davidwitt415

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by davidwitt415 6y ago
RTFA: Batteries and electricity storage follow learning curves too One of the downsides of renewable sources is their intermittent supply cycle. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. Technologies like batteries that
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
I'm in favor of the Black Mirror approach for politicians; Give the people full transparency into politicians' activities. This shouldn't be so controversial, given that they work for us, but of course, that is when you would
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
Check out 'Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine' as a counter-example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Again... Also worth noting is the October Surprise, where Reagan f
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
'White propaganda is fine and even necessary at times' reads just like 'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.'
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
Fully agree. The bookstore/library browsing experience is intimately tied to adjacency/serendipity. I love browsing up and down the stacks and looking for whatever catches my eye. Typical genre or sorting lists don't even com
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
Agree. Imo downvotes are actually a form of cancelling.
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
Indeed, the majority of posts here live up to the aphorism of Americans seeing themselves as 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires.'
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
Great attention grabbing headline, but it ignores the typical user scenarios where PDFs are created. So how is your typical Office worker who is probably using Word going to create this awesome web page? It's simply not realistic to ex
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
I printed out an eye chart this week to do just that. I also purchased a device for testing and tracking my vision that I just started with: https://www.eyeque.com/visioncheck/ You can email me (davidwitt415 at gmail)
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
One of my covid projects is improving my nearsightedness, I'm 20/200+. I've been spending 20 minutes a day doing techniques called Eqyptian Black Dot and Egyptian Letter Gazing plus other techniques I got from a book called T
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
A simpler explanation is profit motive; it doesn't 'pay' to promote free/low cost alternatives. Most of western medicine is geared this way, imo.
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
I've been using MURAL, Miro and Figma. MURAL and Miro are pretty close, and each has it's strengths, but I prefer MURAL. For a team that doesn't need the bells and whistles, Figma is a great choice.
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
Gifs may be fun to watch the first time, but I have to say it drives me crazy to have a bunch of looping animations running all over the screen when i'm trying to focus on something.
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
To me, Brad Porter responded like an engineer, that is, his total focus was on technology and process (valuable, to be sure), but had no human focus. Tim, otoh, did, and that is what struck a chord.
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
A decent overview of Knapp's original process, but not complete by any means. I'm participating right now in Global Virtual Design Sprint 4, being run by Robert Skrobe of Dallas Design Sprints. Originally, design sprints were onsi
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
It can be seen as a corrective to 'let the free market decide everything,' which is clearly showing its limitations in responding to the COVID-19 crisis.
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
It is the ideal for any business, but it definitely is not for the consumer or the economy, and this is why governments enact anti-trust legislation. The government is supposed to enforce against monopolies, but unfortunately in the US gove
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
My wife grew up in the French school system and is a mostly full time mommy, and she has been very active with both our boys (6 and 12) well before the lockdown. When the lockdown started, she immediately put a schedule together for them, w
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by davidwitt415 6y ago
A few weeks ago, Johnson suggested in public that the US 'take one on the chin' regarding Covid-19. How's that working out for you Boris? I don't care if you think this is inappropriate, because I find it welcome that fo
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Ask HN: Job retraining ideas after Covid-19?
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Apparently, the app wasn't wasn't released until Feb 1. Also, The New York Times reported that the Iowa Democratic Party was secretive about using the app, and that it asked that Shadow’s name be withheld from the public. "Ac
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Easy enough to find, here's an editor of the Guardian calling out the President of MEMRI for just that: "The fact is that you gave evidence to Congress claiming that Gallup had found "a large majority of the Arab world"
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
MEMRI is a well-known neocon propaganda outlet, so your arguments merely reflect this. From Sourcewatch: "Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an Israeli propaganda organization that selectively translates materials from the
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Citation please.
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
The more salient questions are, a.) why would they think that way, and b.) why would you characterize their stance that way? Briefly, the anger felt by Iranians is due to their support for their fellow Muslims, the Palestinians, and their e
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Thanks for this, lots of good nuggets of wisdom!
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
I highly agree. I read this book 30 years ago and it sticks with me to this day!
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Food for thought: Just because e-scooters are turning out not to be a unicorn play doesn't mean they are suddenly non-viable as a transportation or venture option. In fact, having the gold rush leave this space could very well open it
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Here's one explanation: I work as an HMI designer for an Automotive OEM. Since we have a fully digital driver display, I designed a feature to address your problem; it displayed a large graphic with a text explanation of what was happe
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
C# is also the language behind Unity, which beyond games now powers 70% of all AR applications. Since Unity is now expanding into Automotive, Architecture and other verticals, there is a ton of demand for non-game C# devs for Unity.

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