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by jolesf 6y ago
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
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by jolesf 7y ago
Infinite in All Directions is still one of my favorite science books. "Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many common features. They share these features also with other enterprises such as art, literature, and musi
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by jolesf 7y ago
This is a rabbit hole that I'm not endorsing just sharing the link https://twitter.com/LibertyBlitz/status/1148259553621864449
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by jolesf 7y ago
There is also a NSA center in that area
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by jolesf 7y ago
Tip more than 20%: good server or small bill for sit down meal Tip 15%: mediocre service at sit down meal Tip less than 15%: bartender, order at counter meal
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NASA Does Not Detect “Largest Asteroid to Pass This Close to Earth in a Century”(cneos.jpl.nasa.gov)
18 points by jolesf 7y ago|3 comments
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by jolesf 7y ago
Got the same thing just yesterday.
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by jolesf 7y ago
Ben doesn't explicitly draw this line, but it seems Apple is betting that courts reward orientation towards privacy in the face of monopolistic actions.
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by jolesf 7y ago
Russ Roberts invited them both to discuss their differences on econtalk- Nassim promptly declined. Until that happens, I think the twitter feud is without value.
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by jolesf 8y ago
wondered when or if they would bring this back
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by jolesf 8y ago
yes. lessons will improve your riding no matter how long you've ridden, and they are KEY at the beginning stages. so many movements are counter intuitive
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by jolesf 8y ago
"Oumuamua appears to have originated at the Local Standard of Rest (LSR), which is the galactic frame of reference." Is a very interesting side-note
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by jolesf 8y ago
thank you, that is an interesting perspective... "This is one of those sentences that sounds insightful, but in reality is pretty surprisingly shallow."
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by jolesf 8y ago
“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness y
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by jolesf 8y ago
"We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them" - From another article about Jaron Lanier
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Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers(wikileaks.org)
147 points by jolesf 8y ago|96 comments
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by jolesf 8y ago
> At a meeting over the issue he said Zuckerberg also told him: “This is probably the last time you’ll ever talk to me.”
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by jolesf 8y ago
as a genie, i remember that
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by jolesf 8y ago
Huning is one of the most underrated and understudied people right now.
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by jolesf 8y ago
Google search is getting worse, certainly. I'm noticing many google products are slow and clunky too- Keep, Inbox, Voice, and even Gmail. Most of these services are the slowest tabs in my browser.
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by jolesf 8y ago
The New Yorker profile is how i rememember him https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/anthony-bourda...
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by jolesf 8y ago
Very interested in this. I use inbox for personal emails but find it lacking in many areas- most of all is lag and slow response.
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by jolesf 9y ago
The map looks so very similar to this modern OBOR project http://mercaturaglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/1200x-...
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Amazon Will Buy Target This Year, Gene Munster Predicts(bloomberg.com)
66 points by jolesf 9y ago|105 comments
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by jolesf 9y ago
I can't not think about this Hyper-Reality video when AR advances are announced. https://vimeo.com/166807261