andrewem

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by andrewem 6y ago
Yes - people who only know technical things can become convinced that (a) only technical things are worth knowing, and (b) that their perfect logic can enable them to come to ideal conclusions about things they know nothing about. (I think
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by andrewem 7y ago
A headphone jack can be easily cleared of debris with a wooden toothpick. Before I figured that out I also found it impossible to keep using the jack.
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by andrewem 7y ago
I've seen many tech companies in the Boston area announce employees can (or must) work from home, since the governor of Massachusetts declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and encouraged such actions. All governors should do likewis
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by andrewem 7y ago
Wikipedia says it was built for as US Army airfield in World War II. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Bay_Airport
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by andrewem 7y ago
Here's the original on their web site: https://www.nro.net/aso-issues-inspection-request-to-icann/
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by andrewem 7y ago
I recall a discussion of this point on HN a long time ago, but GPS is only one way to charge taxes based on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) - another, which is less invasive, is just to read the vehicle's odometer on some regular basis, e
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by andrewem 7y ago
You say "problem there is another solution" - what is the other solution? (I'm guessing it involves somehow telling Apollo Server which fields/related objects you will need?)
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by andrewem 7y ago
This person might not want the fact of their former homelessness tied to their real name, which posting their CV on a public site would do.
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by andrewem 7y ago
See http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/to-hell-with-hitler.htm... for more detail on this.
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by andrewem 7y ago
On the topic of the physical toll taken on workers (and their families) by manual labor jobs, OSHA says "Out of 4,674 worker fatalities in private industry in calendar year 2017, 971 or 20.7% were in construction — that is, one in five
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by andrewem 7y ago
The automobile also changed land use patterns dramatically, and the truism is that transportation is land use. See eg Cleveland, Ohio, which now has roughly the same population as it did in I think 1940, but takes something like 4 times t
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by andrewem 7y ago
I think that in your examples "Austyn" and "Tristyn", the POINT of the "y" replacing "i" is to signal that the name is feminine. Namely, you're having a girl but want to name her Austin, but not
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by andrewem 7y ago
One can have evidentiary standards which don't in every circumstance require a long time period. For example, there are (rarely) medical clinical trials which are ended early because the experimental group's protocol (say, a drug
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by andrewem 7y ago
Does putting assets onto Adam's balance sheet look like a bad idea for Adam, or for We? As with Enron, the way to understand the company's decision making is that in many particulars it was not trying to optimize its outcomes, it
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by andrewem 7y ago
Many states have laws on maximum interest that can be charged, though at this point there are so many loopholes they basically no longer have any effect. https://statelaws.findlaw.com/consumer-laws/details-on-state...
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by andrewem 7y ago
The memoir he refers to is finished. It's called Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing. Unlike the rest of his books, it's short. Having not read any of his other books, I found it fascinating and I highly recommend it.
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by andrewem 7y ago
Do you have more information about this? I'm wondering what the new program will be like, given as a member says in that article from 2008, “OA is very Native American-based”.
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by andrewem 7y ago
Perhaps someone here can expand the Wikipedia article on the author. It's quite short: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Ribenboim
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by andrewem 7y ago
What are some topics which were covered in your siblings' high school math textbooks which weren't required for your degree from a university? (You say "from an engineering school", but it's not clear if it was an e
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by andrewem 7y ago
This type of reporting is called a "feature story", as opposed to "straight news" or "hard news". The whole point of a feature is to tell an interesting but not necessarily time-sensitive story about something
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by andrewem 7y ago
I knew nothing about Taniyama until I read his Wikipedia article, which says he suffered from depression and committed suicide at age 31; and soon after the woman he was going to marry also committed suicide. https://en.m.wikiped
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by andrewem 8y ago
My favorite historical thing in York was seeing the Roman foundations under the cathedral (York Minster). You can see a similar thing next to the cathedral in Leon, Spain (whose name came from "legio" for Legion, since it was orig
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by andrewem 8y ago
As a rough estimate, Wikipedia says the SF area's population is roughly 8-9 million, depending on how you count. If you assume that each new unit would house 2 people, that's enough to house about 2% of the current population. (I
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by andrewem 8y ago
1 almost certainly requires zoning changes to allow multi-family housing in the places people hype these kinds of huge houses today. Don't count on the neighbors to support that, and keep in mind the ones with money will use that money
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by andrewem 8y ago
Re "It's got a Palo Alto zip. That's important to some people.", my parents tell the story that when they were looking for housing in New Jersey in the late 1970s, the real estate agent said things like "This house
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by andrewem 8y ago
That's known as a desire path or desire line: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
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by andrewem 8y ago
Have you come across the word "nutmeat", meaning the edible part of a nut? It's from two words with Germanic roots and thus might give you a similar feeling. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nutmeat
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by andrewem 8y ago
Fentanyl test strips already exist. See eg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095539591... which studied use of them
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by andrewem 8y ago
A rich person who has a farm basically as a hobby, hence "playing". See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman%27s_farm
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by andrewem 8y ago
What's an example of a concept from A Thousand Plateaus that has stuck with you?

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