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by brownbat 10y ago
> Meanwhile, if you see any factual errors on Breitbart, by all means post them. I liked this one: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breitbart-issues-best-co...
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This hinges on a common fallacy that insists there are a fixed number of jobs. If it wasn't possible to expand opportunities for employment, we would have run out of jobs as a country of 5.3 million people in 1800. As we automate, new
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Or, if you prefer this point in audio, filled with interesting bits from the history of industrial design and the dulcet tones of Roman Mars: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/
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Amazon's store of the future has bugs to work out(engadget.com)
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> How can you strategically make a good impression? From the outset, frame the conversation with a few well-rehearsed sentences regarding how you want to be perceived. Klosterman comes to the same realization in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa-Puf
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> I think the idea is that if advertising on the web respected users, they wouldn't feel the need to block ads. True and more than this, advertising could be a service to me. Advertising has multiple functions. One is helping with
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He goes free in 14 years or sets a new record. Up to the judge. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=8101209&page=1
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I'm not on the right criticizing the left though, and it strikes me as melodramatic to say this "perpetuates a misperception." Let's talk about perceptions and misperceptions. Most Americans have no idea who is in power,
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The Planet Money discussion was a good teaser: http://www.npr.org/2014/05/02/309040279/in-4-000-years-one-t...
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The goal was to make a course that "looked hard but played easy." I can't help but wonder if that was a hint at their larger philosophy of game development too...
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I was obsessed with 2002's SimGolf for a while, but not sure if anyone else really played it.
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> Most ideological debates aren't about that. There is no side arguing that government for the sake of government is good. You can always add more nuance. Ehrenreich had a great piece 20 years ago, "Confessions of a Recovering
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It looks like the archway is filled with holes for candles. Lighting for meetings could not have been as trivial a task as it was for the researchers, who seem to have been able to toss down some cheap super bright LEDs(?). An hour of good
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Yeah, to your point: The EPA was an obstacle for Marc Edwards during the DC water crisis, but then was one of his biggest advocates during Flint.[0] Examples like this are common enough. So it surprises me that most ideological debates are
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> "wealthier people tend to live together more than before and so do poorer people" Some people are essentially told to contribute to this phenomenon when you buy a house in the US. High home values mean good school funding, wh
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Others have talked about the taxation faced by Aramco. I also wonder how well Aramco is run. I've heard government jobs in Saudi Arabia involve coming into the office maybe once a month.[0] I'm not sure how representative that ane
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Instacart wants to fix grocery shopping by eliminating the drive the store. Amazon wants to fix grocery shopping by eliminating checkout.[0] The friction with grocery shopping for me is in a completely different area, and also easily solvab
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You're right, de la Chapelle is the more relevant condition in this discussion. In general, though, chromosomal abnormalities make lines based on the presence or absence of particular chromosomes seem arbitrary. I get that you're
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Even setting aside Klinefelter's, they did say "Gender" on the survey.
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Both describe unexpected effects when trying to extrapolate from price and quantity involved in individual use cases. Jevons: Quantity required per use goes down, so you might expect total demand to decrease. Instead total consumption goes
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I have no idea why we decided that everyone who makes content or provides a service must also be great at moderating commenting systems. Disaggregating comment from content is a great move for the web. It's part of the process of offlo
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Pithy quotes require charitable readers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity But you're right to be skeptical in general. Nutrition research is in such scientific wilderness that it's hard to c
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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I always wanted to have a text-to-speech system that could generate novel accents, by taking just a couple parts of the IPA at a time and substituting other sounds. Text-to-IPA might be easy enough with dictionaries, the swapping is trivial
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The use of constants without any actual representation is a bit sneaky. You might apply a ceiling assuming constants are limited to, say, 16x16 pixels, with each pixel marked or unmarked. That gives you 2^256 constants to play with (minus t
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Hmm, at first I thought: If you have a billion dollars you can get 50,000 people in a stadium screaming your name. I mean, you could get me to scream your name for $20k easy, and I don't even like stadiums that much. But, ok, that&#x27
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The article provides basically two counterarguments to terraforming Mars, derived from a foundation of Aristotle's virtue ethics. Argument one: terraforming Mars would destroy its beauty. Argument two: terraforming Mars would demonstra
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I often wonder if archivists are out there somewhere, armed with HandBrake, ripping every DVD they can find into a digital format for preservation beyond the life of the disc. I've been fascinated with some projects that have tried to
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Amazing. These are like Bill Brasky stories or Schneier facts. If Handbrake fails, it's only because your hardware is broken.
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I really liked the third bullet: Historical problems can help develop students’ mathematical thinking. Seems really useful to know the problems humanity was struggling with at the time a tool or its notation was developed. Trigonometric fun

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