edj
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Comment · 10 years ago
Although there is definitely cause for concern, these are just state-level legislative bodies. They couldn't prevent Californians and New Yorkers from buying out of state or international phones that aren't crippled with back doors.
It's a worrying trend, though. It seems every few months another law like this is proposed. Requires constant vigilance on our part.
Comment · 11 years ago
Providence, RI: interior paint.
Fairfield, IA: all maintenance as well as on-going renovations at $25/hr plus materials.
San Francisco, CA: interior paint, garden, chicken coop, converted garage into bedroom.
Portland, OR: extensive tear out and renovation, removed walls, renovated kitchen, new wiring and lighting, converted attic into bedroom, finished basement and added bedroom -- all on the owner's dime. Also, we built a kiln and a giant skate ramp in the backyard.
So it is possible. Although admittedly, I do have a knack for finding laid back landlords.
Comment · 12 years ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. It's sci-fi, not fantasy, but what sci-fi it is! A hard sci-fi account of the colonization and terraforming of Mars with tremendous verisimilitude and a boatload of Big Ideas.
Robinson explores space travel, the problem of living on low-atmosphere worlds, architecture on other planets, eco-economics, post-capitalist economies, tele-robotics, self-assembling factories, world governments, underground resistance in an always-on surveillance state, corporations with the power of nation states, and the development of a new religion.
It's a powerful stuff and a lot of fun, to boot.
Comment · 12 years ago
The Mars Trilogy – and especially Red Mars – has to be some of the best hard sci-fi ever written.
Comment · 12 years ago
Here's a list of Mac OSX alternatives to everything in the Creative Cloud: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/graphics-roundups/the-best-...
Comment · 12 years ago
I found out about about HN after I encountered Paul Graham's essays in the late 2000s.
I think I first saw a reference to PG on John Gruber's DaringFireball. I think this[1] may have been the link that first sent me to PG's essays.
I read all of the essays, up to that point, and then became curious about this thing called YCombinator, and this other thing called Hacker News. I lurked on HN for a while and finally started an account 1703 days ago, which was Monday, 14 September 2009.
Comment · 12 years ago
I too find it hard to articulate what makes bookmarking services like Pinboard useful. Part of the problem is that it doesn't (to me) have much to do with bookmarking, so much as it does with "personal search".
Exactly. Pinboard is my personal record of everything online I find useful or interesting enough to remember.
Comment · 12 years ago
Well, cross-browser support is a big one for me. I can bookmark from Safari on my iPad or Firefox on my laptop.
Comment · 12 years ago
One issue in negotiating that I never quite know how to resolve is the tension between two somewhat opposing pieces if advice: never be the first to give a number and use anchoring to establish a price.
Comment · 12 years ago
For just straight up bookmarks, Pinboard.in is nearly perfect.
-Around $10 for a lifetime membership.
-Supports tags.
-Great search functionality.
-Bookmarklets for most browsers.
-Public or private bookmarks.
-Lightweight and fast.
I've been using it since 2010 and absolutely love it.
Comment · 12 years ago
Here's a Medicines Sans Frontieres Ebola expert answering that very question[1]:
In recent years, MSF has been involved in battling every Ebola epidemic. Once the first case is confirmed by a blood test, every person who cares for an infected patient must wear a hazmat suit, gloves, a mask and protective goggles and exercise extreme caution when administering treatment. Decontamination chambers are generally installed between the isolated patients and the external environment. To confine the epidemic, it is critical to trace the entire transmission chain. All individuals who have had contact with patients who may be contaminated are monitored and isolated at the first sign of infection. The affected communities must also be informed about the illness and the precautions to be taken to limit risks of contamination. Basic hygiene – such as washing one’s hands – can significantly reduce the risk of transmission.
1: http://www.msf.org/article/guinea-%E2%80%9Cthere-no-treatmen...
Comment · 12 years ago
It sounds like Australia's geographical relationship to Antarctica at the beginning of the Eocene contributed to Antarctica's temperate climate at the time. From Wikipedia[1}:
At the beginning of the period, Australia and Antarctica remained connected, and warm equatorial currents mixed with colder Antarctic waters, distributing the heat around the planet and keeping global temperatures high, but when Australia split from the southern continent around 45 Ma, the warm equatorial currents were routed away from Antarctica. An isolated cold water channel developed between the two continents. The Antarctic region cooled down, and the ocean surrounding Antarctica began to freeze, sending cold water and icefloes north, reinforcing the cooling.