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by mgalka 11y ago
> "the inequality debate needs to shift from individuals to businesses and communities." It seems like the inequality debate is stuck between either doing more for education or redistributing more tax from someone/some
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by mgalka 11y ago
Independent of the io9 switch, that's an interesting post for the science of fonts. Very relevant for web design work.
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Google tracks users phones to determine when businesses are busiest(support.google.com)
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by mgalka 11y ago
Had never heard of the lambda calculus before. Very cool. Does it have any practical applications? Or is it mostly a theoretical / conceptual tool?
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by mgalka 11y ago
Duckduckgo is actually an awesome search engine. So much of what Google gives you is over-SEO-optimized garbage, I find Duckduckgo often gives more relevant results.
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Windows Drops Bing in China for Baidu(blogs.windows.com)
139 points by mgalka 11y ago|65 comments
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Japanese hidden tenon joint technique(aisf.or.jp)
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by mgalka 11y ago
It's written by two Nobel Prize winners, so there must be something to it. But to me that sounds like common sense.
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Per capita gambling losses by country(economist.com)
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by mgalka 11y ago
Is there that much of a difference? Publishers should have a pretty good breakdown of their visitors demographic distribution.
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Presidential Elections Used to Be More Colorful(metrocosm.com)
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by mgalka 11y ago
Didn't mean to imply nuclear doesn't have its own risks. I just think that they are extremely small relative to those of coal / natural gas. Chernobyl is responsible for more-or-less 4,000 total deaths. Air pollution is respo
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by mgalka 11y ago
Total deaths caused by Chernobyl: 4,000 Annual U.S. deaths caused by air pollution: 200,000
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by mgalka 11y ago
Great! I'll chip in on both. Don't think he meant it as a dismissal, just as a preemptive nudge to discourage actual groupthink. For countries that already have nuclear weapons, I don't even see a valid argument against nucle
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Australia's political rollercoaster: 13 years, 66 changes(abc.net.au)
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by mgalka 11y ago
>"Cornerstone is the best program I have ever used" Sounds like everything they built was really good. Read the piece, but still hard to piece together why they failed.
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by mgalka 11y ago
We've been trying to assert control over the Iranian government for over 60 years. Amazing how that part of the story has been left out of the discussion.
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by mgalka 11y ago
There has actually been a lot of money wasted because people rushed in without making sure they were helping. Some people argue we have actually made things worse by imposing our solutions. http://nytimes.com/2014/04&#x
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by mgalka 11y ago
Reminds me of the playpump disaster, everyone assuming they know whats best for the poor. http://unitedexplanations.org/english/2012/03/22/the-story-o...
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by mgalka 11y ago
Agree. He makes a very strong case. The only part I have a hard to accepting is this: >"He presents himself precisely as a German nationalist who is going to get the German economy going, who is going to bring Germans inside the bor
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by mgalka 11y ago
Good post. Though it doesn't really make the distinction that these giant viruses are actually very different from normal viruses. They may have actually "reverse-evolved" from bacteria, and may not even be related to regular
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How many U.S. cities can you fit inside Tokyo?(metrocosm.com)
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How Marijuana Kills Cancer Cells(theweek.co.uk)
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by mgalka 11y ago
Agree. It's an interesting post, and I don't mean any criticism toward him (the thought process was good), but in practice I'm not sure he truly got any of them right. "a new internet community hangout will appear"
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What would Adam Smith say about today's inequality?(bloombergview.com)
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by mgalka 11y ago
Only a small fraction of lottery sales (I think around 15%) are for weekly drawing games. Most are instant win scratch offs.
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by mgalka 11y ago
Illinois and New Jersey call it "privatization," but what they really did is outsource the management to a private company. Those lotteries are not privatized in the sense of opening it up to competition.
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by mgalka 11y ago
Sounds like we are just talking semantics. When you buy liquor, you pay the market price (call it $10) plus an excise tax that the government adds on (let's say $2). Imagine the government nationalizes the liquor business. The buy up e
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The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax(metrocosm.com)
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Watch Obesity Spread Through the Country Like a Virus [Animated Map](huffingtonpost.com)
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