chrismealy

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Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You(bostonreview.net)
5 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Why even have manned fighter planes? Self driving cars is a much harder problem than war drones, and everybody seems convinced the former's just around the corner.
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Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You(bostonreview.net)
3 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
A lot of people don't know this, but before Steve Jobs's keynotes become famous not every software application was described as "beautiful."
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Some days it's robots taking all the jobs, other days it's who's going to take care of all the old people. Come on people, just pick one. Unless you count hoarding canned food, you can't really save for the future. You c
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Now That Uber Doesn't Have a CEO, COO, CTO, or CFO(twitter.com)
6 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Apple's genius will be to get people to pay luxury car prices for something built by brutalized Chinese labor.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
This reminds me of something from Sam Bowles's "Microeconomics": Like the overnight train that left me in an empty field some distance from the settlement, the process of economic development has for the most part bypassed t
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by chrismealy 9y ago
"Happy City" (mentioned in the article) is a terrific book, and surprisingly down-to-earth.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Not an architecture expert, so maybe somebody can help me out, but the early modern architecture was often still complex and humane (I'm thinking 1930s - Amsterdam School and WPA post offices). Only later did modernism become an excuse
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I'm with you. I've thought a lot about how technology could be used to increase the amount of detail in architecture (rather than decrease it), but I'm not a designer, and my daydreams never go anywhere (I think you just can&
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by chrismealy 9y ago
It's terrible.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
That is one of my favorite books ever. Anybody who's interested in history or ecology or civilization would love it.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
We know it's cheaper outside of America. Instead of playing Not Invented Here why not just ask what other countries are doing better?
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The share of national income going to labor (people who work for a living) has declined ever since capital's triumph over unions. You might not like unions we know what happens without them.
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How the Trump-Russia Data Machine Games Google to Fool Americans(pastemagazine.com)
5 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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A Jobless Utopia?(bostonreview.net)
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JavaScript Promises for animation sequences(hackernoon.com)
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The decline of the labour share of income(bruegel.org)
1 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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A Not-So-Brief Thought on Zoning (2017)(medium.com)
1 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Maybe your health problems would prevent you from being the best manager but there's no shame in being a good enough manager.
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Tesla Autopilot Review: Bikers Will Die(medium.com)
7 points by chrismealy 9y ago|2 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
America has done the vehicular cycling approach for decades and what we have to show for it is 1% cycling mode share. Vehicular cycling is the transportation policy for the 1% of cyclists (it made sense to me when I was 22 years old and fea
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by chrismealy 9y ago
A major part of the Dutch system is the bike network has the most direct routes, while cars generally have to go around.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The union should do something about it.
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How The Economist Thinks(currentaffairs.org)
2 points by chrismealy 9y ago|1 comments
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The zombie robot argument lurches on(epi.org)
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The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero(gizmodo.com)
2 points by chrismealy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chrismealy 9y ago
"Are people really so fragile" Yes, people are generally fragile.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I'll worry about too much employment when labor's share of national income returns recovers.

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