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Can you improve the traditional egg timer / hourglass? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by xenocyon 5y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Impenetrable bureaucracies are actually the central theme of two out of three of his full-length novels. (Incidentally, at least in my opinion his three novels are his finest work, but they seem to attract much less popular attention than h
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Is this simply an argument in favor of genetic algorithms or is there more to it than that?
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by xenocyon 5y ago
IMHO, the bad nature of much of the UX we see around us is in the gray area between incompetence and malice. It's hard to sincerely concern oneself with usability when the main objective is to manufacture consent, manipulate the user i
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by xenocyon 5y ago
> Life is too short to spend babying a pan. Strangely enough, this is a good reason for preferring cast iron over Teflon! Cast iron is close to indestructible, whereas with PTFE or other non-stick coatings one is constantly worried abo
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Another factoid to add to your list: Indian Railways is a state owned enterprise - a very large one. Until recently, India's central government released two annual financial statements (budgets) each year: one for railways, and the sec
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Not exactly spaces, but I have been bitten by something like this at my work quite recently. A Confluence page with special characters in the page title was working fine for a while. At some point there was a Confluence version update which
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by xenocyon 5y ago
The ebikes I am familiar with have a governor such that the power assist turns off entirely above 20 mph.
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Where do you find well-made batteries? OEM batteries for my X230 are no longer available, and I've had a hard time understanding which third party batteries are safe.
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by xenocyon 5y ago
For me at least, this xkcd graphic really made clear how anthropogenic climate change is truly unprecedented in the planet's history - it's the massive rate of change. And it's going to be impossible for the biosphere to adap
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by xenocyon 5y ago
For one thing, your own source shows that tomatoes are a rich source of many different vitamins, minerals, and fiber. But furthermore, this treatment of nutrition is a little reductive. You could eat highly processed food that is formulated
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by xenocyon 5y ago
"By the end of this century we'll have the technology to make carbon capture" We have this technology already. It's called "trees". Whether we choose to use it is a different matter. Environmental sustainabil
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by xenocyon 5y ago
I'm paying close attention to the direction that (my native) India takes w.r.t. GM food crops, which have so far been illegal. Background: India went from colonialism-induced massive serial famines to self-sufficiency and then some, wh
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by xenocyon 5y ago
"Even" HN? HN is massively prone to conspiracy theories and misinformation. Just to pick one example of many, I have seen more Covid denialism on HN than any other milieu I'm part of.
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Regarding Simpson's paradox, you can see a good treatment here [0] describing whether splitting a group is correct or not (based on causality); see Section 2.2 specifically. [0] http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser&
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by xenocyon 5y ago
"The more dimensions you analyze, the close to 'truth' you can get." Data scientist here. The above is not the correct takeaway from Simpson's paradox. It is not generally correct that the trends seen in subdivide
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Amazon abruptly banned Washington state treat-maker Chukar Cherries(seattletimes.com)
37 points by xenocyon 5y ago|2 comments
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When Luddites Attack(npr.org)
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by xenocyon 5y ago
As a consumer, I can see both sides of this. On the one hand, I like energetic spam blocking without fear of legal liability, even if there are occasionally a few false positives. On the other, I do not want ISPs/telecoms to be the arb
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by xenocyon 5y ago
> But the U.S. murder rate is not all that remarkable, really. The data appear to disagree with you: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_homicide_rates_...
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by xenocyon 5y ago
* India: the Partition led to massive loss of life, displacement in the tens of millions, traumatized communities, and deadly polarization between peoples to this day. * Palestine: the end of the Mandate and the 1947-1949 Palestine war saw
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Another way to drill down into the question is to start with smart kids and then, if people more or less agree with that, to talk about all kids. Think about it: if smart kids benefit from a more personalized, stimulating, and nurturing a
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by xenocyon 5y ago
In that case, depending on your hardware, you might be able to simply disable wireless transmission (on my CPAP machine, this is called "Airplane Mode").
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by xenocyon 5y ago
I have a CPAP machine. Your doctor is telling the truth. If insurance is involved (even if it's a high-deductible plan and you haven't hit the deductible), they typically require the data verifying usage. You're directing bla
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by xenocyon 5y ago
The article is self-congratulating and glosses over its contradictions. An office enclosed in glass is not private. The insistence that remote workers have an equal footing in terms of online meetings is rendered dubious when it's foll
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by xenocyon 5y ago
The article talks about financial literacy as it pertains to ordinary folks. But - perhaps more relevant to the HN audience - I have noticed a surprising amount of financial illiteracy among the tech-savvy middle-to-wealthy class as well. A
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by xenocyon 5y ago
The first part of your assertion is subjective and the second is really not true at all; for e.g. Orwell (neither a "petty" nor a "modern" writer) roundly called out Chesterton's flagrant antisemitism, as did many o
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Unions vote for union leadership, not management. Are you speaking of general elections? While some executive positions are elected rather than appointed, they are still elected by the public at large, not by union members. In fact, public
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Shuron frames are made in the USA, have an iconic style, and in my experience have been more durable than any other frame I've had. https://shop.shuron.com/
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Was it mandatory to comply with such a request? I was under the impression that mandatory court orders need to be signed by a judge (not a prosecutor).

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