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by awongh 6y ago
I've been teaching in person and had to transition online during COVID-19. I agree with all of his points that going online can degrade the experience. but all of this pre-supposes what it means to teach and what it means to learn.
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by awongh 6y ago
Has anyone written about how exactly the acquired company (McDonnel Douglas) was able to take over the acquiring company? Sounds like it would be an interesting story. I also wonder if there are similar accounts of the same happening in oth
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by awongh 6y ago
maybe it's not completely clear from your comment, but those chinese workers are actually living and manufacturing the bags in italy: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-wo...
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by awongh 6y ago
yes, and the global supply chain is a weird place. Because I also know that these industries seem to spring up overnight and disappear just as quick. From an american point of view it doesn't make sense for the amount of capital invest
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by awongh 7y ago
I've been finding that I go outside the base config quite quickly. I wanted to compile a second app with different babel settings and have that in my webpack config. I gave up on it after a few hours of trying to figure out what I woul
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by awongh 7y ago
even though I'm in favor of banning cars, I might actually agree with this. Market street is a terrible pedestrian street. It's too wide so it doesn't feel personal or charming. It's too windy, there are no trees or othe
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by awongh 7y ago
In english, as mentioned re. australia below (and also america), the negation of a negative is: 'no, yea' https://pics.me.me/california-english-no-yeah-yes-yeah-no-ye...
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by awongh 7y ago
When I lived in SF I had monkeybrains, I was happy with them, and very happy not to give comcast my money.
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by awongh 7y ago
The technical aspects of this article are super interesting, but also the aspects that talk about adobe's early business model: Adobe’s original business model was to sell this font technology to people that make printers, and sell sp
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by awongh 8y ago
i theorize it isn’t lower than i think because the article hints that companies not selling the product at what the market will bear, and instead would rather price it to a specific margin. to me this is a special industry in that, if your
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by awongh 8y ago
One thing that I'd like to know is if the profit margin is the same for one of these one time treatments as a repeat treatment. If we assume that these things must be produced within a market system, it seems like the real moral ques
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by awongh 8y ago
> tech is absurdly high on the meritocratic scale. Actually I would make the distinction that tech is ridiculously far ahead of most other industries- but still very low on the scale. (if by scale we mean zero to perfect meritocracy) Net
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by awongh 8y ago
Is this always true? One thing I wonder is, given that the amount of money needed to move the needle in a market could be actually quite large, how much money woyuld you need to make off a given inefficiency before it becomes a zero-sum gam
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by awongh 8y ago
nice comparison. I am waiting for the right time to buy an ubuntu laptop, but it still seems like a MBP is the better choice. You're just much less likely to run into some weird hardware driver issue. I guess it used to be quite a bit
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by awongh 8y ago
the new yorker did a long piece on one specific case: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-lo... quite interesting and sad
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by awongh 8y ago
I've always felt that there are a lot of parallels between bicycle design and digital technology- how standards get picked, how that influences what gets made and what is successful and what fails. Is the current parallelogram design o
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by awongh 9y ago
What screenwriting podcasts are these? They sound interesting.
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by awongh 9y ago
this is exactly what's happening with digital media. Optimize for human attention. Direct real time feedback on how people react to your media. Tweak for more attention. Repeat. No intentional malice needed.
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by awongh 9y ago
I found this interesting article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/01/03/after-da... They mention a parable about a crocodile, where things will eventually re-adjust to favor the black
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by awongh 9y ago
Can you elaborate on the "disaster" of demonitization? The only things I've read have been breathless tech press coverage about online transactions and such.
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by awongh 9y ago
I guess I was more extrapolating to jet engines, where I don't know if speed is as much of a factor in energy conservation, given the market.
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by awongh 9y ago
why does bio-fuel mean net zero emissions? I assume you're talking about bio-disel or ethanol? Don't both of these still produce cO2 when you burn them? But if you're producing the hydrogen with zero emissions, then it's
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by awongh 9y ago
does anyone know the viability of hydrogen fuel cell electric motor airplanes? It seems like this is a more logical step, since from what I've read the energy density of batteries really isn't optimal for something like an airpla
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by awongh 9y ago
I completed this coding challenge, an ajax game of cards: https://github.com/awongh/cards funny to look back- no documentation and terrible commit messages :) This was for a junior full stack dev position in SF
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by awongh 9y ago
Very cool. The motorcycle equivalent is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkHJuU01-Wk&index=43&list=PL... I watched about 3/4 of these ^^ videos, really learned a lot about how a combustion engine works.
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by awongh 9y ago
I hadn't heard that. Do you have a link? afaik the water from malaysia isn't potable, it's treated in singapore.....
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by awongh 10y ago
I also think 1st worlders from North America / Europe overlook the degree to which Singapore 's government has succeeded in providing a clean safe well-organized environment for its people. Compare this to all of the other nearest
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by awongh 10y ago
First, I don't think it's reasonable to simply say that in any situation the sensible and civilized thing to do is to walk away and "let the courts handle it". It seems extremely naive to say that we should never directl
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by awongh 10y ago
I think we agree on the basic principle of the case, but not the solution that follows it. I do agree that it is not acceptable for a grown adult to be dragged off a plane. I think it's a straw man to say that don't "never dr
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by awongh 10y ago
ianal but according to this analysis, this particular situation hinges on the fact that United's policy only applies to unboarded passengers, and Dr. Dao was correct to assert his right to stay on the plane: http://www.na

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