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by skadamou 9y ago
For me it comes down to diminishing marginal returns. I figure that the first time I read a book I might retain 50% of what is written. Just the big picture stuff. Reading through that book again, I might retain an additional 20% of what th
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by skadamou 9y ago
This sort of surprised me. I know for motorcyclists they make all sorts of all-weather quasi-waterproof gear. I suppose the differences is that most of the motorcycle gear might be difficult to peddle a bike in. http://www.motorc
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by skadamou 10y ago
I believe that the larger boat, at least in the case of "mega ocean fairing cargo ship" has right of way over a smaller 30 foot sail boat. At least that's how we did it when I was learning to sail. https://american
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by skadamou 10y ago
>If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard to see how they could have done a better job. I think this is fundamental to capitalism and, at least from a Marxian point of
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by skadamou 10y ago
This. 100% this. One of the major reasons I enjoy reading HN is for the comments. I find that comments here are much more insightful, and more importantly, much more respectful, than you find elsewhere on the web. I suppose HN comments stil
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by skadamou 10y ago
"In the past, there were two types of beer yeast: ale yeast (the "top-fermenting" type, Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and lager yeast (the "bottom-fermenting" type, Saccharomyces uvarum, formerly known as Saccharomyces
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by skadamou 10y ago
I have often wondered about the legal basis for the prohibition on cannabis. I always assumed it must be the interstate commerce clause but I could never make out why we needed an amendment to outlaw alcohol.
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by skadamou 10y ago
>“People should be compensated for the value they produce. Profits are a signal of how much people value what is produced." I’m hoping you might expand on this a little. I’ve never quite understood this line of reasoning mostly beca
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by skadamou 10y ago
A lot of food dyes contain TiO2. An interesting application of TiO2 is that it can be used to build dye sensitized solar cells. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22023080 Armed with this information a few of my class
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by skadamou 10y ago
> We have the ability to protect ourselves and we should be using it. I don't doubt that the technology exists, I just doubt the ability of the average person to be able to protect themselves. As someone who works in a technical fie
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by skadamou 10y ago
This is knot news
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by skadamou 10y ago
I think the difference between plants/animals and humans might be tied to mortality rates. I would imagine that urbanization has a very adverse effect on most plant and animal species and that only a small minority of individuals survi
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by skadamou 10y ago
If you're into this sort of thing "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan is an excellent podcast. It's a complete chronological history of Rome that Mike Duncan does a great job of keeping interesting.
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by skadamou 10y ago
I have not but I will certainly check it out. Thank you for the suggestion
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by skadamou 10y ago
For my birthday this year some friends got me The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Marx’s Capital Illustrated by David Smith. I’ve always been at least tangentially interested in political/economic theory and these tw
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by skadamou 10y ago
If you're thinking about switching banks you should strongly consider moving to a credit union. Do your research but many(all?) are member owned and offer many benefits when it comes to fees you might otherwise occur at big bank. I cou
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by skadamou 10y ago
I have often wondered why MS hasn't been able to grab a significant chunk of the smartphone market by courting enterprise. Most people don't care about all the apps that are available to Android and Apple on their work phones and