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by alexc05 10y ago
I've made these as fully-submerged mason jar eggs a few times now: https://anovaculinary.com/easy-homemade-sous-vide-egg-bites/ little 4 oz jarz are perfect for 2 eggs. The fingertip tight allows air to bubble out
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by alexc05 10y ago
My girlfriend bought me a sous-vide stick for christmas https://anovaculinary.com/ I'm loving it, and was just trying to figure out how to make yoghurt in it. I was thinking a pot inside a cambro container or a bunch o
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by alexc05 10y ago
So a few years ago I read Tim Ferriss' "the four hour work week" - and while I will not go on a screed about the part that I find ridiculous, I do think the chapter (and recurring thread) about "what do you do with when
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by alexc05 10y ago
> urged companies to explain the benefits of automated vehicles to a skeptical public. As a "tech guy" myself I have trouble fathoming a position of skepticism around the benefits of self-driving vehicles. I know it is generall
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The oculus settlement I remember was for half a billion http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/1/14474198/oculus-lawsuit-verd...
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I think even a single briefing is a scandal. Consider the words of Admiral McRaven (who coordinated the raid which took down Osama Bin Ladin): > Donald Trump's war on media is 'biggest threat to democracy' http:/&#x2
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by alexc05 10y ago
> Then how would they make money? I think that assumes that the truly valuable content on facebook is the "trash content" people are sharing. If I'm speaking for myself, I love status updates, baby photos, dinner photos, a
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by alexc05 10y ago
I mean yes, to some extent you are right. People are generally resilient and society as a whole will undoubtedly bounce back over the course of the billions of people on the planet. With that said, there's nothing to say that we can&#x
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by alexc05 10y ago
I think that's a very Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged type of analysis. I also think that falls short of accounting for the full spectrum of human behavior. There are numerous innovators, artists and creators who are driven by more than
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by alexc05 10y ago
So my Girlfriend (Monica) is currently doing her Master's at UPENN in social-policy & data science. Her major area of research and focus is on the impact of technological unemployment (which is an umbrella term which represents job
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Ask HN: Finding Internships at the Intersection of Social Policy and Technology?
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Renewable energy draws increasing GOP support. Could shift climate politics(vox.com)
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I read articles like this somethings and think "holy shit I hope I'm not a jerk" - but then I relax when I realize I'm not brilliant enough for that to matter.
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by alexc05 10y ago
I never went through the "full process" at TopHat - but I've been impressed with the interactions I've had. As a former teacher, now an engineer I thought they'd be a really great fit. The one time I reached out to
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by alexc05 10y ago
You don't feel this is a strong argument in favor of the de-regulation of minimum wage? Freeing businesses from the growth stifing yoke of employee voluntary attrition? /s Ughh... reading this is ridiculous. Do we think bankers&#x
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by alexc05 10y ago
From my reading of the ThinThread program we're not talking about a post-hoc analysis. Thinthread ... was one of the first things Michael Hayden's NSA got rid of ... Was your programme, Thinthread, ready for
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by alexc05 10y ago
Thanks! That's a way better description of my version.
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I believe there was a lecture in startup school once that nobody is allowed to work for free for legal reasons. http://www.startupschool.org/ This is a massive paraphrase from a lecture (I think by the pair of lawyers) and
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by alexc05 10y ago
Exactly - I've played enough Dungeons & Dragons to know that it is possible to roll 1 or 2 on a D20. If there was a 90% chance of winning, it is the 10% which happened. That's pretty clear by how crazy close it wound up being
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by alexc05 10y ago
That's really great - though I do think a web page is more inclusive. Additionally the phone-call aspect is something really cool which I hadn't thought of, but I believe the form would allow a letter to be posted directly to mult
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by alexc05 10y ago
One of my favorite "public good" websites is in the UK and called "theyworkforyou.com" The workflow is that you punch in your postcode and get a list of all the people who represent you. From house, senate, european parl
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by alexc05 10y ago
I'd love to hear the shock announcement that they're in the process of porting DirectX to CORE ... maybe at some event like BUILD.2017 or something. It's just the kind of thing that we all* walk around armchair quarterbacking
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Is it a pipe dream to hope they go for DirectX in dotnetcore one day? I'm so happy to read that they've gotten the image processing piece in place. A while ago, on a bit of a lark and to see if I could, I started trying to port a
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by alexc05 10y ago
Can visual studio do the graphical representation of a C# codebase? A javascript file? Looking at Coati.io it can't do those languages yet, but the graphical flow chart looks really amazing to me and I'de love to try it out on my
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by alexc05 10y ago
I think there is a problem in this article in conflating the news about the coming wave of technological unemployment with "AI only" I've had the opportunity this year to pay very close attention to the AI debate since my gir
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by alexc05 10y ago
> The Carbon X1 is made from carbon fiber. It super-robust and light-weight at the same time. If I'm honest I have no Idea why there is an ad for the X1 on hackernews today. The page itself is 404-ing for me. That said, I held an X1
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> have servers that brag about huge payouts. I'm pretty sure that this is a form of Gambler's Fallacy. I've heard a story of a waiter who got a high rollers table one night and walked away with a $1,000 tip. But I heard it
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by alexc05 10y ago
> Mr. Dalio has the highest stratum score at Bridgewater, and the firm has told employees he has one of the highest in the world. So this billionaire is designing a human-ranking system based on some criteria on which he scores number on
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by alexc05 10y ago
Can you expand on this at all? An article anywhere with a detailed write up? It sounds fascinating.
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by alexc05 10y ago
So I'm looking at the 2016 map compared to the electoral college map in the post, http://blogs-images.forbes.com/alexknapp/files/2016/11/AZ.jp... and it appears zero EC votes are flipping because of

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