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Calcite

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    Comment #47473585

    And if they switched their phone’s locale to a non-US country, then the distance would show up with 1-kilometre precision. Nearly 40% more accurate!

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    Comment #35260251

    Meanwhile Europe is having morning tea and APAC evening news catch up...

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    Comment #22962389

    This is just Amazon’s first move. They definitely have most of Zapier’s use cases on their roadmap at this point.

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    Comment #21949986

    In the MONA museum in Tasmania, they have real life versions of the “renders”. It was amazing to see the inoperable bicycles in front of me.

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    Comment #19533189

    Link: https://ifixit.org/blog/14883/what-finally-killed-airpower/

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    Comment #18051431

    I like how they’ve compared ML clusters to US cities. Fundamentally, it’s still a continuous distribution between the five variables with four “hot spots”. >>>Revelle likened the t…

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    Comment #14336880

    I've been baking a variant of this recipe for several years now. It's the best bread I've made at home hands down. If you have a dutch oven (even a large cookie tray and upside dow…

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    Comment #13795192

    Likely anti money laundering legislation.

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    Comment #13610882

    The average salary is 73k£. 84k£ is adjusted to the cost of living in SF.

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    Comment #12743204

    Direct PDF link: https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?I...

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    Comment #12324228

    There's some serious head scratching going on when you watch the video. If you can, wait a day before watching the explanation. I'm not even sure what's going on after watching tha…

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    Comment #10242000

    I found out they have great Q&A videos on their YouTube channel. They answer here why golf ball dimples are unnecessary for a fin-like shape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXpZy_…

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    Comment #10069977

    I've seen a few octopus while scuba diving in tropical waters. They are the most interesting species underwater. You can look at them for five minutes and it's absolutely fascinati…

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    Comment #9348853

    That's incorrect. The seconds hand moves 6 times in one second on my 7S26 movement (21,600 bph). On a modern Rolex, it would move 8 times in one second. You can check this with a h…

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    Comment #8422822

    The competition between Apple Pay, Facebook payments and Google Wallet will be fierce. Although, I don't see Coin or Plastc wildly succeeding, but they will set the tone for what's…

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    Comment #8203832

    Aren't the machines in use today using the same technology? Instead of showing the full image, they are applying pattern matching and only showing suspect regions to the operators.…