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Comment · 5 years ago
I'd say this is Parkinson's Law at play
Comment · 8 years ago
> That line is already in trouble because of genetics research, psychology research, etc showing that people's actions are less based on deliberate choice than they'd like to believe.
I'd like to know more about this. Do you have sources for these?
Comment · 10 years ago
As a foreigner visiting India with the demonetisation is also not the most pleasant experience, I had landed on the day that happened. A lot of places luckily accepted credit cards, though in a few cases the authorisation failed (which can also occur at the ATM's, so be careful when queuing) and they don't always have the best infrastructure either (http://imgur.com/a/iJDfw). PayTM isn't an alternative as a foreigner, since you can only charge your account with Indian issued debit or credit cards.
Comment · 10 years ago
Well, the regular bluetooth headsets wont do the job just yet, you want the microphone to be directional forward facing to keep it simple, preferably adaptable but that's more complex. The regular bluetooth headsets are aimed at picking up your own voice. So you'd want something more hearing aid like.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm skeptical we'll be seeing this device. I guess it'll mainly depend if they'd get funded and even then I only see this as a short lived gimmick. The machine translation software just isn't good enough. It's unmissable to me, but for real time translation, it's simply not there yet. Since they have to license the speech recognition and machine translation technologies, in the end they'll just be competing with bluetooth headsets that are suited for picking up voices in conversations and they'll simple draw the shortest straw.
Comment · 10 years ago
This, and they are also staying for a short period. Don't think it's fair to annualize the wage they get for this.
Comment · 10 years ago
Took me a little bit of searching to actually find the source, and to call it a study is a bit an overstatement, however here are some links:
https://steinbuch.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/tesla-model-s-bat... [A blogpost about the study]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/t024bMoRiDPIDialGnuKP... [The study/survey]
http://www.daglievemensen.nl/tesla/maxrange.htm [Interactive graph]
And as bonus a link to the Tesla Roadster battery study: http://www.groen7.nl/images/wp2013/divers/PIA-Roadster-Batte...
Comment · 10 years ago
To reply to the following quoted message:
"Thanks. Part of the issue is that there is a distinction between "ride" and "use". By the UCI's definition, putting the bike in the pit is "use" even though she may not have ridden it during that race. Do you interpret the UCI's claim to be that she started with the motorized bike, rode it part of the way through the lap, and then switched to a legal bike?"
The UCI never made any claim that she rode it, and I don't think they will do so either. My interpretation is that they find that a moot point and simply find the uncovering of a motorized bike to be unacceptable.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm Belgian (Mother tongue Dutch) so for clatification here is the translation of that quote:
"After one lap on the WC, the UCI checked the bike of Femke at the pit area with a kind of tablet. The bike was immediately sealed and taken away"
While that source doesn't specifically say who took the bike into the pit area, other sources state that it was taken into the pit area by mistake (probably her entourage) and that it wasn't the UCI who took the bike into the ICU.
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20160130_02100012 [dutch]
So in short, it _isn't known_ if she used the bike in the WC, but the UCI _alleges_ that she did.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes it was.
Comment · 12 years ago
Ghent is the English translation of the Belgian city Gent.
Comment · 12 years ago
Non Native: 69%. Took Iter as a non word. Been using that too much as a name in programming I guess. Been too trigger happy on the 'f' key with a few words I did know though.
Comment · 12 years ago
No. Montenegro seceded peacefully from Serbia. Czechoslovakia dissolved into two parts peacefully (no seceding, but close enough). Finland seceded peacefully from Russia. Amongst others...