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by themgt 9y ago
Evan Smith, of the Texas Tribune, has closely followed thirteen legislative sessions. He noted that, even as Dan Patrick and his Republican allies slashed government services, they allocated eight hundred million dollars for border securit
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by themgt 9y ago
That's simply a false dichotomy. Many of the world's great cities still mostly enforce height limits that the Romans could have built to. Because actually living like an ant among 100 story skyscrapers is not what most humans want
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by themgt 9y ago
Trying to assign 100% of the differences between people(s) to their ancestral cultures is a grossly oversimplified post-modern mythology and unsupported by facts or a contemporary understanding of the science of human populations, and I&#x2
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by themgt 9y ago
I think it's possible find a useful middle-ground between consulting and product building, in the pg "do things that don't scale" sense. As the article also points out you can kill a second bird with the same stone, whic
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by themgt 9y ago
Relevant: https://twitter.com/GarettJones/status/875692877770244096
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by themgt 9y ago
'Official efforts to encourage women to have more children have had only modest results, and there is little public support for large-scale immigration — something that has helped to stabilize populations in other wealthy countries wit
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by themgt 9y ago
Always hilarious to me how many educated humans will actually go argue that they are p-zombies rather than face the paradoxes of consciousness. I guess all I'll say is, physics seems capable of explaining the evolution of our universe
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by themgt 9y ago
I'd recommend these as an interesting starting point ([2] has videos): [1] http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/02/on-military-balance-of-... [2] http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2016/09/ba
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by themgt 9y ago
One time I was trimming a huge set of overgrown bamboo/weeds in my yard, and this bird yapping slowly drifted into my consciousness like, pay attention, alert! I looked up and this tiny bird was darting around the power line and other
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by themgt 9y ago
Wow, that abstract is quite simply epic: The cell danger response (CDR) is the evolutionarily conserved metabolic response that protects cells and hosts from harm. It is triggered by encounters with chemical, physical, or biological threat
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Ancient Egyptians: Black or White?(gnxp.nofe.me)
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Evidence of Systematic Search Engine Bias Related to the 2016 Election [pdf](aibrt.org)
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by themgt 9y ago
I'm no macroeconomist, but I would agree the signs have been building to a crescendo, very reminiscent of 2005-2007 feel when more and more voices were sounding the alarm. In brief I would mention: credit card & student debt bubble
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by themgt 9y ago
Not knowing the internals of Array#size implementation / Array data structure, but my first thought would be whether Array#empty? could just check for the presence of at least one element (i.e. stop at the first), rather than checking
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by themgt 9y ago
I almost wonder if there's going to be a "liked it before it was cool" paradox to a lot of these social sharing startups dreams of continued user growth and eventual profitability. Facebook seems to have reached escape veloci
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Warren Buffett is one of the world's most brilliant and skilled virtue-signaling crony, rentier capitalists. https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/04/03/17024/warren-buff... https://www.th
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by themgt 10y ago
I just read this and thought ... didn't that transaction take place after the infamous tweet? Couldn't anyone have done it? Quick google and sure enough: https://medium.com/@jimmysong/no-sean-spicer-didnt-make
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by themgt 10y ago
PIOMAS (arctic sea ice volume model) is showing ice on the edge of collapse: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9SaElxXoAAl0zU.jpg
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by themgt 10y ago
Beautiful quote from him in the article: When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes wh
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by themgt 10y ago
I remember in the 90s being a teenager reading Boies brilliant work shredding the Microsoft monopoly with such overwhelming skill, and he was almost a hero of mine. Since then I've realized he's just a hired gun, a genius with no
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RealPeerReview: Their Thoughts and Qualms with Academia(areomagazine.com)
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by themgt 10y ago
> It is ruled by a federal government that lost an election by any reasonable measure The electoral college system our country has used for nearly 250 years is no longer a "reasonable measure" of who won the election?
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I want to quote at length because it's fascinating in the context of the left/right hemisphere concepts Iain McGilchrist has been best known for (especially the idea that left-hemisphere dominance is a relatively recent human adap
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by themgt 10y ago
Really OP? Along with this other vague "how do I make $$$ fast and easy" post just 23 hours ago [1]? C'mon HN, stop upvoting this get rich quick clickbait. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14055349
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by themgt 10y ago
Yeah, reading through pages 14 -> 20 Uber sounds like they're in some shit. Essentially Levandowski wants to keep his criminal 5th amendment protections at the same time Uber is keeping him as head of the division and the judge thin
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'“To the extent Uber tries to excuse its noncompliance on the grounds that Mr. Levandowski has invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to provide Uber with documents or assistance, Waymo notes that Mr. Levandowski remains — to this day
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Eyewitness to a Title IX Witch Trial(chronicle.com)
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It looked like one of the grid fins got toasted. Will they still be able to stick the landing? fingers crossed edit: and they did it! I was pessimistic for a minute there!
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No offense, because this is complicated stuff and IANA climate scientist - but this is a really serious topic, and I'd really recommend you spend some time studying the basics before posting a bunch of denialist-type stuff online where
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If by "return to the mean" you're talking about the Pliocene[1], the last time CO2 levels were this high, when temperatures were 2-3C higher, ice sheets collapsed and seas were 25m higher, then yes - we're likely returni

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