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by nether 10y ago
Aside: ridiculous how influential k5 was on my life. Their first article on coffee turned me into a coffee snob before third wave cafes became the rage. The article on ultralight backpacking started a lifelong obsession, eventually leading
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I'm actually a hobbyist mushroom forager. I think mushroom growth is too dependent on micro-environments, like proximity to a certain tree and receiving the right amount of shade, to be predicted by weather. I could be wrong though.
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It's a little perverse how "successful" means "extremely wealthy" around these parts. It could also mean just having happy relationships and basic material needs met. In fact I suspect that is a far more common defi
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I don't care about becoming very wealthy. The odds of success are too low. Sam ignores the hard question, which is what is the likelihood that you will spend many years of your life on a "hard problem" (or multiple problems)
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by nether 10y ago
Believe in yourself!!! No really, just believe!
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Is YC spreading this announcement anywhere else? Seems like Engineers Without Borders might be a good audience (which is mostly civil/environmental/mechanical engineers IME).
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I'm taking Vorinostat in order to help extinguish my social anxiety. It has always seemed that I get more anxious after repeated exposure to certain stimuli. Eventually it'll be the point where I just throw up on the floor.
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by nether 10y ago
Yeah, I was an aerospace engineer at a helicopter company for eight years. They practiced autorotation landings (full engine shut off) every day, outside my office. They were non-events.
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> Whole milk, butter, and fatty meats is still bad You're sure of that? http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/12/275376259/the... My main takeaway: > "Almost every single
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Noam Chomsky said the FT is the only paper that tells the truth, since the interests of the readers and the publication are aligned in making money. One thing I read from Superforecasters though is that the best forecasters read a vast arra
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An American airline wins the right to weigh passengers on its Samoan route(economist.com)
164 points by nether 10y ago|218 comments
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Catching crumbs from the table (2000)(nature.com)
46 points by nether 10y ago|5 comments
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Numerical weather prediction. After I finish up my data science bootcamp, I'll be dusting off the old undergrad aero textbooks.
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If only there was a spacious kitchen employing a bevy of white, twenty-something hipsters to prepare our foods. It'd be so much better that way.
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I've met a handful of people via 4chan. All of them have been kind, intelligent, and thoughtful people. And a lot of fun. I'd much rather hang out with a random 4channer than someone from the US population at large, assuming both
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by nether 10y ago
Why should one stay hungry? What about conquering one's insatiability, and becoming content?
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by nether 10y ago
Why did you stop climbing?
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Thanks Obama?
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by nether 10y ago
I'm looking to go through a DS boot camp this summer, have a master's in aerospace engineering. I'd be very content with mid-five figures (40% lower than what I made as an engineer) at a no-name company if it's in the ci
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The Phenomenon of ‘Bud Sex’ Between Straight Rural Men(nymag.com)
2 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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Kids should be outside playing and interacting with other kids, not coding.
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It's extremely justified, and I'd expect any country that cares for its sovereignty to do the same.
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50 Cent Party(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nether 10y ago|0 comments
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Wow, you're sensitive.
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> it's a steady upward slope, even through down times. Exactly what Madoff's returns looked like. I googled the guy behind Fractalgo, Rich Clifford. Looks like he's been through some shady dealings.
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Deutsche Physik(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by nether 10y ago|1 comments
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> I often used to genuinely wonder if a certain percentage of the kids I knew from the Ivy were genuinely taught that sort of behavior as some sort of corporeal manifestation of ideal capitalism or something, because it just seemed inhum
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by nether 10y ago
Speed is the least significant reason to change keyboard layouts. You can get to 100 wpm typing with two fingers, evidenced on YouTube. Layout doesn't matter if you want to type fast. The main reason is comfort, which is harder to dem
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by nether 10y ago
> They are teaching kids not to be kind to sad friends, but to report them to the authorities instead. I've heard that this is a particularly American attitude, that the mentally ill should be isolated with a clinician before doing
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by nether 10y ago
A shop wanted to replace my mid-2011 MacBook Air battery for $250. Found the battery on Amazon, including the star screwdrivers, for $60. Glad I didn't totally write off the DIY route with Apple repairs.

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