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Show HN: Taigen: a micro web host + markdown editor(taigen.us)
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
A post office near me was slated for closure, but the citizens who would have been affected by this closure raised a stink and it was rescinded. This particular community is composed of fairly wealthy people who felt that it was a hardship
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
I met him at a book signing at the Boulder Book Store in the mid 90's. He walked to the front of the audience, and said "I'm feeling a bit wobbly today. I was recently in Texas and asked my friend: What do you do for fun in Texas?" At this
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
The conventional flush toilet requires a massive water treatment system with pumps every few miles to push the wastewater through the pipe. But the costs are hidden from the payer, which makes everyone happy.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Maybe journalists need to be rebranded into "intelligence gatherers." Not many people will pay for stories. They will pay for useful intel that isn't shared with a wide audience. "They" being governments, corporations, investors.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680 He wasn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but he was Emperor of Rome. ;) Walden http://www
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Many side projects don't have eye candy. Maybe skip the screenshot altogether, and just give a summary + link, which is what "One Thing Well" did. http://onethingwell.org Great idea though. (I might use it soon.)
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Interesting fellow. Earlier in his life he was a heavy-metal guitarist: in 1979 he sent a demo tape to the group Iron Maiden . (He wasn't hired...) Later he wrote a history book fortelling the decline of the West and the rise of the East,
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The Shape of History(chronicle.com)
1 points by expralitemonk 14y ago|1 comments
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Fun fact: the USSR and USA created several artificial radiation belts by testing nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_radiation_be...
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Governments based on giving favors to members of one's tribe tend to be less stable.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Sounds like a great reason to form an LLC for any software endeavor.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Self defense sprays have come a long way in 30 years, and they can stop a bear. In fact a person using bear spray to stop a bear attack is less likely to be injured than a person using a gun. http://www.bearsmart.com/docs/BearSprayVsBullet
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
In 1890, 43% of the US population were farmers. Because of technology (fossil fuels, internal combustion engines), most of those jobs are gone for good. We're going through a massive change and some people's livelihoods will go away permane
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
How many people are killed or injured due to accidents caused by having to wake up an hour earlier? What does this cost our economy?
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
SomaFM. Makes me feel like I'm in a science fiction epic.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
I watched the Al Jazeera "Counting the Cost" episode discussing alternative currencies. Very interesting. People with ideas discussing said ideas instead of taking potshots at each other. The U.S. media can take a lesson from Al Jazeera: re
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
I spend two minutes a day collecting junk mail from my mail box and throwing it into the recycle bin. That's 624 minutes a year. One government employee puts trash into my mail box and another government employee takes it away. Any useful m
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
I went online shopping this weekend for a laptop for Mrs. expralitemonk. With an open heart we considered Windows or Mac. On the Macbook web page I found: specs for each model, estimated battery life, and the price. On one page! For all mod
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
If Nate Silver is right, then there is no reason to pay any further attention to the election (other than showing up and voting of course). That means fewer people watching or reading the news and their advertisements.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
A famous writer was asked to give a speech at a conference for people who were trying to get published. He agreed. On the appointed day he walked to the front of the auditorium, stood at the podium, and asked "Why aren't all of you home wri
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
I started learning Django as my first web framework. If I had to do it over I would have spent a month with Flask, and then moved to Django. Django is a big app, and I found it difficult to build a mental model of its workings. Maybe starti
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Leisure: ocean blue. Productive: muted red.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
As technology gets more powerful, the oops factor comes into play. Oops, I dropped a flask in my lab: 1 million people dead. Oops, the SCRAM system for a reactor that's out of control, it had a software bug: 10 million people dead. Technica
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Video information cannot (yet) be indexed so you cannot look up the information on Google.
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
Hmmm...I live in Florida so our outside glare is pretty bad. I have a one year old MacBook Pro and have never had a problem (even outside in the shade in the summertime). I'm sure there are very good Windows laptops. As the previous poster
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
I go to a coffee shop often and among other things, I notice people's machines and how they interact with them. Two observations: 1. People with non-Mac machines always plug their laptop into AC power before starting work (unless it's a net
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
+1 on recommending Buddhism the philosophy, as distinct from Buddhism the religion. The philosophy teaches that everything changes, and all you have is now , so keep your mind on the now and the later will take care of itself. Mindfulness
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
We live in a society where mental problems are considered to be a spiritual problem, not a medical one. The brain is an organ and organs malfunction. I think the younger people see this and are more likely to get the help and medication the
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by expralitemonk 14y ago
I wouldn't mind an autonomous squirt-gun that can distinguish between crows and cardinals, and can keep the former out of my bird feeder.

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