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by jgamman 9y ago
Transpower in nz used this argument to drastically cut its maintenance budget in the 90s using "distributed generation will strand the assets" type reasoning. Nz suffered the consequences. Who pays taxes and who booked imaginary a
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Newton's annotated copy of the Principia (Cambridge)(cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk)
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by jgamman 9y ago
thx for the suggestions - not quite what i was looking for. it's not so much bookmarking for later reading as a background process that dumps an archive file onto my hard drive. i'm especially not interested in someone else&#x27
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by jgamman 9y ago
OT (maybe) Question: I've gotten more and more annoyed over the years as links are deleted/decay etc. Even more so recently. Is there a plug-in that makes a 'personal archive' or potentially on-sends the page to the A
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by jgamman 9y ago
aren't corporations legal 'persons'? ;-)
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attributed often to Emmerson: ‘I cannot remember the dinners I have eaten, nor the books I have read, but all have helped to make me.’
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or size it as A1 in ppt and get a nice print job for $25. but agree, the problem with most posters isn't sharing, it's the fact it is often the first step a grad student is taking in sci-communication. if i could wave a magic wa
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by jgamman 9y ago
i think one of the interviewees said literally that. down near the end though so tl;dr ?
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by jgamman 9y ago
share buy backs...
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If you don't know Auckland, try pretending you are in Point Chevalier which used to be a pretty classic kiwi 1/4 acre suburb several km's from the city centre.
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Immersive/interactive documentary on homelessness in NZ(unsettled.thespinoff.co.nz)
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i read all the Asterix comics pronouncing Julus Kazar ;-) Then repeated at post-grad chemistry when first asking a question out loud about Orger Electrons (Auger - more like Aubergine, prior to lectures introducing them) - prof was non-plus
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by jgamman 9y ago
I thought the author's main point was that the tools seemed to be getting in the way of the student's learning and that OS in general seems to be great _after_ you have your comp sci degree and 1000 hours of RCS to draw on. For pe
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by jgamman 9y ago
why don't you mix the two and have electronic as 'indicative' with paper being the ultimate decider. no way i want 100% e-voting but having a machine spit out a picture of the person i'm voting for that i deposit in a b
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by jgamman 9y ago
we play robot turtles. we only use function frog as a jump at this stage but it's fun to see her describe mistakes in her drawings and other games as 'bugs'. we messing around with scratch jr as well but only when she wants
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by jgamman 9y ago
people who quote adam smith appear to have never read it - AS states that people prefer to have companies in their own country and not overseas 'as if an invisible hand' were guiding them. It's literally the opening line of
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by jgamman 9y ago
good background reading is the book "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu. Places current monopolies in historic context. doesn't give them a free pass mind you, just lets you see that monopoly is a very stable and self-perpetuatin
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WWII Warsaw rebuilt using 18th Century paintings as guide(theguardian.com)
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that'd be around half as a first order approximation.
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everyone knows that quote but I doubt you've read WofN - about 1 paragraph later he says that this will drive the worker insane and may literally lead to the collapse of society: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a
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Weird result: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others(decisionsciencenews.com)
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Two classes of problems: something related to what I'm already well versed in is different to something that I'm a noob. For noob stuff, I make and quiz myself with physical cue cards. The act of writing the card and the answer s
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by jgamman 9y ago
it's not the theory of economics i have problems with - it's living through the experiments.
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easily??!! i need a reference for that. the reason we blast it way the @#$@#4 up the energy mountain of syn gas via steam reforming is because methane is a stubbornly happy little camper...
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agree. it's when something doesn't work at the edges and you desperately need it to is when you're often ready to learn. motivation (desperation ;-) is a marvelous incentive.
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surely there's some tension between these two extremes. for someone learning how to _use_ FFT's, treating them as a black box for a while is useful so they can build some intuition etc and then, if it floats their boat, go back a
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by jgamman 9y ago
once you hit 50% market share, it's never going to double again. if you're doing something new, it's always going to start at 0% penetration and look irrelevant. most people can hold that apparent paradox in their heads at
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by jgamman 9y ago
this work was well underway before zuckerberg got involved yet the headline implies (suggests?) that it happened _because_ of zuckerberg. i'm torn; it smacks of getting your name associated with something good after it gets off the gro
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hydrogen makes metals brittle and there can be catastrophic failure of valves, regulators etc. there are only 3 significant problems with hydrogen as an energy carrier to solve before it becomes ubiquitous: 1. how to make it 2. how to store
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There is also, if you're lucky, an increased sense of agency ie, direct feedback between your work and the value your customer places on it. Large corp can put you many layers away from that feedback loop and that can increase your sen

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