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Man uses shovel to divert river(news.yahoo.com)
4 points by zafka 3y ago|2 comments
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by zafka 3y ago
I have been getting the FS newsletter for quite some time now, and I think it is quite worthwhile. That being said, I was a big fan of Charlie Munger long before I had heard of Shane Parrish.
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by zafka 3y ago
Hi Sam, I noticed that your statistics popup has a glitch. I was going to send a screen shot, but could not find an email. Mine is in profile if you are shy of adding it to your HN profile. I have enjoyed playing your version. It makes the
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by zafka 3y ago
While I think the concept is pretty cool, I do think this tagging will add extra cost to whomever takes over this project. On the other hand, if the graffiti rose to the level of "art" and the windows could be removed and sold, th
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by zafka 3y ago
I have already spent way too much time at my desk so I am going to read this article later. I must say though, that I really enjoyed "Tau, the watercourse way" when I read it many years ago, as I was working my way across various
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Do Elephants Have Souls?(thenewatlantis.com)
26 points by zafka 3y ago|45 comments
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by zafka 3y ago
Ha, Thanks! I just ran into the other room and asked my wife who is a retired OR nurse what "positive Q sign" meant and she stuck her tongue out of the side of her mouth. I love learning new terms :)
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by zafka 3y ago
Biomedical engineering has been quite the hot ticket for a while in the Medical device industry. It is an interesting field. There is a lot of engineering going on, but the hierarchy is business.
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Schumann_resonances(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by zafka 3y ago|0 comments
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by zafka 3y ago
Hi, my email is in my profile if you care to connect. I started an apprenticeship as an electrician at the age of 27. I received my Journeyman's card at 31 - Funny thing is that here in FL, there is next to no benefit in having a jour
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by zafka 3y ago
I read "When we cease to understand the world" a few weeks ago. I absolutely loved it. I am eager to read his next book now.
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by zafka 3y ago
Thanks! Your comment compelled me to look up olivine and then feldspar to check their formulas. Becoming much more aware of the makeup of minerals is on my list of things to do.
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by zafka 3y ago
I was gifted this book a few days ago, and just started reading. Suddenly I want to start researching cutting edge maths :) WHat made the book extra enjoyable for me was that I did not realize it was fictionalized at first. I wondered how t
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by zafka 3y ago
Highly Recommended interyear entertainment.
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When we cease to understand the world(thebookerprizes.com)
2 points by zafka 3y ago|2 comments
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by zafka 3y ago
I will make the assumption that you mean "First professional offer" - I took a coop position with a big telecom company. After 6 months they offered me a full time job when I graduated. I happened to have the foresight to do this
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by zafka 3y ago
It requires very little effort to get started and the rewards keep coming. If one starts with Monarchs, you have the help of voluminous amounts of research and advice online to help. The whole process is fascinating, and one will often star
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by zafka 3y ago
It saddens me that he is gone, but I am glad he lived the long good life that he did. I first started reading his "Psychology of human misjudgment" around 10 years ago. I try to reread it every year. Whenever I see a young person
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by zafka 3y ago
Can you explain this? I agree that Power MOSFets played a major part, but what are you referring to?
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by zafka 3y ago
This article restated a lot of the downsides of being a "software engineer", but the real highlight was the cartoon. "How many duck size horses are you willing to fight" LOFLMAO
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by zafka 3y ago
Ha, Having arrived on this sphere at the beginning of that year, I had the same impression. Funny thing is, I remember just one nightmare from my youth- and it involved Gumby.
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by zafka 3y ago
It is also funny that he gave this character the name of one of his editors, who he actually disassociated from when said editor started going a bit off the rails.
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by zafka 3y ago
This is quite funny in a painful way. I identify on a few different vectors. I started my "professional" career in telecom. There I really did become an expert on some very small percentage of code. It was exhilarating to do patc
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by zafka 3y ago
I have found that the fast talker is often trusted more, even when they have a higher percentage of "misses" There is an inate bias to trust someone who appears to be very sure of themselves. Seeing this is action is w
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by zafka 3y ago
If you want to take a fun trip down a rabbit hole or two: Search the terms: {Donald Rumsfield, Aspartame } For and extra kick add the term Miraclin
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by zafka 3y ago
I have given a fair amount of thought to the "homeless" lifestyle. I live in south Florida in what till fairly recently has been a quite little "just outside the main tourist zone" village. When I ran an art gallery&#x2F
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by zafka 3y ago
And of course copious use of cocaine is known to prevent cancer.... Now the way it prevents cancer is probably not optimal......
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by zafka 3y ago
I agree with the previous suggestion of a HN black ribbon.
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by zafka 3y ago
Funny indeed. My wife was just making fun of me the other day becuase of the way I pronounced this. This was the answer to Wordle last week. I new the word by sight, but like a lot of us, had never heard it spoken. I sent her a link to this
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by zafka 3y ago
I remember redirecting from article to article. Sometimes I would end in a loop. Even back then I sometimes became suspicious that unknown forces were hiding some things from me. Too many times tantalizing subjects would be mentioned and th

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