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The Painted Door Test(briandavidhall.com)
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by tacon 6y ago
By using the tiny imperfections in an optical fiber, they have invented a way to have a seismic monitor every 2m along a piece of dark fiber, all around cities and along major highways.[0] [0] https://www.caltech.edu/about&#
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Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Dark Fiber for Seismic Event Detection(nature.com)
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Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world(mckinsey.com)
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An Open Letter to Ray Dalio Re: Bitcoin(medium.com)
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A classic book on using writing to come up with new ideas is "Thinking on Paper"[0]: "Thinking on Paper shows how writer's block as well as many other writing problems are engendered by the tendency, supported by traditi
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by tacon 6y ago
Josh Waitzkin, chess prodigy, learning guru, almost killed himself by accident through breath holding work[0]: "Josh Waitzkin: The 30-second version is that I was doing some Wim Hof-inspired breath hold work. I made the mistake of doin
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by tacon 6y ago
>Anyone here ever call it and offer to give back 50% of the money to the investors? Yes, the startup that became Twitter.
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by tacon 6y ago
Really nice set of articles. The curator is so dedicated, he apologizes when an issue is late or irregular. I really don't care when they show up. I just appreciate another set of eyes keeping watch for interesting things in our div
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This story reminded me of Sam Harris' book "Lying"[0], in which he makes a detailed argument for never, ever lying. The book grew out of a philosophy course at Stanford that devoted a semester to working through the implicat
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In the Tangled World of Far Right Chatrooms(vanityfair.com)
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by tacon 6y ago
>bidders can submit different package bids which are all taken into account with the winner determined by a SAT solver Is anyone doing this for elections?
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Hold Me, Squeeze Me, Bite My Head(nytimes.com)
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The Race to Redesign Sugar(newyorker.com)
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The Last Vestiges of Object Oriented Programming(geoffviola.github.io)
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That was also my first contact with the concept. That podcast episode is infuriating, shocking, outrageous, riveting, and in certain parts so funny I laughed out loud. Highly recommended. By the way, near the end of the (long) episode, th
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by tacon 6y ago
I can't speak for the quality of the default subtitles on Netflix, but the "Language Learning with Netflix"[0] system is easily the most amazing new system I have run across for language learning. Access to excellent subtitl
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by tacon 6y ago
I mainly send from my own mail server, too. If I worry that email to a cold gmail contact will end in spam, I use a simple fallback strategy. I have gmail setup to send as an alternate email address, so it appears to come from my server&#
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by tacon 6y ago
A recent discussion on WebHostingTalk[0] gives you a simple answer: >For Sata: DC S3610 1.6tb Intel SSD -- under $200 right now on ebay >For NVMe DC P3605 1.6tb Intel SSD -- usually around $200 on ebay (addin card) or a little more as
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China’s Checkmate: The Technology Weapon You Didn’t See Coming(forbes.com)
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Malcolm Gladwell Is America’s Best-Paid Fairy-Tale Writer (2013)(newrepublic.com)
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Rogue Microwave Ovens Are the Culprits Behind Mysterious Radio Signals (2015)(nationalgeographic.com)
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The technical term for a subsonic combustion wave is deflagration.[0] A normal internal combustion engine deflagrates. If it starts pinging, that is detonation, and damages the pistons, etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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What Permaculture Got Wrong – Dispelling Five Common Myths(medium.com)
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Center for Applied Rationality Participant Handbook [pdf](rationality.org)
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The Algebra of Algebraic Data Types, Part 1 (2013)(web.archive.org)
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Learn Online, Not Alone(medium.com)
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A Tale Of Two Talebs: kick your addiction to the Internet’s biggest asshole(medium.com)
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It doesn't take much time to exhaust yourself physically, at least to exhaust specific muscle groups. Systemic exhaustion (steady state exercise, like running) is another matter. It doesn't even cause sweating, as it is over too
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Infantry in Battle (1939) [pdf](armyupress.army.mil)
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