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by manachar 11y ago
You have a very poor grasp of human history. "Jobs" haven't existed for most of it. The modern job mostly didn't exist until the Industrial Revolution. Most of human history was subsistence living, which by most anthropo
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"Were the people who foraged for these wild foods healthier than we are today? They did not live nearly as long as we do, but growing evidence suggests that they were much less likely to die from degenerative diseases, even the minorit
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It can, and is objectively measured and tested. Here is a great article in the NY Times magazine about the creation of a new font, Clearview, for highway signage: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine&#x2
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The interesting part is cities where traffic is bad like Honolulu and Boston are doing massive changes to their infrastructure. It's just the changes are primarily to try to squeeze more cars in. Boston's Big Dig was a non-minor,
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Talking infrastructure with people in the US (and maybe elsewhere) is frustrating. People seem to forget that we can build whatever system we want. Which is why it warmed my cockles to see this: "Road building traditions go back a long
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Cook with oil and real fats. Avoid soap. If you're having issues consider getting the pre-seasoned from Lodge. It's a few buck more and they've already got a dang fine seasoning backed on. Here's a decent article on seas
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To be clear, because some forget this part of patent law, the encouragement towards innovation was to encourage people to share and build on a communal set of ideas. The temporary monopoly on ideas was the carrot to get people to register t
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I recently played The Talos Principle, which is basically just a puzzle game. They included a little making of featurette that included a great line about how every player experiences puzzles differently. What one person thinks of immediate
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Plenty of places with deeply hierarchical systems have had major security bugs.
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Amazon is also working as quickly as possible to remove humans from everywhere they can, especially in the warehouses.
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Hannibal lived 247 – 183/182/181 BC. That's a few hundred years earlier than 615 AD.
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Huh, the other thread [1] with a similar title was flag-killed. The study is here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... If this one sticks around I hope for better non-inflammatory discu
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"The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers." What in this study suggested that?
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This comes across a little like "get off my lawn", but you got to admit, the web has gotten pretty awful in the last few years. I enjoy my time online less and less as more content is stuffed into single-page app walled gardens th
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Also prevents ad hominem attacks and can allow informed authors to speak without fear of retribution. The Economist has a pretty decent track record and clearly wants the company to take on the accountability of what's published.
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I used to think it was a failure to communicate, but I've increasingly come to the conclusion that the "average person on the street" really just doesn't care. You can be the best speaker in the world, but you'll st
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Enterprise and business users were increasingly getting used to and demanding iPhones and iPhone-like devices. Apple and Android phones changed the way people used phones and Blackberries went from being the "how cool is it that my wor
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> Don't use bad tech. Unfortunately my choices are only a single data point in the market for consumer goods. The choices most other people make with their dollars far surpass any buying power I possess. Certainly it's worth me
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I wonder if there's intellectual property at play that would prevent others from doing so. If it's even possible to end up in court it may be cheaper to acqui-purchase the intellectual property via the company.
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> Video Games have gradually turned death, the most (only?) influential and thought-provoking aspect of human existence, into a nearly-unexamined cliché. Death? That thing that happens to everybody and everything (except for that one wei
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It's not just freelancers, agencies need them too. Most agencies exist and die on a relatively small handful of anchor clients, if for no other reason than stable cash flow so they can make payroll. By-the-way, these anchor clients usu
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Interestingly, I use Casablanca as my go to example of a classic that younger audiences find boring, predictable and cliché. By the time most viewers today see Casablanca they'll have already seen most of the scenes ripped-offed, parod
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by manachar 12y ago
Why do billionaires need profits? Probably different reasons for each person. For some, it's just a way of keeping score.
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If you see a human doing something it's only because it's too expensive for a robot/machine/software to do it. Delightfully, robot comes from a Czech word originating in "hard work, servitude, serfdom". Basical
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No. Holding on to outdated scientific information because it's what you learned in school is bad policy. Pluto is not a planet, but is a nice dwarf planet, much like Ceres.
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Yeah, he'll be voicing Gordon Freeman, I'm sure they'll announce that tomorrow, April 1st.
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On the road to Hana there used to be a place that sold smoked breadfruit tacos. Alas, by the time I got there they stopped selling it as it's labor intensive and tourists wouldn't order it, preferring to eat kalua pig.
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This last weekend I read Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. It's been a while since I read for fun. This is at least partly because the list of books that I want to read (e.g. priceless, unmissable cultural experiences) is longer than t
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Interesting tech. I wonder if these have lower impacts on avian and bat populations. Also, it's interesting that tech companies love using Hawaiian words for things (Wiki, akamai).
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Sounds like the MaHaLo Hawaii Deep Sea Water project[1]. They use that water in Ocean Vodka interestingly enough[2], which is where I found out about it. On the tour they indicated this project seems to be working out quite well. [1] http:

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