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by simulate 11y ago
The dam is still 30% empty and the floodgates have been opened a few times already. The floodgates are opening because of old regulations that require water to be released when Folsom Lake rises by a specified amount. http://www.
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The eerie math that could predict terrorist attacks(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by simulate 11y ago|1 comments
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Is the Internet destroying the U.S. two party system?(newyorker.com)
6 points by simulate 11y ago|6 comments
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by simulate 11y ago
Are there any sources / links you can share on cash real estate purchases in SV or Bay Area? I'm interested in reading more about this and a preliminary search isn't yielding any recent news.
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Why Apple and Beats Should Sell Turntables(newyorker.com)
3 points by simulate 11y ago|0 comments
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Things That Are Not Superintelligences(slatestarcodex.com)
7 points by simulate 11y ago|1 comments
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Quasiparticles and the Miracle of Emergence(ribbonfarm.com)
50 points by simulate 11y ago|16 comments
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Quasiparticles and the Miracle of Emergence(ribbonfarm.com)
3 points by simulate 11y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 11y ago
Pie charts aren't perfect but are useful when applied correctly. Two great things about pie charts: 1. From the shape you can tell you are looking portions of a whole. For example, a pie chart of market shares shows all businesses in t
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by simulate 11y ago
There are age exceptions for agriculture, where kids as young as 12 are permitted to work as long as they have written permission from their parents. I assume these exceptions exist because of an historical limited labor pool during critica
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Your credit score predicts your success in love(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by simulate 11y ago|0 comments
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Contour: an open source data visualization library based on D3(forio.com)
3 points by simulate 11y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 11y ago
There has been a backlash against attempts at replication in psychology: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/.../failed.../ http://andrewgelman.com/2013/12/17/replication-backla
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An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory(ribbonfarm.com)
126 points by simulate 11y ago|57 comments
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Don’t Be Fooled by Baseball’s Small-Budget Success Stories(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by simulate 11y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 11y ago
The US DOE provides a nice interactive tool for comparing emissions between electric and gas-powered vehicles. The DOE data show that, in all US states, an electric car has lower CO2 emissions compared to a gas-powered car with average US M
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How Video Games Changed Popular Music(newyorker.com)
58 points by simulate 11y ago|26 comments
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by simulate 11y ago
This is what UniversityNow attempted with its takeover of Patten University: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120709005304/en/Univ...
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by simulate 11y ago
Since drivers pay the $6 toll only one direction, it will take $6.4B / (125,000 vehicles per day * $6 per car * 365.25 days per year) = 24 years to pay off the bridge with tolls alone.
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by simulate 11y ago
This is a cryptography training exercise and not an actual extraterrestrial message. https://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/nsa-29-me...
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by simulate 11y ago
Here's an older article that discusses how that one proton would be able to travel to the Andromeda galaxy in under four minutes and to the edge of the edge of the universe in 19 days (as observed from the proton). https://w
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by simulate 12y ago
Of all the people in the world to donate a portion of their liver to Steve Jobs, Tim Cook was the worst possible choice. Companies have travel policies where senior execs can't travel on the same plane together because, if that plane g
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by simulate 12y ago
"We are merely exchanging long protein strings. If can think of a simpler way, I'd like to hear it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSH88aE_ggQ
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by simulate 12y ago
The Explorers Club served mammoth meat during their annual dinner in 1951 using a 250,000 year old carcass: http://mentalfloss.com/article/57100/time-250000-year-old-ma...
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by simulate 12y ago
To wit, Tesla selected Nevada as the site for its first $5 billion battery factory. Alternative sites included Sacramento. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-nevada-... It's certainly not n
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by simulate 12y ago
Adding to the list, Contour is a recent open source library that is easy to use and extensible: http://forio.com/contour/ it also has good documentation: http://forio.com/contour/documentation.html
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by simulate 12y ago
In another New Yorker piece, Steven Milhauser explores aged genius in his short story, "In the Reign of Harad IV" Excert: he understood that he had travelled a long way from the early days, that he still had far to go, and that,
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How to use Julia, Google Maps, and Epicenter to find your route through a city(forio.com)
2 points by simulate 12y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 12y ago
There's is an old article by Michael Specter in the New Yorker about Robert Shapiro, the CEO who in the 1990s turned Monsanto from a chemical company into a biotechnology company. Shapiro is a fascinating CEO-- an anti-war activist fro
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by simulate 12y ago
Thanks for the stats. That means the actual median income of $53,046 between 2008 - 2012 is about 10% lower than the median income 50 years ago, adjusted for inflation. I knew real income was lower over the past twenty years or so, but nega

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