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by hudibras 11y ago
>Also, leverage your set-asides and find reputable partners to team with. This is something that I've always wondered about. Contracting officers and large contractors are desperate to team up with start-ups (otherwise known outside
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by hudibras 11y ago
I went to a few demonstrations of the robot at an army base back in 2012. Whenever they would start the robot up, all the spectators would involuntarily gasp and cover their ears. It was shockingly loud.
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by hudibras 11y ago
Don't ask me why, but I sleep much better when I wear socks. It's worth a shot for anyone having trouble sleeping.
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by hudibras 11y ago
Re 1): Yup. There's a lot of focus, especially in Western press, on the salarymen and how much they work. But the vast majority of Japanese workers aren't salarymen. Assembly line workers at Nissan or Yamaha don't work 17 hou
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by hudibras 11y ago
One of the Apollo astronauts was essentially fired for having an extra-marital affair with his future wife.
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by hudibras 11y ago
Don't like it? Then go apply at ESA, buddy.
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I Dreamed of a Perfect Database(newrepublic.com)
7 points by hudibras 11y ago|1 comments
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by hudibras 11y ago
A surprising amount of electronics can be fixed just by opening it up and looking for a blown fuse. Replace the fuse, turn the thing back on, and see what happens. About 20% of the time, the fuse will blow again (at which point you're
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by hudibras 11y ago
I knew that you used it on purpose; just tossing you a softball, that's all.
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by hudibras 11y ago
> By now, many people could care less. This should be "couldn't care less."
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by hudibras 11y ago
Just seeing your comment now, and I should have explained better. R-Bloggers is a great aggregator for R-related topics and I look at it every day. But it jams all the posts into its own text-heavy format, so you should click through to the
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by hudibras 11y ago
As an American living overseas, it's already become ritualized for me: I hand over my chipped card, cashier plugs it into the machine and hands me the keypad, I politely shake my head and make the universal hand symbol for signing a ch
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by hudibras 11y ago
The interview with the founder of Hot or Not is an all-time classic. Edit: I just re-read it and it's still as awesome as I remember. This would actually make a great movie, much better and more exciting than the Facebook or Apple film
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by hudibras 11y ago
R-bloggers is an aggregator. Should link directly to the original.
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Great book, by the way.
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by hudibras 11y ago
Anecdotes are great. Did some digging and found this article from 2012 which says that 38% of researchers in the U.S. are foreigners. http://www.nature.com/news/global-mobility-science-on-the-mo...
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by hudibras 11y ago
Or a counter explanation: 1. American colleges are still overwhelmingly the best in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Univ... 2. 96% of students at American colleges are American. htt
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by hudibras 11y ago
"3. Those people actually employed in research positions in American universities are majority foreign." Even if this was true (which I doubt), that just reinforces the article's contention that postdocs aren't paid enou
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by hudibras 11y ago
Personally, I'm a REI man, but L.L. Bean still has a 100% lifetime guarantee. http://www.llbean.com/customerService/aboutLLBean/guarantee....
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by hudibras 11y ago
"Each package results in about 10 minutes of lost productivity, Camden executives estimated." I'm gonna have to take that estimate with a grain of salt.
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Founders: It’s not 1990. Stop treating your employees like it is(medium.com)
10 points by hudibras 11y ago|1 comments
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by hudibras 11y ago
A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco. https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/428914681911070720
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by hudibras 11y ago
Looks like you got two wishes left. Use them wisely...
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by hudibras 11y ago
There's a beautiful chapter ("The Sad Irons") in Robert Caro's first volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography which describes life in rural Texas in the 1930s before they got electricity. Because all the electric appliance
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by hudibras 11y ago
But then again, the events in the movie take place in the fifth century, around 900 years before the first coconuts were known to have been traded in Europe.
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by hudibras 11y ago
I was obsessed with this book in 1st through 3rd grade and must have checked it out from the school library 50 times. Just picked up a used copy from Amazon 30 seconds ago; thanks for reminding me.
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by hudibras 11y ago
One main advantage of the Kindle is that my tsundoku is now not as visible to my wife. No more raised eyebrows at the latest Amazon box to appear on the doorstep. Still have to be sure that she doesn't look too closely at the credit ca
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by hudibras 11y ago
I'm also a big Ian knot fan. Saves me two seconds per shoe, that's four seconds per day, 1460 seconds a year, so over the next 50 years that's 20 fewer hours tying my shoes. Boom, LIFEHACK! Seriously, it's a fun knot to
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by hudibras 11y ago
So the body of the email is formatted like a CV? If so, sounds like a good idea.
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by hudibras 11y ago
I have no evidence, but that figure of 500/year can't possibly be correct. Maybe 500 of their largest, concert hall-size grand pianos, but not their entire line.

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