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by cwal37 12y ago
Hahaha, nothing crazy. I work at a national lab. I'm like a hybrid policy analyst/economist/environmental scientist/programmer focused on energy. There are definitely people at this lab and presumably next door at the Y-
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by cwal37 12y ago
Joules are mostly used as a scientific term. BTUs and kWh in turn are kind of like industry terms that came about with the steam power revolution and still define heat/energy production in most countries today.
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by cwal37 12y ago
In my current position I can't have work email easily accessible on my phone. I have a security token on my keychain that changes every 30 seconds or so, as well as 2 additional passwords I need to remember. This is enough to deter me
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“Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry”(nymag.com)
11 points by cwal37 12y ago|0 comments
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by cwal37 12y ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." h
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In Harm's Way(azcentral.com)
4 points by cwal37 12y ago|0 comments
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by cwal37 12y ago
I know. There are named places too, although not many.
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by cwal37 12y ago
I'm a sucker for this. I know I am a sucker, but I can't help myself. I've loved Move's visualizations since it was a random free app I downloaded and forgot about, and I've already spent far too long zooming in and
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by cwal37 12y ago
I put together a little gif a few years ago (post Citizens United) to show some potential paths to anonymity for money in politics. I should really update it with dollar figures and some more detail, but I think it roughly gets the point ac
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by cwal37 12y ago
I thought it would be interesting to see what the commute time trends look like for cities on each end of the arrival times (early vs. late), so I grabbed some data from the Census Bureau and guessed at rough metro areas (since Nate doesn&#
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by cwal37 13y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive comment. I completely agree on the discussion here and that Piketty has struck a nerve. I was just a bit annoyed that no one was even attempting to claim actual knowledge of the book at hand, but was ready to ma
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by cwal37 13y ago
I think one of the major areas they might struggle in is decent prose. I expected the new 538 to have lengthy and interesting prose in addition to data, but most everything has been a slog to read so far. Maybe I've just been spoiled b
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by cwal37 13y ago
In the case of this book, he's proposing a new "theory" (I'm putting it in quotes because it's weaker than a scientific theory, but stronger than the popular use of the word), with the most comprehensive and far rea
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by cwal37 13y ago
He does address it to some extent in that he's very pessimistic about the future. While I am quite enamored of his data and general skill as a researcher/writer, I choose to be a bit more optimistic about the future. If you go bac
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by cwal37 13y ago
As far as I can tell skimming through these comments, no one else here has actually read the thing. I'm not finished with it yet, so I won't offer a final opinion, but to the page I'm on it's been an impressive work. He&
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by cwal37 13y ago
Yes, this is buzzfeed, but it's not the buzzfeed you're used to. This article is written by their Michael Hastings Fellow, and is a seriously in-depth and interesting look at a piece of legalese that has defined much of the United
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60 Words And A War Without End(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by cwal37 13y ago|1 comments
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by cwal37 13y ago
Here's some basics: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/I... Essentially, we excel in a couple very specific things, like survivorship of breast cancer. We're middle of t
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by cwal37 13y ago
Just FYI nurse practitioners (NPs) can also diagnose/prescribe/refer. I happen to know this because my mom's finishing up school to become one. When she's finished, she'll get a huge pay bump, and have quite a few o
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by cwal37 13y ago
In countries with socialized healthcare systems, costs are much lower, as is the overall amount spent on healthcare. Americans actually display stunning recalcitrance towards this fact, and as a result we have an incredibly polarized debate
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by cwal37 13y ago
You're doing great work it sounds like. I also have Nexus 10 (you're the first person I've ever heard or read mentioning owning one other than myself), so you understand my pain in trying to use that piece of junk. Unfortunat
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by cwal37 13y ago
That's a super excellent point! I wasn't really thinking about small individuals, as I'm not really very deep into comics. I just happen to love reading fiction and tend to devour whatever I stumble into. Best of luck to you,
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by cwal37 13y ago
I'm peculiar because I didn't really grow up reading comics, but was introduced to them near the end of high school. I was already a voracious reader as I had grown up constantly ensconced in books (my parents' house has a li
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by cwal37 13y ago
I've used Comixology and Marvel Unlimited before. Marvel Unlimited is a travesty on Android tablets, which is really unfortunate, because a subscription service like that is probably the only way I will consistently read comics. Comixo
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by cwal37 13y ago
Right, sorry! I tend to forget they're not literally next to each other since they're both nuclear security labs and in the same-ish area.
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by cwal37 13y ago
It's a combination of disparate factors. Most labs were set up under different initial conditions, and their future contracts and direction spun out of their initial intention. There are specific nuclear security/safety labs (Live
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by cwal37 13y ago
Oh I know Fermi hahaha, my hometown is literally next to Batavia (Geneva). I just wasn't listing all of the labs. It was a bit surprising to me, but each lab really seems to have a completely different overall culture set, and then it
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by cwal37 13y ago
I agree with your overall point of looking in the areas around DOE labs (disclaimer: I'm at one now and worked at a different one in the past), but maybe only half-ish of them are truly in nowheresville. I would say Idaho, Los Alamos,
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by cwal37 13y ago
I don't know off the top of my head, but I think your best bet is to probably just check the wikipedia pages of major figures. If there haven't been updates in the past year or two, do some pointed google searches for news article
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by cwal37 13y ago
Dogs are one species. Their variation is a result of long-term purposeful breeding and a "slippery" genome. Similar deal (not so much the slippery genome) for horses and housecats. I think you're confusing breeds with species

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