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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Reminds me of the time a dealer tried to convince me with "math" that I was guaranteed to save money by buying the extended warranty. I asked if that meant they were guaranteed to lose money, and if so, why they were trying so har
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
One side effect not discussed here: how the shift to ballpoint pens increased hand strain [0]. Writing with a fountain pen is relatively effortless - not to deny it has several other drawbacks. I imagine this is part of why, as an elementar
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The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro(daringfireball.net)
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Google kills the Nest Secure(arstechnica.com)
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Compare 7 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20131215082444/https://www.googl... Credit to https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/19/google-... .
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Searching for “t-shirts” on Google: organic results hidden below two folds(google.com)
2 points by kaonwarb 6y ago|1 comments
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The teachers unions' tiny new enemy(wsj.com)
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Eh... this is an established usage of the word. Meets definition 3b in Merriam-Webster's, for example [1]. And what of photo/video tweets? [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consume
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Jordan is a Serviceable #2 – Lebron By The Numbers(lebronbythenumbers.com)
2 points by kaonwarb 6y ago|0 comments
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Amazon introduces open source 'Distance Assistant'(blog.aboutamazon.com)
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Bingo. While understandable, I fear the need to justify nearly all research by potential foreseeable gain limits our ability to invest in truly fundamental science.
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How Amazon Automated Work and Put Its People to Better Use(hbr.org)
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Airline workers have lower rates of Covid-19 than the general population(businessinsider.com)
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
My favorite part: > Let’s imagine a modestly-sized tether orbiting at a high altitude above the Earth. It is 1,000 km long...
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Frisland, a phantom island off the coast of Greenland(en.wikipedia.org)
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Amazon does not own the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos does.
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Unclear why the downvotes - the system dynamics the parent is describing are valid. Insurers win over time if total costs go up in a predictable way. (Note: Not true for self-insured companies, such which includes essentially all large empl
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Spot on - and I don't think this is new. Go back to newspaper ads in the 19th century and many (perhaps most) can be categorized as trying to create new needs. We're just better at it than we used to be.
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Receiving 42 comments so far supports that quite a few of us find it sufficiently interesting!
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Surely you acknowledge that forests in California predated human habitation thereof? (I could see a pedantic point in that they would not then be part of “recorded history,” if that were the point intended.)
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
One alternative thought based entirely on my own experience: late at night when both parties are exhausted sometimes isn't the best time to work out a thorny issue. I agree letting things fester isn't great in general - but I find
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Type-in program(en.wikipedia.org)
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Researchers Say Lost Colony of Roanoke Solved: Integrated with Native Americans(pilotonline.com)
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The new two-hour, supply chain robust saliva test(marginalrevolution.com)
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
I may be reading you wrong, but this strikes me as a straw man argument - there's a lot of space between the idea of intelligent design (which may be implied by a statement of how improbable non-intelligent creation of sentient life wo
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
This is nicely summarized. Bookmarking as a resource for helping team members who are new to relatively unstructured work. Thanks.
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Stack-Push-Pop Covid Testing(marginalrevolution.com)
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Penguin Guano Seen by Satellites Prompts Discovery of New Colonies in Antarctica(bloomberg.com)
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More Farmers Declare Bankruptcy Despite Record Levels of Federal Aid(wsj.com)
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Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity(science.sciencemag.org)
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