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Scientists Are Running for Office Because They 'Want Reality to Be Fact-Based'(gizmodo.com)
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Overwork is a symptom of bad time management even in US cultures, we just don't recognize it. The HN community would likely agree that most startups fail. Over work, building products that fail or will be cancelled, is a sad waste of h
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There are twenty three people in the world for every one person in the US (as an example, since companies still tend to he nationally co-located). Working smarter matters unless it becomes possible to work 552 hour days. It matters a lot.
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My typical co-workers have always been 20-30 years older. The ones that stand out and have been the most productive teaming across generations have taken Chip's approach. The older engineers that focus on "how to technically imple
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There's often lot of technology and industrial engineering in what we tend to think of as "low tech" industries. An engineering professor once claimed a pie company had been the most high tech place he'd consulted.
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I'm not sure it's true that most people are legally free to the degree you're suggesting. It's illegal to sleep and illegal to eliminate human waste in many areas. Hunting and fishing often require paid permits and are l
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Does the calculation adjust with Earth's population? Is acreage allocated based on a global pool of land or multiple pools of land determined by political boundaries?
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by mch82 10y ago
If you can afford one, the Ultimaker 3 is fantastic and extremely easy to use! I've been using one for two weeks. It was pre-built and after unboxing I began a complex print with water-soluble PVA support material in about 20 minutes.
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Check out the Open Source Hardware Association best practices document for some ideas of what people release: https://www.oshwa.org/sharing-best-practices/ BeagleBone Blue is a good recent example of an open hardware p
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If everyone chose your "fair share" scenario, would the world as a whole be better off or worse off? For example, how do you account for the environmental impact likely to accompany the loss of agricultural efficiencies? Do you re
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How are the following assumptions addressed? 1. Every 8-acre plot of land is suitable for sustaining a person 2. Every person is legally free and able to relocate to an 8-acre plot of land
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But consumers have also demonstrated willingness to pay for shipping, wholesale markup, retail markup, and other fees that dwarf the differences in regional labor and manufacturing costs. So local made goods can be competitive. "How th
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How about Unity for Switch? Not quite "open source" but reasonably accessible. https://developer.nintendo.com/tools
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> There's no way to defeat these companies What about working to elect representatives who will pass privacy legislation?
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Absolutely. It's a never ending battle. I strongly believe that the most effective thing people can do is to help educate others about the existence of these scams and about the safe & secure use of technology. People can develop s
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Scammers in a foreign country used Western Union to steal from my grandfather. Glad to see a penalty that will hopefully encourage W.U. to put better controls in place going forward. Chose to post this comment because I see a lot of people
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Very cool! Tried a 4-day search & excited by the results. Looking forward to trying a booking. There may be a feature to choose a preferred day of week for departure, for example a 4-day trip that departs on Thursday. If not, that would
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Negotiating with a president is a complex sale, not a simple sale. In the SPIN Selling Fieldbook ( https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Fieldbook-Practical-Exer... ), Neil Rackham makes the case that in complex sales situation
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Science fiction & fantasy are good tools to exercise mental creativity and think through scenarios of technical change. Fantasy is a useful way to explore how technology might work in a world with unlimited resources. For example, Dor t
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Also consider Robert Harris' historical fiction trilogy "Imperium," "Lustrum," and "Dictator" about the life of Cicero and the fall of the Roman Republic under Julius Caesar (assuming it's okay to rec
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> ...group FaceTime. Ok maybe that’s not exactly what it is, but it sure is something. Not actually FaceTime.
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You've used the word experiment to describe this ban, so I'm interested to know: - What hypothesis is being tested? - What are the metrics that will be used to conduct the test? My gut reaction is one of disappointment. I've
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For most of human history groups of people have operated to restrict the flow of knowledge for the benefit of the controlling group. Technological advancement has exploded since governments began to incentivize release of information throug
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My comment on another branch of this thread may help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061431
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"The Seventh Edition of Introduction to Statistical Quality Control provides a comprehensive treatment of the major aspects of using statistical methodology for quality control and improvement." http://a.co/5xRV2UE
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Same audience every time?
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I wish the interviewer had asked a follow up question about the value of a constant message vs constant wording. My interpretation of the advice is that it is important to stick to a focused message, but would be okay to continually refine
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The Lean Manufacturing A3 method promotes summarizing a change proposal or problem solving project on a single sheet of A3 11x17 paper. I've provided a Wikipedia reference below, but recommend searching for better references beginning
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The POST Notes of the Parlimentary Office of Science & Technology are interesting examples of simplifying complex messages. Over the past few years I've tried to follow the POST Note model when creating introductory messaging or ex
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Technology is intertwined with politics. Perhaps if engineers and technologists engaged more, and more effectively, with the political process we'd see better representation in government. The way we discuss politics likely needs an ad

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