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by sien 10y ago
The model of trying to land smart people with perks like kitchens, foosball tables, Aeron chairs and all the rest and hope that they come up with something that makes lots of money was what many companies tried in the first Dot Com boom. h
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by sien 10y ago
Has anyone worked in a place that used transparent office partitions to kill the noise while keeping some light around? Like these: https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/transparent-office-partitio... Or has anyone been ab
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by sien 10y ago
The wikpedia list of Primary Statistical Areas is pretty useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_primary_statistical_ar...
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by sien 10y ago
This isn't just in Biomedical fields. In Earth Sciences, Astronomy and presumably quite a few other fields there is a staggering amount of data coming in and the number of people who have the required domain knowledge, math knowledge a
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by sien 10y ago
Also the benefit of electricity is greatest when brought to places with low levels of development.
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We could build something nuclear powered that would be able to do it. Project Orion or Project Daedelus would be able to escape the sun's gravity without needing a gravitational slingshot. But we have decided for now not to build somet
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by sien 10y ago
Print and TV ads are probably worse and they are still there. The thing replacing them is online ads.
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by sien 10y ago
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II has concluded that global warming of 2.5˚C would cost the equivalent to losing between 0.2-2.0% of annual income. Again, the actual consensus on
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by sien 10y ago
The IPCC says: "It is extremely likely [95 percent confidence] more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations an
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by sien 10y ago
So, some actual data on how many US adults get news from various sources: http://www.journalism.org/2016/05/26/news-use-across-social-... 38% Never, 18% hardly ever, 26% sometimes, 18% often. Note that none o
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by sien 10y ago
Can he be please be President for the next 4 years as well? regards the rest of the world
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The US is #30 on world suicide lists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r... South Korea and Japan are much higher. Also, given the US's gun laws presumably suicide is often more successfu
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by sien 10y ago
November 17 vote to approve Solar City purchase. Solar City has Musk's cousins with stakes worth millions. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-26/the-goldma... https://www.bigw.com.
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by sien 10y ago
Has anyone ever worked in an open plan office space with high, transparent partitions like these: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Fireproofing-transpar... http://stab-group.com/en/products&#
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by sien 10y ago
The Economist's articles on Tesla this week are remarkable. SolarCity could bring down Tesla. Another SpaceX crash might too. It's all too much risk and the dubious financing strategies coming up with buy/buyback and whatnot
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Kick Off 1 & 2 also taught you that dribbling was often risky unless you got very good at it.
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by sien 10y ago
I've worked with Sensable Phantoms and various other haptic devices and I've never heard of this kind of thing. Interesting that it does occur at all. I've seen papers done using these kinds of haptic systems combined with c
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by sien 10y ago
From : http://deeconometrist.nl/?p=3623 "Before the rise of HFT, when old school brokers were the ones doing the market making on the trading floor, the difference between the buy and the sell price was about twenty-fi
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According to the wikipedia page on Project Orion: Later studies indicate that the top cruise velocity that can theoretically be achieved are a few percent of the speed of light (0.08-0.1c).[17] An atomic (fission) Orion can achieve perhaps
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by sien 10y ago
This was considered by project Orion. Basically you turn the vehicle around and use the propulsion to slow you down. It would use a heap of fuel to do this but it was possible. Edit, also, great find of this by the poster.
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by sien 10y ago
There is a new view in biology that accepts that humans have introduced new species and there are many examples where mass killing just won't work anymore. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/courting_controversy_with_a_n
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by sien 10y ago
Perhaps people are waiting for a space elevator or settlements in space that could build nuclear rockets. Project Daedalus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus ) in the 1970s was the last time people looked
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The NPR Podcast Planet Money did a really good episode on this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/24/426017148/episo... Fun points - Keynes was a rich man who didn't have to work b
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by sien 10y ago
The thing about legalized abortion is that it would have had no effect outside the US. Roe vs Wade had no effect in Europe or Australia. http://euc.sagepub.com/content/7/5/375.abstract
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For those who are not Australians it is important to note that in Australia there is universal health care independent of your employer. Also while benefits are not usually the same as for full time they are sometimes and even if not the sa
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The article points out a possible interesting reason why crime dropped around 1990 all over the developed world. "So, what are are these young, non-working men doing with their time? Three quarters of their additional leisure time is s
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It's arguable that people are actually choosing fewer hours by working part time. Part time work has shot up as a percentage of all work. In Australia it has gone from 1/10 to 1/4 of work from 1966 to 2007. Most other countri
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Re < C, Google's project to make renewable electricity cheaper than coal was abandoned. http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2014/11/30/why-g...
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1) Get nuclear fusion working. 2) Make 'Project Orion' style spacecraft a reality. Nah, see. They solve all the problems! To do lists don't solve all the problems, but they might be a step in the right direction. Similarly, e
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This is a market failing that anyone who is hiring can exploit. I've worked for a guy who hired young, smart guys without much experience who he felt had potential and who also had some 55+ year old developers who he thought could do t

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