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As Parents Get More Choice, S.F. Schools Resegregate(sfpublicpress.org)
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Never a Dull Moment: What to look for when buying knives (2007)(theatlantic.com)
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On quadratic voting and politics as education(marginalrevolution.com)
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by vwoolf 12y ago
It was also a fun time. Yeah. I've done something similar, but with either people and three reds, mostly to see if a) my friends could determine the wine type and b) which one they liked best. The answer to a was no and the answers t
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Retina 5K iMac: Powerful Proof of the PC Renaissance(nytimes.com)
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by vwoolf 12y ago
Please someone explain something to me regarding the tech sector and housing Edward Glaeser wrote a book that answers your question: Triumph of the City . Cities promote knowledge transfer and idea generation because of all the random in
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by vwoolf 12y ago
To be fair, websites are distributors of physical goods because it's so, incredibly easy to type another URL or for that matter search for other sources. Monopolies in physical goods or even operating systems (per the late 90s) are qui
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by vwoolf 12y ago
1. Sarcasm is often difficult to discern without tone of voice. 2. Humor for its own sake is less valuable than humor that makes a point. I wish I could find it, but I read an interview with the New Yorker's cartoon editor who said s
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Why innovators hate MBAs(slate.com)
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This is a tangent but interesting given that you cite a Franklin library book: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/498519163988496384 : @paulg When I got rich I let myself buy nice editions of books. But I notice th
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Teachers as spirit guides(slate.com)
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by vwoolf 12y ago
1. Keep trying. 2. Books and papers are great, but you should also try to find a mentor / guide / teacher / expert to talk about the issues you're facing and what you're thinking about. Schools are organized the way
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by vwoolf 12y ago
I'm far more concerned by the/my impression that the public seems to have accepted total surveillance as "the new normal". A lot of this is also a political / legal question; has the public ever been deeply intere
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by vwoolf 14y ago
The Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment. Growth was negligible over human lifetimes for as long as their were humans, yet in the last 200 – 250 years most people in the Western world and Japan become orders of magnitude richer than our
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by vwoolf 14y ago
If you were a great student you applied to the university of Iowa. Which is a very good school. The other problem a small but important segment of our society has is believing in the magic of very well marketed schools. Really, there are
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by vwoolf 14y ago
Depends on the kind of tea. For black tea, near boiling is good, but for whites and oolongs it's not. Though I suppose the British are famous for black tea. (I got a electric tea kettle with a built in thermometer not too long ago, so this
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by vwoolf 14y ago
My favorite is "It's better when it's unprotected." No password.
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The Economics of the Google Gigabit(muninetworks.org)
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by vwoolf 14y ago
There have been a LOT of Forbes posts like this lately; I commented on one yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4303077 .
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by vwoolf 14y ago
I just had that experience with this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4303730
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by vwoolf 14y ago
I just downloaded the PayDragon app, and the "Discover" feature is one of the more intriguing aspects. I regularly look for interesting, convenient food, and aside from walk-bys, it's not all that easy to find in my neighborhood. EDIT: In M
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by vwoolf 14y ago
I stopped reading here: "The roadblocks he faced in building the world’s biggest social-networking company were tiny, like an overdramatized civil lawsuit" and also wished for a "downvote" button. This trivializes what it takes to build a m
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by vwoolf 14y ago
Some of what you're describing sounds similar to "The Great FiOS rip-off": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-great-veriz... .
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Tool for thought -- how to manage modern research(nytimes.com)
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by vwoolf 14y ago
Sitting is correlated with fat metabolism issues, but standing for periods of just 10-15 minutes is correlated with vascular disease; standing was shown in studies to correlate with increased stress hormones and increased blood density. [
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by vwoolf 14y ago
Peter Thiel thinks VCs are biased against big ideas: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24122680868/peter-thiels... . (This is in response to the grandparent: "VCs aren't preternaturally biased in favor of lightweight companies, but the
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by vwoolf 14y ago
I'm curious and also pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. At least to try. I'm pretty sure almost every big contemporary tech company tries this when the big compan
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Bryan Caplan explains how he loves education(econlog.econlib.org)
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by vwoolf 14y ago
I think this is why people who pay attention this sort of stuff want sit/stand desks, like Geek Desks, or something like the OP, who I think wants to be able to stand sometimes and sit sometimes.
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by vwoolf 14y ago
Using this as a justification not to have good tools ("What's wrong with you? Suffering worked great last time") is bogus logic; there's no reason not to have good tools. The other side of the coin, NOT doing something because you don't ha

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