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by Top19 9y ago
Put your notes in OneNote, and divide them into 4 or 5 high-level categories (1000,2000,3000, etc). Then split those thousand groups into hundreds groups, tens groups, etc. Something magic happens to your brain when you start using numbers
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by Top19 9y ago
Local control of housing and zoning should be taken away and placed at the State level or above. Over time that will probably become just as corrupt and it will need to revert to the local level again. I am amazed what people will complain
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by Top19 9y ago
Maybe companies should flunk if they can’t train workers for jobs. In the US there is a tendency to put pressure on the educational system for EVERYTHING. Eating healthy, sex, keeping our STEM knowledge competitive with the Soviet Union, tr
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by Top19 9y ago
Click-bait headline that unfortunately I’m supporting by even commenting. Should be called “better technology might help math places in Israel with places mentioned in the Bible”. Whatever journalist wrote that headline, I get that you have
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by Top19 9y ago
More true than Twitter and Facebook at this point, except Scientology though.
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by Top19 9y ago
Side note, today I found out the Yankees don’t have names on their uniforms, only numbers. Apparently this used to be the tradition in all of sports until about the 60’s. Absolutely mind-blowing that I never noticed this, and it made me lik
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by Top19 9y ago
Main text is probably this, it goes into a lot of other stuff though: Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology (MIT Press) https://www.amazon.com/dp/026203395X
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by Top19 9y ago
Yes it does. There is a lot of research that suggests desks in the future need to be larger. One to accommodate more monitors, and two because people like to work with paper and computers. Paper you have to spread out, which requires a big
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by Top19 9y ago
The United States typically goes through cycles of corporate vs government control. This also mirrors the cycle of state vs federal control. Arthur Schlesinger Jr, who won two Pulitzer prizes, wrote extensively about this. I know it’s hard
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by Top19 9y ago
Kind of weird this wasn’t done earlier...
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by Top19 9y ago
In general I like that Google and others are doing this. The web is so complicated, so overwhelming, that a central source of documentation is needed. This "blog posts as documentation" culture is not healthy. However I think we s
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by Top19 9y ago
Interesting reply / good point with your math, but the United States will go to war before ever letting that happen. The people who run the government now I know aren’t the best, and they are hemmed in by systems that have accidentally
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by Top19 9y ago
This is Terrifying with a capital T. For one it’s the 90’s all over again. Tech bubble, white supremacy groups, Hillary Clinton, cryptoanarchists (saw that term online yesterday after having not heard it for 10+ years), and now super sexy d
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by Top19 9y ago
One suggestion might be to just work 35 hours a week at a business you find “passable”. The other 35 hours can be dedicated to something that really makes a difference. In fact it’s really hard to find a job that does serious good. Good age
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by Top19 9y ago
Super fascinating that meal timing can be so important. I had heard this before but shrugged it off as some kind of diet fad, but I can say from a personal level forcing myself to eat something every 60-90 minutes has really really helped m
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by Top19 9y ago
Just last night I was talking with a friend about how good Amazon is compared to any other of the tech companies. They weren’t blamed for the elections, they haven’t gotten mixed up with terrorists, their “personalized” recommendations are
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by Top19 9y ago
As much as something like this is appreciated, the history of job retraining programs are filled with over promises, under-commitments, and disaster, stretching back to the 1970’s. There is no need to train more CS people. There is a need f
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by Top19 9y ago
> “For the most part, the Very Short Introductions range from worth reading to wonderfully appealing.” Cannot recommend this series enough. If you want to know the best way to be a good citizen, to cut through the shroud of fake news, op
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by Top19 9y ago
The word “fallen” in the headline suggests something more. Tragedy. I think this is the choice quote: >You’ve moved from icon to joke — the show that bears your name is a cringe-worthy, true-to-life satire. You’re churning out companies
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by Top19 9y ago
I like the pet where he says that paying taxes is to hard but then in the next paragraph talks about inventing a machine that can think like a human. Seems like a great guy!
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by Top19 9y ago
The article compares bitcoin to the internet in 1994. I think that’s mostly accurate, except more like 1996 or 1997. 1. Bitcoin will crash. 2. The crash will affect Tech which is much weaker than it seems right now. 3. Bubbles always last l
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by Top19 9y ago
Don’t know but if you haven’t used Azure Gov “you haven’t seen anything yet”. NOTE: am saying that Azure Gov sucks
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by Top19 9y ago
You know I’ve thought of that too, but if the popular password managers fail, then we have such a big problem on our hands that your personal data will seem trivial in comparison to the larger societal disruption. You could also use a local
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by Top19 9y ago
Probably not. A quick thing you can do is start using a password manager and opt-out of ads and tracking on Facebook and Google. Beyond that? Look into Michael Bazall’s (sp?) books on privacy. Look for yourself though: https://pi
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by Top19 9y ago
Oh what a surprise, the guy in charge of this “idea”, Andrew Anker (tagged in press release), went to a private boarding school in Connecticut that has an endowment of $500 million. For anyone wondering why I’m pointing this out, it’s not t
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by Top19 9y ago
To clarify I didn’t mean private colleges like Swarthmore, Westminster, or Rice. Schools like Kaplan, ITT, Cordon Bleu. Also I have no problems with coding bootcamps. But the schools I mentioned above, whose avarice I feel like knows no lim
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by Top19 9y ago
There is a horrible story in the book “Googled” by Ken Auletta. There is this panel at Davos in 1998, and a couple of executives at Google are there, along a few pseudo-intellectuals of the digerati like Mary Meeker and Esther Dyson. At the
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by Top19 9y ago
Wow cannot thank these guys enough. Every scam that is serious about making money has SEO-carpet bombed Google to death, making any serious search for the truth impossible (unless you’re one of those people who always knows to go to the 7th
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by Top19 9y ago
Hey have read your story Paul and sorry about that. FWIW even Oracle tried to sue them, and Oracle has never been known for not going 100% ruthless or going cheap on their lawyers / law talent, and even they failed. The only one who ca
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by Top19 9y ago
Look I hate Facebook, Google, the news, prefer physical books, like to exercise, whatever but I always hate seeing this stuff. In Western society there are always two lies operating at once. The first lie is that technology will save us and

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