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Cuomo Lays Out Renovation Plan for Penn Station and Farley Post Office(nytimes.com)
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by jrlocke 11y ago
Information on the web is distributed in an even more skewed manner than Pareto's law would have you believe. I would bet 1% of the sites on the web provide 99% of the useful information. Thusly, this laptop may prove very useful for m
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by jrlocke 11y ago
In the past week he has tweeted about this a few times, I would start there!
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by jrlocke 11y ago
In arguments over the relative safeness of the world it is often pointed out that relatively few people have died recently in terrorist attacks, but as N. N. Taleb points out, the distribution of deaths by terrorist attacks is a fat tailed
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by jrlocke 11y ago
Try to imagine the effects a nuclear detonation or dirty bomb in Manhattan. I believe most people are undervaluing the probability and results.
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by jrlocke 11y ago
It is almost insane that we still use TI-84's when we have all the power of smart phones in our pockets. I would love to see an app that can function as the calculator but also notify the teacher if it is backgrounded (to prevent illic
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by jrlocke 11y ago
In arguments over the relative safeness of the world it is often pointed out that relatively few people have died recently in terrorist attacks, but as N. N. Taleb points out, the distribution of deaths by terrorist attacks is a fat tailed
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by jrlocke 11y ago
As someone who commutes the full length of the road under the greenway everyday, absolutely. It rarely takes me more than 20 minutes to clear downtown Boston in rush hour traffic, an impossibility without the tunnel. Now if they could just
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by jrlocke 11y ago
Pg, in effect: "if there was no economic inequality there would be no startups (and all the good they bring). The real problem is the number of super poor, not the number of super rich". But this is a straw man: no one is arguing
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by jrlocke 11y ago
Exactly. There would still be sufficient economic motivations for startups and startup founders in a world where startup founders were taxed at a 75% rate.
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by jrlocke 11y ago
Daniel Dennett refers to this as Rapoports rule. How to compose a successful critical commentary: You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of
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by jrlocke 11y ago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-homan-square-lawsuit-2...
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Meet Savant Remote, a smart universal remote that Steve Jobs might approve of(cnet.com)
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by jrlocke 11y ago
I believe you meant occludes rather than occults
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by jrlocke 11y ago
The right side of the dock is for collapsed windows, the left for applications
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by jrlocke 11y ago
One might say that their previous position was tone deaf
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A Simple Text Can Crash Messages on Any iPhone It's Sent To(gizmodo.com)
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by jrlocke 11y ago
Inconsistency implies falsity
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by jrlocke 11y ago
From that point of view a speaker makes perfect sense, and that insight points to an even deeper importance of implicit versions of this transform.
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by jrlocke 11y ago
Or almost all forms of recorded audio for that matter. It is basically miraculous that a single speaker can create the impression of an orchestra; it obviously relies on an implicit instantiation of this same principle.
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by jrlocke 12y ago
Who Not to Seek Employment From: The Likely Right but Certainly Rash Founders at Karma
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by jrlocke 12y ago
You are vastly underestimating the space of possible orbits and vastly overestimating the size of debris and satellites.
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by jrlocke 12y ago
The problem that the author complains of--high noise to signal on notifications--can exist on the iPhone of a careless user. The solution doesn't need to be as complicated as an AI for sorting your notifications, just a set of filters.
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Apple Watch Sold Out in Less Than 6 Hours as Shipping Times Slip on All Models(macrumors.com)
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by jrlocke 12y ago
Coming soon, an original and addictive JavaScript 3D library: 2048.js
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by jrlocke 12y ago
Let me direct you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9330078
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by jrlocke 12y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I've always felt it selfish when people of means partake in 'aid trips' over sending money to an appropriate organization. If you care to help, leverage your abilities efficiently; make t
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by jrlocke 12y ago
It's not about selling internet to people, certainly not initially. The money here is in bringing internet to sophisticated entities in isolated areas. Networked industrial control systems, mines, drilling operations, shipping, etc.
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by jrlocke 12y ago
I always try to find redemptive irony in the fact that those most blinded by misleading ideas are themselves disposed to proclaim that it is actually all others others who suffer that affliction.
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by jrlocke 12y ago
A polarizing name, if perhaps less so amongst programmers

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