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by ptrklly 4y ago
Anyone have the back story here?
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by ptrklly 5y ago
I don't have views on the credibility of specific technologies but I've hoped that these could be viable in places like coastal California where fog provides quite a bit of air moisture but it never rains--do you not agree with th
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by ptrklly 5y ago
I'm sorry you feel this way! I've felt very lonely in the past and it was among my hardest times--though I'm sure my version of it was different and doesn't have specific applicability, just figured I'd share. You a
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by ptrklly 5y ago
Not sure if this the same experience as the person you asked the question of, but I went to Catholic school growing up, altar boy, youth group, the whole works. And I'd consider myself atheist, or agnostic maybe is better. But I call m
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by ptrklly 5y ago
I really liked Drawing By Seeing by John Torreano when I picked it up in college: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Seeing-Abrams-Studio-Torreano... Thanks for this thread! I’ve been meaning to ask around for recommendations l
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by ptrklly 5y ago
This podcast helped me understand just how significant an accomplishment the Madden video game was—I recommend! https://overcast.fm/+dxvETG06k
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by ptrklly 5y ago
I think CapIQ is most common, but don't think they do individual subscriptions.
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by ptrklly 5y ago
I felt it was beautiful but I don’t think you should feel dumb you didn’t also think it was beautiful! I think it’s not a set of facts, where there are right and wrong interpretations, so research paper might be the wrong analogy. For me, I
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by ptrklly 5y ago
Fun to see Ada Palmer posted here! One of my favorite essays by her is The Shape of Rome, which tells Rome’s history through its architecture. It is a fascinating history of course but her writing is what stood out to me: it felt fast, almo
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by ptrklly 6y ago
I had this same experience, and switched to Credit Karma out of spite toward Turbo Tax. It was fine: https://www.creditkarma.com/tax
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by ptrklly 6y ago
Ah, of course.
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by ptrklly 6y ago
What happened with Dark Sky? I have used it for years and it seems just as good as ever. And it’s one of the few iPhone apps I give full location information to so I like that it’s owned by Apple since they have that info anyway.
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by ptrklly 6y ago
This is super useful, thank you!
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Slack Connect(theverge.com)
1 points by ptrklly 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptrklly 6y ago
I use Spectacle to do this, like it a lot: https://www.spectacleapp.com
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by ptrklly 7y ago
You're doing great work! I'd love to try it next year. If I do, what do you recommend for filing my federal?
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by ptrklly 8y ago
Last time I tried fast mail they didn’t really support labels, only folders. Is that still the case, or is there a good workaround?
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by ptrklly 8y ago
We don’t even need to think long term—EVs (even charged with fossil power) are already cleaner than gas cars in most cases: https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/new-numbers-are-in-an... And—to your point—they get cle
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by ptrklly 11y ago
We can't perfectly suppress fire on a natural landscape. And the act of trying increases the risk that when a fire does start it will become huge and uncontrollable because small trees and forest undergrowth—which would have burned in
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by ptrklly 11y ago
I'd add a few points: 1) management fees typically decline after the first few years of the Fund, rather than staying at 2% for the entire 10 years. This is to reflect the fact that partners are expected to do more work during the sour
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by ptrklly 12y ago
Interesting. One concern I'd have is that I actually find the segmentation of data / sms / voice to be a feature because it corresponds well to my priorities. For example, I can turn off auto-sync to save battery power or to
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by ptrklly 12y ago
I work in energy investing and we're seeing a lot of growth in emerging market solar paired with LEDs that's bringing electricity to formerly off-grid areas. It's great news generally but bad for light pollution specifically,
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by ptrklly 12y ago
Interesting! Do you know how they value the negative PR cost? My understanding is that "brand value" is notoriously hard to measure, which made me think it would be difficult to include in the type of cost/benefit comparison
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by ptrklly 12y ago
It has to do with whether the wood is decomposing in the presence of oxygen or not--the bacteria that cause decomposition in anaerobic environments emit more methane than the bacteria that cause decomposition in aerobic environments.
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by ptrklly 12y ago
Does anyone know about the methane emissions associated with this? It sounds like a cool / compelling way for individuals to sequester carbon but methane emissions from decomposition of the wood if they're anaerobic may dwarf the
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The Accidental Universe: Science’s crisis of faith (2011)(harpers.org)
10 points by ptrklly 13y ago|6 comments
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by ptrklly 14y ago
A bit of a tangent but: I like Earnest Hemmingway's advice to only stop your work when you know exactly where to pick up again. I don't do great but when I follow the advice I find that it helps me get into flow more quickly. "You write unt
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by ptrklly 14y ago
I think that's a good observation about how this approach differs: it's not just a technical hack, but a behavioral one as well--the user experience with the tool is to simply do the warmups that they want to be doing anyway. I like that a
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by ptrklly 14y ago
It's okay, you can be happy.
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by ptrklly 14y ago
It's confusing because it's a temporary stay of a temporary injunction, but other news reports suggest that Google will be selling again next week. (See Update 3 below) http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3136336/galaxy-nexus-no-lon...

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