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by nether 11y ago
John Muir page on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/180
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by nether 11y ago
If you want to host more cyclists, check out WarmShowers. It's still in a nascent stage with a decent community thus far.
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Is everything we know about wine wrong? (2014)(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by nether 11y ago|0 comments
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by nether 11y ago
The weird thing with wines is there's no consensus in blind tastings as to what constitutes a superior wine. Judges' ratings end up all over the map. With teas in the North American Tea Championship, which employs blind cupping, t
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by nether 11y ago
Have you done any blind tastings?
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by nether 11y ago
google NOLS, outward bound, or "mountaineering course"
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by nether 11y ago
Coworker drives a Toyota Matrix, has a license plate frame saying, "My other car is a tensor."
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by nether 11y ago
There needs to be Netflix style predictive reviews: "Based on Yelpers with review histories like yours, our guess for your rating is 4 stars." And maybe a rottentomatoes-esque separate average rating using only ratings from "
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by nether 11y ago
It's like self-sustaining structures in Conway's game of life.
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by nether 11y ago
Excellent.
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by nether 11y ago
Dovetails with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492110 Why do backbreaking labor outside when one can sit comfortably in a cool office staring at a screen? Because meaningful labor is invigorating, even in simulation.
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by nether 11y ago
Yeah, we see it in LA. My girlfriend and I ate at a trendy gastropub (top pick from an LA Times critic) and were unfortunately seated next to a pair of Googlers (long communal tables). They were just namedropping all the cool cities they&#x
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by nether 11y ago
The LA Metro (bus/subway/light rail) is easy to navigate with Google Maps, but yeah, not as reliable as the NYC Metro, especially on weekends.
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by nether 11y ago
Re: DTLA. The Arts/Warehouse District (near Bestia, Stumptown Coffee etc.) is very Brooklynesque today. Tons of young people walking around these days. Hyperloop (yes, the tube train project) even has their offices around there.
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by nether 11y ago
The outdoorsy opportunities of LA blow NYC out of the water. This is two hours from LA: http://i.imgur.com/xQfttik.jpg (Mt Baldy in the winter).
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by nether 11y ago
> This reminds me that there have been many attempts to duplicate Lockheed's "Skunkworks". They've all failed. I suspect they failed because they always tried to create a skunkworks by fixing perceived "shortcomi
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by nether 12y ago
For more fun, check out this raised relief map of California: http://www.worldmapsonline.com/hs951californiamaprr.htm (discussed at http://redd.it/34azy8 ) For a CA transplant who does a lot of driving up
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by nether 12y ago
Seriously I was hoping for something unique, but there's nothing new here if you have ever read a life advice column before or practiced any faith for a while. If anything, I only reached the same conclusion as in the end of this artic
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Why Hispanic-Americans live longer: A mystery that has puzzled researchers(washingtonpost.com)
31 points by nether 12y ago|46 comments
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by nether 12y ago
Main chart: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;t... Measured interferometry data show light traveling significantly farther through the EM Drive chamber than expected. Air currents (test setup was
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EM Drive tested by NASA might be warp drive(forum.nasaspaceflight.com)
2 points by nether 12y ago|2 comments
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by nether 12y ago
Kids should be outside playing, not coding. Adults, too.
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The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money(newyorker.com)
39 points by nether 12y ago|33 comments
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by nether 12y ago
Electric aircraft can recharge in flight from the sun. This will mostly be long endurance, high altitude utility aircraft, like Facebook/Titan Aerospace's wifi UAV or surveillance drones that can stay airborne indefinitely. These
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by nether 12y ago
> If we assume the plane's range is linearly related to it's stored fuel it's not btw: http://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/FALL/thermodynamics/notes/...
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by nether 12y ago
http://zee.aero/ http://www.jobyaviation.com/S2/
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by nether 12y ago
I'm curious about other projects created in the same vein that are making money. I saw a typing tutor webpage posted here on HN, and a stock portfolio tracking service, but don't know if they ever became profitable.
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by nether 12y ago
I'm not sure what "profit" means in the context of sole proprietorship. Is $120k his takehome pay? Or what's left after subtracting his own salary?
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by nether 12y ago
I really pity the author. He's lost the ability to enjoy a book and throws a fit when typesetting is flawed. A sure path to disappointment and unhappiness is to demand only "the best" in everything. He should just learn to re
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by nether 12y ago
Automation is enormously expensive, human technicians are incredibly cheap, in the short term. Tesla probably doesn't have the capital yet to buy a huge array of robot arms to assemble their cars. The smaller the company, even when bui

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