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by achy 12y ago
It's always interesting when statistics correlate across multiple frames (time, location, etc.); however that still doesn't prove causality. I'm inclined to think that the causes behind an area being slow to remove leaded gas
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by achy 12y ago
Facebook could make this a promotional win by refunding anyone who funded the dev kit a certain amount of money (down to the material cost for ex.)
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by achy 13y ago
The font and underlining change are a non issue for me (other than looking terrible in chrome for windows); however the increased font size is jarring and reduces the amount of information that can quickly be scanned.
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by achy 13y ago
Interesting. What about including a second column showing the back correlation? An example: 'WPF' appears 6% of the time for 'C#' questions, while 46% of 'WPF' questions include the 'C#' tag. Would be
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by achy 13y ago
Because evolution relies on survival of the fittest and genetic mutation. Your Chi-Pom-Poodle-Terrier isn't an evolutionary step for the canine. And most of all I don't want creationists to think that 'hand of god' is a
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by achy 13y ago
This is exactly why metric is so powerful: I also have no inherent concept of a deciliter or decagram, but I can convert to my understood liter and kilogram in moments.
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by achy 13y ago
I didn't click on this link, but I really hope the domestication experiment with foxes is not being called 'evolution'.
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by achy 13y ago
This might be a minority opinion, but I think more than home data collection (which they probably have a lot of already from phone / computer usage), that this is about acquiring a company that has cache and a 'cool' factor w
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by achy 13y ago
I think there's a middle ground where you are giving the gift of x dollars in real food / livestock to a family in xyz. Then the actual logistics of what that means are figured out and told to you.
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by achy 13y ago
A pretty illustration of a terrible idea. Gravity just isn't that strong of a force. Electrostatic forces in chemical bonds on the other hand...
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by achy 13y ago
I agree with you to a point. Joins are your friend. But trying to pull out all of the information about a graph of 'objects' using a single query with multiple one-to-many and many-to-many joins is just as foolish in SQL as in Mon
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by achy 13y ago
sorry, price inflation. Supply and demand.
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by achy 13y ago
The problem I envision with a basic income model is that it could have an inflationary effect - shifting the baseline. The only way this doesn't happen is if our basic income economies exploit non basic income economies - and even this
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by achy 13y ago
What about the other way round? The argument for ebooks costing the same as a paperback is that we are paying primarily for the content not the physical form, so shouldn't this work in both directions?
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by achy 13y ago
I'm thinking hotel rooms could be a target. Irons that are used frequently and in close proximity to people connected to (or sharing) wireless connections.
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by achy 13y ago
A lot of people have macbooks and external secondary displays. Just as you said, these people should be able to go fullscreen on their laptop and still utilize the connected display...
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by achy 13y ago
Does anyone know the relative merits of induction vs brushless with regards to regenerative braking?
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by achy 13y ago
Because a monopoly leads to zero competitive pressure - no matter how much we believe in Bezos' ethos.
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by achy 13y ago
It's definitely not a source control replacement, but I think dropbox themselves have been pushing their service as a cloud backup solution for quite some time. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that you are able to u
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by achy 13y ago
Randall Randall?
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by achy 13y ago
'Foregranted' should be a word, I like it.
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by achy 13y ago
I wrote this last time too: Having a better conducting, higher surface area electrode is a huge step. BUT it doesn't really change the fact that a carbon based supercapacitor requires an electrolyte to form the double layer, and all existin
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by achy 14y ago
Honest question: What is the benefit of running a native application inside a browser window instead of standalone?
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by achy 14y ago
This is solely a 2D image reflected in glass. The control via finger is novel, but there is no volumetric or holographic effect whatsoever.
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by achy 14y ago
Having a better conducting, higher surface area electrode is a huge step. BUT it doesn't really change the fact that a carbon based supercapacitor requires an electrolyte to form the double layer, and all existing electrolytes have a break
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by achy 14y ago
I came to HN as a distraction from the mind wrenching exercise of compiling 5 different copies of excel documents where everyone has butchered their version in a different, horrifying way. Luckily, this is only used to keep track of procure
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by achy 14y ago
That analogy is ridiculous. It's more like having a tub of ice cream and a spoon available at all times. It doesn't make you fat, but if you're depressed or vulnerable, it makes it a hell of a lot easier to take a bite.
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by achy 14y ago
That is a ridiculous argument for a country that is already so heavily reliant on foreign manufacturing. If anything, at this point, the imperial standard is a barrier to having the US become a manufacturing nation once again - because so m
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by achy 14y ago
They should have randomized the default value within a range that automatically narrowed / increased proportionally against the trending of people accepting the default. They could have optimized their return pretty quickly. 'Pay what you w
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by achy 14y ago
The collision detection on the 3D view is strange. When you hit an object, the zoom level is decreased until you clear the object (in this case the top of a building).

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