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efraim

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www.theverge.com 3mo ago

Reddit is moving on from R/all

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www.androidauthority.com 2y ago

Google Removes the Photo Sphere Mode from the Pixel 8 Camera

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www.nytimes.com 3y ago

Twitch Star Signs $100M Deal with Rival Platform

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newsroom.spotify.com 3y ago

Spotify and Google Begin Rolling Out User Choice Billing

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blog.twitch.tv 3y ago

A Letter from Twitch President Dan Clancy on Subscription Revenue Shares

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android-developers.googleblog.com 4y ago

Health Connect

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Linux Hates Me – Daily Driver Challenge Pt.1

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github.com 6y ago

Visualizations connecting chaos theory, fractals, and the logistic map

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Equation will change how you see the world

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Formulanimations: Happy Jumping

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blog.google 8y ago

Hangouts Chat now available

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

Tour of Nvidia silicon failure lab (2016)

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medium.com 9y ago

Building a blazing fast ETC2 compressor

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bugzilla.mozilla.org 11y ago

Bug 1088660 – Improve the search bar UI to support one-off searches

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research.microsoft.com 11y ago

Foveated 3D Graphics (2012) [video]

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www.anandtech.com 11y ago

Meet the new boss

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googledevelopers.blogspot.se 12y ago

Introducing a New Video Series: Compressor Head

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google.github.io 12y ago

LiquidFun

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google-latlong.blogspot.se 12y ago

From where you are to where you want to go

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www.businessballs.com 13y ago

Origins of the tree swing pictures

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Today, Spotify has a 56 percent share of Europe’s music streaming market — more than double their closest competitor’s — and pays Apple nothing for the services that have helped make them one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

And they shouldn't have to, users should be able to install whatever software they want on their devices without paying a gatekeeper for it. Spotify exists on the web as well, they don't have to pay Google or Mozilla for delivering the service to their users. They don't have to pay Microsoft when users downloads and installs desktop software for windows. So why should Apple get any money because users install Spotify on their iphones? I'm sure Spotify pays Google for their cloud services that actually helps make them successful.

Why is it ok to be prescriptive with things like spelling of words but not grammar or the meaning of words? If people are using words in a way that doesn't make sense to the reader, such as changing the meaning of them to be the opposite like the word factoid, it's not the reader that is wrong by pointing out that the word has a different meaning than intended. I have no problem calling out such use as being wrong.

You're off by one in the initial seed step. Change

for (let i = seedSteps + s.length; i >= seedSteps; i--) to for (let i = seedSteps + s.length - 1; i >= seedSteps; i--)

The original is not using the for loop in the usual way so i starts off one smaller than expected.

Since they are registered and used as mopeds, why not get an electric moped instead? Then you don't have to pedal and can sit more comfortable, maybe even with a windscreen.

I don't really see the point of pedelecs, unless you disregard the law and just pretend they are less powerful e-bikes. But then you'll lose it if the police notice.

Firefox 90 5 years ago

You can use ctrl-tab to switch between tabs and it shows a thumbnail of each page.

The contact patch is only larger if the pressure is lower, and with a wide tire the contact patch is shorter and wider. Because of that there is less deformation of a wider tire along the rolling direction which is what creates rolling resistance.

Rubber tires does not generate grip through simple static friction. They stick to the road in two different ways, adhesion and deformation. The adhesion is weak molecular forces that stick the rubber to the road like sticky tape, a larger area will have more adhesion. The deformation deforms the tire to follow the surface and dig into it. Because rubber is viscoelastic, the force is greater on the lagging side of a bumb when the tire is slipping.

The adhesion is greatest in the front of the contact patch where there is less slip and a wide tire has a wider but shorter contact patch, so it has more grip from adhesion.

If you keep the pressure in two tires the same, a wider tire will have the same contact patch area as a narrow tire since they will carry the same force and force is pressure multiplied with the area.

The location is taken from an online database based on cell id. It's not clear where most of them get their data but services like wigle and mozilla use crowd sourcing of signal strengths so they might be a bit off. Not as accurate as the ones in the article I would think.