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by snaily 6mo ago
Here's an alleged secondary effect of 2 in a quote by Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan[1]: “When I get hit up by people in the Middle East who are saying, ‘Hey, we’re looking at Polymarket to decide whether we sleep near the bomb shel
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Cooklang: A Recipe Markup Language(cooklang.org)
5 points by snaily 6mo ago|0 comments
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by snaily 10mo ago
If it is indeed easy to move operations wholesale, I think we would see far more and quicker cases (not just arbitraging differences in labor organization, but also e.g. tax and regulatory regimes). It certainly happens, mind you, but my r
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by snaily 1y ago
You're right about driver time being the key metric. mattlondon's reply[1] to the GP gives the extra context: the endurance is aligned pretty well with (EU) legally mandated breaks, allowing for mid-day charging. [1] https:/
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by snaily 2y ago
Methanol has been used, as has rubbing alcohol and methyl ethyl ketone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol for further reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium is used to mak
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by snaily 2y ago
Have you checked out mixbox[0]? The outputs do feel intuitively "right" as someone who has dabbled in watercolor, and the paper/videos cover the thinking and Kubelka-Munk theory well. [0] https://github.com/sc
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by snaily 2y ago
Jay Leno has a Doble car (mentioned in the article as a 1920s attempt at a "user-friendly" steam car revival). The video has great production and really shows the starting and driving processes: https://youtu.be/rU
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by snaily 3y ago
There's at least one commercial acoustic underwater modem provider - Subnero out of Singapore. They claim up to 5km range: https://subnero.com/products/modem.html
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by snaily 4y ago
> The typical efficiency of TEGs is around 5–8% A steam turbine is many times more efficient.
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by snaily 4y ago
Scania did a neat affordance for this in their (otherwise rather incremental) autonomous AXL concept. A band of LEDs around the vehicle that light up "towards" a pedestrian once the vehicle takes them into account: https:/&#
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by snaily 5y ago
The explanation is right there in the article, and it does not involve your supposed modern day hubris: Restorers found that the central panel of the artwork, known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, had been painted over in the 16th Cen
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by snaily 5y ago
The article is not about general infertility in couples. It is specifically about male infertility, based on an objective measure of fertility (sperm count), which has indeed dropped over the past few decades - no one is trying to "bla
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by snaily 6y ago
To elaborate on that last point, one concrete model that was on the HN front page lately was the "climate club": https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.15000001
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by snaily 6y ago
A UI with next to zero discoverability and an incredibly broad input set ("all speech") must really work for most conceivable inputs, or only die-hard enthusiasts will keep trying.
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by snaily 6y ago
For an institutional fund, they can be different, non-fungible pools of capital. The $15M comes from fund limited partner (LP) commitments as part of the investable capital of the fund (i.e. was earmarked for investments and is not the fund
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by snaily 7y ago
I'm also reminded of the Oasia Downtown hotel in Singapore, which, like Park Royal, is designed by WOHA. It's a fairly recently completed skyscraper, and the plant scaffolding hasn't fully been overgrown yet: https:/&#x
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by snaily 7y ago
Interchange fees are capped to 0.2-0.3% in the EU by regulation. Merchants pay less (to the issuer, ultimately) for the benefit of accepting credit cards, so there is less fees to hand out as cash back (from the issuer to the card owner).
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by snaily 7y ago
I believe mbostock's https://observablehq.com/ is trying to do that A guide was linked the other day: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...
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by snaily 8y ago
On 5 October 2011, Spotify was a freshly minted single-billion unicorn. Factually, no-one had plural billions of dollars on the line at that time, not even the senior exec I quoted. Spotify was also comparatively small at the time, with lim
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by snaily 8y ago
This does not ring true to my experience. I was at the Spotify office the day the news of Steve's untimely death broke. It was a solemn day, and the the one senior executive I spoke to expressed true sorrow, as if a longtime friend had
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by snaily 8y ago
How is this related to an article that doesn't even mention GDPR?
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by snaily 8y ago
I think podcasts, from a consolidation POV, looks more like video than music (for starters, think of the content length and engagement level). You'd swap app/provider to listen to a different podcast, but a music player with a lim
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by snaily 8y ago
Incandescents used to be 5% visible light at best, with 95% of energy turned into non-visible radiation.
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Parachuting Beavers into Idaho's Wilderness? Yes, It Really Happened (2015)(boisestatepublicradio.org)
63 points by snaily 8y ago|11 comments
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by snaily 8y ago
I wish Android Beam had been pushed harder - it was an OS-level solution, and I understood it as playing really well with the Intent-centric API on Android, which meant basic functionality was essentially "free" to implement.
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by snaily 8y ago
Oh wow, I've been wanting to do this exact project for the longest time. Are you able to share anything more on the custom manufactured bits and pieces, how you interfaced with the chemical roller mechanism, etc?
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by snaily 8y ago
> As an example, I believe Spotify opened their original offices in both Stockholm and Göteborg more or less simultaneously. Without disputing the technical correctness, Spotify's Göteborg office was literally a single desk at a sha
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by snaily 8y ago
https://data.gov.sg/ (Singapore)
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by snaily 8y ago
Agree. I figured the first step would be cruise-control-on-steroids: trucks from the same owner would have communicating distance sensors and brakes, enabling "convoy" driving at sub-meter vehicle spacing. Because of drafting in t
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by snaily 8y ago
For being the business chat darling, Slack is just not that great at being an amazing chat platform. I'm comparing to WhatsApp, because in my org that's what everyone defaults to, as the basic chat functionality in Slack is a subp

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