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by aggie 8y ago
What technology? I'm a fan of Musk's work but this whole venture seems like a pet project for a fantasy he has of bypassing LA traffic in a private billionaire tunnel. It's not clear they've identified an opportunity for
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by aggie 8y ago
"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." -Henry Ellsworth, US Patent Office Commissioner, 1843
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by aggie 8y ago
Your argument is a plausible retcon of the bible, but the "God made it that way" mechanism is essentially infinitely flexible and unfalsifiable. The problem with that is for many people, falsifiability is an important aspect of ev
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by aggie 8y ago
The author uses metric units except in the case of viewing distance, which is likely to present a more intuitive distance to the (I assume) primarily American audience. The mix of metric and imperial is a bit weird, but you can see it as a
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by aggie 8y ago
I suppose to reassure them of the personal touch -- that this isn't a copy+paste response. But to me it usually feels forced. Much better to find a more natural way to remind them this is a personalized message, like referencing their
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by aggie 8y ago
I feel similarly when someone uses my name more than feels natural, and I suspect my awareness of this being a persuasion technique has soured my response to others using it on me. I wonder about the technique's efficacy on people who
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by aggie 8y ago
Many universally-recognized brands still advertise, because advertising isn't just about mere awareness of a product. It brings the product to mind and can continue to shape perception. The returns on advertising certainly diminish as
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by aggie 8y ago
Evidence of a second occurrence of abiogenesis would be bad news in that it would significantly lower the probability that abiogenesis is the Great Filter, though it wouldn't rule out a Filter somewhere between abiogenesis and human-le
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by aggie 8y ago
Just being able to provide multiple people with meaningful positions (former manager at your company, etc.) who are willing to advocate for you is a signal. There are ways to fake that signal of course, but it's still something of a fi
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by aggie 8y ago
Your point about public visibility stands, but there's plenty of evidence that doctors are irrational just like the rest of us.
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by aggie 8y ago
Just keep in mind with dogfooding that there is a difference between figuring out how things work and working efficiently/effectively once you have figured out how things work. Dogfooding is really only good for 'testing' the
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by aggie 8y ago
I don't know anything about the frequency, but if you refinance you can start the 30 year process over. So if you refi after 20 years and go for the 30 year loan you'd be at 50.
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by aggie 8y ago
Doctor salary accounts for only 8.5% of healthcare costs in the US, lower than most other Western countries. https://jacksonhealthcare.com/media-room/news/md-salaries-as... Germany: 15% Australia: 11.6% France 11%
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RPlate Pro(reviverauto.com)
1 points by aggie 8y ago|0 comments
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by aggie 8y ago
> a. that's corruption, not capitalism This is the same logic used by people who argue "That's corruption, not socialism." If everywhere there is capitalism, there is corruption, you can't simply wave it away. Ed
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by aggie 8y ago
To play devil's advocate, an intern with a Pulitzer (or similarly prestigious award) on their resume is going to have a lot of job opportunities.
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by aggie 8y ago
Seems like targeting small groups could be a way to overcome the network effect of Facebook. Just convince a handful of friends to join. Maybe a free trial or freemium model would work?
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by aggie 9y ago
I have personally used a similar device and administered research on the ability to train yourself to control interfaces using EMG readings at a muscle site. A challenge to making this attractive as a consumer product is it required an adhe
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by aggie 9y ago
It probably can. With some training, the 'ear wiggling muscle' is often functional even for quadriplegics. You can read more here, from the lab I RA'd for in college: https://research.engineering.ucdavis.edu/r
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by aggie 9y ago
> Funny the nerative always seems to stay negative even though facts say otherwise. You're relying on a handful of anecdotes, of which at least several don't look so good upon close inspection, to infer a larger economic benefi
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by aggie 9y ago
Anyone can pick up a magazine. The question is whether you can put an ad in Young People Monthly because you know it's likely to skew your audience in the direction you want. Without knowing much about the actual law, it seems like a
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by aggie 9y ago
The fact that the tax cuts are permanent and this is a one time bonus certainly makes it seem like a publicity stunt, possibly related to currying favor for the merger with Time Warner. That said, if you take their stated reason at face val
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by aggie 9y ago
Road maintenance is funded primarily through taxation of gas and diesel [1]. As electric vehicles don't use either, they do not pay a proportional share of the cost to maintain roads. The fuel tax has been an elegant funding solution b
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by aggie 9y ago
Do you have a source for the 'disaster' and 'billions'?
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by aggie 9y ago
> Nor do you see sales people selling stuff just for the fun of it. Do you hang out with many sales people? In my experience, it's a very personality-driven field and they certainly do at least act like sales people outside of work,
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by aggie 9y ago
There's a difference between Rights and Entitlements. The Bill of Rights doesn't grant anything, it restricts what the government can take away (in theory).
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by aggie 9y ago
If you have the money to buy a luxury car, you probably aren't scrutinizing cost of ownership as much as someone buying an economy model. Plus the dealers want the extended business and high end cars are more likely to be serviced at a
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Engineers Turn a Laser Beam into a Stream of Liquid(technologyreview.com)
1 points by aggie 9y ago|0 comments
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HP Z VR Backpack PC(www8.hp.com)
4 points by aggie 9y ago|0 comments
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by aggie 9y ago
The science on this (choice overload) is actually rather ambiguous. [pdf] http://www.scheibehenne.de/ScheibehenneGreifenederTodd2010.p...

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