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by montrose 9y ago
Yes, probably, but the question is whether things would also go badly for the other 9.
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by montrose 9y ago
I suspect the validity of this theory could be tested by imagining what would happen in a society of 10 people. The size of national governments makes them seem capable of anything. But unless this theory includes a rule that it only applie
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by montrose 9y ago
There's a whole genre of articles based on conflating two senses of "your," belonging to you, and about you. If I observe that you have blue eyes, that's a fact about you, but it doesn't belong to you, at least not
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More of the Bay Area Could Be Underwater in 2100 Than Previously Expected(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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How the Shape of Your Ears Affects What You Hear(nytimes.com)
1 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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The New U.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race(nytimes.com)
75 points by montrose 9y ago|65 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
I had been optimistic about Krakow becoming a big tech hub, but the Polish government's shift toward authoritarianism makes that less likely.
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by montrose 9y ago
I would not be surprised if Twitter is one day regarded as a poster child for the dangers of blindly optimizing for engagement. I'm sure all their features do increase engagement, at least in the short term. They wouldn't release
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by montrose 9y ago
There's fairly good data about life expectancy, which is surely the high bit of lifestyle.
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by montrose 9y ago
Yes. And the wildly varying returns achieved by these retail investors surely increased rather than decreased economic inequality.
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by montrose 9y ago
This headline is valuable in being so precisely mistaken. I've been around Silicon Valley since the late 90s. It hasn't changed. What has changed is the amount of attention you can get by attacking it. When Google was little, it s
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When Stars Were Born: Earliest Starlight’s Effects Are Detected(nytimes.com)
1 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
If you try as hard as you can, it will breed a good sort of fatalism about being successful. You can't try harder than as hard as you can, and once you're doing everything you can, what's the point of worrying how well you&#x
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by montrose 9y ago
The look you're seeing is fatigue, not misery. There's a class of things that make you tired but happy, and small children are one of them. When I need to smile because I'm having my picture taken, I just think of my kids.
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by montrose 9y ago
The article makes exactly that point: "I asked Wendy Williams, founder and director of the Cornell Institute for Women in Science, what she makes of these findings. She wrote that if girls expect they can "live a good life" w
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by montrose 9y ago
"But when they examined individual students’ strengths more closely, they found that the girls, though successful in STEM, had even higher scores in reading. The boys’ strengths were more likely to be in STEM areas. The skills of the b
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by montrose 9y ago
This quote from the TechCrunch article was to me the most striking element of this story. They already yield double the rate of good candidates: ""The metric that companies care most about is what percentage of on-site interviews
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Scientists use an atomic clock to measure the height of a mountain(latimes.com)
45 points by montrose 9y ago|47 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Wow, I wondered if that was what happened. Someone should crawl the site to collect other examples of this at Quartz. It would be a fascinating study of linkbait being formed.
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A 3-D Look Inside the Tasmanian Tiger’s Pouch, Long After Extinction(nytimes.com)
21 points by montrose 9y ago|1 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
This makes some interesting points, but it seems ridiculous to say that Dropbox's IPO is "make-or-break" for Y Combinator. Make or break in what sense? That Dropbox's IPO will influence the opinions of retail investors a
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by montrose 9y ago
I've always assumed that, however here quantum computers are in labs you can read articles about, they're herer at the NSA. Is there any external evidence that the NSA is already using them?
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by montrose 9y ago
"Lisp is a programmable programming language." — John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991.
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by montrose 9y ago
I think that is an effect of there being few big companies, not a cause of it. Historically industrialization has pulled people off farms. So a high proportion of agricultural workers usually = insufficient industrialization.
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by montrose 9y ago
I've heard Repl is becoming popular with teenagers, and it's free. http://repl.it
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by montrose 9y ago
What these numbers tell me is that while lots of people start their own companies, these companies tend to stay small.
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On the Work of Edward Witten (1990) [pdf](bohr.physics.berkeley.edu)
39 points by montrose 9y ago|28 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
The graph seems related to the graph of venture funding over the same period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_VC_funding.png Which is not surprising considering that salaries are the number one thing venture fund
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Drew Houston shows HN his new project, Dropbox (2007)(news.ycombinator.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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How Exercise May Help the Memory Grow Stronger(nytimes.com)
174 points by montrose 9y ago|84 comments

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