jgamman

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by jgamman 15y ago
cool - i collaborate with those guys and didn't know ;-)
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Synchronised pendulums (pendulii?) w/ youtube vid(npr.org)
2 points by jgamman 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 15y ago
From way back but I found it after enjoying his ,mother earth mother board, article so much. The man is brilliant in the long form essay genre...
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Mao Bell:Neal Stephenson(wired.com)
5 points by jgamman 15y ago|2 comments
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History of everything(scienceblogs.com)
51 points by jgamman 15y ago|3 comments
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by jgamman 15y ago
sigh - still US only
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by jgamman 15y ago
i believe the nobel prize committee begs to differ: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2005/p...
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by jgamman 15y ago
Damn, I thought it was a south park mash up
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8 bit crop circle hack(dailygrail.com)
93 points by jgamman 15y ago|11 comments
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by jgamman 15y ago
I think that was sarcasm - perhaps a 'basinga' would help?
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by jgamman 15y ago
by reading this HN post...
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What if the banks went on strike? - ireland did the expt in 1970...(blogs.hbr.org)
3 points by jgamman 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 16y ago
That last sentence sounds ethically dubious. A knife has many uses so is arguably neutral but a bomb? Enabling other people to do harm implies culpability.
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by jgamman 16y ago
>we need to properly analyze the chain of value creation Central planning is ver rarely the answer. Besides, who is the 'we' in this proposition?
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by jgamman 16y ago
Caution:title is a variant of a top 10 list
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by jgamman 16y ago
I thought you were asking for one... :-)
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by jgamman 16y ago
not treated as a pollutant but NZ runs a 'consenting' regime and one of them is to do with the power station (huntley) on one of the main rivers (the waikato) - it is only allowed to operate so as to maintain a temperature window on the riv
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by jgamman 16y ago
no
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by jgamman 16y ago
single page: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/education/edlife/edl-17bus...
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by jgamman 16y ago
climbing mt improbable by richard dawkins and then others, carl sagan, and richard feynman (start with 'surely you're joking mr feynman') - if those don't work go back to heinlein and asimov
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by jgamman 16y ago
seriously? we're sending each other programs now?
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by jgamman 16y ago
the problem with news as i see it is that being slightly above average most of the time was useful until ubiquitous publishing/access was possible. even very good reporters can't compete against a single story written by an expert in the f
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by jgamman 16y ago
pay bulk of your salary into a savings account. get used to living on say, 20% of it. you'll see pretty soon if you're 'following you dream' or getting hooked on cash
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Engineers without Borders: failure reports(ewb.ca)
1 points by jgamman 16y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 16y ago
so you read it... on reddit?
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by jgamman 16y ago
seconded. worldwide distribution at midnight thursday. the economist is excellent (nb didn't translate the UX to the the sister pub Intelligent Life - good articles but doesn't behave as expected)
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by jgamman 16y ago
rule of thumb in the energy sector is an installation cost per kW ie, natural gas is about $1500/kW, coal plant might be $1200/kW etc. all sorts of bells and whistles but when someone tells you something is going to cost on the order of $1
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Baidu beats Google in China(businessweek.com)
3 points by jgamman 16y ago|1 comments
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by jgamman 16y ago
someone lost their cellphone and is offering $20 reward in this forest shot: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/64101/ (zoom right down the path, last tree on the right)
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High (and I mean really high) res images(gigapan.org)
2 points by jgamman 16y ago|1 comments

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