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by Cd00d 9y ago
I think it was an interview with Bob Newhart (maybe WTF), where he talked about how his dad was never home - instead he went to the bar and hung out with his buddies every night. The interviewer asked him why, and Newhart answered "I g
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by Cd00d 9y ago
I agree with this. For our kids, I've been the one that's most successful with quick sleep times, and my wife and I believe it's largely driven with our different mental energies during that time. I'm a night owl, so don
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by Cd00d 9y ago
okay - thanks. Years ago someone told me a story of the ants saving us from a wood death, and I never checked it out, but recounted it just the other day. Fungi seems more reasonable on reflection.
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by Cd00d 9y ago
I thought ants were what made short work of the wood. Something about formic acid? Do you know more - I need to reset my ignorance.
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by Cd00d 9y ago
I don't understand the reasoning that because one opts for expensive training that incurs debt then a high salary is necessary. What other forms of debt behave that way, where the more you take on the more compensated you should be? I
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by Cd00d 9y ago
That's right. There are certain luxury purchases that are not about spending money, but rather are a reasonably safe way to park cash.
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by Cd00d 9y ago
I've been using the Moleskine Cahier XL for 3 or 4 years now, and I love them. Soft cover is flexible for folding back, they're lightweight, a comfortable size for carrying with my laptop, and hold up well. Each book is roughly 8
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by Cd00d 9y ago
I'm taking (off topic) issue with the notion that Starbucks is not particularly high quality. Before Starbucks the options for coffee were almost universally limited to weak or burnt and stale bland Columbian beans. Starbucks is excell
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by Cd00d 9y ago
What in your genetic makeup told you to cut down on caffeine? I'm a passionate coffee drinker, and have been sipping coffee the entire day since my teen years, so I'm interested in what you identified as a risk.
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by Cd00d 10y ago
My recent experience in this was in negotiating my internet/TV bill with Time Warner. I get TV via their app on a Roku. TW rebranded their TV delivery as Spectrum. Fine, I want to give up my old plan, and sign up for a new plan that is
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Wait, how can that be true? I worked in Gothenburg for several months a few years back, and there is a strong drinking culture. My poor language skills and memory may have me wrong, but all pubs advertise 'stor stark' happy hour,
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Not sure I follow the criticism. California is a pro-regulation state, you posit, and I'll posit that Texas is an anti-regulation state. Yet, population adjusted, California ranks higher in economy by Gross State Product than Texas. h
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by Cd00d 10y ago
<$75k yearly salary is now a modest income for a math major in their early 20s? That's ~50% more than the average American household income. To do work that's not related to a degree, and without work history to show performanc
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by Cd00d 10y ago
FedEx. You're without phone for a day, but still easier than being without a phone for an entire (possibly business related) trip.
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Felt funny, but turns out I was hilarious.
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Ben Franklin! He was all three! (I feel funny)
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by Cd00d 10y ago
I have to disagree. I feel very strongly that SAT tutors and training systems completely undermine the value of the test. The test is supposed to find students with a comprehensive knowledge and problem solving base, but instead, through th
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Except the airlines use a geographic hub system, so outside of (let's generously pick a large number) a dozen large cities you do NOT have the freedom to pick from a large set of carriers that go to the places you're trying to go.
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by Cd00d 10y ago
When you're trying to be price sensitive for your reimbursement (say, keeping startup runway in mind), the 55.5 cents per mile reimbursement very quickly overtakes the cost of other forms of transit.
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by Cd00d 10y ago
https://arxiv.org/
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by Cd00d 10y ago
I like wireless headphones for the simple situation that I switch from podcasts on my phone to video on a kindle fire and back during my commute, and pairing with various devices from a variety of manufacturers seems like it would be very s
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Maybe a paper does stand on its own, with the large list of citations at the end. But, maybe some of those citations are journals that your institution doesn't subscribe to, or are historical and in another language, or et cetera. Ther
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Interesting. As a physicist, I tend to put extra trust in PNAS credibility due to their history of critical editors and reviewers, and therefore am less likely to question results published there. Maybe it's the same fallacy, but at th
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by Cd00d 10y ago
Good candidates are especially hard to find if they're not willing to identify themselves. I consider the cover letter important when I'm a hiring manager. It shows that you're interested enough in the job to try for it, to m
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by Cd00d 11y ago
I'm just now trying to figure out what HubSpot does, and what 'inbound marketing' even is, but from my naive and ignorant perspective on a new subject: isn't this post the same as their product?
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by Cd00d 11y ago
Thank you. When the article first popped in the NYTimes I couldn't easily find English copies of his books. I was curious, but didn't follow through.
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by Cd00d 11y ago
Location: NYC Remote: Willing Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Physics, biotech, fluidics, polymers, 3D printing, Python, materials, optics Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherjones314 Email: jo
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by Cd00d 13y ago
Interesting display. My company sells a technologically advanced type of aerial imagery to growers, primarily in CA, and we're seeing that this year most farmers are not able to invest in new data or spend dollars on technology unless
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by Cd00d 13y ago
A story as a counter point: In my field of study there were several people with reputations for having had wacky ideas or following rabbit holes too far and publishing obtuse conclusions. When these people gave talks you could see most of t
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by Cd00d 14y ago
I'm confused by your comment about chlorine from ACs. What sort of AC system uses tap water? Obviously not forced air, but I've only been in water cooled buildings that use nearby lake or river water, presumably because using treated water

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