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by vijayr 12y ago
Sad part is, a huge portion of agriculture is to feed animals which then become our meat. It is just not sustainable. The best way to conserve water is to eat less meat. This book has lots of interesting numbers - http://www.amaz
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by vijayr 12y ago
Great thread. Emily Dickinson I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell! They'd banish -- you know! How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell o
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Ask HN: Is there a HN like site for philosophy?
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by vijayr 12y ago
Agreed, that is a very important question. But, it has always been like this, no? Except may be for brief periods in history. A small group of people have always tried to control the majority - kings, clergymen, military, businessmen etc. W
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It is happening at a pace that doesn't force people to think about it. If something big and bad happens suddenly, then people are forced to notice. But if the same big and bad thing happens slowly, one step at a time, most people don&#
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by vijayr 12y ago
This is a very interesting blog on American education, mostly high school level though https://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/
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DNA of 'an entire nation' assessed (Iceland)(bbc.com)
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This week I may be jailed for writing a book on human rights abuses(theguardian.com)
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by vijayr 12y ago
Is there a tool that can analyze privacy policies of websites and assign it a score? Would be nice to have a chrome extension or something similar, if the website gets anything less than A, just close and move on...
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by vijayr 12y ago
try watching TV non stop for a week or two - it gets boring and annoying, real fast. there will be people who will watch TV all day when they don't have to work, but there will also be people who would spend their time doing useful thi
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by vijayr 12y ago
There will always be some jobs even if everything is automated - to maintain the robots, fix them, make new ones etc. But the number of jobs would be much less than it is now. For example, once self driving cars become common, imagine how
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by vijayr 12y ago
Is there a better way? How do we decide what to read and what not to read? Also, how do we decide what to do with the information that we already have in our heads?
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by vijayr 12y ago
Testers often assumed any three-digit number was actually short for a six-digit number. This is interesting, I haven't come across this before. What is the best way to display big numbers? 550K or 550,000? 5M or 5,000,000?
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by vijayr 12y ago
Totally agree with the PO box idea. This project somewhat reminds me of http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/ I understand this is personal between two friends, but if there were a PO Box, thousands of people can participate a
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by vijayr 12y ago
No week passes by without a story like this, against many many governments - something like crazy laws, little to no oversight, torture, illegal snooping etc etc. AT this point, is there any western country who is not doing stuff like thi
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by vijayr 12y ago
These are good too (non tech) http://inspiringadventurer.com/ http://www.richroll.com/category/podcast/ http://www.londonreal.tv/episodes/
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Ask HN: How do you deal with learning anxiety?
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It literally seems to have a hello world algo https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/demo/Hello
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by vijayr 12y ago
Not sure if it can be classified as a dashboard, but this one is gorgeous and interesting https://aprilzero.com/
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How did you get to go to such a place? I mean, what is the process? Do you have a link? Do they allow anyone to join them?
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After Sunlight FOIA, comprehensive data indexes arrive on Data.gov(sunlightfoundation.com)
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by vijayr 12y ago
Is it possible to write good mobile apps in JS and HTML, compared to Android or iOS? I don't know much about mobile programming, but it seems much harder for JS to compete with native apps, no?
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by vijayr 12y ago
I wonder if making a formal tool for this would make sense. You punch in some parameters like skillset, city name etc and the tool would search job sites etc and give a score.
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by vijayr 12y ago
very few people really want it Is this really true? A lot of people want to meditate and learn to meditate (me included), and a lot of us have tried a bunch of books, so called courses etc. But eventually gave up, because we couldn'
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Ask HN: Your favorite method of finding out demand for a particular skillset?
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Australia’s carbon-positive prefab house produces more energy than it consumes(inhabitat.com)
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by vijayr 12y ago
What difference would it make? Politicians make promises all the time, and many make good promises too - how many of them actually follow up? Also, how many people rationally think about/analyze their candidates, follow their promises&
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by vijayr 12y ago
not fare well in prison Jeez - I thought you were joking, but nope :( http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/justice/delaware-du-pont-rape-...
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by vijayr 12y ago
I've a used laptop that I can pass along, how do I do it? There is nothing in the FAQs page, am I missing something?
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by vijayr 12y ago
And it probably wasn't even his idea, some poor underling might've given him the idea. Happens all the time, everywhere.

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