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by tacon 8y ago
Commentator Alain de Botton explores the darker side of a western ideal: meritocracy. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=320002...
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What Makes Duck Decoys Valuable?(invaluable.com)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
https://wordpress.tv/2017/10/15/james-strang-introduction-to...
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Making a Physical Product: Lost $100k, Pissed Off 500 People, Turned It Around(marshallhaas.com)
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The poor man's in home sleep study is pretty simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18465509 https://www.amazon.com/CMS50D-Plus-24-hou
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by tacon 8y ago
I tried letting Google complete that for me and it didn't offer a single completion. Go figure. A great general approach, though. After sorting through a bunch of junk about making an Excel wish list, here are some pages about sugges
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Lessons from a Failure: Shutting Down Content Allies(jake-jorgovan.com)
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by tacon 8y ago
The latest brain research pretty clearly shows that all decisions are emotional first, then layered on with the necessary reasoning in our conscious mind to satisfy us. In fact, I recall there is a study that people who have had the emotio
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No, Google sends a "litigation paralegal" to small claims court. But you will eventually lose: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-go... https://www.huffingtonpost.com/a
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by tacon 8y ago
Are you somehow not aware of this? The PRC became a permanent member of the Security Council (with a veto) only since 1971. Taiwan was the permanent member from 1945-1971.
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by tacon 8y ago
This appears to be the referenced post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19091398
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by tacon 8y ago
One of the Glassdoor reviews mentions the COO getting wasted at tradeshows, so maybe the assault is just normal behavior for him.
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by tacon 8y ago
https://www.experian.com/consumer-products/identity-theft-an... $19.95/mo
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by tacon 8y ago
Venkat Subramaniam has a signature presentation style built around live coding interspersed with live construction of his discussion topics inside his editor. The first recent example of this live coding style I found is https:/&#x2F
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Physicist Richard Feynman Was Known as an Odd Genius. Was He Also an Abuser?(slate.com)
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>It's just I note this is a DOD document, and I don't think we should be designing jet fighters in 2 week sprints. Airframes probably can't be modified like that. So it follows that, within a waterfall project, the flight
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by tacon 8y ago
I attended a terrific lecture by Michael Jordan at Rice in 2016[0] where he introduced the idea of inferential thinking. Jordan has several videos of that talk online, such as [1]. The big idea, the grand challenge, is that core statistical
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by tacon 8y ago
How does a homeless tent have electricity (legally)?
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Selling Fast, Buying Slow: Heuristics, Performance of Institutional Investors(papers.ssrn.com)
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Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen debate trajectory of innovation(youtube.com)
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All the old DEC manuals are online. For example, the PDP-11/40 system manual: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp11/1...
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How sure are you of your result? Put a number on it(nature.com)
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My understanding is that, in the US, your medical records are the property of the healthcare provider, absent some contractual language otherwise. The new thing was the federal law that required them to give you a copy of everything at cos
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by tacon 8y ago
Googling that paper turned up an interesting summary of innovations in side mirrors, etc. https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/are-blind-spots-...
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by tacon 8y ago
I haven't interviewed in a long time, though I read interviewing advice from Nick Corcodilos at AskTheHeadhunter and it seems to make sense. The basic idea is to take control of the interview and start doing the work right there in
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Remember Bitcoin? Some Investors Might Want to Forget(nytimes.com)
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RSA with one shared prime(johndcook.com)
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by tacon 8y ago
I hosted an international Mailman list that blew up on my dialup Linux box in the mid 90s. Every inbound message was expanded to a batch of thirty recipient outbound messages, for a very busy phone line. I also had busy squirrels that eve
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Grounded Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
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How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You(betterhumans.coach.me)
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