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Yale E360
Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a...
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Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a growing share of their products to poorer countries, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →
Left To Write
#9 Writemas: What Is Driving You? I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably...
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I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably well educated, started poker around the same time, and never felt like we were enough. Both of our poker careers were driven by insecurity. We both had this desire to prove...
Londonist
The Lost Trees Of London The biggest and best trees that are no more.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Emergent Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I really do yay like that, though. Today's News:
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Exceed or maintain? In just about every group, people decide in advance how they’ll show up when it comes to learning,...
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In just about every group, people decide in advance how they’ll show up when it comes to learning, to winning and to responding to opportunities. They’re wearing a hat with a label, and over time, it’s not hard to recognize. This can change based on pedagogy, social conditions...
Birchtree
On the "streaming is more expensive than cable" complaint A social media post flew by today where someone was complaining that they stopped paying $180 for...
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4 months ago
A social media post flew by today where someone was complaining that they stopped paying $180 for cable and now they're paying $200 for streaming apps. I see this sort of complaint a lot, and I find myself feeling like I'm taking crazy pills whenever I
Nadia Asparouhova
Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021 For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new...
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over a year ago
For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new initiatives launched in the last two years, aimed at making major improvements in the life sciences especially. While I don’t have a science background, nor any personal relationship to...
Notes on software...
Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic support for five standard SQL...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic support for five standard SQL transaction levels: Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeatable Read, Snapshot Isolation and Serializable. We'll use multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) and optimistic...
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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a year ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
The Mythology Behind Avatar and the Sacred Planet Trope In 2009, James Cameron’s Avatar was released in theaters around the world and garnered critical...
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In 2009, James Cameron’s Avatar was released in theaters around the world and garnered critical acclaim as one of the most successful movies of all time. It introduced us to the world of Pandora, a mystical and sacred place, and a symbol of life itself. The visual spectacle was...
Herbert Lui
Clear structures for creative visions When a creative vision for a project is too ambiguous, you need a person to drive it forward and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
When a creative vision for a project is too ambiguous, you need a person to drive it forward and clarify it. That person probably needs to be you.  To do this, you might find it helpful to channel a creative vision through a clear structure.  One example: at Figma, I was involved...
Londonist
Secrets Of Tower Bridge A behind the scenes tour of one of London's great icons.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Repost: Weebs! Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about the non-Japanese people who love Japanese pop...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about the non-Japanese people who love Japanese pop culture.
Seth's Blog
In and out Lots of organizations (and individuals) have plans and processes for getting the word out. In fact,...
over a year ago
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Lots of organizations (and individuals) have plans and processes for getting the word out. In fact, we spend trillions of dollars doing so. Do you have a plan for getting the word in? Is it simply random chance that some ideas get to you and your team, that cultural and technical...
Electronics etc…
Repairing an HP 5370A Time Interval Counter MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Maps Mania
Donald Trump Surrenders the World to China
5 months ago
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
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over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Product Identity
I'm writing a zine Will I become an author now?
9 months ago
Steve Klabnik
The CLOSURE companion
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Hadrian’s Wall Shape British History? The Roman Empire stretched throughout Europe, expanding into the British Isles and establishing a...
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The Roman Empire stretched throughout Europe, expanding into the British Isles and establishing a significant presence that helped bring civilization to England and Scotland and greatly influenced their history.  One emperor, Hadrian, constructed a wall in the north of England,...
Londonist
Nostalgic For The Elephant And Castle Underpass? You Will Be After Watching This Maccabees Video The ending almost had us weeping...
over a year ago
The Convivial...
The Work of Art The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 8
a year ago
The Ruffian
'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult Not If You're On The Left Anyway
a year ago
BLDGBLOG
Every Room A Battlefield [Image: Looking out over the center of “Razish,” a simulated city at the Fort Irwin National...
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over a year ago
[Image: Looking out over the center of “Razish,” a simulated city at the Fort Irwin National Training Center; photo by Geoff Manaugh.] I had an opportunity to revisit the Fort Irwin National Training Center this weekend as part of a series of field trips I’ve put together for the...
alexwlchan
Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough...
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Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough night for every Conservative candidate, many of whom either lost their seat or saw their majorities severely diminished. One of those Conservative candidates was Nigel...
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled. It was all too difficult, finally.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The importance of institutional redundancy Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system...
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over a year ago
Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system down.  Even in organizations that have…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
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over a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go? Important Notice
9 months ago
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 27 November-3 December 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Anglo-Russian Conflict in the Napoleonic Wars: A “Smokeless War?” Britain and Russia were notably enemies during the Crimean War (1853-1856). However, the two...
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4 months ago
Britain and Russia were notably enemies during the Crimean War (1853-1856). However, the two countries briefly clashed during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). Yet, Britain and Russia were allies for most of the coalition wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France...
The Gradient
Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen? Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for...
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Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for self-driving cars, and what are the key challenges?
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Famous and Less So On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at...
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a year ago
On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at the foot of the bridge. The S-curved pickets in the handrail above a stone base look very much like the walkway along the Hudson River in Battery Park City, on the other side of...
mtlynch.io
Staying Motivated by Sending Status Updates to Nobody At my last job, status meetings with my manager were outstandingly efficient. He never ran me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At my last job, status meetings with my manager were outstandingly efficient. He never ran me through the typical drill of listing list off everything I did since our last meeting. Instead, we jumped right to the meaty topics of career growth, team development, and challenging...
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
The American Scholar
“The Dream” by Theodore Roethke Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Dream” by Theodore Roethke appeared first on The...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Dream” by Theodore Roethke appeared first on The American Scholar.
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without...
Both Are True
Let go AND let god? seems like a lot no?
12 months ago
Open Culture
Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions We may appreciate living in an era that doesn’t require us to travel across the world to know what a...
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We may appreciate living in an era that doesn’t require us to travel across the world to know what a particular work of art looks like. At the same time, we may instinctively understand that regarding a work of art in its original form feels different than regarding even the most...
TheCollector
What Happened to Cleopatra’s Four Children? One of history’s most slandered yet enduringly captivating queens, the clever and charismatic...
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One of history’s most slandered yet enduringly captivating queens, the clever and charismatic Cleopatra isn’t often celebrated for her role as a mother. Frankly, that’s a disservice to her memory. Cleopatra wasn’t just a political powerhouse—she was also the fiercely protective...
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur Journey Into the Labyrinth
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Luigi Presentation @ NYC Data Science, Dec 16, 2014 More Luigi presentations!
over a year ago
Business Brainstorms
Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 The more competitive a market the more buying decisions boil down to vibes. For example, I...
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#1 💡 The more competitive a market the more buying decisions boil down to vibes. For example, I recently started looking for an AI meeting note taking software we can use in our sales and clients calls. Fireflies, Fathom, MeetGeek, tl;dv… there are just so many of them and they...
Posts on Made of...
Systems that defy detailed understanding Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be explained, if we’re willing to dig deep enough into the stack of abstractions our software is built atop. Some of the ensuing discussion on Twitter and elsewhere lead me to write...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Third Age of JavaScript A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now will look totally unrecognizable
Both Are True
Love myself? Knowing what I know? A lunchtime meditation on whether 'being the best' is even a real thing
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Anger and Alexander
5 months ago
A Smart Bear
"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a...
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Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.