Goladus

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by Goladus 15y ago
Many people that I asked recently pointed to convenience as the culprit. It is too hard to coordinate a video call, they would say, too much of a pain to setup and initiate. But is that really true? In my gmail chat window right now I c
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by Goladus 15y ago
Maybe, but you'd also be ignoring other basic staples of western healthcare like vaccinations. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2284/
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by Goladus 15y ago
Even assuming what you say is true, that "minority" of non-bullshit healthcare is very important. Chemotherapy is a crude and harmful way to eliminate cancer, but I know several people alive today because of it. Without insulin injections,
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by Goladus 15y ago
Another thing you might consider about the difference between a 1000ft apartment and a 3000ft home is heating bills. While there's no guarantee a smaller place will be cheaper to heat, it's very likely. If you are on the lower end of the
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by Goladus 15y ago
In some places, yes, but not everywhere.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Where I lived through 2004-2007, my rent never increased, but that was a much less active rental market than Boston. Since moving to Boston in 2007 I've only been in the same place long enough to have 2 opportunities for rent-raise requests
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by Goladus 15y ago
Right, renting is a related but partially separate market from buying. There are various pressures that affect the market value of the home you're interested in renting, and you may not be able to charge rent+expenses and actually get any
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by Goladus 15y ago
The comparison is never that simple. Even if you don't consider the simplicity of being able to pack up and move, or conveniences like garbage collection and maintenance staff (I haven't picked up a snow shovel in two years), you have to a
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by Goladus 15y ago
It might be interesting to determine what IS consistent about your use of periods like that. Is it purely random or does it depend on context?
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by Goladus 15y ago
Right, the point being that with certain styles of writing it makes a lot more sense to resolve for aesthetics rather than a simpler grammar. This perspective was largely ignored by the Slate article. The question sentence could be resolve
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by Goladus 15y ago
> Never use the passive voice > > I have never heard this from anyone except Microsoft Word Grammar Check. "Never" is definitely over-stated, but avoiding passive voice does tend to make writing more concise, clear, and engagin
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by Goladus 15y ago
Heh, that would be precise.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Informal writing rarely features narration to any significant degree, which is where the so-called American Style is most "logical" to the extent that we're even really talking about logic. In forums and email and texting, quotes are usu
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by Goladus 15y ago
> Turing completeless, not C. C's mix of portability, simplicity, flexibility, and expressiveness made it the ideal choice for developing operating systems that had to run on a wide variety of architectures. Perhaps a simple example of
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by Goladus 15y ago
I tried a mac briefly, and they don't work well for me anymore. In particular, I couldn't find a combination of keyboard layout and application hotkeys that didn't annoy me somehow, frequently, all day long. I managed to get it down to "t
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by Goladus 15y ago
I'd add: put all your text files under revision control.
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by Goladus 15y ago
This advice more or less matches my experience with busy people, although there are some people who just won't read your email no matter how you write it.
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by Goladus 16y ago
Intro material, even if it's not too verbose, may omit important details anway. For example, a regex tutorial might only give a brief, vague explanation of raw strings (maybe a quick comment about not needing to escape backslashes, etc.).
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by Goladus 16y ago
Yeah I probably saw even less than you, I definitely wish it was on for tomorrow too. One of my friends had to work today and would have loved to see some of the architecture talks. It makes me think I should be a little more proactive ab
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by Goladus 16y ago
Yeah, I didn't even know about it until today. I saw fliers for the Cambridge science festival, but it was basically just a calendar of events and I didn't notice anything on the scale of the open house.
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Today (until 4pm): MIT Open House(mit150.mit.edu)
17 points by Goladus 16y ago|4 comments
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by Goladus 16y ago
It's not that bad if you don't mind that he's storytelling rather than just reporting news and facts. Usually it drives me crazy when web writers do this, but in this case it wasn't too bad, although I still didn't bother to read the whole
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by Goladus 16y ago
2.) Low burnrate. Not quite, he's talking about a particular mentality in that the goal was to blow as much money as possible and get enough revenue to IPO, at which point early investors cash out, profiting off public investment in somet
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On Critical Thinking(criticalreading.com)
1 points by Goladus 16y ago|1 comments
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by Goladus 16y ago
Learn to read critically and think critically. You don't need prior knowledge on a subject to evaluate a comment. Look for sound logic. Identify and evaluate the assertions and any hidden assumptions. Vote counts are won't ever reliably
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by Goladus 16y ago
On a budget, and for people trying to limit their saturated fat, cheese works best as a flavor-enhancer rather than a major source of nutrients. IE don't bother with pizza or macaroni & cheese dinners, but sprinkling some parmesan on y
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by Goladus 16y ago
PhDs at a company like Exxonmobil aren't necessarily doing research in the classical sense, they are basically looking for oil. But I don't know the numbers either. I do know that there are lots of Pharma companies doing drug research in t
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by Goladus 16y ago
I agree that there wasn't much depth of analysis. But the problem with Theil's thesis is that it doesn't really have much to do with what a bubble really is. There can be overvalued things that people believe in without it being a bubble.
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by Goladus 16y ago
Sources of funding vary widely for people with PhDs. If you have a PhD in a scientific field, especially from a place like MIT, the money is in defense, energy, and medicine. You might work for companies like Exxon-Mobil, or iRobot, or a
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by Goladus 16y ago
In the case of ethnic and religious sites, a fairly promising and probably reasonably accurate description is given. In the case of adult sites, that's just fraudulent and flat out lying to people can be an effective way to get at least so

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