NPMaxwell

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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
The 1929 crash and the 2008 crash that started the great recession were both caused by uncovering the bezzle. The "bezzle" is what Galbraith called fake monetary supply: money that doesn't exist because it has already been e
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
You may think there is some rational choice to be made about obsessive curiosity. Maybe not. In 1960, my mom lived near a six year old who could fix electric stuff. Everyone in the neighborhood knew him and brought him things to fix. TV&
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
FYI: Who was Bayard Rustin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin It's a silly play on words celebrating one of the very great heroes of 20th Century America
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Trump's Gift to Putin – Foreign Affairs(foreignaffairs.com)
2 points by NPMaxwell 7y ago|0 comments
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
These appear to be pictures from the violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
That's a great video showing what planners are thinking!
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Culture changes. One day when I was growing up, someone said, "Hey dog owners, pick up your dog's poop." Insane. No is going to wrap their hand around a bag of hot poop. That's just not who we are. It was crazy. It
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Roundup, asbestos, leaded gas, and lots of other engineering products say to me that the industry/culture of engineering has a problem. I think that problem is not engineering itself, but emerges when engineering is mixed with current
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
I'm interested that this article was posted by kungfudoi to Hacker News in the afternoon 18 days ago (not on a Saturday morning) and garnered 2 points and zero comments. This posting misrepresents the title/headline of the articl
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Great idea to get a work up and find out about any deficiencies in the mix of stuff in your blood.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
I love this: "The reasons for these findings are not quite clear, but inadequate dietary Mg is prevalent in America and is the most likely cause." Ah, to be publishing in a book, not a journal. And to know that your reviewers ar
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
More quotations from the article: "The plan, in effect, is to entrench Facebook’s interests while sidestepping all the important issues...Will it change its fundamental business model, which is based on charging advertisers to take adv
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
From the paper: "The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of an inevitable near-term social collapse due to climate change."
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
What you are describing is a use case for a product that is not yet available. Opportunity there.
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Where does their code get inserted? I could imagine it might help if it were added to the page you were linking from, but the site seems to indicate the code gets added to page you want to have load quickly -- the page you're linking
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Looks like fun to create. Seems a tough stretch going up against Khan Academy.
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
I rarely see violence in the movies I watch. The result is that I squirm a lot when I am visiting my son and we watch some blockbuster showing heads being crushed by sledge hammers. I believe that you do not find that sort of thing makes
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
The "few meters of rise" you mention are meters of rise of global sea levels?
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
:D
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Just a quick and dirty literature search on pubmed: When you have a cold or flu and wipe your nose, pressing a light switch transfers active viruses to the switch. (J Med Virol. 2007 Oct;79(10):1606-10. Environmental contamination with rhi
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Yeah. Given that coffee pots are the most virulent vector in the workplace, it seems unlikely that a button everyone presses with their fingers is not an important vector as well. The issue is getting germs on your fingertips, and then wi
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Pros: You save money & reduce jaywalking. Cons: you spread germs and further erode trust and respect for government. The saved money and jaywalking compliance are Pyrrhic victories as citizens sass officers and vote for tax-cutting po
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
As far as I can tell, in Seattle, jaywalking is enforced with $60 fines for about a month every five years or so. Between fining episodes, rumors maintain obedience.
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Yes. And is being scaled. There is unlimited access to freeCodeCamp and the WGU C.S. degree. I'm pretty sure that if you go through those, you'll get a start as a software dev. The C.S. degree is probably unnecessary for getti
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Two unstated premises here: 1) You can't share quantitative methods in a pop science book. You can't share with a general audience ideas like multiple regression, covariance, controlling for confounding factors. 2) There is no c
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
I hadn't considered that the point of this article was to communicate outside of the U.S. Sure. For the rest of the English-Speaking world, use Centigrade. For the U.S. market, Farhenheit works better. At first look to an American,
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
This article, given the option of describing temperature increases as from "3 degrees to 7 degrees F", chooses to report them as "1.5 to 4 degrees C". It's as if the thinking is, "Yeah, Fahrenheit makes these
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Test Your Knowledge of American Incarceration(nytimes.com)
36 points by NPMaxwell 8y ago|9 comments
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Leaded gas. Asbestos insulation. Cigarettes. Fossil fuels. High schools would do well to put on All My Sons every 3 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_My_Sons "All My Sons is based upon a true story... ho
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by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Keeping your own copies might not be a bad idea. Almost certainly a violation of company policy.

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