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by sheri 13y ago
Chances of Ending Up in the Top Fifth, For a Child ... ... Raised in the Bottom Fifth The top 3 cities are: San Jose, San Francisco and Seattle.
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In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters(nytimes.com)
24 points by sheri 13y ago|2 comments
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This Is What Fracking Really Looks Like(slate.com)
26 points by sheri 13y ago|12 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
I'm suitably impressed that Fastmail has been around since 1999. At first glance I would have dismissed it as a service which I wouldn't expect to outlive Gmail (and thus be leery about moving to it). It still may not outlive Gmai
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A Journey Into Our Food System's Refrigerated-Warehouse Archipelago(theatlantic.com)
1 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping(theatlantic.com)
4 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
I think it was a sacrifice of quality for the convenience of digital cameras. It was a great joy to be able to download and view photos immediately after taking them, rather than send the film to be developed. It was also extremely liberati
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by sheri 13y ago
I agree. I don't think the author has been to India. I lived in Hyderabad, and the mosquito's there were super fast and super aggressive. Fans? Hah. Before sleeping, I'd close all the windows and doors and spray the toxic ant
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by sheri 13y ago
Patrick Smith (a former pilot and now author) also criticized Gladwell here: http://www.salon.com/2008/12/05/askthepilot301/
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by sheri 13y ago
I worked for a short while in a national lab. They used to call this "air-gap" security. i.e., there would be computers which would have no internet connection and no usb/harddrive inputs etc. If they needed data in there, th
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Price Reductions on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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China's Manned Space Program(theatlantic.com)
1 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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Asiana Airlines Flight 214: A Pilot’s Perspective(slate.com)
271 points by sheri 13y ago|170 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
Does acquiring companies for injecting 'young blood' actually work? I feel an acquisition means the founders and early employees would want to kick back and relax in the comfort of a big company job for a while. The examples I&#x2
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by sheri 13y ago
Because Bolivia is 'nothing' from a US POV, doesn't make it any less wrong. Apart from right and wrong, there are several examples where countries which were 'nothing', are creating several problems for the US. Most
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by sheri 13y ago
"Bonesaw"?? Really? That sounds like a McBain movie from the Simpsons.
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SR-71 Blackbird: How to fly the world's fastest plane(bbc.com)
3 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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India Passes Japan To Become Third Largest Global Smartphone Market(techcrunch.com)
2 points by sheri 13y ago|1 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
> 4. America despite its many faults has been an overwhelming force for freedom and wealth throughout the world. America has been an overwhelming force for its own self interests. These are the kinds of statements that show why so many p
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by sheri 13y ago
> 2) He ran a red light (there's always a reason for this: alcohol, bad judgment, being chased by someone, etc.) This is the most interesting part of the story to me. Even if he was drunk, I'm finding it hard to believe he woul
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The Worst Time to Have Surgery(theatlantic.com)
2 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
I think Michael Pollan described it well when he said food in America was undergoing a process of 'nutrification', i.e., breaking it down into its nutrients, and trying to create supplements with those nutrients. The studies in th
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by sheri 13y ago
Your comment adds nothing other than expose your bias. Do you have any constructive criticism of the article itself?
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by sheri 13y ago
> The implication that there is some central figure behind this giving these companies scripts to read meets the most common flaw of governmental conspiracy theories. Isn't that the definition of a government conspiracy?
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by sheri 13y ago
> refusing the job only means someone else will take it, Isn't that true for almost any moral stance? Should I stop being a vegetarian because someone else will eat the meat anyway?
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by sheri 13y ago
Isn't it presumptuous to say that this isn't a 'normal' reaction? I have no idea what a normal reaction to being told you have 30 days to live is. Even if you have seen real (non-movie) instances of this, I would assume different people wou
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Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B(bbc.co.uk)
61 points by sheri 13y ago|9 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
Beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing.
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by sheri 13y ago
A16Z gets touted as an order of magnitude smarter than the rest of the VC's out there, and my opinion of them has dropped after looking at their portfolio's recent performance. Yes, they have made lots of money, but that firm specifically w
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by sheri 13y ago
I had visited the Zynga office a few years back, and was super impressed. Free food/drinks everywhere, and the office looked really nice. They even had Zynga branded water. I had not played any Zynga games until then, but came back thinking

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