thalecress

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by thalecress 14y ago
Has anyone done a rigorous experiment, even on just themselves, with f.lux or redshift? Sleep-monitoring wristband data + "did I see a screen, a red-shifted screen, or no screen" would be really interesting to me.
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by thalecress 14y ago
I understand that guns aren't hard to make - never mind 3D printing, any machinist can make a submachine gun. [1] But what about ammunition? http://www.scribd.com/doc/2624298/sten-mk2-complete-machine-...
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by thalecress 14y ago
Ever hear of a booster bag? [1] Faraday cages aren't hard to make. It wouldn't shock me if a gun locker blocked signals too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_bag
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by thalecress 14y ago
On one hand, outsourcing rapidly transferred several decades of manufacturing and design knowledge to GE's soon-to-be competitors. (I haven't seen a Haier fridge on sale in the US yet but it's a matter of years, not decades.) On the other,
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by thalecress 14y ago
Calories. Cheese has only about 60% the calories of a starting volume of milk. [1] Plus, animals can graze on land you can't farm, and they're very portable. [1] http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/the-indo-european-a...
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by thalecress 14y ago
When I try to read the text in the upper left, I keep getting distracted by animated numbers falling into the bottom right.
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by thalecress 14y ago
I don't understand your objection. Do you see a meaningful distinction between "cars are safer" and "cars are driven more safely"?
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by thalecress 15y ago
"There are more bikes offered for sale in Brooklyn than Manhattan, but only 8.3% of them are fixies versus 9.5% in Manhattan." This is key. Fixies as fraction of for-sale bike population <> prevalence of fixies on streets. From a pu
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by thalecress 15y ago
One man's anchor is another's ball and chain. Lots of "binding' elements tend to imprison information by cluttering the screen. Edward Tufte seems like an influence on the redesign. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Edward_Tuf
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by thalecress 15y ago
I'm skeptical of the claim that a program could win a Pulitzer. How does it decide what to write about, who to interview, and what questions to ask? Reporting a day at the races or the markets is easy because we know which kinds of data are
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by thalecress 15y ago
I use Google Desktop dozens of times daily. I suspect lots of enterprise users are in the same XP boat without a fast search paddle.