darnton

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by darnton 10y ago
The United States is a maritime superpower, able to project power across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Losing the Pacific coast would end that. I can't imagine it being let go easily.
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by darnton 11y ago
What can a run-of-the-mill technical person do to help? We know that super-AI is more likely than not to be existentially dangerous. It would be remiss to foresee the apocalypse and assume someone else will fix it.
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by darnton 13y ago
The way I read it was that "both versions" refers to the two tellings of the problem, one in terms of deaths the other in terms of survivors, not the two different medicines.
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by darnton 13y ago
I had a strange moment of mental serenity during an earthquake a couple of years ago. Furniture was rolling around the place and glass was smashing, my heart rate was about 180 and my respiration the same, but I had a moment of complete men
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by darnton 13y ago
Scroll down to the comments and follow the Google Maps link to the crazy Belgium/Netherlands border. How does stuff like this even happen?
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by darnton 14y ago
They are usually called "Britons".
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by darnton 14y ago
Is this supposed to be used instead of the Business Model Canvas or alongside?
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by darnton 14y ago
In "The Luck Factor" Richard Wiseman talks about the personality characteristics that are associated with luck. Agreeableness and conscientiousness are not (contra this saying, which gets attributed to all and sundry) but extroversion, [lac
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by darnton 14y ago
Hard to believe the article can make this observation without mention of John Boyd. http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-The-Fighter-Pilot-Changed/dp/B002...
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by darnton 15y ago
According to Book Depository my copy was shipped yesterday. (Of course, it has yet to make its way to my doorstep in New Zealand.)
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by darnton 15y ago
The Box: How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller And The World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson. There are so many facets to this book. It's the story of Malcom McLean's drive to make containerisation a reality. It's a history of th
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by darnton 15y ago
Seville in the 16th century is the best example of what might happen. Spain got hold of the equivalent of a gold-filled asteroid - South America. All the gold and silver came in through the port at Seville, which became very rich, and infla
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by darnton 15y ago
I wouldn't even read that much into it. Infants learn a whole range of new gestures as they get finer motor control. Newborns flail around not even knowing they've got arms. Then they learn to guide their arms and hit things. Then they grab
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by darnton 15y ago
They're a sort of universal building block. In Christchurch at the moment (badly damaged by earthquakes over the last year) they're used to shore up loose facades, as baffles to stop or slow falling rubble, they've been refitted to contain
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Ask HN: Where did your second customer come from?
1 points by darnton 15y ago|1 comments
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by darnton 15y ago
The best thing I've read on this topic is The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel ( http://www.amazon.com/Procrastination-Equation-Putting-Thing... ). He concludes that different people procrastinate for different reasons and that those
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by darnton 15y ago
According to small print, you'd also need to move to Canada.
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by darnton 15y ago
Ideas similar to this are explored by Denis Dutton in The Art Instinct ( http://www.amazon.com/Art-Instinct-Beauty-Pleasure-Evolution... ). The basic idea, in one sentence, is that our preferences in art are a result of our ancestral enviro
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by darnton 16y ago
I bought this book as a "Rough Cut" a few months ago. If you want a very high-level introduction to the field of DSLs this book may be for you but don't expect to be able to do much useful after reading it. It really is just the 50,000 ft v
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by darnton 16y ago
If you want to learn to draw and don't know where to start, get a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. You will be stunned at how quickly you can improve. http://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/
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Tectonics of the M7 earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand(all-geo.org)
3 points by darnton 16y ago|1 comments
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by darnton 16y ago
It's flying in a replacement for one that caught fire yesterday. http://www.smh.com.au/business/qantas-drama-flames-like-a-gi...
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by darnton 16y ago
Absolutely. Let your kids make mistakes. Let them do things wrong. Let them make odd decisions. The best thing you can do for your children is help them to become good decision makers and the best way to do that is to let them make lots of
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by darnton 16y ago
"France excelled at many things. Punch card automation was not one of them." Rene Carmille founded the Demographic Service in Vichy France and began conducting the first decent Jewish census in France because previous efforts had been such