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by spenrose 13y ago
Frenkel laid out his perspective in a mathematical memoir, much admired: http://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/0465050743
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Netflix’s dumbed-down algorithms(blogs.reuters.com)
7 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 13y ago
Isaacson's biography of Jobs was obtuse on technology. Caveat lector.
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The 'war on Christmas': Did Lincoln start it?(cnn.com)
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by spenrose 13y ago
I wonder if Led Zeppelin's "deal" with Youtube will survive: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=led%20zeppelin&s...
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The unfair question we ask of athletes with brain injuries(grantland.com)
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by spenrose 13y ago
Dangerous. Fifty-three employees will use them 6 hours/day, only a fraction of Paper customers will ever try one once. Anti-dogfooding.
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How to fix global warming before it’s too late(qz.com)
4 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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Here’s who pays the bills for Ted Cruz’s crusade(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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"Good to finally have some healthcare options as an entrepreneur"(twitter.com)
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Snowden and the Toxicity of the Internet (June 2013)(earlywarn.blogspot.com)
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by spenrose 13y ago
Pete Warden would like you to use public APIs: http://petewarden.com/2013/09/09/why-you-should-stop-piratin... . Also, the association of low ground with poverty is old. Toni Morrison riffed on it in Sula: h
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Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs(petewarden.com)
309 points by spenrose 13y ago|113 comments
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by spenrose 13y ago
So I think this article says: - the earth revolves around where the sun is almost precisely and rules out: - the earth revolves around where the sun was ~8 minutes ago (where 8 minutes is about the travel time at c). Can anyon
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by spenrose 13y ago
Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is all about this. He would say that the visual impressions are "System 1" and the fine musicological distinctions are "System 2".
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by spenrose 13y ago
Thank you, Debian. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you so very much!
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How the Powerful Derail Accountability: The Case of Intelligence Reform(thenation.com)
1 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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Sentinel: fund finding asteroids that threaten Earth(b612foundation.org)
1 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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How the U.S. government’s bungled investment in Tesla missed $1B(slate.com)
4 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 13y ago
Here's a nice chewy review: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/02/review-a-week-in-a-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730002
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A Week In A 2012 Nissan Leaf (2012)(thetruthaboutcars.com)
2 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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Conventional Wisdom About Clean Energy Is Still Way Out of Date(greentechmedia.com)
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Anil Dash on FWD.us(dashes.com)
2 points by spenrose 13y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 13y ago
Time to reread my favorite pg essay: http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
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by spenrose 14y ago
The benefits are accounted for by GDP. You are right that GDP doesn't measure well-being directly, but if anything it is normally over- rather than under-credited for well being.
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by spenrose 14y ago
The report is interesting BECAUSE the EEI represents the institutions with the most incentives to resist change.
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by spenrose 14y ago
Here's your reference: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10271 In 2009, space heating was 40% of US home energy use, air conditioning was 6%.
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by spenrose 14y ago
These accomplishments are huge, even historic, when they come in pairs. The second half of the pair is broad deployment.
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by spenrose 14y ago
A lot of smart, well-informed people object that increasing density will make things worse. They are not entirely wrong; from the current 10 people/acre moving to 15 or 20 in a clumsy way will make things worse, but moving to 30 in a smart
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by spenrose 14y ago
It would accomplish a huge amount. Density makes us richer and smarter: http://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_o... ... and it is our best hope against climate change: http://www.alexsteffen.com/carbon-zero-2/

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