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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 Po…

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 re…

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…

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/Denatoniu…

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 we…

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 driv…

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

> The typical efficiency of TEGs is around 5–8% A steam turbine is many times more efficient.

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 th…

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 Adoratio…

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 dropp…

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

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.…

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 …

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…

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 …

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...

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…

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 spok…

How is this related to an article that doesn't even mention GDPR?

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 …

Incandescents used to be 5% visible light at best, with 95% of energy turned into non-visible radiation.

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 funct…