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eiga.works 17d ago

3D-print your own modular eyeglasses frames

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douglasireland.com 2mo ago

Running your own search engine where you are allowed to paint the walls

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news.yale.edu 9mo ago

A growing number of U.S. adults report cognitive disability

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www.crossplay.news 11mo ago

Video games became a way to connect to a father who struggled to express himself

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milwaukeerecord.com 1y ago

Long live American Science and Surplus

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www.vice.com 5y ago

How Link-Begging Became the Most Annoying Search Engine Tactic

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design.peteforamerica.com 7y ago

Pete for America Design Toolkit

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public-sans.digital.gov 7y ago

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

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gregbettinelli.com 12y ago

Reaction to Zulily’s IPO filing and Flash Sales explained

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mobilebeta.reuters.com 12y ago

Brazil tries to elude NSA with new cables, satellite

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

"Crowdsourcing" or Crapweeding?

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www.networkworld.com 12y ago

Deep cyberattacks cause millions in losses for US banks

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www.technologyreview.com 12y ago

Redox Power to produce fuel cells cheaper and more efficient than the Bloom Box

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www.nytimes.com 13y ago

Battery Maker A123 Systems Files for Bankruptcy

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www.businessinsider.com 15y ago

New York City startups to keep an eye on

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www.schneier.com 15y ago

Schneier on Security: The Ineffectiveness of Vague Security Warnings

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www.allfacebook.com 15y ago

Facebook's data center costs are now $50M/yr to lease almost 60,000 servers

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

A Map to Your Nearest Data Center

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The initial use of solar on the Prius was to power a ventilation fan while the car was parked, and the current version seems to specifically be designed to provide power to the air conditioner while driving. But, I also can't imagine the difference between cooling down the cabin is much different from parking in the sun or in the shade - you'd be running it continually to achieve "room temperature" during the entire drive either way.

The garden is overseen by professionals, so it has likely had soil testing done, especially since they are growing produce.

Manhattan is mostly an island of bedrock, and there is no manufacturing or industrial areas in Lower Manhattan that would contaminate the soil. The only concern would be protecting the garden from water running off the streets bordering the park, but those all have drainage and curbs installed.

Today there is an educational organic farm about 1,500 ft away from where the wheat was grown: The Urban Farm in Battery Park http://thebattery.org/destinations/urban-farm/

And there are hundreds of community gardens across the city that are maintained by neighbors and supported by the Parks Department.

Bonus: A time capsule was also part of the piece, set to be opened in the year 2979 http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/works7.html

Google Nest 12 years ago

There's no form to "Report a site that steals your trade dress and presents itself as a division of your corporation"

It displayed as the default "Microsoft Word" layout when I first viewed it (after enabling Javascript), but then, when I used the "back" keyboard shortcut to try and come back here, the page re-displayed in a lightbox. Fun.

Isn't it just the first behind-the-scenes look at food production for most of us? A rat scurrying by on camera just looks worse than what frequently goes on in the storage room of your or my local food market.

As far as the "beta testing on strangers" aspect, I'd point you to sneak's comment[1], which sums up the slight absurdity of requiring one food to be rigorously tested and adhere to some hypothetical standard. I frequently eat MetRx "meal replacement bars"[2] and I don't assume they are held to any rigorous trials. After some cursory research, I don't even know if Plumpy'nut[3] is held to any standard, aside from beta testing it on starving children and seeing if they improve.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722836

[2] http://www.metrx.com/protein-bars/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy'nut

What shitstorm? The Motherboard piece was overall positive, and didn't have the tongue-in-cheek holier-than-thou tone that most articles about Soylent have had.