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by amha 9y ago
I agree 100% with your "old-fashioned blog" comment! The ability to incorporate photos and text together, in a sensible layout, with a URL that is permanent/human-readable (at least relative to social media URLs), and on a si
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by amha 9y ago
This is amazing! This is the sort of thing that makes me want to have kids––the opportunity to turn whatever life throws at you into an awesome DIY science projects. (Though, I guess I could do it without kids, too––but imagine how cool it
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by amha 9y ago
What's frustrating here is the attitude that if you agree with (or work with) someone on some particular topic, then you are necessarily endorsing that person's views on EVERY topic. In other words, you should never associate with
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by amha 9y ago
One of the corollaries to this, if you're teaching, is that your time should be spent NOT on the details––not, for example, on the step-by-step algebra to solve some complicated algebra to solve some integral––but rather on the bigger
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by amha 9y ago
Organizing your life to minimize "drama, breakups, [and] regrets" and maximize "time to get work done" is a good way to end up unhappy and lonely. Work is important, but your work can't love you back.
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by amha 9y ago
Would you rather have had a child in the 19th century, when job options for your potential child would have been limited to a) difficult farm labor, with long days, low pay, and poor working conditions, or b) difficult factory labor, with l
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by amha 9y ago
The people who gave Eaze funding aren't the people who put low-level drug dealers in jail.
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by amha 9y ago
It's not important per se––it's just that the orangeness of the night light is very iconic for anyone who's lived in or spent any time in Chicago. I went to college there, and late-night walks home in a completely ORANGE worl
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by amha 10y ago
Rockefeller's MEMOIRS is surprisingly good. I picked it up figuring it would be typical celebrity schlock––but it's very thoughtful, comprehensive, and well-written. May we all lead such interesting lives, and write so well about
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by amha 10y ago
Yeah!!! The way in which we detect them is so incredible: either by noticing the periodic slight decrease in light as the exoplanet orbits its star, or by noticing the periodic slight wobble of the star around it and its expolanet's jo
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by amha 10y ago
+1, too. EconTalk is amazing. It sounds like I'm listening to a really fascinating conversation between two really smart and really knowledgable people.
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by amha 10y ago
$500K! Thanks, pg! I wish I could donate that much.
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by amha 10y ago
Thank you, pg, for this essay, and for putting money towards Prop 62. This is such an important issue.
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by amha 10y ago
Third on EconTalk. I've listened to it since 2010. Really interesting, really intelligent conversations. http://www.econtalk.org/
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Pausing RC Research(recurse.com)
2 points by amha 10y ago|0 comments
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by amha 10y ago
Worth pointing out that sleexyz's live performances with Hylogen are AMAZING and you should totally check them out if you're in NYC.
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by amha 11y ago
If anyone hasn't heard it, there's a fantastic This American Life that follows around a bunch of employees in a car dealership for a month. It's fascinating and sad: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archi
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by amha 11y ago
Lots of people buy and install home weather systems, and hook up their data feeds to Weather Underground (or what have you). I'm not a climatologist/meteorologist, but my understanding is that personal weather stations provide a s
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by amha 12y ago
It's true. I suspect it's even less of a priority right now than it was ~20 years ago, given the amount and coverage of commercial mapping.
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by amha 12y ago
whoops, book here: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Paper-Chasing-Street-Underworld/dp...
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by amha 12y ago
Halpern seems to have been doing (or getting?) a huge press push. I don't mean that to criticize; everything I've read/heard related to this has been really interesting and I really want to read his book.
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by amha 12y ago
That article says that they're still owned by Advance Publications, though (the Conde Nast parent). I'm confused as well. Is Advance Publications retaining a stake? Are they spinning it off? ???
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Punctuated Equilibrium in the Large Scale Evolution of Programming Languages(santafe.edu)
3 points by amha 12y ago|1 comments
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by amha 12y ago
Un-fucking-believable. PACER has always been awful (I've used it since about 2005), but this is a new low---this is ACTIVE awfulness. I assume, based on the weird specificity of what they're removing, that the PACER office is doin
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by amha 12y ago
The first line of your second paragraph reminds me of a passage from TS Eliot's Burt Norton: ... Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay i
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by amha 12y ago
YES! Thank god. I've been waiting for this for years!!!
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Hold Fast: a DIY sailing documentary(vimeo.com)
1 points by amha 12y ago|0 comments
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by amha 13y ago
You should read Mr. Money Mustache! http://www.mrmoneymustache.com He's an ex-software engineer who, by living reasonably (not even at extreme levels of frugality) saved enough money in seven or eight years to retire at age
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Ghost Bikes of San Francisco(ghostbikesofsf.wordpress.com)
2 points by amha 13y ago|0 comments
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The Silk Road To Federal Prosecution: The Charges Against Ross Ulbricht(popehat.com)
2 points by amha 13y ago|0 comments

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