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by pge 8y ago
for further reading on the history of monopolies and the change in approach to limiting them, in addition to the article’s author’s book, I recommend Cornered by Barry Lynn.
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by pge 8y ago
while you may not be able to do anything about our own sickness at that point, you could take steps to prevent spreading an infection to others
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by pge 8y ago
The closest I can get to describing his philosophy is that he is focused on the tension between book learning and experiential learning (particularly as manifest in the outdoors). The other theme that comes up repeatedly is the relationship
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by pge 8y ago
yes, that was one of the insights of the work. The people working alongside me were post-docs that were still having to put in their time as workers on other people's research projects. Particularly, in the area of experimental high-en
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by pge 8y ago
I also recall hearing that as an undegrad curriculum, the lectures never worked well (even when feynman himself was teaching them). His way of understanding physics is beautiful but not intuitive for most people. I read them after getting a
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by pge 8y ago
This is very true - I was a physics undergrad and learned to code working in a project at cern. While the underlying physics was the foundation of the project, the day to day work was all coding: processing and analyzing the huge amounts of
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by pge 8y ago
can you say any more about how cheating is prevented? I always wondered about that as the incentive is high and since teams enter as a team, it seems there is a lot of opportunity for planning communication. I guess I always assumed there
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by pge 8y ago
it’s even worse when they use it as a database...
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by pge 8y ago
I wonder if some of this is the way the data are collected. The survey asks about primary mode of commuting. In the DC area at least, I think (from observation) there are a lot more multi-modal commuters using bikeshare, uber, or e-scooters
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by pge 8y ago
The same thing happened at the end of WW2 with all the PT boats that has been shipped to the pacific. In the course of a war, a lot of equipment gets moved to the field. When war ends (particularly abruptly as was the case in Vietnam), it’s
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by pge 8y ago
if you are interested in learning more, John Huth (who features prominently in the article) wrote a book: The Lost Art of Finding Our Way. I would also recommend "Emergency Navigation" by David Burch. Not about traditional navigat
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by pge 8y ago
this reminds me of when I was learning to write fortran code for the navy around 1990. My rookie debugging method was to insert print statements throughout the code, but instead of printing something informational I would put 80s song lyric
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by pge 8y ago
This highlights one of the challenges Google has going into the cloud market - they don’t have a history of serving enterprise customers and the organizational structure and processes to do that well. I think one of the reasons Microsoft ha
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by pge 8y ago
Curious if you have ever fallen off a bike? I have fallen over several times on a bike while stationary (when learning to ride with clipless pedals), I have crashed bikes at much higher speeds as well, and I have watched my kids fall off of
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by pge 8y ago
and the manager of the DAF who gets a percentage of the assets each year...
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by pge 8y ago
When TM was at its peak, I heard comments from people in the DoD/intel community that the primary value of having a Thinking Machines computer was recruiting value. At least one company set one up in a very prominent place so that new
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by pge 9y ago
I think the Time Value of Money is one of the most important concepts any lay person should understand but most don't. I came out of college (an Ivy league school) as a physics major with zero understanding of finance. At my first jo
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by pge 9y ago
I also use a surface pro for note taking. The glass isnt the best writing surface, but it’s fine. What really sets it apart for me is the handwriting recognition. My handwriting is not super neat but the Microsft recognition software makes
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by pge 9y ago
A lot of schools have also switched to google docs. Free and easy for kids to use to get the concepts. And much easier for the schools than Libreoffice.
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by pge 9y ago
These articles tend to focus on the technical reasons Linux has not been adopted, and I think it is worth also exploring the business issues (I think Linux desktops are mature enough technically that most average users can use it just as ea
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by pge 9y ago
I'm struggling to understand the significance of this, at least as the N-S equations are used in the real world. Many years ago, I interned with the Navy writing fortran code for fluid dynamics simulations on submarine hulls, and IIRC
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by pge 9y ago
Can you elaborate a little on this? The reason I ask is that my experience has been different. I have seen a lot of requests for code escrow (source is released to big company if and only if small company goes out of business) when a large
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by pge 9y ago
For those not familiar with 80s music, the song being parodied is Tiffany's "I think we're alone now." Original music video from 1987 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78
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by pge 9y ago
I think what he is saying is technically true, though the conclusion doesnt follow. It is technically true because the US Military could easily be the largest single polluting organization in the world (because it has way more employees and
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by pge 9y ago
I had learned the story of the battle of teutoberg forest when studying roman history (in which it looms large as a shocking and humiliating defeat), and I was surprised when I spent some time living and working in Germany that none of my G
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by pge 9y ago
Your last point is important. The author seems to assume that the priests are honest and trying to do the right thing. Given human nature, I have trouble believing that a person with unilateral decision making authority over the fate of ano
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by pge 9y ago
For further reading on Gödel, Rebecca Goldstein's Incompleteness is a great book. It is a biography of Gödel but also places his work in the context of the philosophical debates of the time.
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by pge 9y ago
Fwiw, Gurley is legally obligated to make board decisions on behalf of all shareholders not to look out just for benchmark's interests. I don't know that it is relevant in this case but just correcting the common misconception tha
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by pge 9y ago
It is a hard deadline because it is in the deal documents when the fund is formed. It is relevant because the fund management is guaranteed fees for that period. Extending it is usually straightforward, but the compensation of the fund mana
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by pge 9y ago
You don't need to go to an exotic place, there are significant wilderness areas all over the US (eg. Boundary Waters in Minnesota). If you choose less traveled areas, there's a good chance you can go a week without seeing anyone.

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