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by totalc 15y ago
http://www.progressiverailroading.com/news/article.asp?id=16... According to that 2008 source (which appears to be pro-railroad) freight rail is up to four times more fuel-efficient per ton of freight delivered than freight trucking.
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by totalc 15y ago
This story has been circulating the internets for years since the original article. Has there been additional research on the Pirahã?
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by totalc 15y ago
Adblock does not allow you to dodge the paywall, from personal experience. There is an easy way to escape the paywall: After a new page opens, wait for the text to load, then after the text is loaded but the rest of the site's infrastruct
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by totalc 15y ago
What a great article! I have similar ideas to those thinkers (Brain and Ford), but I've been inspired mostly by reading way too much science fiction! Feels great to learn I'm not just simply crazy.
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by totalc 15y ago
Where do you find the 'personalized information' about hiring managers etc? You mention it's important to customize your approach, but don't give any hints about where we're supposed to get that kind of information. Or do employees at the
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by totalc 15y ago
Netscape's death throes began in 1998. The 90s tech bubble finally collapsed in early 2000. Assuming this year marks the beginning of Facebook's death throes and extrapolating from recent history: Until 2013, let the (tech startup) good ti
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by totalc 15y ago
I wish someone would post an account of a nightmarish experience with a failed startup.
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by totalc 15y ago
From my defense software experience with Ada 83 and Ada 95, Ada's concurrency features made it much easier to work with than C. Tasks/processes were a top-level feature of the language, like classes in Java, and the "protected" keyword fun
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by totalc 15y ago
"You will not be able to purchase this software ever again after the 100 copies are sold." Right... I suppose your copy self-destructs if you attempt to copy it?
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by totalc 16y ago
Graded homeworks might be used as checkpoints verifying that students are learning key concepts, prior to the exams that are a larger component of the grade. Without these graded checkpoints, lazy students given only voluntary homeworks mi
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by totalc 16y ago
Prosper's certainly not making any money itself. What happens when Prosper is out of business? You should try LendingClub instead-they're finally moving toward profitability, and most lenders at LendingClub actually make money on their lo
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by totalc 16y ago
the blogger closed discussion before I could reply so I'll reply on here for what good it does me. Whether a technological singularity is desirable is debatable. Whether development of human-equivalent AI would lead to technological singul
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by totalc 16y ago
Chinese: the language so hard the Koreans made a new language!