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In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) [pdf](libcom.org)
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Mapping the Ideological Marketplace (2012) [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
12 points by jacobsimon 12y ago|0 comments
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Way to Go: For humans between 5 and 105(a-way-to-go.com)
8 points by jacobsimon 12y ago|1 comments
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
If you only have $25,000 in savings, please don't invest it in a startup! Until you can write a check that you're okay with never seeing again, you should invest in more conservative assets. Technically speaking, no private startu
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Designing Auditory Interfaces (2001) [pdf](jld.se)
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
pretty sure that's a stud detector
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
God I hope people don't start using "n/" and other silly twitterisms in their normal writing.
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
This is also known in Italian as sprezzatura: it's the practiced skill of making everything you do appear effortless or natural. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
Lol silent mode?
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I learned both systems in school--our rulers always had inches and centimeters--but we never really learned the metric system until much later in science classes. I think there's a strong argument to be made that the metric system is e
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
I don't have too much of a problem with this actually, because a lot of the "nonsense" images actually bear strong resemblance to the objects. The gorilla images clearly look like a gorilla, the windsor tie images clearly sho
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
Seems like a cool book! There's an interesting note on page 280 about how wealthy people and their apprentices used to live in the same households, but began living separately as cities became larger and began to separate areas of work
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
Interesting. So it's not that yellow and red actually make people hungry, as the legend goes, but rather those colors are seen as more appropriate for restaurants. Makes sense.
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
Seconded. This is such an awesome short story. Forster isn't remembered as a prolific sci-fi author, but this story does a great job of predicting the problems of modern technology.
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
Wait did anyone see this procedural Minecraft entry? http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1854 It's really impressive and he posted the explanation: http://birdgames.nl/2014/04/js1k-pos
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
I think the bigger point is that Google has created a revisionist story about the origin of its self-driving car that the vast majority of people, including myself, would never have known about. For example, there was no mention of it at th
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
That article only mentions Google one time: it says that Levandowski worked there and that "this project is unrelated to his employer."
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I'm surprised there's no mention of the relationship between time and the origin of the metric system in this article. Interestingly enough, it takes a 1-meter pendulum 1 second to swing from side to side, no matter how high you r
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by jacobsimon 12y ago
I filed a report earlier this morning on myself with an incorrect SSN (off by one digit). It came through with a 'clear' on SSN verification and background check, but reported incorrect addresses. I think you guys should look into
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by jacobsimon 13y ago
This is a good start but leaves out some really useful features of Photoshop. One of my favorite newly discovered features is layer comps! If you're addicted to photoshop but also want to display your designs somewhat interactively and