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by Stronico 6y ago
I've always wondered if I was the only one on HN interested in cnc machines
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by Stronico 6y ago
I read a print version of the NYT recently and the feeling I got was quite different than the web version - mostly in that what was being pushed on you was "news", not opinion. Almost all of it could be described as "These P
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by Stronico 6y ago
Essential Craftsman has some great videos on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40qxyX6HpvI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy5wRgNOIkE
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by Stronico 6y ago
Gell-Mann Amnesia In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect. He used this term to describe the phenomenon of experts believing news articles on topics outside of their fields of expertise, even after acknowledgi
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by Stronico 7y ago
Asking someone else to take a risk is a very good insight.
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by Stronico 7y ago
1. Setting aside a "20% day" to develop infrastructure - I went through a slow period about 15 years ago where I had the option of doing this without meaningful tradeoffs and I built some software that I still use to this day. I
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Ask HN: Best online banking/money experience for kids
1 points by Stronico 7y ago|0 comments
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by Stronico 7y ago
My daughter's main health c are provider has something called "My Health" which is okay - I presume the doctor's have a better system. Something that maintains it on a timeline would be wonderful (that's how I reme
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by Stronico 7y ago
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Not really about leadership per se, but it helps you get out of your own way which allows a lot of other good things room to happen.
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by Stronico 7y ago
It is very, very good.
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by Stronico 7y ago
My current mental health has a direct relationship with sleep and exercise, which I guess means that it's as good as it can be (i.e. everything is more or less under my control). That being said - it's pretty good.
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by Stronico 7y ago
David D. Friedman actually, Thomas Friedman is the columnist for the New York Times. His newest book is awesome by the way.
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by Stronico 7y ago
Should be "some fringe"
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by Stronico 7y ago
The Sheriff's department actually, it draws so me cringe elements that don't always get along.
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by Stronico 7y ago
My first thought is that it's like taking children to a strip club. Twitter and the online political world are just inherently unfit for children. It would be one thing if the kids were doing original research and social media were th
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by Stronico 7y ago
Utah Phillips phrased it as "People back East have a tremendous sense of place, here in the West, we have a tremendous sense of event."
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by Stronico 7y ago
Everyone should write something like this.
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by Stronico 7y ago
How long would a 90 mile commute take, in a best case scenario?
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by Stronico 7y ago
Why not? I've had one for years - they work very well.
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by Stronico 7y ago
Whole house fans are one possible solution to reduce (not eliminate) the need for air conditioning - I'm using a quiet cool right now which works fairly well (haven't tried it during the spring or fall yet)
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by Stronico 7y ago
Supposedly Northern populists, the more hard working type of populism (again supposedly). The good witch of the South represents the more welfare-statists strain of populism of the era - or so said my econ history professor.
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by Stronico 7y ago
Some kids do like doing that actually. I don't get it either. I also hated math when I was her age. It took till about 30 before I could see the beauty in mathematics. I will probably still do the flashcards with her - one thing (no
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Ask HN: Best math app for elementary school kids?
9 points by Stronico 7y ago|5 comments
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by Stronico 7y ago
The book Ghettoside by Jill Leovy goes into that in quite a bit of detail. Her conclusion - yes, very much, with a strong overlap between community and extended family. An excellent book.
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by Stronico 7y ago
By your reasoning is there any circumstance where a high deductible plan, albeit paired with an HSA, could ever work for anyone, at any time? Because it worked quite nicely for me for quite some time.
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by Stronico 7y ago
>All these "the ACA raised my premiums crap" is just that. You didn't have heath insurance before, you had a program that you thought was health insurance but would have absolutely bankrupted the average person if you ever
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by Stronico 7y ago
I had a rotator cuff injury that went on for about two years before I went to a doctor. Their medical advice consisted of "Check Youtube" and they handed me two meters of resistance band. I was skeptical, but two weeks of rather
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by Stronico 7y ago
That was my experience as well. For old companies and new. Yahoo was just really slow.
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by Stronico 7y ago
That is the goal of an interview! You ended with more information that you had before.
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by Stronico 7y ago
Not just because I can - interviews are always time limited, and technical conversations always (pleasantly) meander across many topics, usually the strengths of the people talking. It's easy to for someone to spend an hour talking ab

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