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Converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into batteries(m.phys.org)
3 points by strttn 11y ago|0 comments
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Foregone conclusions – the Kruskal count(futilitycloset.com)
7 points by strttn 11y ago|6 comments
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by strttn 11y ago
People would need more space on the escalator to walk so this would reduce the overall escalator capacity. There would also be some people who couldn't or wouldn't walk, which would always break the double lane walking and revert
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by strttn 11y ago
One could argue that this does help everyone when it's particularly busy because it reduces the glut of people waiting to get on the bottom of the escalator, which can slow you down even if you want to walk up. I suppose from TFL'
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Stop walking up escalators for better efficiency(theguardian.com)
12 points by strttn 11y ago|6 comments
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by strttn 11y ago
I'm always really impressed by the "Japanese" diagonal wrapping technique. Professional at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qi8ZXUH_wY Technique explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by strttn 11y ago
I think this thread is a bit of a showcase of the best things about HN. It's a place where someone without existing distribution can get what they've made in front of people. The members decide whether it's interesting or not
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by strttn 11y ago
The thing I love about these old illustrations that predict the future from long ago in the past is not what they get right but what they get wrong. They focus on a singular aspect of future technology but due to the limitations of their im
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3D printing objects with sensors in them in one go(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by strttn 11y ago|0 comments
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Could dark matter not exist?(medium.com)
211 points by strttn 11y ago|99 comments
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by strttn 11y ago
Chubby Checker FTW.
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80bola and Google's proxy problem(blog.1self.co)
3 points by strttn 11y ago|0 comments
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Can anything curb the dominance of the internet's big guns?(theguardian.com)
3 points by strttn 11y ago|1 comments
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by strttn 12y ago
Taking measurements will usually prompt questions of "how do I change the results over time?" So, although the difficulty of improving the thing doesn't change; the chance of taking action to improve the thing does change for
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Dyson investing in battery tech to try to double battery life(theguardian.com)
4 points by strttn 12y ago|0 comments
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Britain's last lion tamer gets his chin nibbled. Photo gallery(theguardian.com)
1 points by strttn 12y ago|0 comments
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by strttn 12y ago
I'm suddenly reminded of my experience of the Chromosaturation installation by Carlos Cruz-Diez that I saw at the Hayward Gallery Light Show Exhibition. [1] This was a trio of rooms which were saturated with either blue, red or green l
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by strttn 12y ago
From my quick accidental experiment, I think that what you see is related to your visual experience in the preceding minutes. I too was looking at this and thinking, "How can anyone say that that dress looks white and gold?" I cou
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by strttn 12y ago
You could argue that companies like Rembrandt are the only way that indie patent holders can hope to compete with the likes of Samsung. Unfortunately the patent game appears to usually be one that is won by whoever has the largest legal bud
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by strttn 12y ago
Data is from a 2010 XKCD blog post survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/03/01/color-name-survey/ (Actual survey no longer appears to be live) The interactive data viz is here: http://www.datapoin
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How men and women name colours differently(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by strttn 12y ago|1 comments
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by strttn 12y ago
Agreed. I had 1.2Gb in use from a single TechCrunch tab the other day. Was probably ads but still.
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How we come to know ourselves in the age of the Quantified Self(gizmodo.com)
12 points by strttn 12y ago|0 comments