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by nateburke 8y ago
Great link in the wikipedia article to Gravity's Rainbow. Love this quote from the Byron the Bulb episode: "His youthful dreams of organizing all the bulbs in the world seem impossible now—the Grid is wide open, all messages can b
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by nateburke 8y ago
I had the opportunity to speak with someone who was on the hiring committee at google when the company scaled from ~5k employees to ~20k employees. This was the committee of people in charge of designing the interview funnel though I'm
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by nateburke 9y ago
Great article! It's really fascinating to see data indicate correlation between a weak centralized government and generally bad outcomes (higher infant mortality, lower literacy rates).
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by nateburke 9y ago
Great article. Bill Janeway offers a well-written deconstruction of the "impossibly" part of the author's "impossibly attractive" characterization of SaaS here: https://wtfeconomy.com/enterprise-soft
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by nateburke 9y ago
A great primer on CRISPR can be found here: http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/
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by nateburke 9y ago
Mark Greif's "Against Exercise" offers a much more thorough criticism, e.g.: "Today we really can preserve ourselves for a much longer time. The means of preservation are reliable and cheap. The haste to live one's
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by nateburke 9y ago
I remember reading a post on HN a while back that alluded to this effect in the context of Kodak film, packed in corn husks from the Midwest, being ruined during the shipping process on account of fallout on the corn husks prematurely expos
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by nateburke 9y ago
Agree 100% with the functional points. One additional responsibility that arises from time to time is to handle disturbances during performances. Having someone able to speak eloquently to the audience in such circumstances (a/v issues
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by nateburke 9y ago
My understanding is that it's easier to get a culturally homogenous population to buy into economic collectivism, vs. a culturally diverse population. E.g. the migrant "problem" that the EU is dealing with--last I checked, mo
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by nateburke 9y ago
Thanks for posting! Having spent a few years in the world of test, this resonates loud and clear with me. With maybe the sole exception of a README (and that's a big MAYBE), I can't think of a more useful artifact to ship with sof
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by nateburke 9y ago
The OP is operating in a peacetime mentality. Oil's killer app is war: Can a fleet of fighter planes run on electricity, currently? No. Has the Army committed to having 100% of their fleet of tanks running on electricity by 2025? No. C
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by nateburke 9y ago
This is one of my favorite sites on the internet. Having grown up skiing at Ascutney, one of the largest ski areas to ever die, seeing it and other CT river valley areas such as Mt Tom memorialized here is very meaningful to me.
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by nateburke 10y ago
As long as we have ground wars, we'll have demand for oil (i.e. gasoline). As an energy source, stored gasoline is far more modular and transportable than anything requiring the electric grid. Consequently, it is easier to defend and r
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Trump Defeated Republicans as Much or More Than Democrats(cnbc.com)
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by nateburke 10y ago
Maybe not, but I can certainly see ties with Germany strengthening further, especially once Brexit is implemented.
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by nateburke 10y ago
I would highly recommend Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" as a starting point. The "Global Tax on Capital" chapter touches briefly on immigration at the end.
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by nateburke 10y ago
The singular Jeffersonian/Hamiltonian architecture described by the author exists by virtue of a great, bloody conflict that we now call the civil war. Recall that the Jeffersonian interface has its roots in the inside of a plantation
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by nateburke 10y ago
My initial impression upon seeing the spectacles was that they had two cameras. They don't, but the impression points to a key design choice that was, IMHO, fatally absent from Google glass: attempted symmetry. I think that people will
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by nateburke 12y ago
I think that Chris Rock's critique of the new WTC is far more down-to-earth and human than the NYT's critique: "Have you seen the Freedom Tower? You can see it no matter where you at. They should change the name from the Free
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by nateburke 12y ago
Cool. I've been bitten by RabbitMQ before. When are you going to give cassandra the jepsen treatment?
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by nateburke 14y ago
Agreed. My life was changed by a single biology teacher who graduated from Harvard in the 1960s. He decided to devote his life to teaching in a sleepy, company-town (East Hartford, CT) public high school rather than pursue research, $$, etc
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by nateburke 14y ago
This is not surprising. The culture of varsity sports on campus is a relic of an institution that has optimized its admissions process for corporate job placement over academic integrity and originality of thought. This makes sense--if you
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by nateburke 14y ago
It doesn't lose the ability to be tuned--the state of the piano merely drifts over time if it is not maintained--imagine your teeth drifting in your gums without a retainer, for example. If it spends 80 years warping a certain way, it will
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by nateburke 14y ago
Since you asked: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/solar-for-salamale/
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by nateburke 14y ago
I think this makes sense, personally. I have often found that it takes courage to follow one's own moral compass. Now does it follow that it takes guts to have discipline or vice-versa? I think so, more in the sense that it takes discipline
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by nateburke 14y ago
Guts. This guy has guts. Hoarding away a 3m bonus like that has an implicit statement of "I'm afraid for my own fiscal future to the tune of 3m dollars" stamped on it. Instead, he gives it away, telling the world and his employees that he i
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by nateburke 14y ago
I eagerly await an analysis using roman numerals. Most listeners don't care what particular key the song is in. What are the RELATIONSHIPS involved in the chord progressions?