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by bld 12y ago
Reminds me of a post I saw on Get Rich Slowly awhile back on ditching a dream job for a boring one. Interesting perspective. Emotional investment can be taxing in its own way. I started in a job with very interesting problems but lacked mea
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by bld 12y ago
Indeed. The growing free software & hardware communities, and the numerous companies they spin off, are an existence proof that patents aren't a requirement of a working economy. They aren't going away any time soon until free
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by bld 12y ago
This is one of the most clear & succinct - and more importantly high exposure - statements on the value of open source that I've seen to date. The same message from other sectors like 3D printing has been thoroughly muddied by the
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by bld 12y ago
"...limited demand for its products"? Not in Orange County, CA.
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by bld 13y ago
We can keep FPTP without the pathologies of plurality voting with something like Approval or Condorcet voting.
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by bld 13y ago
One of the most comprehensive guides to diplomatic critiques I've seen was written for the Critters science fiction & fantasy writing workshop. It serves a critical need in that venue: http://critters.org/c/diplomacy.ht
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Make Technology--and the World--Frictionless(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by bld 14y ago|0 comments
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Free platforms Go On, despite former giant’s NoGo(blog.slyon.de)
1 points by bld 16y ago|0 comments
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Creative Commons’ Branding Confusion(blog.ninapaley.com)
5 points by bld 16y ago|0 comments
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by bld 16y ago
Washington DC's one of the few places in the US I've seen with that same escalator etiquette in the Metro. I love it. Unfortunately, it doesn't usually apply at shopping malls.
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by bld 16y ago
For an overdose of information on this topic, see: http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/
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by bld 16y ago
Using LyX, you can't even type extraneous space without extra effort.
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by bld 16y ago
Difference being that police don't make their livelihood from the people they go after; rather, the people the "parasites" prey on. There are a few exceptions, like seizures from drug dealers to augment taxpayer funding.
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by bld 16y ago
The US patent office has the Peer to Patent project for public comment on pending patent applications: http://www.peertopatent.org/ Looks like it's voluntary and applies to a limited number of patent applications, but it is a step in the
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by bld 16y ago
Physics also identifies the dynamics, which are a special type of constraint. Engineers also consider economics, which usually limits you to far less than physics allows.
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by bld 16y ago
I think the problem arises when a physicist is asked to speculate on an engineering problem.
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by bld 16y ago
The Dragon capsule's deorbit burn completed and it's headed back down to Earth. [EDIT] and splashdown!
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by bld 16y ago
Here's the press conference in three ~10 minute parts: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu5dXnCUs7I Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsihAsX4z8 Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu0VvxuicLw The lead author gives a ta
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by bld 16y ago
My controls lab in college (University of Washington, Aeronautics & Astronautics) had an inverted pendulum. I designed a controller to balance it and maintain position along the track for a controls class. We took a picture of Gumby sta
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I'm Not a Real Scientist, And That's Okay(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by bld 16y ago|0 comments
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by bld 16y ago
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891316
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3D printing and "Intellectual Property"(blog.reprap.org)
6 points by bld 16y ago|0 comments
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by bld 16y ago
The system from Jurassic park actually exists. It's the 3D File System Navigator made by SGI for IRIX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
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by bld 16y ago
I was thinking it's too odd to be fake.
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by bld 16y ago
If you go through all the trouble to adapt to living in space for travel between the planets, why bother landing? Colonize the asteroids and short period comets, which are full of resources and much easier to access. No landing vehicles and
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by bld 16y ago
US service members or their families can get the same with USAA. You can choose another account, credit card, or line of credit.
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by bld 16y ago
I would think that people driven to attain those levels wouldn't listen to advice like that anyway.
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by bld 16y ago
I wonder if the the biggest aid to OO adoption will be the new interface in Office 2007? OO basically clones the old Office menu-driven interface for everything, which I find easier to navigate by drilling down in context to find things. Sw
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by bld 16y ago
and a link to the paper, "Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities" http://research.yahoo.com/pub/3352
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Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by bld 16y ago|3 comments

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