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by metasean 10y ago
I mostly agree, but would like to share a counter-anecdote. When I was growing up my parents would take 'weekend drives'. They would look at architecture, comment on things from tree species to historical events in the area. And
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by metasean 10y ago
Asimov introduced the concept of "psychohistory" in his Foundations series [1]. Psychohistory "combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large grou
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A Quantitative Prediction for Political Violence in the 2020s(peterturchin.com)
2 points by metasean 10y ago|1 comments
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by metasean 10y ago
It still seems particularly relevant given events over the weekend.
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by metasean 10y ago
But the interest keeps compounding, which means the person is going to be paying a still sizable portion of their income for a significantly longer timeframe. This is money that arguably would be spent on housing, family, and retirement, e
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by metasean 10y ago
It works great on IceCatMobile and is open source - so it has my support!
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by metasean 10y ago
Related to existing post and discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13050262
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by metasean 10y ago
Related short story - http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by metasean 10y ago
What services did you switch to, and at this point what feedback can you share about those services?
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by metasean 10y ago
Looks extremely similar to the original CodeKatas list - http://codekata.com/
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by metasean 10y ago
Google Chrome is another auto-update offender. Inevitably it updates while I'm tethered to my phone (which has a small data allowance).
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by metasean 10y ago
Please have your wife check out http://www.oc4d.org/
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by metasean 10y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010887
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by metasean 10y ago
Paywalled - my brain's reward system feels like it was kicked hard - so if I get sick next week, can I blame my poor immunity and susequent sickness on nature.com's paywall?
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Skydiver Luke Aikins Sets Record for Highest Jump Without Parachute(npr.org)
2 points by metasean 10y ago|0 comments
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by metasean 10y ago
.. or Ionic, or Cordova, or PhoneGap.
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by metasean 10y ago
Previous post and discussion about the same ship - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11006254
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by metasean 10y ago
Paywalled Potentially friendly alternatives: http://www.australianetworknews.com/mortgage-interest-negati... http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/04/18/negative-mortgage-ra...
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by metasean 10y ago
> These men who died were men of guardian hearts protecting citizens’ constitutional rights as warriors in a battle for their lives. And that dichotomy is a sense of struggle for me as an advocate for stronger police community relations,
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How to Get Motivated: A Guide for Defeating Procrastination (2012)(alexvermeer.com)
3 points by metasean 10y ago|0 comments
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by metasean 10y ago
RE: API and 'let users choose their balance' Exactly :) RE: 'big list' Totally understand! It seems ever expanding todo lists are becoming a modern perpetual epidemic. Thinks to self, "If only we had good tools to
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by metasean 10y ago
I agree. Visualization of goal-data is an important piece that isn't well covered at this point. For users that want a simple, "get me up and running" solution, the Benome button approach to data collection could be very sat
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by metasean 10y ago
It may be useful to a wider range of potential users to have an api for task-specific information. Then the open source community could use Benome to display the results of other tools (e.g. `done` tasks in TaskWarrior[0]). This would incr
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by metasean 10y ago
I suspect this could also benefit path planning for autonomous ground vehicles (e.g. self-driving cars).
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by metasean 10y ago
AKA "Productive Procrastination", a method that has helped many through history - http://chronicle.com/article/Productive-Procrastination/4493...
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by metasean 10y ago
Obligatory xkcd - https://xkcd.com/927/
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by metasean 10y ago
FWIW, I'm getting: uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading: http://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2016/06/01/mob-progra... Because of the following filter ||meltwater.com^
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by metasean 10y ago
A friend and colleague of mine developed a simple distributed testing framework in JavaScript - https://github.com/PsychoLlama/panic-server (It works in conjunction with Mocha, Jasmine, and possibly other test framewo
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by metasean 10y ago
There's a "Contact Us" section in the footer that points to - contact@linuxjourney.com
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by metasean 10y ago
> Take off my glasses I was wondering if that was the problem for me, but I'm so near-sighted that if I were close enough to actually see the cursor, there's no way the camera could see my eyes to track them. :-(

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