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by cossatot 9y ago
Darwin was independently wealthy and had no need to work, like many of the 19th century luminaries of science. No one will pay you to take your sweet time for several decades and publish if and when you are ready to revolutionize a field.
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Basic Income in a Small Town: Understanding the Elusive Effects on Work(academic.oup.com)
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The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee’s early programming career(blog.hrc.utexas.edu)
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by cossatot 9y ago
Sea level during the Pleistocene glaciation got to be ~150 m lower than today. You are absolutely right that during times of low sea level, the rivers eroded this part of the shelf just as today. However, these canyons go all the way down
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by cossatot 9y ago
Mine (in this vein at least) was when someone posted an article about optimizing FedEx's location and then someone who was involved with it stepped in and gave the real story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92814
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by cossatot 9y ago
I agree with the comments stating that paperwork is not the fire department's main task they may already be at capacity, therefore this is a way to expedite the process. Furthermore almost any endeavor that requires permitting takes a
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by cossatot 9y ago
The economist and food critic Tyler Cowen often writes that the best food is typically in low-rent areas for precisely this reason. If fixed costs are low, then the restaurant can afford to focus on the quality of the food a bit more. This
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Unifiers and diversifiers in physics, chemistry and biology(wavefunction.fieldofscience.com)
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by cossatot 9y ago
It's interesting to me how infrequently different paths link up. Alhough this is obviously the point of the book series, it still embodies a set of assumptions about free will vs. predestination/inevitability. Maybe there could be
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by cossatot 9y ago
I don't know about other nuclear physics type phenomena, but some reasonably unthinkable things that probably happened include the earth being completely encased in ice[1], all of the continents colliding into a supercontinent[2], a vo
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by cossatot 9y ago
In geology, there is a general tendency to think that, given sufficient time (which we have had), anything that could possibly happen has already happened at least once. This is a prime example of that.
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Unrecognised simplicities of effective action(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)
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by cossatot 9y ago
If anyone is interested in this synchronization process or how it relates to synchronization in general, I highly recommend 'Sync' by Steven Strogatz. It's one of the best popular science/math books I've ever read,
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by cossatot 9y ago
Thanks.
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by cossatot 9y ago
'Official' website here [0]. This looks great, although I do wonder to what degree the automated downloading of dependencies limits off-line work. I'm not sure how widespread this is, but one of my biggest productivity hacks
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Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit(papers.ssrn.com)
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by cossatot 10y ago
I had to compete for my job, in which I get to spend a lot of time working relatively unconstrained on scientific problems of my choosing, as long as they're quite broadly mission-oriented. I like working on questions no one else is a
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by cossatot 10y ago
The paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book called 'Wonderful Life' about the Cambrian Explosion, when mutlicellular life really got cranking. Basically at that time the ecological slate was clean, and an enormous diversity
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by cossatot 10y ago
"From Germany to the United Arab Emirates to China you can visit the same shops, buy the same furniture, eat the same food, watch the same programmes and listen to the same music." A few years back I was on a geology expedition in
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Planet of the Cows(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by cossatot 10y ago
Antibiotics are pretty recent, too. As is housing with sufficient space and internal structure to not have to see and hear your parents working on your next little brother.
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by cossatot 10y ago
I think it's not simply that firms don't think long-term, it's that they can't confidently project 10+ years in the future, so they prefer not to take the risk. Maybe the market will change dramatically by then, making t
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by cossatot 10y ago
They also introduce you to a lot of topics you may not have studied on your own, and give you the opportunity and resources to take them as far as you'd like. I spent a lot of years in universities and I never met a teacher who wasn&
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by cossatot 10y ago
There are a lot of educators that would love to do this. The problem is paying for it.
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India is more entrepreneurial than the US(marginalrevolution.com)
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Clarence Thomas Condemns Civil Asset Forfeiture, Points to Abuses(reason.com)
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Predicts Laboratory Earthquakes(technologyreview.com)
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The coming amnesia(bldgblog.com)
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by cossatot 10y ago
I got a 1st gen Shed in 2010(?) and use it daily. It is definitely a fantastic product, and well worth the money even though I was a grad student at the time.
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There are two main problems with increasing depth: Rocks and water. Rocks are the biggest. The ratio of rock to finer sediment increases with depth until bedrock is reached. This might be anywhere from 1 to 1000 meters depth but in most ci

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