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I'm not sure if the option is in the Fi app or the Hangouts app, but I allowed Hangouts to manage my SMS on the phone. It behaves as my Google Voice number did before: SMS (as hope…

Oh yay, more chat apps from Google. I had finally hit a nice point of integration: using Hangouts with Project Fi means I got somewhat close to the iMessage experience (at least as…

What brings you to Senegal? I did notice over the past few years that OSM improved significantly in Dakar, although I didn't get to contribute much.

Great news, don't forget west Africa!

And even in Virginia, it differs at the county level. You don't need to get your car tested in southwest VA.

Wow, great tool, thanks!

This looks like a great project, and nice to see them supporting OSM. Google gets (rightfully) lauded for offering quite good maps[1] of much of the developing world, but I recentl…

This looks very promising! Definitely going to give it a test run. Thanks for sharing.

Probably not. Too much money and power invested in F1, and even despite the boring Tilkedromes that have come to dominate the schedule, it'd be hard for Formula E to compete on qua…

capital: 30 mentions investment: 5 mentions wages: 10 mentions I'd say the specific topics covered (macro questions like optimal savings, optimal taxation, etc) are what makes it a…

Stata

Another vote for SAW (and SAW Vol 2) as great ambient productivity music. Also I'm a big fan of M83 Digital Shades Vol 1 for this purpose.

What really differentiates data science from econometrics, other than (I guess) the type of data being analysed?