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by BadCookie 3y ago
You can talk to your primary care provider about depression, at least in the U.S. If you don’t have a PCP, it’s true that you may have to wait a few months, but make an appointment anyway. Find out if you can get on a waitlist if a sooner a
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by BadCookie 3y ago
The song “Rich Men North of Richmond” really captures the zeitgeist. It was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart in August. If you haven’t heard it, it’s worth a listen. “‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end” https:&#x
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by BadCookie 3y ago
By that logic, babies, children, retired people, and folks too disabled to work are worthless. Do you really believe that? Please consider getting screened for depression if you haven’t been already.
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I second this advice. Relatedly, I am in a Facebook group for $condition, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people post that a doctor prescribed them $treatment. Although $treatment is a very common thing to give to healthy peop
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I disagree that it is reasonable to expect students to follow your suggested process. The instructor is being ridiculous here. For one thing, one AI “detector” will not necessarily return the same result as another.
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by BadCookie 3y ago
Yeah. The other day, I asked a clarifying question that led to a long email chain among non-technical employees. Of course, the various VPs refer to each other by name, but when the resulting email chain got forwarded to me, I see that I wa
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by BadCookie 3y ago
Here’s one recent paper on the possible connection between autism and the mother being overweight, but there are others: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oby.23228
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I hazard a guess that the most popular diet soda is Diet Coke, which contains significantly more caffeine than regular Coke. Even if there is a causal link between autism in the son and diet soda consumption in the mother, jumping to the co
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by BadCookie 3y ago
The article seems to be implying that remote workers drive more because they live in more rural places, and some also take “several short trips” throughout the day that add up to more driving than their commute would have been. But why are
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by BadCookie 3y ago
In addition to liability concerns, most people have really poor writing skills. Half the time, in my experience, management has only the vaguest notion of a plan or strategy, and writing it down would reveal how poorly thought-out their ide
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I agree with most of what you wrote, but it’s puzzling to me that you think that proofs are more of a feature of discrete math than continuous (analysis). My first introduction to proof-writing was in geometry, and a majority of proofs that
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by BadCookie 3y ago
Do you have a citation for this, or is it just a guess? I think my brain works this way (bottom to top). My child has an autism diagnosis, but I do not.
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by BadCookie 3y ago
More anecdata, but I am remembering that I had to stand in line to enter the LEGO store at my local mall a couple weeks ago. I have been to that same store many times before and never had to stand in line previously. The restaurant I go to
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by BadCookie 3y ago
You make a good point, but everything seems very busy at restaurants and shopping centers to me. Many times, I have wanted to go out to some restaurant and found that it was booked out for weeks. So I’m finding the “low volume” idea hard to
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I’m not sure I believe that people have less discretionary spending, at least in the US. According to one article[1], hotel prices are up 54% year-over-year. Anecdotally, restaurant prices are up by a similar amount compared to pre-pandemic
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by BadCookie 3y ago
The 2022 edition has a dinosaur on it while the 2021 edition has eagles, for what it’s worth. I am tempted to buy the eagle one for only $350 … but I don’t really have the space for it!
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by BadCookie 3y ago
In particular, there were stories about pregnant women being especially vulnerable to severe Covid. Those stories probably got a lot more attention in blue states and instilled more fear accordingly (rightly or wrongly).
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by BadCookie 3y ago
Agreed. I tried to report a porn video reply to an Oreo ad today. Twitter basically told me that it wasn’t against the rules to tweet adult content, so I should change my profile settings if I don’t want to see such content rather than repo
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by BadCookie 3y ago
Would CUXO be happy as Chief Product Officer? The whole thing sounds pretty silly, but if you want to be CTO, then CPO seems like a reasonable thing to offer CUXO (if you think he’s any good at product stuff, anyway).
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by BadCookie 4y ago
The government guarantees a majority of mortgages, so the government already has standards that are commonly used to decide which home loans can be made: https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/economy&#x
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by BadCookie 4y ago
In fact, here's a page on the SVB website about venture debt: https://www.svb.com/startup-insights/venture-debt/how-does-v...
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Videos of Jason Calacanis Recommending Silicon Valley Bank(twitter.com)
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by BadCookie 4y ago
Venture debt is a thing. I worked for a startup that had a loan through SVB ... so I don't think you're quite correct, though I don't know how common those loans were.
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by BadCookie 4y ago
What price are VCs paying for concentrating too much of their portfolios into a bank that was careless? No price. And that is what is upsetting some people. The VCs didn’t concentrate their money like this for no reason. They got some benef
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by BadCookie 4y ago
It also seems possible that some VCs have their personal funds tied up in SVB.
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by BadCookie 4y ago
These stats are for the U.S., but one thing that usually get ignored in these retirement discussions is just how massively life expectancy depends on income level and sex: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/health/
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by BadCookie 4y ago
I like the idea. There is plenty of opportunity to give more care and attention to babies/children, the sick, and the very elderly, to start with. And that work can’t be automated.
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by BadCookie 4y ago
“Geriatric pregnancy” is a term that is sometimes used to describe a pregnancy in a woman 35 or older. It’s best, from a biological standpoint, for a woman to have all of her kids before age 35. I don’t think most people understand this or
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by BadCookie 4y ago
I’m not defending Amazon here because I don’t think they are doing it for the right reasons, but I wonder if direct donations to charities might actually go up enough to more than compensate for this change. I was ashamed recently when I le
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by BadCookie 4y ago
Possibly Pinterest. I am not sure if the browser extension was 100% necessary for Pinterest to succeed, but I remember it being part of the new user sign-up flow, at least at one point.

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