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A Patient’s Bizarre Hallucination Points to How the Brain Identifies Places(wired.com)
6 points by jes 13y ago|0 comments
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Nasa telescope can measure distance to stars 10,000 light years away(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by jes 13y ago|0 comments
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Could this particle rewrite modern physics? (dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by jes 13y ago|0 comments
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Investing in Dreams: Northwest Programs Educate New Angels(xconomy.com)
1 points by jes 13y ago|0 comments
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by jes 13y ago
The "limited housing stock we have" makes it sound like they own the houses and apartments in question. I guess property rights don't mean anything anymore.
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by jes 13y ago
I think hard work is a necessary precursor to good results. Although, that hard work may not be of the kind most people associate with office work of the past.
547.
by jes 13y ago
"If you drop a meter and it still works, it's a Fluke."
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by jes 13y ago
My current gig involves me selling services to my customer, and that customer paying the agreed upon rate for those services. Yes, the government forces its way into every deal it can, and yes, this is something most people see as a good th
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by jes 13y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not seeing it. If you have someone willing to provide a service, and someone else willing to buy the service that is offered, how is this a problem? If the service provider doesn't provide the servic
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by jes 13y ago
"A defining characteristic of capitalism is that profits go to the owners of the means of production, not those who actually produce." What about the worker that is employed and doesn't spend more than he earns? That which he
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by jes 13y ago
Perhaps they could implement a bird hazing program to keep birds out of the area, as is done at some airports.
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The $2.2 Billion Bird-Scorching Solar Project(online.wsj.com)
1 points by jes 13y ago|2 comments
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by jes 13y ago
People may have reasons for volunteering different than those that occurred to you when you wrote the above. The idea that a person who volunteers on behalf of a for-profit organization necessarily damages himself is wrong.
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by jes 13y ago
I remember mercury filled speaker cables being discussed briefly in the 80s. [1] Hypothetical review of such cables: "This wire lends a liquid transparency to strings. The fluid quality of horns has to be heard to be believed. There i
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Supercomputer models one second of human brain activity(telegraph.co.uk)
9 points by jes 13y ago|0 comments
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by jes 13y ago
Hi Walter. We've never met, but I recognize your name from things you've done in the Seattle area over the last 20 - 30 years. Good to hear from you.
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by jes 13y ago
I'm 54, so I suppose I'm one of the people you have never met but still choose to label as an "old fart." Whatever. For what it's worth, I don't care about any "balance that has existed for millions of yea
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, I think what you are suggesting would only complicate the evaluation of this complex situation. Dropping relevant context and focusing only on a specific action is not the way to reach a rational conclusion. In my view, we mus
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by jes 13y ago
I question whether Telegram is actually delighted with how this unfolded. I also think it's disingenuous to call the discovered issue a potential vulnerability. Either it is a vulnerability or it is not.
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by jes 13y ago
Capitalism needs a government that succeeds in protecting individual rights. The situation you describe is one where property rights were not protected. That's not a failure of capitalism, but of government.
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by jes 13y ago
If I offer Joe a job at $2.00 an hour, which is less than the minimum wage, and Joe wants to accept the job, then I have forced Joe to live close to poverty or to work multiple jobs? The offer is voluntary. Joe can either accept it or refus
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by jes 13y ago
This is fantastic. I'm 54 and thus old enough to remember writing my programs one card at a time on an 026 or 029 keypunch. A DECwriter with TSO was like heaven. Great simulation and highly evocative of that earlier time. Kudos to the
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by jes 13y ago
How about learning how to get along effectively with others? Or given an individual that was interested in operations, how to run a warehouse, principles of Lean, etc? A job can be a stepping stone to a better future. Perhaps that is true h
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by jes 13y ago
I wound up getting a six month gig because someone I worked for 15 years ago saw that I had just quit another job. But yeah, I think I know what you mean, because I have used it for a long time.
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by jes 13y ago
I appreciate your helpful reply. Thank you.
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, may I ask what the reason actually is, that the word rentier has negative connotations?
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by jes 13y ago
Interesting article. The article claims that gold has no intrinsic value. I may be wrong, but I can't think of any entity that has intrinsic value, or, "value in and of itself." On the other hand, I can think of countless thi
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by jes 13y ago
The article author makes an important point. The value of your product or service to a customer often has little if anything to do with the prices and investments you made to create it.
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by jes 13y ago
I like writelatex.com lately.
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by jes 13y ago
With respect, I will never accept cameras everywhere. The thugs may force them on me, but I will never call them a good thing. We don't need to live in a goddamn police state.

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