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by edj 14y ago
The US use of imperial units definitely requires a good bit of annoying overhead - owning two sets of socket wrenches and hex keys and never knwowing which one a manufacturer has used is just the first such inconvenience that comes to mind.
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by edj 14y ago
The reason it’s so hard for adults to learn new things is that there is no authority figure punishing them if they fail. ... If we’re serious about accomplishing our goal, we have to create a context where we have no choice but to learn.
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by edj 14y ago
That's an interesting perspective. Though it sounds like Dambisa Moyo is singling out "system aid" between governments, not all charitable/philanthropic giving.
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by edj 14y ago
Charities in general have almost no effect on the ground. That's an extremely bold statement. Do you have any evidence to back it up? Counterexamples are numerous: Carnegie libraries [1], needle exchanges[2], the Gates Foundation [3]....
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by edj 14y ago
Philanthropy and charity aren't the same thing. I think they're more alike than different. They have in common the act of giving for the benefit of others. From the Oxford English Dictionary: Charity. a) Beneficence; liberality to or pro
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Should Buddhist Meditation Make You Happy?(theatlantic.com)
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by edj 14y ago
I, too, have battled with RSI in my right hand and wrist. Things that helped: Posture. Back straight; elbows bent 90 degrees (no less); monitor at eye level so neck is straight. Physical therapy. Deep-tissue massage; fascia massage with ten
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Virtual Environment Reveals Sex-Dependent Nature of Skin Disclosure(plosone.org)
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by edj 14y ago
I always wonder with things like this just how many people within Google know about it. A single renegade engineer? A handful? Or A team having some fun with the approval of their managers and everything? Is there an internal policy about e
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by edj 14y ago
Anyways, businesses are not the ones deciding what services to provide to the people, customers are. So if you want to blame anybody, blame customers Huh? Since when are businesses like billiard balls, just sitting there, inert, awaiting
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by edj 14y ago
when Americans talk about "Europe", they're generally talking about Western Europe, not Eastern, and are excluding the UK too. They almost certainly aren't including Russia. Likewise, most people across the world seem to use "American" an
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The Most Overlooked Statistic in Economics: Household Formation(theatlantic.com)
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by edj 14y ago
Ok, ignoring the fact that this is a map of permits Why would you ignore that this is a map? That's the point - the data is now conveniently visualized as a map... Someone's permit could be for business, which means the handgun,if they e
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by edj 14y ago
What's more, this may well provide data for would-be gun thieves to use to acquire illegal weapons. Now that they have a convenient list, they can stake out these locations, wait for the residents to leave, and break in to begin their searc
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Intellectual Ventures: Why the Patent System Needs Aggregators Like Us (wired.com)
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by edj 14y ago
The West tried institutions (poorhouses, asylums). But forced institutionalization just isn't compatible with basic human rights. It was also expensive and failed to provide a venue for effective treatments. Starting in the 1970s the West d
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by edj 14y ago
"The worst-case situation envisions a stalling of economic globalization that would preclude any advancement of financial well-being around the world. That would be a likely outcome after an outbreak of a health pandemic that, even if shor
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by edj 14y ago
I did miss that. Thanks for pointing that out. I actually considered an email address like firstname@lastname.com. I figured I could add my parents, or future children. But this only works for obscure last names or unusual TLDs. There's als
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by edj 14y ago
I did miss that. Thanks.
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by edj 14y ago
I'm not sure if I'm parsing this correctly, but it sounds like people who use Google Apps as an email backend for personal email on custom domains will now have to pay $50/year. If so, that's a huge bummer. I only recently switched to runni
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by edj 14y ago
I have no idea how big of a problem false or fraudulent copyright claims are, but they are in fact already illegal under U.S. copyright law: Section 506(c) [1]: Fraudulent Copyright Notice. — Any person who, with fraudulent intent, places
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by edj 14y ago
I agree. A few other commenters suggested this on this thread, but personally I can't imagine buying anything requiring me to send a money order.
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by edj 14y ago
Although it's more interesting to imagine he was found due to the outing of a VICE photographer's EXIF data[1], it's probably more likely he gave himself up at the advice of his attorney in Guatemala[2]. [1]: http://www.mobileprivacy.org/2
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by edj 14y ago
I've been scammed selling on eBay and will probably never sell there again, but if I did I'd want a cheat sheet of scam countermeasures. Here's a start based on the OP's safety checklist (points 3 through 5), comments in this thread, and my
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Using Twitter Advanced Search to Find and Communicate with Potential Customers(inkslingerindustries.com)
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by edj 14y ago
"...but it should be noted that this is also a cultural phenomenon." After spending some time in Taiwan, I found myself slurping tea and hot pot by default. I came to realize slurping has it's advantages – in particular, you don't burn yo
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by edj 14y ago
But again the results this article cites point in the opposite direction: "... research shows that knowledge workers actually have fewer good hours in a day than manual laborers do — on average, about six hours, as opposed to eight."
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by edj 14y ago
Setting aside whether 60-80 hours per week is sustainable (and I think it's not for most pople, except perhaps for 20-somethings and people with hypomania), the research this article references says that there isn't a 1-to-1 correlation b
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by edj 14y ago
Does it work abroad, or would you need to use a VPN?
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by edj 14y ago
And here's the Cliff's Notes: 2004: McAfee sells his entire stake in his antivirus company for something like $100 million. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/business/economy/21inequal... 2004: He starts building a compound in New Mexico

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