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Silicon Valley

Does anyone know of any studies that look at rates of cigarette smoking, or activation of indoor smoking bans with respect to the data on mental illness? Most of the west banned indoor smoking around 2006-2008, roughly around when smartphone usage started to explode. AFAIK you can still smoke indoors in China--do they show the same trends? What about Nevada? Did any jurisdictions ban indoor smoking a few years before or after the rest of the west and show a graph shifted on the x axis?

This isn't a joke post--cigarette smoking promotes social bonding and nicotine is a mood stabilizer. It's irresponsible to not consider the effects of smoking bans on mental health.

Of course there are many health and aesthetic downsides to cigarette smoking but we should look at the data.

The guy who programmed MC Kids did a writeup on the game's engineering that serves as a wonderful introduction to programming for the NES.

https://games.greggman.com/game/programming_m_c__kids/

What are the chances they set their world origin in San Francisco?

Why aren't CVS, who have more downtown SF locations than Walgreens, facing similar pressures?

I know this stop and have always appreciated your sign. Thank you +1!

Longterm yes, but the cd drives on these things die decades before the roms and processing hardware. He had mentioned in the video that he was surprised that the solid state laser died so soon but I was under the impression that it's almost always the drive motor that's the first to go.

Not involved in the startup scene at all, but isn't "uber for laundry" a punchline at this point? What are cleanly doing (or what aren't they doing) that dozens of failed startups didn't do? This isn't snark, YC are saavy investors and I'm interested to know what they see.

This article, for example, is a year old: http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/

Unrelated, I found it interesting that clean.ly doesn't resolve to Cleanly's website--for that you have to go to getcleanly.com. Do -ly's confer status these days to the point that the URL is unnecessary?

It's disappointing that this needs to be said out loud, but I really suggest people complaining about the piece read til the end. It's fairly clearly divided into two sections. The first is a straightforward critical review of Carr's latest book which does good work exposing some of the worst examples of Carr's sloppy thinking.

In the second part, Evgeny, a self-proclaimed "technology critic" reflects on and examines his own complicity in the very type of thinking he'd previously been criticising. It's actually incredibly self-aware and insightful, both in the clarity of its self-criticism and how well it contexutalizes its arguments within the history of thought on capitalism, social organization, and technology.

I don't have any analytics on this but I'm fairly certain the reason that so many people have been sharing this recently comes from this section.

Just curious, did you play ME on console? It's vastly, vastly improved w mouse aiming.

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know anything about the 3D printing tech used by http://www.shapeways.com/ ? Limited materials are the one thing holding me back from picking up a desktop 3D printer, so I'd like to learn more about their tech and what might be holding it back on the desktop. Their material selection is seriously impressive.

The Formlabs one looks promising and I love the design, but I just don't have any interest in printing PLA/resin.

"It wants money from those users, and all things being equal, those users want to keep their money. So their goals are actually diametrically opposed."

By this standard, aren't the goals of every party in a transaction where money changes hands "diametrically opposed?"

I got the impression it was 95% tuition plus books/assorted costs up to $2000 per year.