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by cwal37 12y ago
Thanks for changing the title, I always just err on the side of leaving it, even if it is absolutely terrible (as this one originally was). On the actual topic, it's always interesting to see things go differently than economists expec
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Interest rates on some European government bonds have gone negative(vox.com)
70 points by cwal37 12y ago|78 comments
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Food and Consequences: Food for Monsters?(luckypeach.com)
19 points by cwal37 12y ago|2 comments
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A Bug in the System(newyorker.com)
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by cwal37 12y ago
Unrelated to this, but do you guys like board games or really almost anything else? I made the mistake of living in Oak Ridge and I've had a hell of a time meeting people ( I mean, clearly, I'm propositioning a random person in an
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by cwal37 12y ago
Well, I'm only down here for a relatively short bit. Just starting the second year of a postmasters at Oak Ridge National Lab, and at the end either there's funding for me to stick around and be real staff for a while or I'm
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by cwal37 12y ago
I am now surrounded by Google Fiber to the east and west, and Chattanooga's public fiber to the south, out here in Knoxville, TN. I really wish we could manage something here. This area has the biggest national lab, and a host of tech
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Life in the Sickest Town in America(theatlantic.com)
1 points by cwal37 12y ago|0 comments
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Twilight of the Pizza Barons(businessweek.com)
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by cwal37 12y ago
Not dumb! Deserts are beautiful and amazing. If you never have, take a peek at Namibia[1] (my favorite visited deserts to date). [1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Namibia/@-23.1991868,17.22...
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by cwal37 12y ago
For me the real money-quote comes near the end: "For thousands of years we carried bees by raft and barge, by wagon and train, across oceans and continents, so they could make us honey and wax. Now we’ll try to carry them through the A
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Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth(psmag.com)
152 points by cwal37 12y ago|56 comments
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Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth(psmag.com)
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by cwal37 12y ago
Naw, you're still oversimplifying it and being way too pessimistic. Renewables aren't 100% the answer yet, but their LCOE in practice isn't that bad right now at all[1]. I realize this is at relatively low levels of penetrati
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by cwal37 12y ago
Totally. Their in-the-ground infrastructure was built to serve a completely different kind of population. I'm just thinking even longer term. This Planet Money episode[1] does a great job painting a picture of the back and forth betwee
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by cwal37 12y ago
Detroit seems to be turning the corner at the bottom of a decades-long economic slide, but there are also some interesting long-term environmental trends that I think bode well for it and many smaller rust belt towns. Most pressingly, a lot
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by cwal37 12y ago
>I'm not aware of any large ISP that has throttles or bandwidth caps (comcast has a supposed 300GB cap but has never to this day enforced it). Then you haven't been paying attention[1]. I live in one of these areas, and have al
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by cwal37 12y ago
You might be interested to learn that so far since the major deregulation wave in electric utilities over the past 20 years or so, no one has been able to show any real pricing benefits for the end consumer. Certain industries are inherentl
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by cwal37 12y ago
Probably because it's way over the top. That comparison proposes that people who can't program have a huge mental deficit compared to those who can. There are plenty of programmers out there who are not particularly proficient at
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Firestone and the Warlord(propublica.org)
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by cwal37 12y ago
I spent some time at Livermore, and I work at Oak Ridge now. It's been interesting to see the difference in how the HPC assets are referred to, or not, and I think it reflects the culture and layouts of the labs. At LLNL it was constan
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by cwal37 12y ago
Opportunities like this provoke an incredibly intense response in me. I would drop almost everything to go work and live in Antarctica for 6-12 months, and searched fruitlessly for available jobs when I finished my undergraduate degree a fe
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Dunkin’ and the Doughnut King(stories.californiasunday.com)
8 points by cwal37 12y ago|0 comments
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by cwal37 12y ago
Community college isn't equivalent to the schools being discussed here though. The point of the article is big, 4-year institutions, and the comment I was replying to specifically mentioned the state schools as being better than intern
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by cwal37 12y ago
That's simply not true. I'm the oldest of 6 kids. Plenty of state school attendance between myself and my siblings, and neither us nor our parents were ever able to just pay for school each year. We've all gotten the best loc
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Kirk Goldsberry's Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA(wired.com)
8 points by cwal37 12y ago|1 comments
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The Ebola Wars(newyorker.com)
192 points by cwal37 12y ago|107 comments
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by cwal37 12y ago
I assume this is the real, official end of the dream that I will ever get the case they initially showed off for my Nexus 10. I enjoy the Nexus 10, but I really feel like I've kind of just been left in the cold. Android updates haven&#
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by cwal37 12y ago
So putting together: Quality Video + Small Size + Aerial Mobility + Flexibility + Weatherproofing(presumably, even just sweat on a wrist or fog could be a problem) seems incredibly ambitious (and of course, super neat). However, I can'
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by cwal37 12y ago
Giant data set, big collaborative effort, spreadsheets and calculations are available online, and enjoyably written. Most economics texts I've found to be extremely dry, mostly theoretical (minimal or short-term real world data), and&#

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