vaughanb

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by vaughanb 8y ago
Horse manure was considered a serious risk in NYC. The banana skin (and the inevitable slip that followed) was a euphemism for slipping on horse manure in the street.
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by vaughanb 8y ago
Surely a large part of the problem is thinking it's OK to leave the the hire scooters on public property wherever is convenient for the customer. Can't wait for the flying-vehicle startup. It's another tragedy of the common.
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by vaughanb 8y ago
No, it really is just a couple of fancy words strung together. Let's deconstruct it: 1) Space -- Einstein has shown that it's really Space-Time 2) Mind -- there is no real agreement on what "mind" means. Brain? Conscious
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by vaughanb 8y ago
>If there is no money that get infused into the local environment around the corals then less people will work to fix it. The ocean has warmed to the point where to coral cannot survive. The reef is H-U-G-E (1,400 miles long according to
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by vaughanb 8y ago
Decades ago the reef was endangered by run-off from agriculture (fertilisers, agri-chemicals etc) and I believe this has been managed, since it's largely under human control (ie, we could stop song them tomorrow if we wanted). There ha
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by vaughanb 8y ago
>"Time is the Mind of Space" That sounds wonderful but doesn't mean anything. An interesting quote from the article: For many, Bergson’s defeat represented a victory of “rationality” against “intuition.” It marked a moment
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by vaughanb 8y ago
The thought that pigeons were high technology, too, is an interesting one.
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by vaughanb 8y ago
No, 2001 was the millennium shift. The year 2000 was the last year of the decade, century and millennium. 1999 was when the party started, of course.
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by vaughanb 8y ago
I'm not sure about the Gruen Effect, but can verify the Doorway Effect is real. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
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by vaughanb 8y ago
Anti-lock brakes never yielded the accident reduction expected, primarily because drivers used the improved braking performance to drive faster in poorer conditions. I guess the AEB works at reducing accidents because it IS autonomous and d
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by vaughanb 8y ago
> ... chip in Unintentional pun. The US public seems to have a huge reluctance to use the chips in the cards too. It's swipe and sign. (I'm also from Australia and signing for a credit card purchase went away decades ago. PayW
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by vaughanb 9y ago
Like search and rescue operations, these are essentially exercises for defence forces. You can't make opportunities like these.
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by vaughanb 14y ago
Ah, no that's something else: shutter distortion. This was made on a large format camera -- probably something like 4 x 5 inches -- with a focal plane shutter. The shutter has a huge distance to cover -- 4 inches -- and it takes a while for