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Rise of the home ‘unschoolers’ – where children learn only what they want to(theguardian.com)
2 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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Panama: The Hidden Trillions(nybooks.com)
138 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|165 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
This could just be down to politics. As a government agency that studies climate and environmental issues, their very existence already has plenty of ideological opposition. So why risk alienating the public further by using a non-tradition
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The inside story of Google’s bold bet on hardware(theverge.com)
8 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
So you know that most people have children merely to conform to societal expectations? It couldn't be any other reason, such as an innate drive? But it's comforting to know that you wouldn't force sterilization upon them,
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
You think millions of unskilled and semi-skilled workers can be retrained as software developers and that there'll be employment opportunities for these millions of new programmers? I think it's much more likely that many existing
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
So you're advocating forced sterilization of undesirable segments of society?
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
In what way does it hold up? It's saying that a 20-year old conservative is necessarily heartless, and a 50-year old liberal is necessarily stupid. I don't see how either of these follows; I know plenty of young conservatives who
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Truth, beauty and annihilation: my quest for chess mastery(theguardian.com)
3 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
This could also apply to moderation in addition to comments; we could make it so only people whose moderations we respect actually count. Others' voting is disregarded.
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The Undermining of American Charity(nybooks.com)
62 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|83 comments
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Fear of the light: why we need darkness(theguardian.com)
29 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|18 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
$52,000 is the median household income, not median salary.
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Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world(thesmartset.com)
99 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|123 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
American Scientist: http://www.americanscientist.org/ New Scientist was always aimed at the general reader, but like many other publications they've gone downhill in the web era, aiming for clicks above all else. The f
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
This is an interesting trend, which is also happening in other fields such as genomics. Many sciences started off as amateur pursuits before they became professionalized. Technological advances are allowing some of these fields to move back
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
A non-alarmist article: http://www.androidcentral.com/quadrooter-5-things-know-about...
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
Book piracy as a way to get free stuff instead of paying for it. These rationalizations for ripping people off are pathetic; just admit you do it because it's quick, easy and there's little chance of getting caught. You aren'
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
But you can in Boston.
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
You could try paying people for their work, or else forgo enjoying it.
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Netflix shares plunge 15% as subscribers give streaming service cold shoulder(theguardian.com)
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
It would be nice if they could filter out the intervening objects that are in our own galaxy, to give a clearer perspective.
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
M33 in Triangulum is comfortably visible with the naked eye from dark skies. A few other galaxies have been claimed to have been spotted with the naked eye, although I've never been able to see any of these. Also, the 'local group
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Deep Sky Objects Browser(dso-browser.com)
3 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
This article is quite shallow, but the one linked below is excellent and discusses in some detail several of the serious side-effects of light pollution (on human health, animal populations, crime, as well as wasted money): http:/&#x2
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What Milton Friedman Got Wrong: Biologists Destroy Homo-Economicus(evonomics.com)
12 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
I don't understand why Twitter never implemented some sort of categorization feature. There are many individuals that I'd follow if I could just get a subset of their tweets in my feed. For example, I might want to follow scientis
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
Unfortunately, the pairs that I have are all no longer produced. If I was in the market today, I'd probably look on Craigslist for some high-quality second hand binoculars. That way, you can go and test them in person after you've
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by jonathansizz 10y ago
I can see Saturn's rings with my 16x70mm binoculars. Jupiter's Galilean satellites are easy with any decent pair of binoculars. You can track their positions relative to Jupiter from night to night. Binoculars are definitely the w
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Bring Your Android App to Chromebooks(android-developers.blogspot.com)
3 points by jonathansizz 10y ago|1 comments

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