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by andrewl 6y ago
The article says the team at the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania didn't think it was mass hysteria: The neurologists at the University of Pennsylvania found that some explanations for the Havana Syn
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by andrewl 6y ago
I wasn't clear. I'm describing the developers of the project management system we now use. They announced new scheduling features over a year ago, and nothing has happened. And there have been a lot of slowdowns and crashes, which
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by andrewl 6y ago
My company is evaluating Open Project, among other solutions. We're outgrowing our current system, and also beginning to suspect the developers aren't interested in moving it forward, or even properly maintaining it. We like that
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Linux-Based Windows Makes Perfect Sense(zdnet.com)
14 points by andrewl 6y ago|9 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
I very much hope you're correct. I don't know where the submitter lives, but we've had a few small marches of angry young men with guns here. And Atlantic writer Barton Gellman said this in a radio interview yesterday: Th
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How Does Science Really Work?(newyorker.com)
5 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
There's a comment in the thread suggesting something I'd never thought of before, but which sounds like a great idea, although I'm not too good with economic thinking: "Generation and transmission need to be separated. G
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by andrewl 6y ago
I'm able to view it in a private window in Firefox. Also, if you register for a free account with the New York Times you get a small number of articles free per month.
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by andrewl 6y ago
Bill Moyers has a good segment on this subject: Profits Before Patients http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/profile.html
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by andrewl 6y ago
I learned about Lampson from reading Alan Kay, who has praised him highly. He was one of the founding members of Xerox PARC, among many other achievements.
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by andrewl 6y ago
When the technology improves sufficiently maybe there will be a drone the size of a dragonfly that land on targets and inject them with ricin or another poison. That requires a lot better targeting than a plastic container loaded with explo
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by andrewl 6y ago
Maybe the route toward what I'm envisioning (and hoping for) is genetically engineered or enhanced cells. Modify and existing system that already does a lot instead of trying to recreate a cell from the ground up.
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by andrewl 6y ago
Is there anything besides ( massive ) engineering challenges standing between more advanced devices like this physically eating away at cancerous tumors in the same way physicians use special maggots for wound debridement?
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China Expands Its Amphibious Forces in Challenge to U.S. Supremacy Beyond Asia(reuters.com)
11 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Plastic Waste Is an Ideal Building Material(bbc.com)
3 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
I don't know how scalable it is, but isn't concentrated solar power fairly environmentally benign? That system uses mirrors and lenses to boil water and generate steam. The steam drives turbines attached to generators. There are c
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by andrewl 6y ago
In The Mythical Man Month Fred Brooks said "Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." I first
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by andrewl 6y ago
This sounds familiar: So too did stubborn citizens grow weary of the lecturing of muckraking do-gooders. By 1854, outbreaks of infectious disease had killed thousands of Londoners of all classes, and yet an editorial in The Times huffed, “
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by andrewl 6y ago
In An Introduction to Mathematics (1911) Alfred North Whitehead wrote: By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of th
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by andrewl 6y ago
I'm not seeing the value of this either. But I don't think that one person submitting one not very useful tool means that Hacker News itself is going to the dogs.
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Mysterious Inheritance – J. B. S. Haldane(theamericanscholar.org)
2 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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How A Worm Gave the South a Bad Name(pbs.org)
1 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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Acura Has Invented an Airbag That Works Like a Catcher’s Mitt(arstechnica.com)
3 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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The Big Tech Critic Behind Hey, Basecamp’s Radical New Email Platform(fastcompany.com)
2 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
He and his team at Civic Ventures have a podcast called Pitchfork Economics which is worth listening to: https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episodes/
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by andrewl 6y ago
The target audience is different, but this made me think of the book: Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook It was discussed a little here over year ago at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431005
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No Rain, No Pain: Study Links Foul Weather with Body Aches(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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The Genuine Polymath Is Still One in a Million(spectator.co.uk)
3 points by andrewl 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
The author offers one answer to this in his opening text: I say it's useful on servers because log files, dump files, or whatever text format servers end up dumping to disk will tend to grow large, and you'll have many of them pe
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Anatomists of Melancholy in the Age of Coronavirus(chronicle.com)
64 points by andrewl 7y ago|83 comments

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