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More Evidence That Ravens Are Intelligent(gizmodo.com)
4 points by scotch_drinker 9y ago|0 comments
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
He had little impact on mortgages or inflation. Nixon drove most of the stagflation of the 70s with his wage and price controls not to mention taking us off the gold standard. Failed monetary policies exacerbated the problems. Carter inh
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
Agree. Carter is the last President who asked his countrymen to actually sacrifice for the good of the country instead of just offering to give them a bunch of free stuff. We didn't want to listen then but someday, we'll probabl
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
On the solar calculator page, they say they have the highest possible hail rating.
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
And it's only going to get worse. The article notes that most of the 100 laid off were reporters and that ESPN was moving towards opinion. This is the beginning of the end for most sports fans, I'd imagine. I remember the days
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Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious(newyorker.com)
2 points by scotch_drinker 9y ago|0 comments
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
+1 for this book. Abbey argued strongly and persuasively for the wilderness and raged against it disappearing, not just from existence with paved roads and air conditioned cabins but from our imaginations.
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
Whenever I see someone say "We have to do X to prevent Y because of the great potential costs of Y", I rarely see a discussion of the costs of X in comparison. Fixing the climate is going to be expensive. It's going to decr
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
No but if I type "beets yellow squash" it gives me a bunch of recipes. It's far easier to do that than keep a running inventory of ingredients in my fridge updated in an app. I can see that this might be useful for people wh
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by scotch_drinker 9y ago
This looks really awesome but google does this for me. It will be interesting to see how EatHow differentiates themselves from google results.
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What's Become of the American Dream/(wsj.com)
1 points by scotch_drinker 10y ago|0 comments
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We're thinking about organizational culture all wrong(hbr.org)
26 points by scotch_drinker 10y ago|6 comments
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Yeah this thought occurred to me as well. If I ran one of the other companies, I'd make it a marketing issue that we let farmer's hack all they want on their own tractors.
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Seems like a great opportunity for Kubota. Or some other tractor company. Or I guess a "startup" that makes tractors though I wonder what the time to market on that would be.
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
I think he's saying "If you have a policy of deleting your data older than X, you are OK." You have to be able to prove that well before being asked for the data, you had a policy that resulted in it being deleted. Where I w
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
This is by far the funniest thing I've ever read on HN and the fact you created a fake account to do it makes it even funnier, I think.
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Living a long life isn't the goal. Living as long a life as you can while at optimal health is. Being a small runt who doesn't eat much and who is always sick isn't a very admirable goal. The inverse correlation with grip
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
This is an often missed but critical difference in social norms enforced at the community level versus online social networks. It's no longer the community that is trying to protect itself through policing individuals. It's a pr
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Another way to think about a chilling effect is just the social norms that civilization and culture enforce on people. While this research (and much of the discussion of social network sites) focuses on the surveillance factor, society can
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Amazon will build $1.5B air hub in Kentucky(forbes.com)
3 points by scotch_drinker 10y ago|0 comments
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Exactly this. It's a falsehood to think that HSA/HD will cause you to be a better consumer because you can't be a better consumer when the sellers refuse to provide price information. We had our first child this year and th
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A Fitness Downside to Statins?(nytimes.com)
2 points by scotch_drinker 10y ago|0 comments
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun is a sweeping account of the past 500 years.
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
I've used WellnessFX and been very happy with it. Not sure what cheap means to you but the Baseline Diagnostics only is $198. https://www.wellnessfx.com/baseline
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
I really wish this top level comment could get some traction. People seem to think that because something is important to them, it should be important to the community but that's not how communities work. I for one feel that no amoun
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
My contention (and history supports me since no economy has always gone up) is that there is no way to manage an economy correctly. It is too complex of a system and therefore cannot be directed without alternate, often unpleasant side eff
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Do we know that for sure? Has anyone tried it lately? I'd like to find out but the cynic in me says it's pretty unlikely.
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Totally agree. I would have far preferred the bailout in 2008 to be put into an infrastructure program that put those classes of people to work instead of enriching the Wall Street crowd. But, no one asked me. Government should protect t
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by scotch_drinker 10y ago
Maybe this is true, maybe not but sometimes, it's ok for things to be bad for the economy. The economy isn't supposed to always go up and when we meddle in an attempt to iron out the bumps, we only serve to make the future bumps
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Genetic Heart Disease Risk Erased by Healthy Habits(nytimes.com)
2 points by scotch_drinker 10y ago|0 comments

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