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Eccentric Math Genius Ditches Russia for Sweden(themoscowtimes.com)
1 points by nether 11y ago|0 comments
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by nether 11y ago
It's well established from census data that SF has a surplus of single men, not women. More political incorrectness: women in SF should "woman up" and initiate the approach. Why must they play the passive role? Also, guys nat
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by nether 11y ago
> Thus as a girl, you're forced to act more masculine to achieve business goals. But it's hard to suppress your natural state of being. Additionally girls are still expected to (and want to) act feminine in their personal relat
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Superscript: South Korea celebrates an ingenious writing system(economist.com)
50 points by nether 11y ago|26 comments
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As Koreans Swarm into Mountains, Government Pleads ‘Slow Down’(wsj.com)
2 points by nether 11y ago|0 comments
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The 10 youngest people on the Forbes 400 list and how they got there(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by nether 11y ago|0 comments
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by nether 11y ago
Small planes crashes are common enough that they don't often make it beyond local news. The NTSB recorded 1,471 accidents and 440 fatalities in general aviation for the year 2012: http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations&#x2F
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by nether 11y ago
Internet news has always been unregulated. So people who mostly use online news are even more polarized? My far right wing coworker only reads Drudge Report and Real Clear Politics, and honestly the awful shit they cherrypick would make me
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Korea’s Path from Poverty to Philanthropy (2010)(brookings.edu)
1 points by nether 11y ago|0 comments
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by nether 11y ago
> back then they argued that missiles had eliminated the need for agile fighters, but the Vietnam War's rules of engagement meant that agility was crucial. Please stop this. Vietnam era missiles were little more than firecrackers wi
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by nether 11y ago
Warren Buffet is just a lucky coin flipper.
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by nether 11y ago
This is refreshing. I wonder what other blue collar industries in flyover country are ripe to be optimized by tech.
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by nether 11y ago
For the record, the "Progress Eagle" shown in the header and in the blue image at the bottom of the article is an artist's concept vehicle with no basis in engineering or reality.
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by nether 11y ago
That's true of tech startups. But think of startups that aim bigger. The South African who founded SpaceX would have struggled to amass his army of engineers in Europe. In the long run, these moon-shot innovations that are only possibl
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by nether 11y ago
I seriously looked into relocating to Germany as a mechanical engineer after salivating over their extended paid vacation time and ease of taking transit all over Europe. But if I were ever to start a company, fuck paying for that. I'd
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by nether 11y ago
But this is also why we have more billion-dollar startups than the EU. Isn't it?
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by nether 11y ago
Biological father. His (adoptive) father was white, and Jobs didn't look middle eastern , the key part. There's a whole spectrum of skin tones within ethnicities that affects how you are treated in the US more than where your p
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by nether 11y ago
Reducing the boom is achieved by damping the pressure N-wave from the oblique shocks near the aircraft forebody. This is done in various ways but at this time we're exploring blunting the nose to increase the local air temperature whi
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by nether 11y ago
Yes, cyclic control alters the lift distribution within the rotor disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_flight_controls#Cyc... . The pilot would apply force to the cyclic to negate any non-uniform ground effect
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by nether 11y ago
There's plenty of pressure differential in a lifting plate in a positive alpha. There must be in order to impart a net downward acceleration on the flow, thereby turning it. Here, have some CFD: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by nether 11y ago
> Finally, one learns that boredom is a disease of civilization. It seems to me that what boredom mostly is is that people have to keep themselves entertained or occupied, because if they aren't, then certain anxieties, frustrations
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by nether 11y ago
Are you a dolphin?
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by nether 11y ago
Everyone seems to think Soylent frees up time for work. That's certainly true for some people, but for me it frees up time to rest. Instead of driving to Chipotle/KFC/In-n-Out I drink Soylent at my desk before lunch break. Th
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by nether 11y ago
I hope this article is remembered when the next, "I taught my 5-year-old to code" blog post comes around.
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Decline of play and rise of sensory issues in preschoolers(washingtonpost.com)
192 points by nether 11y ago|127 comments
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by nether 11y ago
These are the kinds of folks on the AT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjyNO0Ltc6U . They're partiers, not hikers, who are destroying the wilderness and opportunities for solitude.
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by nether 11y ago
If you want to see a thru-hiking film, watch Do More With Less: https://vimeo.com/126514281 . It's a fantastic documentary on the PCT filmed last year.
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How America’s love affair with caffeine has sparked a crisis of overdoses(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by nether 11y ago|2 comments
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by nether 11y ago
This sounds like someone who's just read Ben Graham telling DE Shaw that they're doing it all wrong, and index funds are the way to go. A massive lack of understanding and experience in what professionals with cutting edge researc
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by nether 11y ago
Google worked with RZhD to put a virtual ride on Youtube a few years ago: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/16/google-tran-sib...

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