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Wirelessly charging devices demonstrated at University of Tokyo(u-tokyo.ac.jp)
2 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
The voice call SIM card is relatively less painful to obtain now. Previously you couldn't get it on a tourist visa, but now you can rent them from the airport (expensive) or buy them at electronics stores like Bic Camera and Yodabashi
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
No Fees: Suica does not charge users merchant fees. Contrast that with a credit card, which charge fees as a % of transactions. Some credit cards with contactless functionality (eg. PayWave) charge a higher % if you use the contactless me
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
How about "gurl" or "gurgle"?
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
>Why can't this concentration of heat be used in straightforward distillation and why does distillation always seem to come in second best in terms of efficiency compared to the use of membranes? Is it because of the large surface
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
"Dietary magnesium intake has steadily declined over the preceding century, due to...(b) making dietary choices low in magnesium-rich foods such as whole grains, rice and wheat bran, nuts, seeds, chocolate, peanuts, peanut butter and
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Why supplement magnesium instead of getting it from dietary sources?
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
I asked a Hong Kong lawyer this week about the proposed extradition law. In particular, of the following, who would it apply to: a) Chinese nationals; b) HK nationals; c) foreign nationals. He advised it would apply to all three. Edit: he
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Ask HN: How can recruiters select for high integrity?
10 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|9 comments
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Amazing story if true. "[T]he crew were alleged to have stopped working. Gibson spent his day on Skylab's solar console, while Carr and Pogue spent their time in the wardroom looking out at the window."
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Ask HN: Should more people risk it all to save humanity from existential risks?
2 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|1 comments
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
PG's essay "What I've Learned From Hacker News"[0] is on point: COMMENTS: Bad comments seem to be a harder problem than bad submissions. While the quality of links on the frontpage of HN hasn't changed much, the qu
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Research group finds way to turn plastic waste products into jet fuel(phys.org)
3 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
> The Big Idea: Static keyboard layouts are boring and predictable. Let's spice up the whole idea of keyboard layouts by having the layout CHANGE WHILE YOU ARE TYPING!
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
> The term was coined by psychiatrist Tamaki Saito in the late 1990s I interpret the term (n. hikikomori) differently to the verb (hikikomoru) from which it is derived. The term (hikikomori): individual instance of the social phenomeno
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Well said. The legal origins of the separation between contractors and employees pre-date computers, not to mention the internet.
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Protonmail has taken the perfectly reasonable position they will comply with the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are located: Switzerland. Other web mail services generally take the same position, though often in different jurisdicti
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Video mentions private ownership of necessary land as a problem; but it ignores possible legal solutions, such as compulsory acquisition of property (for public use, with just compensation); or vanilla negotiation.
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ASK HN: Are there alternatives to food as an energy source for humans?
1 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
One advantage of the prolific Japanese convenience store (or "konbini") is that any improvement in the underlying franchise system can be rapidly deployed to all franchisees (like nodes in a network). This is true of many franchis
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholly_Foreign-Owned_Enterpris...
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
> "...what’s the catch?" I'm still looking for a catch. I will say it's not clear if the developer(s) are still focused on this, unfortunately. I hope they continue to develop it and attract more users. Also, I'm
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
It does support custom columns - seems possible to add columns indefinitely and rename them. I agree with you, it would be great if it was truly cross-platform (ie. also available for Android, Linux, etc). Not clear if developer(s) are stil
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
I prefer Kanbanier ( http://kanbanier.com ) to web based alternatives because it is simpler and 100% local (unless you optionally sync across devices with icloud). The file format is .kanbanier. There is a free version and an opti
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
> "In-ear EEG offers a promising path toward usable, discreet brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for both healthy individuals and persons with disabilities..."
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One-Step, Three-Factor Pass-Thought Authentication with Custom-Fit, In-Ear EEG(frontiersin.org)
2 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|2 comments
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Thanks for the book! A++ would read again. https://www.amazon.com/Rust-Programming-Language-Steve-Klabn...
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
"What carmakers are doing with the collected data isn’t clear." Carmakers will reduce the mortality rate from motor vehicle accidents to almost zero (with full autonomy), using the collected data. There were 37,133 MV deaths in th
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Ask HN: What is the optimal consensus algorithm for a global currency?
2 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Ask HN: Markov Chain book recommendations?

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