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by spenrose 10y ago
Ali's followup is just published: https://bookofbadchoices.com
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by spenrose 10y ago
My mistake.
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by spenrose 10y ago
The phrase "cost to make" is a problem here. Most of the millions in movies are spent to claim a share of a fixed-size amount of our collective attention. You could "make" an identical video artifact for a small fraction
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by spenrose 10y ago
"Nope. We don't do those. It's the real deal. One of the fastest growing consumer properties of all time with huge market opportunity." is not heckling.
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by spenrose 10y ago
Python. It was lauded for usability and became a 30 year success: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/early-language-de...
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by spenrose 10y ago
Two classics on design to flesh out Antirez' thoughts: Parnas’ ”On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules” https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Design/crit... [PDF]
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Coal Jobs and the Power of a False Premise(gregor.us)
5 points by spenrose 10y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 10y ago
"These new scenarios do not reflect hippie idealism, they just take seriously a) the cost curves demonstrated by PV, EVs, and batteries so far, and b) what countries said they would do in Paris. ... If these forecasts play out, fossil
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We’re underestimating how quickly electric vehicles will disrupt the oil market(vox.com)
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by spenrose 10y ago
This is a good anecdotal piece. Here's a structured study of what computer skills people actually have: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinat
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by spenrose 10y ago
"our only hope for long-lived smart sensors is driving down the energy used by local compute to the point at which harvesting gives enough power to run useful applications. The good news is that existing hardware like DSPs can perform
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AI and Unreliable Electronics (*batteries not included)(petewarden.com)
1 points by spenrose 10y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 10y ago
NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt on Curry (Google cache): My reading of the evidence suggests clearly that the IPCC conclusions are an accurate assessment of the issue. I have tried to follow the proposed logic of Judith’s points here, but
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by spenrose 10y ago
Maintaining existing nuclear power is very important and politically difficult: http://www.utilitydive.com/news/atoms-for-green-energy-what-... New nuclear would be great in the long term. It's not the heart of wh
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Leaving the Thiel Fellowship(medium.com)
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by spenrose 10y ago
Here's the model for which this paper offers support: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2016/pdf/2881.pdf [PDF]
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Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments(experimental-geography.blogspot.com)
200 points by spenrose 10y ago|151 comments
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by spenrose 10y ago
More context: "Data data data. Publishers crave data — but one of the things I love about podcasts is that the format blocks the collection of most data, because there is no code that gets executed. JavaScript has brought the web to th
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by spenrose 10y ago
Two awards of $35,000 and two of $10,000, which combined are a few months of salary to employ one of those engineers.
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by spenrose 11y ago
I really liked this practical approach to working with bad habits: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11147432/immunity-to-change In short, it's a technique for identifying what semi-conscious goal th
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by spenrose 11y ago
For medium.com would it make sense to include the username in the title, like this: Why energy storage sucks (medium.com/@atilev)
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by spenrose 11y ago
"You’re actually making it HARDER to have a conversation ... You’re asynchronish. At first I thought this sounded delightful — it would be the best of both worlds! I was always free to drop someone a line, and if they were feeling chat
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by spenrose 11y ago
"I may have been fooling myself when we were still in the honeymoon phase, but when there was all the talk of you killing email, I have to admit I thought it was the email problem you were attacking, not just the email platform. Which
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by spenrose 11y ago
Highest recommendation for David Wootton's The Invention of Science [1]. Did you know that the notions of "discovery" and "fact" were invented? His Galileo biography is also wonderful. [1] http://www.inve
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by spenrose 11y ago
The author is one of the DataFlow committers.
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by spenrose 11y ago
Also, I'd like to see "Tools for problem finding" augmented with "tools for POLICY problem finding". The state governments of California and New York, for example, do amazing work transforming the big beast of legac
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by spenrose 11y ago
(1) This is great. (2) Political economy is a much bigger issue right now than technology. Most of what we need to do is deploy, and the tech we have is good enough for that. (3) Low-hanging fruit for self-identified "Technologists&quo
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Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky?(hbr.org)
1 points by spenrose 11y ago|0 comments
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I Do. Not. Get. This. Let's say the final bill after another retrofit is $13B. At 270K trips/day, $1/trip pays for it in 14 years. For crucial infrastructure in more-or-less the richest region the world has ever known. Yes, t
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by spenrose 11y ago
“We see an unusually high number of bubble plumes at the depth where methane hydrate would decompose if seawater has warmed,” said lead author H. Paul Johnson, a University of Washington professor of oceanography. “So it is not likely to be

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