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Related: Bunnie Huang on us tariffs impacting educators from 2018: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2018/new-us-tariffs-are-a...
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Since not everyone remembers the Great American Recession or the origins of Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), I link to a Nov. 2008 piece in Harper's magazine by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi "Protect Financial
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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014013 (discussion of 'A Week of Failing to Pay with Bitcoin in El Salvador')
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related: https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte... (2019)
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Related: a long podcast talking about the issues with starship locally: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-spacex-wastewater-l... (from https://deceleration.news/podcast/ ) , also http
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Not spatial audio, but reminded me of audioGL (2012, but a newer video posted in 2024): https://m.youtube.com/@AudioGL/videos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3579543
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You also have to make it environmentally sustainable like they did when they talked about a partnership with Prometheus fuels back in 2019, even then what's the point compared to regular planes if these "are likely to burn between
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Same answer as this person. Snoozing alarms and music controls without even looking at the watch (e.g. while in bed, or while walking/snowboarding/etc.) were really neat. And it kinda begs a question of how much should one want fr
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
I'm not sure you can put it in MBA language like 'specific pitch' or 'value add', you had to try it and see if it felt right for you. The watch had a pretty coherent ux flow for a non-touchscreen device, and could b
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Yeah, as someone who has actually done mass archiving (thousands of pages) I was disappointed with the mention only of webrecorder (nice effort, but not for everyone) and zero mention of projects like Archivebox ( https://Archive
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https://Hylo.com is trying to be that alternative, they're not federated yet (longer-term goal i think) but they are open-source.
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Consider reading critiques of the Green Revolution, such as 'The Globalization of Wheat' https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947349/
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Fair point, but I wonder how much that event led to international support that mightve been well intentioned but also with potential issues, thinking more in the context of the Green Revolution (Norman borlaug documentary https:/&#x2F
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"and saved Indians from starving to death with 340 million metric tons of food aid" No, theres more complexity to the story. Do some research on what caused famine in India and how there's more questions around Churchill and
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Is it possible to use this as an alternative 2D paper printer as well? Or is the position granularity too large? Asking as there's been many discussions over the years desiring an open source paper printer and while this would be a rat
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Perhaps designing some smaller keycaps could help?
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See also Edsger Wybe Dijkstra's 'On the cruelty of really teaching computing science' http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036... (1988) ...and compare it to say, Paul Graha
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A counter example by Ed Zitron, buying a popular cheap laptop off of amazon running windows ( https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ Dec. 2024 - scroll down): > "When I opened the start bar — osten
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The article is framed in a weird way. Theres a number of journals which have been deranked recently (mdpi, 'frontiers in' https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/finland-downgrades... ) Also, the author sai
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"The US Government studied what regular sonic booms do to people during the supersonic jet craze in the 1960s and 70s! It drives them to murderous rage. While the 1964 OKC test had multiple events per day, they were limited to 2 psf.&q
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Statement from The Onion (via CEO Ben Collins): https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lcyypa...
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Related: https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.io/post/3kdca25huko2e -> https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-02/safety-nu... (2018) https://safeautonomy
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In case anyone's trying to remember what macos/iOS does with what they call 'vibrancy' - can't find the video directly anymore but they sorta touch on it here (WWDC 2014 , session 220): https://github.com
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"Currently, MobiPrint can only “park and print.” The robot base cannot move during printing to make large objects, like a mobility ramp. Printing designs larger than the robot is one of Campos Zamora’s goals in the future. "
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Not sure, there's also been projects like https://folk.computer which iirc was done by someone who was had a bit of involvement with Dynamicland
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Related - @ cafe in new york city (1995-1996): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12579969 > https://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12593214/internet-cafe-history (2016)
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There's a list of resources critical of Jesse Singal here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/20353892 (found via https://bsky.app/profile/quatoria.bsky.social/post/3layjy6zb... ) (Shari
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Where is your worldview on ROGD coming from? It's been a rather contentious topic, and sciam has even written about some of the issues: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-undermin... ( https:&#x2
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Perhaps this is the wrong forum to ask? At least in general there's a decent number of conversations on snapdragon in the surface subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/search/?q=snapdragon&cId=5
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" Yet my trip to El Salvador revealed a gap between the promise and the reality. At restaurants, hotels, and shops, my attempts to pay with bitcoin were met with confusion or outright rejection. Despite a 2021 law requiring businesses

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