andrewl

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Educationism: A Hidden Bias We Often Ignore(bbc.com)
70 points by andrewl 9y ago|39 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
I don't like the underlines myself, but removing them will also make it difficult for people who don't distinguish well between blue and black.
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by andrewl 9y ago
Some salts, like sea salts, do contain other minerals, although whether they're at nutritionally significant levels is of course another question. And adding iodine to sea salt wouldn't remove whatever other compounds were in it
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by andrewl 9y ago
In a previous discussion, user craftyguy said "The NRA would be all behind this the first time someone reports a 'suboptimal experience' when trying to access their site to become a member, or order ammo from some random M&am
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The Power of Touch, Especially for Men(nytimes.com)
5 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
Interesting, thank you. So maybe the sauropods were bit fuzzy, or downy.
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by andrewl 9y ago
Possibly. Or maybe it was only the dinosaurs in this group, the theropods, that had them. Or that had them to a significant degree. I still picture the giants being featherless, just as modern elephants, rhinos, and hippos, are hairless, or
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by andrewl 9y ago
Does anybody know if this kind of thing is as common in other countries as it is in the US? Are there stronger controls in, say, Germany or France, or Norway and Denmark, that make abuse on this scale impossible? Or is the situation as bad
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by andrewl 9y ago
It's appalling. At least the existing intelligence services will push back, if for no other reason than protecting their turf.
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Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself?(nytimes.com)
3 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
For more on suggested influences on political position, see New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's TED talk The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives : https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haid
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by andrewl 9y ago
There's a concept in psychology called preparedness which suggests that we are biologically prepared to learn certain things. I don't have time to track down the actual research, but I remember reading years ago about an experim
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by andrewl 9y ago
I think there's room for more companies like Home Reserve ( https://homereserve.com ) which ships you a couch or chair in a few boxes you can carry up to a fourth-floor walkup and assemble yourself. If you get tired of the fa
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by andrewl 9y ago
The Atlantic had a good article on this back in 2003: The Dark Art of Interrogation https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/10/the-dar...
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by andrewl 9y ago
As soon as I saw that thick neck and mane I thought of the horses in the Lascaux cave paintings: https://www.ancient.eu/image/5589/
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by andrewl 9y ago
In Britain, a surgery is the doctor's office. The BBC has a short explanation: http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/if-a-british-d...
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I Wore the Jean Jacket of the Future(wired.com)
1 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
I agree. A number of bloggers have definitely made contributions. I'd be curious to know if the majority of people writing to expose abuses in their own companies are in white collar companies or companies like the bakery described in
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by andrewl 9y ago
This kind of article is a reminder of how much we need traditional newspapers, and what we'd lose if they went away. I sometimes read suggestions that independent bloggers will replace newspapers, but I don't think they can do eve
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop by the Office(1843magazine.com)
54 points by andrewl 9y ago|18 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
The FogBugz project management system has pretty good integration between its case system and its wikis.
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Ruby Chocolate Wants a Place at the Table with Dark, Milk and White(nytimes.com)
2 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
This is the closest thing I'm aware of, but I'm not educated in this field: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22930552-600-plastic-... The "grass" generates electricity when it waves back and f
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by andrewl 9y ago
It's definitely related, but it's not a duplicate. This article is written by Kashmir Hill, describing how a story she wrote in Forbes six years ago that was unfavorable to Google was suppressed. The article you linked to is by Ba
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by andrewl 9y ago
Apparently the northern short-tailed shrew, native to North America, has venom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_short-tailed_shrew
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The Swedish Physicist Revolutionising Birth Control(bbc.com)
2 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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The Unabomber Couldn’t Kill David Gelernter. Now Gelernter Supports Donald Trump(tabletmag.com)
1 points by andrewl 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 9y ago
James Gleick has a good bit about Shannon in his book The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.
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by andrewl 9y ago
I don't like being forced to wear formal attire every day, but this guy has stronger feelings about it than I do. You can be a good programmer in or out of a suit. I just did a Google image search for Vint Cerf, and didn't find an
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by andrewl 9y ago
I know it's at least partially caused by the fact that it's not news when something good is happening, but it often seems to me there's more going wrong in this country than going right: Nearly three-quarters of the judges a

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