jkraker

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by jkraker 6y ago
While I agree with some of this, there's a hubris in it that I find a bit distasteful. It seems to claim that there's only one type of person needed for society to thrive. Not surprisingly, it's the type that most aligns with
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by jkraker 6y ago
My experience does not include microloans, but I can clearly see the gap that they could fill in some of the situations I work through. In many circumstances I encounter, financial need is a symptom of a deeper need that's harder to ad
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by jkraker 6y ago
I personally think that this article is really just skimming the surface in the area some people broadly refer to as development work. Helping people toward sustainable, more independent situations is really difficult work, and there are a
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by jkraker 7y ago
I moved some of my high yield savings account into a 12 month CD recently to maintain a more tolerable interest rate for the next 12 months while the savings account interest rate inevitably tanks. That means I can't touch it for 12 mo
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Emoji Trend Report 2019(slideshare.net)
1 points by jkraker 7y ago|0 comments
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Fermentation and Daily Life(notechmagazine.com)
1 points by jkraker 8y ago|0 comments
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by jkraker 8y ago
If you want to go down the rabbit hole on cool old school woodworking techniques, check this out: http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/home/
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Model rocketry aimed at matching the advancements of the space launch industry(bps.space)
3 points by jkraker 8y ago|0 comments
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The Economics of Ride-Hailing: Driver Revenue, Expenses and Taxes [pdf](ceepr.mit.edu)
2 points by jkraker 9y ago|0 comments
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New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks(wired.com)
11 points by jkraker 9y ago|1 comments
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by jkraker 9y ago
This might be a really interesting read for you in your quest: By Hand and Eye by George Walker and Jim Tolpin https://lostartpress.com/products/by-hand-eye-1 It's by a couple woodworkers who have been learning ab
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by jkraker 9y ago
Social media gives a lot of people the platform to do this and some use it quite heavily. It would be interesting to see the correlation between something like "ferocity" on Facebook and real life actions.
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The Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You(wired.com)
2 points by jkraker 10y ago|0 comments
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by jkraker 10y ago
Here's the full series run by Facebook (2014): https://www.facebook.com/data/posts/10152217010993415
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by jkraker 10y ago
The four dead ideas according to the article: 1) Business is more competitive that ever. 2) We live in an age of entrepreneurialism. 3) Business is getting faster. 4) Globalization is inevitable and irreversible.
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by jkraker 10y ago
There's something subtle behind this that I think is more powerful than the details of the housing. It's someone taking time to interact and treat them like a person. I believe that interaction and showing others we value them as
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by jkraker 10y ago
I used to obsess over muscle mass back in college and that being "all natural." Creatine and citrulline malate? I black listed them in my quest, and my personal experience is that these are not needed for the goals stated in the a
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by jkraker 10y ago
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.
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by jkraker 10y ago
A fair point. I assumed with the article that the communication is working to some extent. I have no way of knowing whether that is indeed the case.
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by jkraker 10y ago
If you have various groups working a problem and they don't communicate, they are significantly disadvantaged relative to groups that talk. Each of these groups have their particular specialties, and it could only be beneficial for the
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by jkraker 10y ago
Summary: Apple is proposing a per stream rate rather than the current rate structure, a percentage of revenue. This would unquestionably benefit subscription services [Apple] because the proposed structure would be more expensive than the c
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by jkraker 10y ago
A fine point in an ideal world. The problem is that as traffic increases, the number of people that drive in a way that doesn't respect the safety of the neighborhood increases. There's a distribution of types of drivers at play h
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by jkraker 10y ago
Good question. If they actually figured out a strategy to do this, it seems to me that it would be a maddening job. Oh look! A free lunch!
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by jkraker 10y ago
My take: If institution of a basic income is not accompanied by development efforts within a population to create meaningful opportunities to work, it's not really doing what the population really needs. I don't see a difference b
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by jkraker 10y ago
I feel like it's more war than assassination. I may be looking at it incorrectly though.
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by jkraker 10y ago
I don't think anyone would argue that at least some of these individuals who are targeted are really bad people who are trying to do orders of magnitude more damage other populations. So here's the key question: How to you best ne
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by jkraker 10y ago
I agree, and I've observed this on multiple products. The most recent was a hair trimmer that I replaced with the same brand and model. It's unfortunate how there's an ever quickening velocity of consumption. Not sure who exa
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by jkraker 10y ago
These problems definitely are not specific to big data. They apply to statistics in general. The author is right, though--many people tend to be overly ready to draw overly confident conclusions from their analysis of big data just because.
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by jkraker 10y ago
This will show my age a bit, but am I the only one that had a rush of memories about Juno email seeing this headline? Good old dial up email... I'm probably just weird. At least the general population probably has no such associations
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by jkraker 10y ago
Not only is it jewelry essentially, but it's jewelry with a relatively short shelf life.

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