andrewvc

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by andrewvc 7y ago
> it’s putting nature back to the way it was before humans altered its course. This sentiment is appealing, but there's little backing it. Humans have always shaped nature, and regardless of people, ecosystems are dynamic (1). We
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by andrewvc 7y ago
Maybe they can't make editorial recommendations for the long tail but they absokutely could do so for the top few thousand videos each week. Would that yield an improvement? I don't know, but it would have an impact.
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Google to End Works with Nest(engadget.com)
2 points by andrewvc 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 7y ago
To add to this, a problem with becoming an expert on anything is that you can start to love your understanding of the complexity of the thing and lose the objectivity necessary to evaluate the thing. This can lead to endorsing advanced feat
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by andrewvc 7y ago
For example, completely contrary to most common belief, the == operator is actually more powerful and more useful in our programs than ===, and in fact, usage of == should be preferred and === should only be a last option. But to understan
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Foxconn Tore Up a Small Town to Build a Big Factory–Then Retreated(wsj.com)
3 points by andrewvc 7y ago|3 comments
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Oliver Sacks on How Our Hobbies Can Kill Us(medium.com)
2 points by andrewvc 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 7y ago
Or, you could go the route I did, and start with a coach, and still injure yourself. Just because you know how to do something correctly doesn't mean you always will. I personally believe the combination of speed and weight makes olymp
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Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors(nytimes.com)
306 points by andrewvc 7y ago|211 comments
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Even if the OP had gotten the headset working with bluetooth they'd be disappointed. On Macs at least, using a headset with mic via bluetooth you get 8khz sampling, even if the headset can do more. Sounds terrible. Tried a bunch of eso
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Almond milk is still way more sustainable than cow milk. Maybe not as much as homemade but still an improvement.
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Warm super insulated down coats are pretty terrible above maybe 15f. They're just too hot, and sweating inside a coat like that sucks. I live in Minnesota and wear a lighter weight parka for most of winter. On single digits days like t
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Yes, can confirm. I can't actually load a webpage on their '2G' service anytime I travel to europe. I suspect that their partners in europe throttle with an algorithm so aggressive it flat-out breaks TCP.
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by andrewvc 8y ago
The way you describe investing " What if I have a dual income house hold and we can afford to do this because even if I lost everything my spouse would account for enough income to cover our expenses " is a lot closer to gambling.
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Which is reckless.... The only situation where that makes sense is if you're not only good at whatever job you have, but you're an expert stock picker and you discover through your superior skill that the one stock with the greate
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by andrewvc 8y ago
You're ignoring the question. It's not about ability, it's about failure mode. I like keys / phone / wallet because you can lose 2/3 of those things and still be fine in you home city. Lose your phone/wall
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Even if you buy into this theory, how is this cheaper or better than using batteries to power your gear?
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by andrewvc 8y ago
I saw a guy in front of me at the airport get stopped for a water bottle after the scan. They said "you can't have anything on this list"... at which point he pulled a box cutter out of his carry on and asked "do you nee
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by andrewvc 8y ago
The difficulty people have in understanding that these fires are inevitable is why they won't stop anytime soon. People will die because of our collective inability to accept the ecology of the region. It's more like there's
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by andrewvc 8y ago
That's actually not necessarily the case. By creating more fires evolutionary pressure favored plants that were designed to burn, grow fast, and leave competitive seeds. BTW much of what burns in CA is not large trees but chapparal. Th
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Please read the linked articles in my parent comment. They are natural, because humans are natural. California's vegetation has evolved to burn and quickly regrow and easily burn again due to anthropogenic fire for thousands of years.
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by andrewvc 8y ago
The silliest thing about this is that anthropogenic forest fires have been the norm in CA for thousands of years. If they aren't started on purpose by a human they will eventually be started by a human accident (or the rare lightening
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Psych meds for something like schizophrenia or acute psychosis are very different than for things like ADD, Depression, etc. Additionally, it is objectively true that these disorders are overdiagnosed (there are many studies backing this u
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by andrewvc 8y ago
OK, sure, but why do they need to manufacture everything out of CNC'd billets of aluminum? That seems extremely wasteful.
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by andrewvc 8y ago
This is pretty cool tech. I'd like to see this contrasted with the hot warm cold architecture which is the common approach to this problem. Usually people deal with this problem by allocating faster/more/less storage dense ha
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by andrewvc 8y ago
> The level of victimization they felt was immense, like they had no choice but to sign on the dotted line We give children close to zero financial autonomy, no idea of work, of making money and losing it, then ask them to make one of
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by andrewvc 8y ago
> Any older dev has had to transition at least 1-2 languages and it's not an easy step Most devs I know have been through a whole bunch more than 2. I've had to use at least 8 over the last 10 years of dev. I didn't have t
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by andrewvc 8y ago
The NY times recently ran a story about Jared Kushner paying no, or almost no taxes after showing a loss by using some legal, but creative accounting around depreciation. I've heard the same thing about owners of sports teams. So, when
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Can't believe no ones mentioned webcola yet, which implements some very cool layout algorithms and is the result of cutting edge academic research. https://ialab.it.monash.edu/webcola/
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by andrewvc 8y ago
Large Midwestern cities like Minneapolis and Chicago are quite liberal and have a lot of rich people who could fund startups. We actually do have a lot of tech in these places, but generally only because large companies are in these places

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