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by jacobrobbins 5y ago
This is really interesting and seems like a great example of how small businesses are better for their community than chains. When I lived in Fort Greene brooklyn I was surprised by how many barbershops and hair salons there were, like 5 or
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by jacobrobbins 6y ago
wood expansion is a big factor for wide flat pieces. Non directional wood products like MDF are used in cabinetry because they do not expand to anywhere near the same degree as solid wood. If you want to use solid wood you have to float it
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by jacobrobbins 7y ago
it would seem likely that if they discover a physical mechanism at work in select individuals brains (electric waves followed by rhythmic waves of fluid) that the mechanism exists in some form in all individuals. I agree it does make for a
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by jacobrobbins 7y ago
while technology is very advanced it still has a lot of limits. Watching what is happening in someone's brain without damaging them is quite difficult. From the article "Currently, people who volunteer for such experiments have to
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by jacobrobbins 7y ago
the poster mentioned it was for greeting cards, I remember their used to be a lot of greeting cards that would play a recording when you opened them. I bet they loaded low-quality samples into the ROM for that.
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Contact lens startup Hubble sold lenses with fake prescriptions(qz.com)
1 points by jacobrobbins 9y ago|0 comments
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
so glad to see that place mentioned! it was my morning coffee stop when i lived in new york. the owner/operator is great to chat to, lots of interesting stories about the neighborhood.
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
yeah when I saw that quote the first thing I thought is that this is probably one of those non-replicable studies that was cherry picked out of a small sample size.
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
cars cost "tens of thousands" yet personal automobile ownership has been feasible and has a huge positive impact on the economy. If that 10-90K ballpark cost estimate is accurate then accessing the information superhighway could b
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
re-reading your comment "This is talking about the cost-benefit from a societal perspective, not from the accounting perspective of the hospital." I think perhaps you do not understand what residents do. Residents handle a portion
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
I agree with this logic about "if residency programs predictably broke even" but I don't see any concrete support for that in the article. They don't have an accounting of revenue per doctor or at least the article has n
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
bkovacev out of curiosity what country do you live in? Because i have friends who have had much better experiences in Estonia.
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
I dealt with an RSI issue and had a similar experience where traditional hospitals and MDs did not help. I needed to go outside that system to get help. The hospital system is simply not setup to deal with those things; it is setup to deal
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
I was confused by that part too because the article goes on to say teaching colleges "have an incentive to offer residencies in specialties from which they can get the most revenue per resident." My guess is the 150K number ignore
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
To contrast your single positive account with a single negative account, my brother has been unable to update his Estonian e-Resident card because the system only works reliably on Windows. He has to wait to re-activate until the next time
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
This is a great point. Clothing styles go in and out of fashion on a cyclical basis that is multiple years long.
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
my company shared an office with the Jewelbots team and I was very impressed at the user testing they did. The bracelet is a great user-programmable product for 8-14 year olds, which is really a difficult age group to design for.
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
this is a great resource, a lot more stuff in here than a typical blog post
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
fortunately, this change should help diversify the number of certificate authorities for people to use. In the explanation of the wilcard support they link to another post that explains it is enabled by their rollout of ACME v2. Wildcard su
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by jacobrobbins 9y ago
they said enterprise devs are failing more interviews because of cultural filtering by the hiring company, not that they are failing the technical assessments more than other devs.
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by jacobrobbins 10y ago
The idea that design is primarily done inside tech companies is wrong. Netflix has a series called "Abstract" that profiles notable designers and none of them work for web/tech companies.
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by jacobrobbins 10y ago
the philosophical questions raised by multiple, visually similar species being considered as one have come up before. Zebras were discovered to be 3 separate species. See "What, if anything, is a Zebra?" from 1983 http:/&#x2
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by jacobrobbins 10y ago
> All of the information of our world is contained in text. This statement is false. There is a well known thought experiment called Mary’s Room the gist of which is that knowing all conceivable scientific knowledge about how humans perc
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by jacobrobbins 11y ago
This is the correct path forward to move society into a digital era. It follows the well established principle that the state uses force in legally proscribed ways to maintain security. Known as the “monopoly of the legitimate use of force”
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by jacobrobbins 13y ago
Saying you have absolutely no oversight in the UK is not true. I recently read David Omand's "Securing the State" which is the most informative book I have found on how to integrate secret intelligence into a democratic socie
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by jacobrobbins 13y ago
this was great, thank you for taking the time to pull your thoughts together.
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Is ephemeral messaging a bigger deal than just sexting? (techcrunch.com)
2 points by jacobrobbins 13y ago|0 comments
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by jacobrobbins 14y ago
This is great. I love the idea that people can take the effort they would put into casual gaming and learn coding skills. Also an interesting point that doing some of these courses can get your resume viewed more even when applying for non-
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Skype marketing trickery(office-watch.com)
1 points by jacobrobbins 14y ago|0 comments
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by jacobrobbins 14y ago
Yes, I think the key word in that sentence is "legally". The following article describes the situation re: warrantless monitoring of u.s. citizens by the NSA: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_... The thing is th

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