jamesgill

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Plug-In Solar Power Could Be Coming to a Balcony Near You(sierraclub.org)
2 points by jamesgill 7mo ago|0 comments
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A Collection of Old Trump Tweets on Iran(old.reddit.com)
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War Is a Racket (Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC)(archive.org)
18 points by jamesgill 7mo ago|3 comments
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by jamesgill 8mo ago
To be clear: the DoD/federal government cannot 'ban' active military from attending these schools; they can only refuse to fund their attendance. This is of course another episode of performative theater.
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by jamesgill 8mo ago
Since Linux is a kernel, not an operating system, it's unaffected by this law.
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There Are No Psychopaths(aeon.co)
8 points by jamesgill 8mo ago|1 comments
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by jamesgill 8mo ago
Hendrix and Mayer created a great sound, but I've always thought the most incredible thing about Jimi Hendrix was: he only played the guitar about 11 years. TOTAL . He picked it up around age 15, and died age 27.
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by jamesgill 8mo ago
In tech, no ethics survive first contact with the money.
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by jamesgill 8mo ago
Ah, The Computer Always Wins looks great. She loves puzzles, etc.
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Ask HN: An approachable book on programming concepts/computer basics for a teen?
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We're on the Voyage of the Damned(nytimes.com)
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by jamesgill 8mo ago
"Then it professionalised." Yeah. It's not that it wasn't 'professionalized' back in the day, it's that everything has changed--the attitude, the people involved, the kinds of businesses there are, the
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by jamesgill 8mo ago
“ In fact, the weight of evidence from recent large and well-controlled studies, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses of both observational studies and randomized controlled trials indicates that full-fat dairy products, particularly yogur
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Who We Are When Everything Goes Wrong [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jamesgill 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
There's a lot of info about this online, but here's a quick TL;DR example: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/lessons-... What most people don't understand is that weight loss and health
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
Valid points about money, but they’re primarily talking about calorie restriction and how metabolic adaptation eventually leads to weight loss stopping, because metabolism adapts to less energy and you can’t just keep ‘eating less’. If you
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
Why not mow a lawn with a sledgehammer? It removed grass that was overgrown. And it was cheaper than a lawnmower.
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
I'm surprised how few seem to understand this; AI is the ultimate 'net' to capture and exploit consumers. AI was never about improving civilization; it was always about money. This is the only thing 'inevitable' abo
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
The problem has never been a lack of solutions; we already know what to do. Ideas are cheap, easy, plentiful. Ideas for ‘better’ political systems are just bike shedding. We don’t need more ideas, we need the political will to try one. And
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
https://thinkhuman.com/blog
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
" I wanted to build something for my 3-year old son that he could understand and use independently " As a father I can't imagine ever leaving a 3-year-old alone with media so they can be 'independent'. If for no o
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Productivity Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
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Give it Up, Turn it Loose(thinkhuman.com)
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
That's a good one. Taubes also has a (more well known book) called Why We Get Fat .
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
A good book that explains it all is The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes, which came out the same year as this article. Like many truths, it's actually well-known and frequently discussed in public, but hard to hear amongst all the
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Wasted (Charles Bukowski)(thinkhuman.com)
3 points by jamesgill 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
An incredible essay.
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Bookfinder: Find any book at the best price(bookfinder.com)
20 points by jamesgill 9mo ago|3 comments
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
TL;DR: liability.
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
It's not hyperbole to say it changed my life. The most valuable thing I got from it is a good understanding of what's actually happening, and how I can change it. It's such a great, readable, easy-to-understand book (in my op

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