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by rubidium 10y ago
There's a word for that. Leasing. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/business/auto-leasing-gain...
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by rubidium 10y ago
Good idea. But definitely need - A FAQ. Trust is a big deal here. Why trust you? - HTTPS - An overview of options for your target customer. The reason someone will need your service is because they've just received a letter claiming pa
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by rubidium 10y ago
Esp. if your manager is swamped with work. A good manager is practically begging for for good reasons to give you a raise if you're a high performer, but they need the ammo to convince HR/their manager.
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by rubidium 10y ago
The photos look like anything you'd find wondering the ground and basement floors of science buildings at most major research universities today.
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by rubidium 10y ago
AAAS vs. Google. Fight! http://science.sciencemag.org/ But seriously to my academic mind: Journal = published, Notebook = notes from experiments. Besides the name issue, it looks Science Journal is part of a wide host of o
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by rubidium 10y ago
Universal basic income is just communism 2.0. It's adapted for the sensitivities of the American middle and upper classes, who want to help the poor but only by giving money to make the problem go away. Fundamental premise of UBI is ev
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by rubidium 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's some big mis-information by Otto. They quote: " It’s no surprise that trucking companies see over 90% of their drivers quit every year in search of better opportunities. " That was in
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by rubidium 10y ago
This is one of the most insightful articles of the last 50 years of physics, and written in a way that nearly anyone with some scientific training can understand. Aside: Not quite sure why the random ohio state pdf got the link... then went
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by rubidium 10y ago
Glad to see someone acknowledging the myopic view of most intellectuals. During my time in academia (PhD), I'll admit now I had very little idea of what life was like for the majority of people. Since then I've been living among m
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by rubidium 10y ago
Is there any way for your statement (which has many bold assertions) to lead anywhere but "We're all just victims of our genes"? Your materialistic assumptions are a wonderful way to do science, but a terrible way to be human
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by rubidium 10y ago
Well, that's happening in golf this year so we'll see how it goes.
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by rubidium 10y ago
"but if neighboring areas are too far from each other I allow them to split, tearing the city along its most severe economic divides." Interesting that, from an artistic standpoint, the high delta's in nearby neighborhoods ho
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by rubidium 10y ago
... it's MIT's news department.
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by rubidium 10y ago
My exact thought. They did all the work. He took all the credit. Then again, they're politicians and not academics so not as big a deal.
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by rubidium 10y ago
What field? What's your career hopes (teaching, research, industry)?
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by rubidium 10y ago
My goodness people. 12 hours of discussion and people are arguing about if it's actually more efficient or the best thermostat to use. The reason no one wants a "chest freezer" style fridge (which the author of the article ad
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by rubidium 10y ago
Physics does clearly "care" about the direction of time, because physics is a description of the physical universe. Dissipation, entropy, quantum measurement... etc. all have time as a key concept. Math may not care (and it's
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by rubidium 10y ago
"designed too ambitiously to fulfill too many roles and, as a consequence, well over its budget, flawed in its execution and struggling to meet even minimal operational requirements." History repeats ad nauseam. Watch the dark com
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by rubidium 10y ago
Here's a 1993 one from Yellowstone (linked through the site): https://ia601009.us.archive.org/13/items/yellowstonena199330... The article makes a nice point about how they were actual used verse what designer
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by rubidium 10y ago
I don't know a better way to put this. The whole UBI idea that shows up here a lot (e.g. https://stratechery.com/2016/the-brexit-possibility/ ) is just naive. And now we have a nice poll of the experts to just
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by rubidium 10y ago
I hadn't seen this discussed here yet. This seems like a more user-focused approach to "IOT". That is, enable people to find out how much it costs to run each device. In turn, market smarter devices/switches to customers
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Sense: Home energy monitoring product(sense.com)
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by rubidium 10y ago
Recommended reading: Jane Jacobs "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Ray Oldenburg "great good place" Booker T Washington: Up from Slavery I'd skip figuring out cities. Start with how to create neighborhoo
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by rubidium 10y ago
Not quite. I tried that (at least, one of the KB#'s early on) and it kept trying with new updates... so that probably wont solve it for anyone.
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by rubidium 10y ago
I agree. You see the same thing with the "third wave" movement who espouse that very light roast is the "best" way to roast coffee. Light, medium and dark roast coffee is all perfectly fine ways of roasting, and all retu
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by rubidium 10y ago
things/persons/places relationships time
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by rubidium 10y ago
None of those are actual finished products (except for the amazon dash... which also isn't really a product). There's hardware and software components and recommendations, but (perhaps tellingly) no "IOT thermostat" or &
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by rubidium 10y ago
This is the reference 6 of the spectrum recording of ball lightning from 2012: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/5 Impressive that the model has "passed all the tests" for an acceptable theory of the or
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by rubidium 10y ago
I found this section from Laudato Si pretty striking and relevant to the authors experience: "47. Furthermore, when media and the digital world become omnipresent, their influence can stop people from learning how to live wisely, to th
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by rubidium 10y ago
For some definitions of "easily". For a programmer, yes. For an enterprise organization with a full gamut of technical ranges from "maintain 40 github repos for fun" to "I still don't trust anything but Word, E

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