JacobDotVI

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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
The Things They Carried by O’Brian - it’s ostensibly a war book but is nothing about war. It’s about empathy. The world, unfortunately, mostly operates without empathy. Knowing that helps to understand various actions people take.
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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
That makes sense - thank you for your reply!
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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
Isn't part of the idea here to _be invasive_ though? If part of the intent of the service is change behavior then the coach must interject themselves into the clients' lives in order to create action. How would you see the minima
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Making Maple Syrup (1978)(fankhauserblog.wordpress.com)
1 points by JacobDotVI 6y ago|0 comments
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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
I would argue that ad auctions on Google and Facebook are a form of marketplaces for consumer-generated data.
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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
Urgency and scarcity also encourage folks to find solutions that they wouldn’t otherwise search for if they could just wait for the status quo approach. The flip side to doing things that don’t scale is that once those practices become a st
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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
Http://marginalrevolution.com - lots of interesting links and commentary.
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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
I have spent every quarantine weekend in the yard and it's been magnificent and extremely rewarding. We had previously built raised beds but had limited success due to lack of regular watering so my first priority was repairing my ent
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by JacobDotVI 6y ago
Historically old-fashioned newspapers haven't had a calm perspective. Their headlines were the original clickbait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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Corona Model with a Varying Infection Rate(github.com)
3 points by JacobDotVI 6y ago|0 comments
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Great book - I took away a great appreciation for empathy or when it may be impossible.
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Player Piano is such a good read today - puts all of automation fears and UBI arguments in the context of these are the same fears we have with every new technology.
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Ask HN: Anyone working on N95 fit test kits
2 points by JacobDotVI 7y ago|0 comments
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Not all video apps respect the lock orientation setting
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
House of Morgan - biography of JO Morgan and kin Snowball - biography of Warren Buffet The Good Earth - novel about Chinese farmer Fortune’s Children - the rise and fall of the Vanderbilts
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
What happened to customer A and B? Edit: My question is what caused these corporate customers to churn? Did they maintain spend levels with One Medical while the other customers grew spend? Did they decrease spend below reporting threshol
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IAM Unintended Access Analyzer(aws.amazon.com)
6 points by JacobDotVI 7y ago|0 comments
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
I'm not sure where you are from, but when I encountered one of these bridge in Kawaii, Hawaii a few years back it had specific instructions to follow the car in-front of you. I always admired whomever had the foresight to design such
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Player Piano is a fantastic book and very topical in today's world awash in UBI, fears of automation, etc. Player piano is the GE's factory will take all jobs version of today's AI FUD.
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Case in point: New Yorkers moving to Florida and Californians moving to Nevada.
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Tyler Cowen recently praised this book as well: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/11/wa...
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Free Solo and Innovation(softmachines.org)
1 points by JacobDotVI 7y ago|0 comments
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Turns out doctors have better opioid options today but not all of them take advantage of such an option. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/ho... >In August of 2010, Purdue Pharma re
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Sparse announcement blog post from Feb: https://medium.com/@Zaiku/welcoming-kähler-ai-b11a3fe152b7
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Here in the Virgin Islands, much of our personal water consumption comes via rainfall we capture from our roofs into our cisterns (big underground swimming pools). Even with that I still need to truck in water a few times a year when the ra
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
This isn't necessarily a fair comparison - card not present transactions have always had a much higher rate than point of sale transactions due to the increased risk of fraud. There's an open-ended question of if new entrants like
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Could be - but they definitely had a location in Manchester as well. I believe they've since moved their HQ to Salt Lake City but still maintain a presence in the city, per their careers site: https://www.pillpack.com/
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
Dyn (acquired by Oracle), PillPack, Dean Kamen, an Army research lab, and others are all located in Manchester. Considering two of those companies had Billion-dollar exits it seems they are doing something right in NH.
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
This is a fantastic book to read - esp. if you've already read "Getting to Yes" and need a bit of a re-education.
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by JacobDotVI 7y ago
I have often purchased dandelion greens at my local farmer’s market - they are great sautéed!

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