metricman

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by metricman 13y ago
This reminds me of Juliet Schor's work (an economist). She talks about retreating away from urban areas some, like, in some revolution type way, but I think that is going a bit far. Here's a video about her ideas and book: http:&
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by metricman 13y ago
This might sound like a joke, or gross, but I think stool measurement is probably a great way to track diet. And I bet there are apps to help. Sigh. I searched. "PoopLog" - https://play.google.com/store/apps&#
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by metricman 13y ago
Yes, they were. "From 1850-1871, the railroads received more than 175 million acres (71 million ha) of public land - an area more than one tenth of the whole United States and larger in area than Texas." http://en.wikip
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by metricman 13y ago
Come on, human nature? Designed to keep striving? I've heard this referenced as "keeping up with the Joneses" when it's about matching consumption to your neighbors'. I never thought "keeping up with the Jones
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by metricman 13y ago
I hear this often if I try to discuss Amazon.com work conditions, but I don't like the excuse. Costco is the largest company that comes to mind which makes much stronger claims and (if you believe them) treats employees, even 'uns
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by metricman 13y ago
The designer chose a helluva markup there, or the piece is really very thick. Shapeways prices by volume, cubic centimeter, and if you put your design up for others you can charge a markup. There's a Pebble bike mount for $12, and I&#x
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by metricman 13y ago
You could just call yourself a programmer and be done with it. If you wrote a program, I mean, isn't that... lots of people do it without much formal training. It looks like a good basic app. The layout/design stuff seems well-int
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by metricman 13y ago
Could the kind intelligence that decodes this post a play-by-play for us regular folk? Is the first step trying to trace the logic mentally? Building some kind of graph-based representation of the code and its calling behavior...? When I
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by metricman 13y ago
This statistic doesn't seem immediately relevant. Success of marriage (let's say in years before divorce) is heavily influenced by the background of the individual. Think about getting sent back to the beginning of your marriage,
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by metricman 13y ago
I'm also not really sure about this article. I find the evidence in that graph not to be compelling enough for summarizing with "bottom line:" and some real clean explanation. I find the trending cumulative percentage a litt