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by patdennis 13y ago
>"Windows need be no more than an archaic touch, and even when present will be polarized to block out the harsh sunlight. The degree of opacity of the glass may even be made to alter automatically in accordance with the intensity of
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by patdennis 13y ago
I eat sleep and breathe politics. It's what I do for a living, and it's most of what I care about. That said, I don't come here to read about politics.
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by patdennis 13y ago
I have never in my life been able to see one of these things correctly, and I've tried since about age 7 or so. One day!
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by patdennis 13y ago
I'm in my mid 20's, and I'm definitely not at that point yet. Your mileage may vary. Regardless, I feel like commuting is still probably an important factor - but I absolutely believe that other things come into consideration
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by patdennis 13y ago
For the past four years, I've moved 1-3 times per year (I work in politics, and move to wherever the interesting elections are happening). The only universally applicable piece of advice I can give is this: Your commute matters. A lot.
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by patdennis 13y ago
This is the first New York Times article reporting on what would later be known as the AIDS epidemic. Edit: Here's the takeaway quote, in my opinion: "Cancer is not believed to be contagious, but conditions that might precipitate
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Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981)(nytimes.com)
178 points by patdennis 13y ago|145 comments
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by patdennis 13y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Muckrock! Wasn't trying to say you guys aren't necessary. I file FOI requests for a living, and I'd love to be in touch with you guys about a number of things - best practices for turning gove
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by patdennis 13y ago
I was just trying to preempt the inevitable "investigative journalism is dead" comments.
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by patdennis 13y ago
People get excited about things like this and say things like "this is REAL investigative journalism". Or "I wish mainstream journalists would start doing this". Look, I read documents like this all day long. So do inves
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by patdennis 13y ago
You started your comment with "If I didn't know better". Do you know for a fact that they're not hinting at this? Or did I misread.
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by patdennis 13y ago
The person who popped out of the other end of the teleporter would be doubtful. Does it make a difference if it's a teleporter that destroys the original as an necessary part of its function, vs one that destroyed the original but didn't n
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by patdennis 13y ago
Here's one of my favorites. Glad to see the pros are evenly split, because this one really toasts my brain too. Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Accept or lean toward: survival 337 / 931 (36.2%) Other 304 / 931 (32.7%) Accep
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by patdennis 13y ago
Designing better cars; making parts for the 3d printers that built the cars.
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by patdennis 14y ago
The modern cables are from a single source, and that source is in a military prison.
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by patdennis 14y ago
You have access to your raw data through 23andme. At least I do. It's a text file (sitting in a Truecrypt partition, in my case).
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by patdennis 14y ago
For $50, I had 23andme read my genotype for a pretty significant number of already studied genes, but far from my complete genome. How much of a difference does it make to the end user whether their complete genome is sequenced, compared to
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by patdennis 14y ago
> All additional information will make your prediction better I don't think this is true... I find that there's a point where additional information becomes noise, and can make your prediction less useful.
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by patdennis 14y ago
Ah yes. The social safety net is causing society to be overrun by a plague of undesirables. If we would only let people die in the streets, our society would be pure. Edit: I'm being sarcastic.
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by patdennis 14y ago
How did he know to escape to China? How did he know how to get there? I'm genuinely curious.
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by patdennis 14y ago
Before I studied the history the use of asbestos as an industrial material, I didn't take warnings like this seriously. Now I do.
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by patdennis 14y ago
It's the same logic as offering Office for OS X. They know holding a OS monopoly isn't feasible. Might as well make money off of the holdouts.
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by patdennis 14y ago
MMM's main thesis is that the quality of life bit takes care of itself through hedonic adaption [1]. If you can make it to that point. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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by patdennis 14y ago
A large part of my day to day job involves summarizing political careers from thousands of pages of news articles. As a general rule, I find that for every thousand pages of news copy, one can usually distill about thirty pages of useful fa
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by patdennis 14y ago
Sounds like mental illness to me. Like he's delusional.
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by patdennis 14y ago
Similarly, I don't understand why people named Aaron always make unfair generalizations.
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by patdennis 14y ago
Did anyone else notice how laggy the display looked when she spun the roulette wheel? I hope that's not system wide.
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How Florida limits care for disabled kids(miamiherald.com)
2 points by patdennis 14y ago|0 comments
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by patdennis 14y ago
Here's an interesting article about how one family deals with the issue: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/11/01/our-new-237-per-mo...
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by patdennis 14y ago
If anyone is looking for a more accurate biography of BF, I particularly enjoyed Walter Isaacson's. [1] [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=L64OOJGaCKIC&printsec=f...

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