reference frame relative to the reference frame of some
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by nkoren 7y ago
Desks would be too work-y. They've got half-sofa, half-bed thingies, which nobody can figure out how to use in a dignified fashion in public.
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by nkoren 7y ago
The new one near Waterloo. The DJs are possibly a new-location promotional feature, but they've been around for the past few weeks at least. To be fair, the ones I've been to around town (mostly Moorgate) are generally much more r
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by nkoren 7y ago
It's not "Silicon Valley", it's Silicon Valley . As in the show. My wife just started a contract at a new WeWork office in London. The lobby features a giant but non-functional as skateboard ramp, and two DJ booths, bot
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by nkoren 7y ago
Actually the analogy is a bit poorer than that, but also more consistent. You can only go one direction on either axis. Any movement in 3D space advances you along the "+space" axis, to the the detriment of your default movement a
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by nkoren 7y ago
That's indeed the average adult walking speed.
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by nkoren 7y ago
Here's a quick analogy to help (loosely adapted from Brian Greene): You're on a grass field, sitting on one of those riding lawnmower thingies, with a broken throttle. It's moving at a fixed speed of 1mph. You can't ever
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by nkoren 7y ago
The cartography there is superb. Relatively few cues to indicate it's not modern. But notice: no Antarctica! I guess it had been sighted by then, but its coastline insufficiently mapped.
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by nkoren 7y ago
Wait, WTF? I'm 43 years old, have been reading at a college level since I was 7, scored at the 100th percentile in the language component of the GMAT, and that's how you pronounce "victuals"?!? How did I miss that? Poi
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by nkoren 7y ago
These are a step in the right direction, but are not as environmentally effective as you might think. Major changes in India's grid energy are needed before this will yield significant improvements. I was the project lead for a (sadly
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by nkoren 7y ago
Ouch, yeah, that's pretty bad. I've actually been at a fair number of events with these folks, as my own startup often gets put into the same bucket with them (also London-based and associated with "green" transport infr
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by nkoren 7y ago
Yes, solar roads were always the answer to the question of "where is the absolute worst possible place to put solar panels". This was 100% predictable.
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Ice Memory (2002)(newyorker.com)
1 points by nkoren 7y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 7y ago
Sounds more like this Charlie Stross story: https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
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by nkoren 7y ago
The Dutch, as a country, are "taller than normal", and this is a fairly common point to make about them. I've always taken it to mean that their population average is somewhere above 1.852 meters or whatever, not that they ar
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by nkoren 7y ago
In that case, somebody has defined "normal" quite badly.

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