rfreytag

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1501.
by rfreytag 17y ago
This seems like a lesson in too-early publicity. Also if I ever talk to a reporter I'll take my own notes and send them to him/her and post a version on the web so it can be Googled.
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by rfreytag 17y ago
One of the stories I remember being told by a farmer that lived through the depression was that the farmers were dumping milk into the streets rather than selling it and further depressing prices. Slaughtering milk cows is an even more per
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Farmers Slaughtering Dairy Cows Rather Than Lose Money Producing Milk(consumerist.com)
1 points by rfreytag 17y ago|1 comments
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Could a Dose of Ether Contain the Secret to Consciousness?(discovermagazine.com)
20 points by rfreytag 17y ago|7 comments
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Google Wave: A Complete Guide(mashable.com)
23 points by rfreytag 17y ago|0 comments
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by rfreytag 17y ago
There are quite a few cases where 'speculative fiction' authors have been invited into DoD commitees to provide a fresh perspective.
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10 Favorite Mars Novels - Kim Stanley Robinson(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by rfreytag 17y ago|2 comments
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by rfreytag 17y ago
You must be thinking of GNP which has been supplanted by GDP >precisely< because it better reflects the product of a nation's internal and external trade. I think the CIA factbook probably does not totally rely on the PRC's reported
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Terence Kealey - 'The Myth of Science as a Public Good' on Vimeo(vimeo.com)
1 points by rfreytag 17y ago|0 comments
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by rfreytag 17y ago
China spends more per dollar of GDP on the military - very interesting.
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by rfreytag 17y ago
Why is this near the top of Hacker News this morning?
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Conversion Optimizer: AdWords, Done Right: MicroISV on a Shoestring(kalzumeus.com)
25 points by rfreytag 17y ago|4 comments
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by rfreytag 17y ago
Excellent question - is this survivors bias? We need the negative information to get a sense whether their technique works better than random luck applied to good times.
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by rfreytag 17y ago
This article includes the quote "... perch-and-grip technology ..." Not sure why but that struck me funny.
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How North Korea Survives(newsweek.com)
3 points by rfreytag 17y ago|1 comments
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by rfreytag 17y ago
I came here to also disagree with the article. You -just- beat me to it and for similar reasons. One key mistake the author of this article made is how vast is an economy of potential collaborators versus the limited number of people extan
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by rfreytag 17y ago
You don't want to breath a continuous stream of hydroxyl radicals. Its hard on your lungs.
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by rfreytag 18y ago
I think textbooks might be like software. You don't build from scratch because you are throwing out the hard won debugging that has gone into it. Here is Joel Spolsky on this topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.h
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by rfreytag 18y ago
What happens when the lawyers get a hold of this?
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by rfreytag 18y ago
don't require comma separation use spaces like google and assume (or tell) people to quote multi-word ingredients (like "ice cream").
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by rfreytag 18y ago
"Success in life depends on intelligence, which is measured by I.Q. tests." What happened to emotional intelligence? Aren't there studies that show that this is at least as important to success in life?
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by rfreytag 18y ago
How about asking people who sign up where they heard about the product? Note that you'll be thanking the person that made the referral.