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by jdmitch 13y ago
The most important issue in terms of long-term cost-effectiveness is how much it will actually be used, and how much of the time it is actually full. High Speed Rails or any trains for that matter, are plagued by the inefficiency of having
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Symptoms, signs, and the riddle of Morgellons(harpers.org)
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New species of mammal carnivore discovered(bbc.co.uk)
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Koana Islands fictional map(wired.com)
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Post open source software, licensing and Github(opensource.com)
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Histomap - cultural history of the world(slate.com)
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Smear-free touchscreen technology(bbc.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
great post! bad kerning :(
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Ask.fm founders' open letter regarding Hannah Smith suicide(mirror.co.uk)
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Four unusual blue-sky ideas to solve airport capacity(bbc.co.uk)
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More UK births than any year since 1972(bbc.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
Face-to-face instruction should focus on practise and exploration, not on learning basic facts. I don't think face-to-face instruction should focus on practise and exploration any more than it should on learning basic facts. Practise
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International Telecommunications Union crowdsourcing its 2016-19 strategy(itu-ideas.crowdicity.com)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
This seems pretty incredible, unless there is something not entirely straightforward about who has actually made them. $1200-$2000 for an original limited edition Salvador Dali or Marc Chagall print, seems like a steal. Maybe I just don&#x2
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by jdmitch 13y ago
I don't think the Khan Academy videos have ever really aspired to be the most pedagogically nuanced videos anyways. It's not necessarily a huge problem for those who are quick learners and have others around them (at home or schoo
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Modern stylite(cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com)
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Once-extinct horse species welcomes new filly(mnn.com)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
the skin in the game heuristic relates directly to the virtue of being such that the system will not only survive uncertainty, randomness, and volatility but will actually benefit from it. Doesn't Taleb mean that the 'skin in th
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FSF fundraising for free Android clone Replicant(theregister.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
this piece about hacking should give you a good example of aggressive networking. 'aggressive networking' is right, don't some of these tactics get you blocked or reported?
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Voxel, the pixel's long-lost cousin(killscreendaily.com)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
here is the original paper: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v111/i3/e033601
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Discover if you are a supertaster(bbc.co.uk)
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Church plans to 'compete' Wonga out of business(bbc.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
Very informative - here is a license comparison tool I've found useful: http://www.tldrlegal.com/compare
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Animal Crossing is Nintendo’s clandestine answer to Facebook(killscreendaily.com)
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Looks great - when is it out?
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I think that is actually a huge factor, and one of the key obvious things that the OP overlooked. Latvia (and I suspect the whole Baltic region) was at an artificially inflated population peak when the Soviet Union collapsed. It was one of
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Britain’s Digital economy 40 per cent bigger than official statistics suggest(niesr.ac.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
While I wasn't previously familiar with Sloterdijk, I find it interesting that he takes exactly the opposite value from Christianity as Slavoj Zizek, the other great popular atheist apologist for Christianity (cf. Zizek's The Fra

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