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Chimney Sweeps' Carcinoma(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tacon 7y ago
Exactly, Feynman is a seductive writer, and it is a shock how little you can immediately apply after "understanding" a section. Long ago, they used Feynman's books for my introduction to physics, and it was only after strugg
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A Conversation with the Authors of the Art of Electronics(element14.com)
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The impossible fight to save Jakarta, the sinking megacity(wired.co.uk)
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by tacon 7y ago
>Has anything like this been attempted? Might it work? It has been tried, and early attempts failed. Jon Udell was one of the drivers behind the Elm City Project, which merged many RSS feeds of calendar information into a uniform resour
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by tacon 7y ago
Your understanding would be correct, except when there are billions of revenue on the line. Then "the best minds" of the law profession get to work. For example, you cannot make a generic without (legally) having some sample of
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Remote Work: Over Communicate with Context(joelhooks.com)
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by tacon 7y ago
The PD also varies a bit from reading glasses to distance glasses. If you are ordering single vision glasses, you might want to collect both numbers.
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by tacon 7y ago
This rabbit hole of placebos goes very deep. They very much do work, and they work way too well, too often. For example, [0] might really surprise you. And just to really complicate our model of placebos, you should realize there are the
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by tacon 7y ago
In 1994, I happened to be on temporary assignment from IBM Federal doing mass storage systems for the Cornell Theory Center, at that time an NSF supercomputer center. I attended the Cornell CS department colloquiums, and one time David E.
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by tacon 7y ago
Lightning depends on the electric field exceeding the dielectric insulation of the air. Some random charge floating around eventually forms a current, and that is the "random" path the lightning bolt takes to discharge. Lightnin
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The Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components (1952) [pdf](sns.ias.edu)
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If You Want to Make the World a Better Place, Start with Your Day Job(modus.medium.com)
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You Can’t Trust Apps Today – and How to Fix It(medium.com)
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The rise of the global first startup(elizabethyin.com)
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Whooshh Selective Fish Passage – How It Works(youtube.com)
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by tacon 7y ago
My point is that the word "barren" was appropriate maybe 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago. But I can very, very clearly imagine the different looks on a woman's face if you asked "Are you unable to have children?&quo
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by tacon 7y ago
The cruel way to refer to a "childfree" woman is "barren".
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UX Design – How to Get Started(uxmisfit.com)
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by tacon 7y ago
The "single-cell protein" phrase is straight from the parent company's home page. https://solarfoods.fi/
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by tacon 7y ago
Why would anyone protect an "unimportant" site with a captcha? The value of the information, to someone, in bulk, is exactly why some throttling is needed.
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Fame, Difficulty, and Usefulness(johndcook.com)
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Game of Tongues: How Duolingo Built a $700M Business with an Addictive App(forbes.com)
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Dcomms.org – fully decentralized and secure communications(dcomms.org)
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Learn like an athlete, knowledge workers should train(marginalrevolution.com)
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The DataOps Manifesto(dataopsmanifesto.org)
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Bayes and Deadweight: Using Statistics to Eject the Deadweight from Your Life(fs.blog)
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by tacon 7y ago
Steve Litt has a Universal Troubleshooting Process which he has been promoting since 1996: http://www.troubleshooters.com/tuni.htm
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by tacon 7y ago
>All the research suggests strongly that a diet very high in fiber feeds a healthy guy microbiome which helps resist pathogen invasion and helps create a balanced immune system. References please. There is plenty of research that sugges
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by tacon 7y ago
Firesign Theatre had fun with a routine about "breaking" an animatronic president. As the president crashes, he mutters stuff from PDP-10 jargon. "uh, Clem" is from earlier in the routine, where the park visitors were

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