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USB Typewriter (etsy.com)
37 points by rg 16y ago|10 comments
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by rg 16y ago
More than once, when I had a Lenovo ThinkPad that needed depot service for a hardware fault, Lenovo has told me to remove the HD and keep it; at the depot they insert a temporary freshly-imaged HD, complete the repair and battery of tests,
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by rg 16y ago
If this means FiveThirtyEight goes behind a NYT paywall in the next six months or so, it may not be great for anyone other than the principals of 538.
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by rg 16y ago
H L Mencken once defined a wealthy man as one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.
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by rg 16y ago
It's become rather difficult to set up UK personal bank accounts, thanks to the "know your customer" anti-terrorist regulations. Plus, UK retail banks offer uniformly terrible customer service by international standards (I've experienced t
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by rg 16y ago
When I emailed Pair.com to tell them that my site was about to get a writeup in the Wall Street Journal, they moved my site to a dedicated server within an hour, left it there until the spike of traffic was over, then moved my site back to
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by rg 17y ago
Moreover, you can buy a USB version of that ThinkPad keyboard which plugs into any computer: "ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint" (part 55Y9003), $59, link to Lenovo store is http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo.
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by rg 17y ago
Moreover, Brad DeLong writes of this blog entry, "I endorse almost everything Alex Tabarrok Says Here" http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/02/i-endorse-almost-every...
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by rg 17y ago
The same (excellent) book has a different title in the US: "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health", by Gary Taubes (Paperback - Sept. 23, 2008).
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by rg 17y ago
From the article: "Let me explain. If you consider your diet and exercise as a simple energy deficits/excesses, with a straight calorie-in, calorie-burned equation, you will fall into the trap of misspecifying the system into simple causal
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Why I Do All This Walking ... (by Nassim Taleb)(fooledbyrandomness.com)
9 points by rg 17y ago|3 comments
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by rg 17y ago
FTA: "The problem is, the world has changed. Today's insurgent adversaries don't have KGB-level intelligence gathering or cryptanalytic capabilities. At the same time, computer and network data gathering has become much cheaper and easier,
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by rg 17y ago
Indeed, JungleDisk appears to offer a very similar service. I back up my entire main computer to JungleDisk (automatic incremental backup every midnight). On my minimal laptop for travel is a "Drive J:" which gives me access straight from
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by rg 17y ago
Yep, all true, but just give the site a spin in IE8 (full standards-conforming mode or compatability mode) or IE7 or earlier--the blemish appears in all of them. It looks bad enough to make it not worth standing on principle, especially wh
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by rg 17y ago
Confidence is reduced when the blurbs on the first page are coded with the imaginary HTML entity "'" which does not render as an apostrophe in all browsers. (The fix is just to use a literal apostrophe character there, or if that'
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by rg 17y ago
From the article: "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden." And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "F
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by rg 17y ago
Amazon.co.uk has for some time offered same-day evening delivery in urban areas of Greater London (within the M25) and Birmingham--check details on their website--for a fairly-stiff minimum charge. Local Amazon.shops could share whatever
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by rg 17y ago
"Roger W. Cohen holds a Ph.D. in physics and is a former Manager of Strategic Planning and Programs for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. He has more than forty years experience in the electronics and energy industries. He is a recent
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by rg 17y ago
From the physicists' letter: "By now everyone has heard of what has come to be known as ClimateGate, which was and is an international scientific fraud, the worst any of us have seen in our cumulative 223 years of APS membership. For those
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by rg 17y ago
A much deeper article by software entrepreneur "Mencius Moldbug": http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/12/gold-an... "If gold will eventually be remonetized, gold is insanely cheap. If gold will never be remonetized, gold is
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by rg 17y ago
It's not just any old lame opinion piece, though. Here is how the author is described by Case Western Reserve Professor Jonathan Adler: "MIT’s Richard Lindzen is one of the world’s leading climate scientists. He is also a climate 'skeptic
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by rg 17y ago
Most people choose the wrong time periods for thinking about work/life balance. The usual discussion is about achieving a balance every day or every week. That just dilutes and compromises both your work and the remainder of your life. A st
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Cool website startup idea: "How Famous Are You?"
4 points by rg 17y ago|1 comments
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by rg 17y ago
I pay for a subscription to Murdoch's WSJ, and get a paper copy delivered every morning as well as online access (cost is huge, $400/year). Even so, I read most WSJ stories because I find them linked from Google News where I have lots of s
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by rg 17y ago
Need to look up what "dearth" means.
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by rg 17y ago
Twenty years ago, I seriously planned to set up an endowed trust to educate mid-western young people about the advantages of moving to the coastal cities of the US, along with some modest financial aid to move. Since then I have dropped t
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by rg 17y ago
It's eye-opening to try "Blind Search", which submits your query to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing simultaneously, and displays to you the three sets of results without (at first) identifying which is which: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ I was
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BBC Ends Its Use of RealMedia for Streaming Audio(bbc.co.uk)
26 points by rg 17y ago|16 comments
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by rg 17y ago
More recently, there was a writeup about me in the New Yorker. Just before publication, I got a similar call from a "fact-checker". The checking was detailed, and (as for jwecker) focused on hard-to-verify matters. I asked the fact-check
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by rg 17y ago
There is one very interesting example at a fairly large scale, the John Lewis Partnership which runs very successful major department store and food store chains in the UK. This is a real partnership, owned by the permanent staff (no publi

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