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by mjklin 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
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Why would the British have Pi day when they write the date 14/3?
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Imagine this: Send couple A to France for two weeks and couple B to Italy. Then ask the question: who had more fun? Couple A thought they had booked a great hotel, but it turned out to be pretty crappy. Intermittent hot water, lack of servi
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Smartphone with no plan for when you have Wi-Fi, prepaid phone for when you don't. That's how we do it. Best of both worlds.
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Plaintext Productivity(plaintext-productivity.net)
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In the hardcore-communist days of China the setup was usually: factory on one side, block of flats for workers on the other, school and hospital adjacent. The kids played in the courtyard. Actually not that bad of a setup...
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Would this non-DNA path for inheritance be the proteome rather than the genome?
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I enjoyed his three autobiographies: "I Am Spock" followed by "I Am Not Spock" and finally "I Am Also Scotty"
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'Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.' - Philip K. Dick
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Recommended book: "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was" by Barbara Sher. Not that it will solve your problem but it will give you some perspective on it.
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NB: In all Spanish-speaking countries that I know of, you can call the currency "peso" even if that's not its official name. In Costa Rica, for example, they will often say "cien pesos" rather than "cien colone
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Years ago I heard they were using this technique on the burned papyrus library from Oxyrynchus. Wonder how they're coming with that.
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The book Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Tavris and Aronson delves into this in great detail. Well worth a read.
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The field for economists is much broader than you suggest: "Today there is hardly a government, international agency, or large commercial bank that does not have its own staff of economists. Many of the world's economists devote t
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This is an update of another scam, wherein scam artists prowl the obituaries and send "brown package material" with embarrassing contents to the surviving family member, claiming the deceased had ordered it. Their hope is that the
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Especially in light of what Bitcasa pulled this year...
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Why has no one mentioned Autohotkey? ( http://www.autohotkey.com ) It was practically made for this use case, and has an active community behind it. It even has its own script editor (SciTE4AutoHotkey) and was recommended as a Kev
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Yeah once you get up towards forty you're going to be hopping out of bed at least once a night for a quick slash. Especially if you're on certain medications.
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The Strabo quote reminds me of Confucius: "Man differs from the animals only by a little; most men throw that little away."
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"The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power. Moreover, passionate intensity can serve as a substitute for the confidence born of proficiency and the possession of power. A workingman sure of hi
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As the saying goes, FOSS is only free if your time is worth zero.
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One solution I've found is this: the iOS app Voice Dream allows you to take highlights and notes while listening to an epub file being spoken by your choice of voice. Then you can export the annotations as a text file in this format: C
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Why does Melilla have a wall but not Ceuta?
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Bernd das Brot did a parody called "Dinner für Brot", also worth a watch.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_wavefunction
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Similar tools for Windows: http://scan.sourceforge.net/ http://dtsearch.com/
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I thought Wikimedia tried this once. Big announcement, then nothing. Is that code still available?
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I think "time slowing" was the original inspiration for this subreddit (with no recent activity): http://www.reddit.com/r/SomethingNew/top/?sort=top&t=all
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It was noted in this interview that most of the highest income ZIP codes in the country surround areas with large federal infrastructure: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/06/140056904/the-top-secret-ameri...
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That book is by Kahneman, not Pinker

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