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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 intern…

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, co…

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 verisimili…

The Mars Trilogy – and especially Red Mars – has to be some of the best hard sci-fi ever written.

Here's a list of Mac OSX alternatives to everything in the Creative Cloud: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/graphics-roundups/the-best-...

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 ha…

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 i…

Well, cross-browser support is a big one for me. I can bookmark from Safari on my iPad or Firefox on my laptop.

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…

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. …

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 con…

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 t…

Would be interesting to see a quality of life comparison (if such a thing can be reliably quantified) The Economist attempted to quantify quality-of-life and rank nations using the…

I'm always deeply suspicious of "statistics" that claim startups only have a 1 in 10 chance of success. From the article: "if 90% of startups fail, it simply can’t be the case that…

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE I'm a copywriter. I go beyond mere formatting tricks to craft high-converting headlines, ad copy, and site copy. I identify the language your customers use an…

Link to the abstract on PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24582957 Original is behind a paywall. --- I'd take all this with a grain of salt, though. The biology of aging i…

At around 1:00 minute the CEO says "All of us live and work here."

Forcing shopping activity and gathering into indoor brutalist buildings is dying, shopping centers are not. Look at union sq, 4th st, walnut creek, and many others in the sf bay. A…

This is one of the older stories in business. Right. This strategy can be traced back at least as far as Andrew Carnegie in the 19th Century.[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ve…

Exactly. Without a doubt there was a literal conspiracy to undermine urban mass transit during the 1930s and 1940s. Firestone, Phillips, Standard Oil, and GM were all convicted of …

They won't penetrate a car doors Actually .22 LR can indeed penetrate a car door. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LS0ZRk1y0