montrose

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by montrose 8y ago
To the extent that having interesting problems to solve is motivating, running out of them should be correspondingly demotivating.
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by montrose 8y ago
The word for the phenomenon he describes is "heresy." For example large numbers of fairly influential people in European history disagreed with official church doctrine, but had to keep quiet or risk persecution of various types.
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by montrose 8y ago
Watching this made me realize how different things were in 2010 than 1980.
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Ultra-clean homes could trigger childhood leukaemia, major review suggests(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
What a horrific headline.
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by montrose 8y ago
This is an interesting map, but it seems implausible that there is no route between Cirencester and Gloucester.
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by montrose 8y ago
I have no trouble believing there was extensive lead mining in England in Roman times, but it's harder to believe it was happening in 750. I can't think of anything the Anglo-Saxons would have been using lead for, and it's ha
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by montrose 8y ago
They think there was a lot of mining going on in England in 750?
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by montrose 8y ago
That is interesting: the Riotinto silver was mixed with lead to a degree that eastern sources weren't? (If that's the explanation, another interesting thing about this graph is the uptick in the early 700s, presumably due to the M
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by montrose 8y ago
At first glance I read "prime members" as "prime numbers," which was intriguing but confusing.
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by montrose 8y ago
That graph is fascinating to someone who's studied a lot of ancient history. The thing that strikes me most is how bad things were after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Yes, the eastern half kept chugging along. But judging from
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by montrose 8y ago
This is not only an important point in itself, but could be an interesting way to look at medicine: to model it as a process where something overflows. (I don't know what I mean more precisely than that.)
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Banned Ozone-Harming Gas Creeps Back, Suggesting a Mystery Source(nytimes.com)
32 points by montrose 8y ago|11 comments
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An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire(nytimes.com)
59 points by montrose 8y ago|17 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Try Mercury Reader, which can see through this and several other paywalls (and does a great job of cleaning up cluttered sites).
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This Asteroid Shouldn’t Be Where Astronomers Found It(nytimes.com)
39 points by montrose 8y ago|13 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
I love it when people doing bad things get busted by statistical traces they didn't even realize they were leaving. There is a lot more room for this kind of detective work.
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Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)(telegraph.co.uk)
282 points by montrose 8y ago|132 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Instead of his vague recommendation to "accept luck as a primary determinant in your life," I recommend reminding yourself that although luck may be a necessary condition for success, it is not a sufficient one.
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by montrose 8y ago
I wonder if there will ever come a time when the biggest danger to SV from Europe is competitors, rather than regulators. It may be that competitors can't become more of a threat till regulators become less of one. It's hard for a
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by montrose 8y ago
Noprocrast comes to YouTube!
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by montrose 8y ago
Occam's Razor suggests the reason "entrepreneurship programs" for engineers fail is not because engineers are too timid, but because all such programs fail. The way to learn how to start a startup is by doing it. So the right
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Fitzgerald Officer of the Deck Pleads Guilty at Court-Martial(military.com)
59 points by montrose 8y ago|48 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
What strikes me is that nearly all of them show signs of not having been made by native English speakers. E.g. dropping of definite article. I would have expected the Russians to have been sophisticated enough not to do that. On the other h
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All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011)(theatlantic.com)
193 points by montrose 8y ago|179 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
The short version is that many "design patterns" are de facto macroexpansions. So if you write the corresponding macro, you don't need the pattern any more.
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And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments
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Operation Ivy Bells(en.wikipedia.org)
98 points by montrose 8y ago|31 comments
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The Very First Animal Appeared Amid an Explosion of DNA(nytimes.com)
98 points by montrose 8y ago|109 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Because far fewer (eventually big) companies were started in 1950 than in 1998. In 1950 "the major sectors of the economy were either organized as government-backed cartels or dominated by a few oligopolistic corporations." (Micha

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