mymythisisthis

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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
I really want simple to use, nicely labeled, buttons for windshield wipers and high-beams. I've given up on anything being usable in a car's interface.
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
I feel that Facebook really hurts lots of small organization. They fell into a trap of using a free website...instead of building up their own members, email lists, content. For instance lots of birders post their pictures to Facebook, it h
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
The life and death of Ivar Kreuger https://archive.org/details/lifedeathofivark00stonrich If you liked reading Lewis check out this book from 1932. Ivar Kreuger tried to buy up all the match factories in the world and
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
What about drone tanks?
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
Looks like Andy Warhol already did this."Warhol, consigned 300,000 of his everyday possessions to sealed cardboard boxes" https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29125003
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-17.pdf Number of births have been dropping since 2008ish, from this graph by the CDC. Year 2022 - year 2008 = 14 Does that means starting this year, high
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
I read a small municipal report from the early 1980s, and it was so refreshing to read; very slim, got to the point. Probably because somehow had to type it by hand, so anything not useful was edited out. By the late 1980s in offices and t
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
The fastest way of learning something is to have a professional teach you. Not even the Internet can beat that. Because of cut backs to education, we have fewer good mentors. Because of loss in manufacturing in N. America there are fewer
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
"...reference books, encyclopedias, rolodexes, filing cabinets..." were all nicely curated. Today the signal to noise ratio is extremely bad. It's more productive having somebody show you how to do something, than trying to
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
Do you have quick summary of Knuth stating this? Just want to know, curious.
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Until the 20th century, professors didn't make much teaching courses at universities. Lectures were just a publicity platform. Most of a professor's income came from tutoring students privately. The majority of a grade was the f
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
I see private tutors enrolling kids into Khan Academy and helping them pass the Khan Academy math courses. You get tutor help for your child, at the same time get some formal credit in the process. Khan Academy has very strong brand recogn
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
I can see this working if Khan World School sought accreditation in a large jurisdiction like Ontario, Canada. A student can take Khan's online math course, while still being enrolled in a brick/mortar school for things like chem
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
I like to watch Youtube channels like FranLab or Matthias Wandel. Sometimes an extremely well written show might appear, like Mad Men, but well written shows are rare.
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
What if the car texts you a picture of what is in the back seat, if it detects any weight, after it is turned off?
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
40 years of austerity in the west. Life span actually decreasing. Desperate people act out.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
I think you're right. Usually a dozen cops respond to most major calls. Now anybody trying to record, within a block of the action, will be arrested and have their camera seized.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Facebook replaced the phone book. In the 1990s it was difficult to find someone's contact information. With Google, you can find a way to contact someone, find their email. With everyone having smartphones you can find a way to get a
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
I find that community groups that started before Facebook, or have avoid Facebook, have done better/do better. With Facebook you get locked into using the platform and the group doesn't grow. In fact the group just get worse over
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Walking around Toronto, Canada, I've noticed that it's getting harder to find street signs. Their placement is for drivers in cars, not for people walking.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
It's wasn't my best metaphor.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
It depresses me that people can name more fictional T.V. characters than they can types of wood. We need to study nature more. Learn about materials.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
The automobile, refrigeration, radio, and the telephone all blossomed in the 1940s and early 50s. They were also factors in urban sprawl.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Many hackerspaces started around the late 2000s. I think from the same people that did raves in highschool.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Volunteer. Join a group. Hang out at a hackerspace. Enrol in adult ed.
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
20 years ago it was still difficult to download music. In the 1990s and early 2000 there was much discussion around copyright. Specifically how much the fan base contributed to the success of a song. How much does each song borrow from othe
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
This was a fun listen - Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by Nellie Bly https://librivox.org/around-the-world-in-seventy-two-days-by...
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
Is there a good round-up of the best science/math blog entries?
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by mymythisisthis 5y ago
I wonder if copyright will still be around in 50 years? It's easy to record music. It's easy to share music. It's hard to untangle what inspired a piece of music, and how much an artist reused previous work. I wonder when

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