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People would need more space on the escalator to walk so this would reduce the overall escalator capacity. There would also be some people who couldn't or wouldn't walk, which woul…

One could argue that this does help everyone when it's particularly busy because it reduces the glut of people waiting to get on the bottom of the escalator, which can slow you dow…

I'm always really impressed by the "Japanese" diagonal wrapping technique. Professional at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qi8ZXUH_wY Technique explanation: https://www.yout…

I think this thread is a bit of a showcase of the best things about HN. It's a place where someone without existing distribution can get what they've made in front of people. The m…

The thing I love about these old illustrations that predict the future from long ago in the past is not what they get right but what they get wrong. They focus on a singular aspect…

Chubby Checker FTW.

Taking measurements will usually prompt questions of "how do I change the results over time?" So, although the difficulty of improving the thing doesn't change; the chance of takin…

I'm suddenly reminded of my experience of the Chromosaturation installation by Carlos Cruz-Diez that I saw at the Hayward Gallery Light Show Exhibition. [1] This was a trio of room…

From my quick accidental experiment, I think that what you see is related to your visual experience in the preceding minutes. I too was looking at this and thinking, "How can anyon…

You could argue that companies like Rembrandt are the only way that indie patent holders can hope to compete with the likes of Samsung. Unfortunately the patent game appears to usu…

Data is from a 2010 XKCD blog post survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/03/01/color-name-survey/ (Actual survey no longer appears to be live) The interactive data viz is here: http://…

Agreed. I had 1.2Gb in use from a single TechCrunch tab the other day. Was probably ads but still.