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When I scan for outlier submissions on the front page I look for: * Submissions for high comment number to vote ratio. This sometimes means it’s a submission with a political bent, leading to flame wars; you can easily tell this by the titl
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An important basic life lesson covered in an entertaining way. One of pg’s early essays on how his startup Viaweb succeeded using Lisp covers the same point about seeking unfair advantages: “In business, there is nothing more valuable than
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In 2022 Purdue has launched US’s first Semiconductor Degrees program: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2022/Q2/purdue-laun... .
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I cannot recommend "Crucial Conversations" enough ( https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Third-Talking-S... ), excellent source for everyone but esp. for managers. It will teach you how to broach difficult t
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As always, Spolsky makes blunt but good points. At the end he mentions additional approaches: "You will certainly find other methods of management in the wild (there’s the exotic “Devil Wears Prada” Method, the Jihad Method, the Charis
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The timing of this post is great! Not only V Day is coming up but the primrose is one of the earliest blooming flowers, hence the name ( Primus since it's among to earliest flowers to apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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He stresses the strong impression Treasure Island left on him: “… frightening but in a positive way.” I must have read it when I was 11 or 12 and that’s a great way to summarize the feelings it evoked. In fact, I still can feel the dread
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Good point about coevolution. Of course all thoughts on this subject are (currently) speculation. Here's a quote by Georgia O'Keefe: “Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted larg
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Excellent piece that touches on a diverse variety of thoughts! Each of the thirteen would make for a good conversation in cafe with one or two friends while drinking good coffee and sharing lemon and poppyseed muffins. The question posed in
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Other than the general physical (walking and others but need to be careful: falling and breaking bones is a significant cause of loss of quality of life) and mental (sudoku, Jeopardy, reading news from Internet, learning a new language) I w
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This really gets my blood flowing, it really is the future! The question is: can we get experimentation in biology, say, for high schoolers and undergrads, as easy/cheap/interesting as computing? On the order of buying a good lapt
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One big reason I go to estate sales is to perhaps one day find a treasure like this; unfortunately many a rich home has either very few books or if they do have books they are mostly junk (estate sales being homes of older folks, the book s
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No, I've provided a detailed example for Chicago's Selective High School Enrollment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39266951 . Generally when such systems are implemented the levels are not binary, e.g.
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>> The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. Compare with vodka consumption in Russia, e.g. see this
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> modern academia's favored nurture over nature mindset The is a simplified way of putting it by I would roughly agree with this statement. However, I think you're drawing the wrong conclusion from the fact that "poor Asia
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You're absolutely right but that's not what's being done when the community income is being used rather than family income. This leads to many complexities, injustices, and people gaming the system.
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>> Importantly, Dartmouth Admissions uses SAT scores within context; a score of 1400 for an applicant from a high school in a lower-income community with lower school-wide test scores is a more significant achievement than a score of
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This sounds like an excellent idea!
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I was led to this paper by an answer to this Stack Exchange answer: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/1999 . The answer reports that the mathematician Israel Gelfand wrote that: "Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on
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Mathematics Is Biology's Next Microscope, Only Better (2004)(journals.plos.org)
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The article says "unpublished assessment" but the reason it's unpublished is because it was put on hold, as explained here: https://fluoridealert.org/articles/ntp-will-make-blocked-neu... . Here's a
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I’m not saying you’re wrong I.e. manipulation probably does happen, my prior=0.4 bec. it happens inmost platforms so why not here (0.5) but AFAIk HN has strong anti manipulation tools&practices in places (-0.1). Show me examples so I ca
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I use the downvote button for two reasons: overwhelmingly for rude, come-uppance, and similar type of comments; very rarely for comments spreading FUD for no particular reason. I just downvoted your comment for the second reason. Demanding
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Another good article from last August: https://nso.edu/blog/polar-magnetic-field-reversal/ . We’re currently about midway in Solar Cycle 25, which began in Dec 2019. Scientists say the cycles have minimal effect on
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The sun's poles are about to flip(vox.com)
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OK, spurred by your comment I consulted my large Larousse dictionary and found these two: maçon (builder) and mâcon (a wine). I challenge others to find others in the ‘m c [r]*n’ form.
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Wikipedia entry has: “In 2007, Cusenza left to join Nodal Exchange as CEO the following year. Avey left in 2009 and co-founded Curious, Inc. in 2011.” Cusenza is not mentioned in the article (he was president, too) and evidently Avey didn’t
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Not to be confused with macarons, which are also delicious but have no SW design named after them!
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Study finds Montanans are increasingly OK with wolves(montanafreepress.org)
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How would you identify the source of a batch of sand easily? Using the sound it makes: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/09/12/...

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