Alex3917

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That's hard to answer because there are so many different types of books. E.g. I like this one a lot, it's basically a summary of the most important academic papers about what makes online communities successful: https:/&#x2
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> For that you need to have the idea for a differentiator that will hook people, and unlike engineering talent you can't buy this! I have an entire bookshelf of books about how to do this, but I’ve never been asked about it during a
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> I anecdotally recall studies that found organizations with greater diversity deliver better financial results If Hollywood movies start getting a lot better with the new diversity requirements for Oscar eligibility, presumably this wil
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This definitely didn't come from Quake. Dark Castle did this, and that game came out in 1986: https://youtu.be/UndXYYosDk4?t=41
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The pandemic was an interesting case study in this. In the sense that although the alternative medicine people who started writing about covid after the pandemic started were generally giving terrible advice, the alternative medicine people
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5-MeO was extremely well known in 2013. It had already been featured multiple times on every psychedelic podcast, and there were multiple books about it. This whole article seems vaguely fake to me.
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> What matters is that the number conveys a sense of magnitude. We collectively lost almost a billion IQ points! But losing a billion IQ points might be less bad than losing 10M IQ points, because there is literally no scale.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, IQ points aren't a measure and adding them up doesn't yield a meaningful number. It's like adding up the numbers on football player's jerseys; if the total of a team's numbers goe
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If you import a sapling from overseas then there's a good chance the government will come to your house, seize and destroy it, and put you in prison. They run sting operations on eBay and similar sites all the time. Why shouldn't
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> Sick and dying people wanted to try this out and were shut down. If they were severely sick or dying, it would already be far too late for an anti-viral to do anything.
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Try putting lime around them and maybe you'll get morels.
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You would think that a motto like Ars Gratia Artis would automatically disqualify a company from being a culture fit for Amazon.
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> I had to google gemelli, because I don't think I've heard that name before It pairs well with gorgonzola cheese and a cream sauce.
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> His reasoning for why movies are more boring was simple: money. If you look back at the best movies throughout history, a lot of them were made outside the Hollywood system. It's easy to think that movies today are worse than Apoc
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> On Reddit this means that I manage to close the thread by accident all the time because someone thought it would be a good idea to open the threads in a modal that closes when you click outside of it. The whole point of modals is to en
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> I know I have some pictures I never want to look at again, although nothing on this scale. Much like photos the U.S. soldiers took in Europe while liberating the death camps. Most of them just went into their attics until they died and
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> It's the kind of thing you rarely touch once it's set up. Exactly. Surely being able to actually configure the metadata tags on a webpage correctly must be more valuable than being able to remember what the different configur
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In California, the Search for the Ultimate Wild Fig Heats Up(smithsonianmag.com)
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There are still modern authors who buy into this kind of argument. E.g. the late John Taylor Gatto, who refused to use footnotes because he thought they made readers dumb. I forget whether or not his books have indices.
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> it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address And then taking a week off of work so that I can change 672 passwords.
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Things generally related to diet, exercise, health, and education.
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You can donate cord blood for free to a public bank. Obviously you're not guaranteed that it won't be used by someone else before a sibling potentially needs it, but the chances of it being useful to your own family are almost zer
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Also, fwiw basically everything you know about the chestnut tree is a lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TksLHWB9Wbk
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> I can’t be the only one … can I? I mean the person growing the mango is most likely paying a few hundred bucks per mango, on the assumption that they'll get one or two every couple years if they keep it in a container, so in compa
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> I wonder if there's a market in the U.S. for luxury fruits As a hobbyist rare fruit grower and someone who spends a lot of time watching rare fruit YouTube, I would say that even though all the ingredients are there, it would be a
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> I don't believe that we empirically know the positives either and it is the only way to reliably test. There are already studies comparing the mortality risk of those who got the vaccines against those who didn't, among only
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> Do you know if the immune response from the vaccine also causes that damage or not? The vaccine appears to cause minor damage, but more likely from the spike protein than from the immune response. C.f. this article: https://
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> are we concerned that there is a similar risk to younger folks who got COVID Children's ACE2 receptors are more resilient to damage, which is likely why they have only ~50% the risk of long covid as compared with a fully vaccinate
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Not much work has been done on it, but it still runs fine on modern devices. If it ever stops running, it's an open file format, so you can always transition to FreePlane or OrgMode
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> which is almost never how systems work or how I tend to think of them. As a concrete example of where this was recently useful for me, consider the organization of my blog post on software architecture: https://alexkrupp.typ

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