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by thinkling 4y ago
Then again, I've never had a problem on Amazon across hundreds of purchases. I don't think either of our experiences proves anything.
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by thinkling 4y ago
Scott's Hut: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=b2wMrU
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by thinkling 4y ago
> HoloKit, originally a Google Cardboard-like AR device for the iPhone, has been relaunched Is it more than a premium version of Google Cardboard? I can't tell. The "Technical Specs" mention "optical lenses" but
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by thinkling 4y ago
Is this something that's been studied seriously? A quick google attempt doesn't find anything.
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by thinkling 4y ago
People have proposed approaches to increasing the earth's albedo (and thus reflecting more sunlight) without launching material into the atmosphere. Best known is probably the idea of painting roads and rooftops white. Another interest
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by thinkling 4y ago
I was thinking along those lines, but the majority of phones are Android and I can't see a car manufacturer tying major features of a vehicle to users of Apple phones. Do they get Google to implement equivalent Android features just as
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by thinkling 4y ago
There's a website out there somewhere about the issue of not seeing cross traffic because it's approaching the intersection at just the right speed to stay hidden behind the A pillar of your car. Ah, it looks like it involved cycl
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by thinkling 4y ago
If there's a Firefox plugin to fix that behavior, I'd love to know!
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by thinkling 4y ago
Clearly it should be reinforced with a few 1U cross braces!
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by thinkling 4y ago
> The marketers really went to town on that one, To be fair, the developers at Microsoft went to town on it as well, adopting C# for parts of Windows Blackcomb, including the File Manager, the Desktop Manager, and (some of) WinFS. It tur
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by thinkling 4y ago
Toyota's argument has been that with a limited battery supply, you get more fuel use reduction by building lots and lots of hybrids than by building a few electric cars. I'm not sure they're wrong. (Of course we do need elect
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by thinkling 4y ago
At Toyota dealers you pay over MSRP, at Tesla they just repeatedly raise the MSRP...
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by thinkling 4y ago
As bikes go electric, you can make it so the motor blocks when your phone is not in range.
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by thinkling 4y ago
There are covers for the Apple AirTags that look like regular seatpost-mounted reflectors. I haven't looked to see if they exist for other trackers, but that's the route I would go.
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by thinkling 4y ago
Like patentatt, I disagree with most of this. Which PHEVs are you looking at? Some can blend power from electric and gas motors and give you the combined power output for modest durations almost any time--and then will use excess ICE capaci
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by thinkling 4y ago
It's roughly a Kissinger quote, so no, GP is not a troll. Note that a recent President was interested in possibly withdrawing from NATO.
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by thinkling 4y ago
Prototype can hold 6 passengers. The design can scale up to 19, but "the low-drag laminar flow model relies on a width-to-length ratio that'd be impractical in a bigger bird" so it won't work for airline use.
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by thinkling 4y ago
The guy who used to run AWS now runs the whole show, so maybe it'll get better on the retail side over time?
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by thinkling 4y ago
Amazon's workforce has probably doubled twice in the last 6 years? So even without taking attrition into account (which is substantial in the warehouses), after 6 years you're in the 25% longest-tenured warehouse employees. With a
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by thinkling 4y ago
I've long had an idea simmering for an app that lets you go from a vague "let's do something this weekend" to a firm plan by progressively narrowing down what/when/who/how. It would have a variety of &quot
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by thinkling 5y ago
Some of us use it a lot because we remap it to be the meta key. grin
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by thinkling 5y ago
There have been a number of research prototypes in that direction including Susan Dumais' Stuff I've Seen [1], which was Windows desktop-oriented but I think had the right idea. > much knowledge work involves finding and re-usi
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by thinkling 5y ago
Huh. I thought the C in 700C indicated that the tire was a clincher as opposed to tubular but that seems to be wrong. You tool says: > Reifenhöhe C: ca. 39 mm (French designation) but it says that for 700x19C as well as for 700x40C which
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by thinkling 5y ago
Here's a paper that combined a 30 year study on intake with MRI data and came to similar conclusions (no safe level of consumption and no observed benefit from low-dosage consumption). https://www.bmj.com/content/3
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by thinkling 5y ago
Google prioritizes results from higher ranking sites. This is what PageRank was all about. It's entirely within Google's power to score Pinterest results lower, pushing them down in the search results. Seems like a Google problem
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by thinkling 5y ago
Tires are usually rated for 40 ,000 to 60,000 miles. Americans drive 13,500 miles per on average[1]. That would cause tires to be replaced on average after ~4 years. So yeah, seems believable. [1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/oh
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by thinkling 5y ago
Stores absolutely use placement to promote one product over another. Eye level shelves are prime space, low ones near the floor are for cheap products with low margins. And “end caps” (the short end of an aisle of shelving) are for high vis
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by thinkling 5y ago
> In a closed system, you can't reverse (...) Why is it a closed system? We get solar energy from outside the planet and it's among the top proposed tools to deploy.
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by thinkling 5y ago
I think GP is referring to the fact that email overall is a system that is based on public standards and open to new entrants. You can start Hmail.com if you want, and plug into the existing email eco-system as a new competitor very easily.
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by thinkling 5y ago
Super interesting, thanks! Any idea what the timeline will be on your fund?

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