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by mwc 6y ago
This is how Uber matches trips[0]. Optimising not for the fastest pick up for any one rider, but to reduce the total time of arrival in the whole network. [0] http://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2019/10/23/
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This Is the Most Detailed Map of the Universe to Date(futurism.com)
8 points by mwc 9y ago|1 comments
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by mwc 10y ago
In New Zealand, our broadband market is structurally separated. The the access provider for both the copper and fibre network (right to the customer premises) is a regulated wholesale only provider, which is required to provide open access
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In 1990, 60% of people in East Asia were in extreme poverty. Now only 3.5% are(vox.com)
3 points by mwc 10y ago|0 comments
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US Funds: Overconfident, Overconcentrated, and Overcrowded(medium.com)
3 points by mwc 10y ago|1 comments
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Giant Wind Wall Sucks Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by mwc 10y ago|0 comments
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6 groundbreaking Ferraris built for the Prince of Brunei: only 1 made it out(theverge.com)
2 points by mwc 10y ago|1 comments
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by mwc 10y ago
> Imagine being a chef in 2015 and discovering that there are thousands of vegetable species you’ve never cooked with. It’s like discovering corn, arugula, tomatoes, and lettuce for the first time. This struck me as particularly interest
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Game mechanics in “The Division” leaves players queueing for first NPC(imgur.com)
2 points by mwc 11y ago|0 comments
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Coffee naps: How to supercharge caffeine by going to sleep (2015)(vox.com)
7 points by mwc 11y ago|0 comments
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This skier shot “bullet time” by swinging an iPhone 6 around his head(petapixel.com)
7 points by mwc 11y ago|0 comments
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How Greece became a two currency economy(weforum.org)
4 points by mwc 11y ago|1 comments
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Reddit users now say “search” more than “Google”(projects.fivethirtyeight.com)
7 points by mwc 11y ago|1 comments
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Can Airbnb unite the world?(fastcompany.com)
1 points by mwc 11y ago|0 comments
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The countries that don't exist(bbc.com)
2 points by mwc 11y ago|0 comments
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Has Kepler Discovered an Alien Megastructure?(news.discovery.com)
6 points by mwc 11y ago|0 comments
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Firewatch, a new game from Panic, will launch 9 February 2016(firewatchgame.com)
2 points by mwc 11y ago|0 comments
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Google Layoffs Inevitable(asserttrue.blogspot.com)
7 points by mwc 12y ago|0 comments
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Meet the people who have volunteered to die on Mars(boingboing.net)
3 points by mwc 12y ago|0 comments
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Welcome to the new, redesigned Google Admin console(support.google.com)
2 points by mwc 12y ago|0 comments
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5G systems – enabling industry and society transformation: Ericsson(ericsson.com)
2 points by mwc 12y ago|0 comments
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Photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light(arxiv.org)
58 points by mwc 12y ago|10 comments
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Facebook Working on “Facebook at Work”, to Challenge LinkedIn, Google Drive(ft.com)
4 points by mwc 12y ago|1 comments
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by mwc 12y ago
Not an aeronautical engineer, but understand that the cylindrical shape used in today's aircraft design is very good at containing the stresses of a pressurised cabin. However, the design does mean significant pressure stress on the fr
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by mwc 12y ago
It looks like 2 exit doors. On that note, how would this affect the all important question of how to most efficiently board an aircraft?
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by mwc 12y ago
Interesting from the FT [1]: Airbus said although the design was worthwhile enough to protect with a patent — like about 6,000 other ideas its engineers devise every year — it was not an immediate prospect for shuttling passengers from Hea
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Airbus patents aircraft cabins shaped like doughnuts(worldwide.espacenet.com)
43 points by mwc 12y ago|53 comments
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Is China Really Going Green?(newyorker.com)
7 points by mwc 12y ago|1 comments
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How Marine Salvage Master Nick Sloane Refloated Costa Concordia(vanityfair.com)
4 points by mwc 12y ago|0 comments
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Japan's levitating maglev train reaches 500km/h(bbc.com)
92 points by mwc 12y ago|49 comments

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