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Where Is Our Sun's Twin?(theatlantic.com)
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by edj 11y ago
Although there is definitely cause for concern, these are just state-level legislative bodies. They couldn't prevent Californians and New Yorkers from buying out of state or international phones that aren't crippled with back door
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Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War(historynewsnetwork.org)
1 points by edj 11y ago|0 comments
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by edj 11y ago
Providence, RI: interior paint. Fairfield, IA: all maintenance as well as on-going renovations at $25/hr plus materials. San Francisco, CA: interior paint, garden, chicken coop, converted garage into bedroom. Portland, OR: extensive te
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by edj 12y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy . It's sci-fi, not fantasy, but what sci-fi it is! A hard sci-fi account of the colonization and terraforming of Mars with tremendous verisimilitude and a boatload of Big Ideas. Robinson explor
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2012 Olympics – Athlete Height and Weight by Sport(noahveltman.com)
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by edj 12y ago
The Mars Trilogy – and especially Red Mars – has to be some of the best hard sci-fi ever written.
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by edj 12y ago
Here's a list of Mac OSX alternatives to everything in the Creative Cloud: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/graphics-roundups/the-best-...
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by edj 12y ago
I found out about about HN after I encountered Paul Graham's essays in the late 2000s. I think I first saw a reference to PG on John Gruber's DaringFireball. I think this[1] may have been the link that first sent me to PG's e
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by edj 12y ago
I too find it hard to articulate what makes bookmarking services like Pinboard useful. Part of the problem is that it doesn't (to me) have much to do with bookmarking, so much as it does with "personal search". Exactly. Pin
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by edj 12y ago
Well, cross-browser support is a big one for me. I can bookmark from Safari on my iPad or Firefox on my laptop.
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by edj 12y ago
One issue in negotiating that I never quite know how to resolve is the tension between two somewhat opposing pieces if advice: never be the first to give a number and use anchoring to establish a price .
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by edj 12y ago
For just straight up bookmarks, Pinboard.in is nearly perfect. -Around $10 for a lifetime membership. -Supports tags. -Great search functionality. -Bookmarklets for most browsers. -Public or private bookmarks. -Lightweight and fast. I'
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by edj 12y ago
Here's a Medicines Sans Frontieres Ebola expert answering that very question[1]: In recent years, MSF has been involved in battling every Ebola epidemic. Once the first case is confirmed by a blood test, every person who cares for an
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by edj 12y ago
It sounds like Australia's geographical relationship to Antarctica at the beginning of the Eocene contributed to Antarctica's temperate climate at the time. From Wikipedia[1}: At the beginning of the period, Australia and Antarct
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Today’s Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida(news.yale.edu)
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by edj 12y ago
Would be interesting to see a quality of life comparison (if such a thing can be reliably quantified) The Economist attempted to quantify quality-of-life and rank nations using the metrics they developed [1]. Their quality-of-life index i
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by edj 12y ago
I'm always deeply suspicious of "statistics" that claim startups only have a 1 in 10 chance of success. From the article: "if 90% of startups fail, it simply can’t be the case that all of the startups they know are succ
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by edj 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE I'm a copywriter. I go beyond mere formatting tricks to craft high-converting headlines, ad copy, and site copy. I identify the language your customers use and apply it on your site. (I know the formatting tricks,
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by edj 12y ago
Link to the abstract on PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24582957 Original is behind a paywall. --- I'd take all this with a grain of salt, though. The biology of aging is incredibly complex. Seemingly
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by edj 13y ago
At around 1:00 minute the CEO says "All of us live and work here."
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by edj 13y ago
Forcing shopping activity and gathering into indoor brutalist buildings is dying, shopping centers are not. Look at union sq, 4th st, walnut creek, and many others in the sf bay. All are stronger than ever by offering very high end retail
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by edj 13y ago
This is one of the older stories in business. Right. This strategy can be traced back at least as far as Andrew Carnegie in the 19th Century.[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertically_integrated
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by edj 13y ago
Exactly. Without a doubt there was a literal conspiracy to undermine urban mass transit during the 1930s and 1940s. Firestone, Phillips, Standard Oil, and GM were all convicted of conspiracy, for Pete's sake. http://en.wik
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by edj 13y ago
They won't penetrate a car doors Actually .22 LR can indeed penetrate a car door. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LS0ZRk1y0
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by edj 13y ago
This is so apropos! Three groups of my friends (6 people, total) are attempting to start breweries, brewpubs, or cideries. I have a number of thoughts for these friends. (Advice not totally unsolicited -- I've been homebrewing for abou
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by edj 13y ago
It definitely does not warrant a statement as broad as India is just not a good place for anyone (other than its citizens perhaps) to do business. Agreed. India has implemented both command economy policies[1] and free market policies[2]
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by edj 13y ago
Chemex[1] is hard to beat. I recommend it to all of my aspiring coffee-aficionado friends. Easy[2], inexpensive, and very high quality. 1: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/ristretto-chem... 2: h
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Notable Cryptocurrencies (en.wikipedia.org)
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by edj 13y ago
Questions I have now: 1) How likely is a cascade of bank runs on other exchanges? 2) Do other exchanges have security issues or insolvency that make them particularly vulnerable? 3) Will one of the other cryptocurrencies wax as confidence i

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