Techowl

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by Techowl 8y ago
Wouldn't car parts be a much more accurate analogy, though? Apple isn't suing anyone for not using Apple-branded electricity to power their phone.
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by Techowl 9y ago
You'd be surprised. Heart disease, for example, is one of the deadliest age-related diseases, but it's by no means exclusive to the wealthy. See for example the World Health Organization's statistics[0]; they report that thre
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After Dev Bootcamp: Our Success Story(lendup.com)
6 points by Techowl 9y ago|0 comments
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Dev Bootcamp is shutting down
129 points by Techowl 9y ago|34 comments
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by Techowl 9y ago
The Buck Institute [0], featured in this article, is a pretty outstanding organization -- they're unique in being a sizable research center devoted to researching aging. I'm excited to see their idea of age-related diseases as bio
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by Techowl 9y ago
I've personally gotten a lot of value out of the CSS-Tricks flexbox guide [0]. It's visual, and sufficiently comprehensive. 0 - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
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by Techowl 10y ago
A similar article about Hoffman was posted on HN in April, with quite a bit of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588698
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by Techowl 10y ago
Surely the projections cited in this article aren't accurate. > Already operating in 191 countries and 34,000 cities, analysts at financial services company Cowen & Co predict that, by 2020, Airbnb hosts will be taking 500 milli
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by Techowl 11y ago
Much of this article (and all of the images) was taken from a WWDC 2015 talk [0]. If you're interested in typography, that video is definitely worth a watch. [0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015&#x
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by Techowl 11y ago
This was also on the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208792
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by Techowl 11y ago
There are some wild 404 pages outside of campaigns, too: Bloomberg ( http://www.bloomberg.com/404 ) has a pretty nutty one.
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Beneficial Mental Attitudes(danielkimbel.com)
1 points by Techowl 11y ago|0 comments
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by Techowl 11y ago
A few years back, Bill Gates said that he'd be working in biology if he were still a teenager [0]. There's a lot of exciting work happening in the field, and if anyone finds this sort of thing particularly inspiring, I'd enco
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Tending Your Mind's Garden(danielkimbel.com)
2 points by Techowl 11y ago|0 comments
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by Techowl 11y ago
In contrast, I believe that reversing aging would likely also improve a person's quality of death. Death by aging can be a horrifically prolonged and painful process. In the case of Alzheimer's, you slowly watch your mind and iden
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by Techowl 11y ago
So, supposing for the sake of argument that scientists had discovered a way to allow humans to live healthily and happily until the age 200, how would your position change? Surely you wouldn't want to murder everyone at the arbitrary a
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by Techowl 12y ago
San Francisco/San Jose/Bay Area, Full-time HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, Ruby/Rails, Python, PHP Resume at http://www.danielkimbel.com/documents/Daniel%20Kimbel%20Resu... Email - dkkimbel at g
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by Techowl 13y ago
There are a lot of ethical arguments happening in this thread, and I'm concerned that most of them are missing the point. They tend to center on the idea that these technologies will help the wealthy, while leaving most of the world to
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by Techowl 13y ago
Aubrey's reaction piece is listed on the front page of Time's website, and can be seen here: http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/18/finally-the-war-on-aging-ha...
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by Techowl 13y ago
Affording proper care is definitely a problem, but the diseases of aging are the greatest causes of death globally, not infectious diseases or other health problems [1]. Taking care of diseases like malaria is unquestionably a noble and imp