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by tacon 9y ago
Twenty years ago I worked as a contractor for a political operator inside an advanced tech part of IBM. He had plenty of technical chops, but more importantly he was a very good politician. We joked about us someday writing a book entitle
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by tacon 9y ago
The Gift of Fear is all about listening to your "gut". We have a very highly evolved ability to take in the high bandwidth data from our environment and decide "danger", but living in large anonymous social groups can l
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by tacon 9y ago
It looks like the X3bar (really bands) suffer from the classic problem of mismatch to your strength curve, with the strongest resistance where your lifting is weakest. Nautilus equipment generally solved that problem by the 1980s. Free PDF
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Why learning tactics from business gurus will never work for you(medium.com)
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by tacon 9y ago
With Vitamin Water and Raw Water, can a startup to market "Hangover Cure Water" or "Headache Water" be far behind?
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Internet of Dildos: A Long Way to a Vibrant Future(sec-consult.com)
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20 Hand Gestures You Should Be Using(scienceofpeople.com)
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Why Trying to Be Less Awkward Never Works(nytimes.com)
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Hacks to Contact Anyone on LinkedIn with the Co-Founder of Vungle – Hustle Con(youtube.com)
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The urinary drop spectrometer (1974)(physicstoday.scitation.org)
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The Science of Scientific Writing [pdf](cseweb.ucsd.edu)
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XDSD: EXtremely Distributed Software Development [pdf](xdsd.org)
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How Whitney Wolfe Herd Changed the Dating Game(texasmonthly.com)
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Easter eggs and yellow pigs(johndcook.com)
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by tacon 9y ago
>Things got even better for us in Korea. Now that I had the bits streaming off one by one, or at least byte by byte, you could see that the packets took a long time on the wire. Milliseconds. A common technique in network monitoring is s
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We’re about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming(technologyreview.com)
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by tacon 9y ago
For a fantastic discussion about the Byzantine process for generic drug approval, I recommend a recent episode of EconTalk[0]. The guest wrote a book called "Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market&qu
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Somewhere in the world, there’s a painting that looks like you. Google finds it(washingtonpost.com)
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by tacon 9y ago
Measure the bufferbloat in your connection: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
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by tacon 9y ago
Peter van Roy puts XML and S-expressions in the "descriptive declarative programming" paradigm, with data structures only (no Turing equivalence): https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng108.jpg
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by tacon 9y ago
At first glance this sounded like the rebirth of the proposed restructuring of the commercial airline industry as covered in the book "Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel"[0], by James Fallows (2001). Back then the busine
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Prime factors, phone numbers, and the normal distribution(johndcook.com)
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Scientists have created a drug that replicates the health benefits of exercise(qz.com)
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by tacon 9y ago
Back in the Usenet days, around the late '80s, I had read somewhere/somehow a few years before about how classified information would be printed with tiny differences in spacing to track leaks to foreign adversaries. In some news
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by tacon 9y ago
That book was written by computer scientists, and they demonstrate how the optimal search algorithm is often to pick the most unusual thing to try that you haven't tried yet. I'd like to see more discussion about this as an appro
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by tacon 9y ago
If you are asked "What do you find the hardest part of that job?", would you find that to be patronizing?
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by tacon 9y ago
"But what happens when a fourth use of money is introduced, one which subordinates all the other characteristics: money as a system of control?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyK4P7ZdOK8&t=382s
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Tools for Jimmying Experience: Conceptual Speed Dating on Facebook(firstmonday.org)
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by tacon 9y ago
One of the shortest papers ever, or maybe the longest: https://johnmorton1000.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/1976-recu...
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by tacon 9y ago
>The magic has become mundane. Classic Louis CK routine: "It's going to SPACE!" https://youtu.be/q8LaT5Iiwo4?t=1m31s

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