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Queen's University to announce lottery for medical student selection(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by soundsop 2y ago|0 comments
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by soundsop 6y ago
> I fear the erosion in trust between the public and public health agencies is causing permanent damage in our abilities to mitigate future disasters No, it just means communities/towns/cities/counties/states should n
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by soundsop 6y ago
My list for all engineering students: Design of Everyday Things Founders at Work Antifragile
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You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010)(apenwarr.ca)
142 points by soundsop 7y ago|177 comments
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P-hacked hypotheses are deceivingly robust (2016)(datacolada.org)
41 points by soundsop 7y ago|13 comments
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Tesla is the Lisp Machine of cars?(blogs.harvard.edu)
1 points by soundsop 8y ago|0 comments
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by soundsop 9y ago
True.
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by soundsop 9y ago
> max size of the economy is linearly tied to population > why China is going to be on top India will have a larger population than China ( http://statisticstimes.com/population/china-vs-india-populat... ) so it s
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by soundsop 9y ago
Me too, although I recognized his name because I read his book Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. That was over 20 years ago.
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How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by soundsop 9y ago|0 comments
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by soundsop 9y ago
https://books.google.ca/books?id=wy4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA...
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A potentially fatal blow against patent trolls(computerworld.com)
4 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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Canadian government plans to boost spending on new tech from Canadian startups(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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Qualcomm Fined $853M by South Korea’s Antitrust Agency(bloomberg.com)
3 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was(lineageos.org)
275 points by soundsop 10y ago|114 comments
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Ontario court ruling: condo buildings can ban sharing services such as Airbnb(business.financialpost.com)
14 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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Medical School 2020(docs.google.com)
2 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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Three Ideas for Civil Criticism(datacolada.org)
27 points by soundsop 10y ago|2 comments
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uBlock Origin WebSocket: A companion extension for Chromium-based browsers(github.com)
3 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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by soundsop 10y ago
Electricity derived from solar panels and stored in batteries is neither free from cost nor free from carbon emissions. The monetary cost and emission of carbon coincides with the manufacture of the solar panels and batteries rather than th
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P-hacked hypotheses are deceivingly robust (2016)(datacolada.org)
1 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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U.S. GDP per capita shrinking, but reported as “growing”(blogs.harvard.edu)
1 points by soundsop 10y ago|0 comments
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Why would anyone expect the U.S. to be a leader in dealing with CO2 emissions?(blogs.harvard.edu)
3 points by soundsop 11y ago|0 comments
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Hidden motors for road bikes(cyclingtips.com)
179 points by soundsop 11y ago|143 comments
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Hidden motors for road bikes exist – here’s how they work(cyclingtips.com)
2 points by soundsop 11y ago|0 comments
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by soundsop 11y ago
In general, I like the idea of aggregating the discussion. I will miss how the front page would fill with links about someone who passed away.
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Marvin Minsky, 1927-2016: the death of a genial skeptic(blogs.harvard.edu)
24 points by soundsop 11y ago|2 comments
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Why doesn’t Windows re-try the password as if CAPS LOCK were turned off?(blogs.harvard.edu)
2 points by soundsop 11y ago|2 comments
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Power Posing: Reassessing the Evidence Behind the Most Popular TED Talk(datacolada.org)
2 points by soundsop 11y ago|0 comments
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Unix on a PDP-11 emulator on the Game Boy Advance (2004)(kernelthread.com)
67 points by soundsop 11y ago|5 comments

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