1. Brianne Garcia: How I Hacked The Job Hunt and Ended Up With The Start of a Career

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    briannegarcia:

    Let’s be serious: no one really wants a job. A job is a place where you clock in everyday, check some tasks off of a checklist, grab lunch at 1:00pm to escape your cubicle, curse the commands in your Excel spreadsheet, and keep an eye on the prize: 6 o’clock. That sounds like purgatory with a…

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    6 months ago

  2. "discrepancy between action and online discussion is that the growth in social media has paralleled a new behavioral trend in young voters: the rise of non-voting civically engaged citizens."

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    Premature Facebook Election Hype, A Response To The Atlantic | TechCrunch
    7 months ago
  3. Personal computing adoption over time. Android is pretty much vertical.

    Personal computing adoption over time. Android is pretty much vertical.

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    7 months ago

  4. "suspending the gender segregation might lead to men dominating certain disciplines and women establishing themselves as leading in others. This would be similar to what we can now observe with regard to black and white sportspeople. Blacks athletes tend to dominate Running, whereas whites tend to dominate Swimming. However, people do not propose to segregate disciplines by skin colour – with good reason."

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    Should Men and Women be segregated in professional Sports? | Practical Ethics
    8 months ago

  5. "An amateur gunsmith has already used a 3-D printer to make the lower receiver of a semiautomatic rifle, the AR-15."

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    How to Make Almost Anything | Foreign Affairs
    8 months ago

  6. "we might be nervous about people being able to homebrew their own car firmware"

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    The coming civil war over general purpose computing - Boing Boing
    8 months ago

  7. "Without visual cues (e.g. the horizon) you can’t distinguish between gravity and acceleration. Which means if you’re flying through clouds you can’t tell what the attitude of the aircraft is. You could feel like you’re flying straight and level while in fact you’re descending in a spiral. The solution is to ignore what your body is telling you and listen only to your instruments. But it turns out to be very hard to ignore what your body is telling you. Every pilot knows about this problem and yet it is still a leading cause of accidents."

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    Black Swan Farming
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  8. "cast Japanese priorities into your western morals. Devotion to work is devotion to family. Selflessness is expressed via success, not conspicuous gratification. Joy is found in greatness, not triviality or distraction. Speaking of oneself in terms of happiness is very different that speaking on fulfilment."

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    Jiro’s Dream | Hacker News
    9 months ago
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    Home-made unpowered prosthetic finger (by guerincyril)

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    9 months ago

  10. "McLuhan’s insight was that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role not by the content delivered over the medium, but by the characteristics of the medium itself. McLuhan pointed to the light bulb as a clear demonstration of this concept. A light bulb does not have content in the way that a newspaper has articles or a television has programs, yet it is a medium that has a social effect; that is, a light bulb enables people to create spaces during nighttime that would otherwise be enveloped by darkness. He describes the light bulb as a medium without any content. McLuhan states that “a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.”[52] More controversially, he postulated that content had little effect on society—in other words, it did not matter if television broadcasts children’s shows or violent programming, to illustrate one example—the effect of television on society would be identical."

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    9 months ago