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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
When deciding whether to join a company, it may be a good idea to ask to see a video of their annual all hands. Was it an event that you would have enjoyed? Did the people participating appear to have values and attitudes you would like t
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
It is an important data science philosophy claim that, if a person's outcome can be predicted without accounting for the person's actions (e.g., before the person is born), then causation appears to exist somewhere other than in t
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Summary: 1970's small town rural Oregon. Father, pipe fitter, bought home & cars. Five kids. Jobs left in '90's. 4 kids now dead (before age 70), as are 25% of the kids they rode the bus with. Causes: suicide, accide
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
A classic -- The PhD Octopus( http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/octopus.html ) -- 6 points|DaniFong|11 years ago|3 comments --The PhD Octopus (1903)( https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/octopus
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
This looks like consolidation of small (family owned) farms into larger (corporate, maybe multinational) operations.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Home page of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford: https://captology.stanford.edu
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
The article I would like to read is what the challenges are to including a few prior states in navigation. I'm amazed that, when I drive over or under a bridge, my online mapping software changes instructions as if my car were able to
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
A randomized controlled experiment: Find a collection of 200 people who you will be able to test 5 years from now. Send copies of this report to a random selection of 100 of them. Send a similar article not about television to the other 1
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
It looks like part of Girard's ideas is that when life purpose and sense of value is based on social comparisons, and actual differences are very small, people become very prone to thinking the worst of others. The idea is that these
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
"This person may have gone to a school that would be in the set he describes as 'elite.' I think this might have warped his worldview because they're the only places where people can unironically imagine America as a &#x
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Here's paper that explains the current objections: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9 There is nothing wrong with statistical significance as long as no one is misled by it. Unfortunately, there i
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
For the Python route -- or Javascript -- there are a huge number of introductions and learning projects, some of which will appeal to a teenager. For MS Excel, I've never seen any training or learning materials that are interesting eve
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
This paper argues implicitly for getting a college education. Reason is that very few people would be able to understand this paper before getting a college education. Many Americans may graduate college without being able to understand t
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
The issue with bankruptcy is not "excluding" students from bankruptcy. It's applying bankruptcy law fairly to every debtor.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Yes. I would categorize genocide by relatives as something that most people would not want to face -- it's "probably another topic" It's a mistake to omit that too.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
I did the same with my boys -- now both software engineers (duh). When raising children, are you going to omit how Physics affects your life? No, you'll tell about hot stoves and heavy objects on the other side of levers. You tell t
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India’s citizenship law: what is it and why has it stirred such anger?(ft.com)
4 points by NPMaxwell 7y ago|1 comments
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
"Nudging is particularly effective at shaping one-off behaviors, such as getting flu shots, but it hasn’t yet been shown to be as reliably effective at changing decisions that require daily actions," Makes sense: daily actions hav
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
The Alienation Index comes from a telephone survey. The results changed very dramatically from 29 & 36 in 1966 and 1968 to 55 and 59 in '73, '74. Since then, it has varied with a small positive trend between 50 and 70. The i
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
"Harris Poll’s Alienation Index... asks whether respondents agree with these five statements: What you think doesn’t count very much anymore. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Most people with power try to take advantage of
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
From 1980 to 1998, the U.S. went from 0.1% of the population incarcerated (from 1880 to 1980) to 1% in 1998. Violent crime rates began dropping in 1995, and continued dropped since 1998. In On the Run, Alice Goffman reports that, in the ne
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
I telecommute every Wednesday and attend a lot of meetings in a global company virtually. If every attendee is telecommuting, it works well. If some are physically present, sotto voce comments are my nemesis. Folks in the room can hear th
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Actual title: News Media Fall Prey to Satirical Hoax It's not convincing that this journalism is any different from the too common plain vanilla bad journalism -- like click-bait links.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Part of the change is due to the appearance of alternative powered vehicles. In Tokyo, it seems like every mother is riding an electric cargo bike with covered seating for two kids and room for groceries -- the minivan of bicycles. In Sea
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
"how to raise money ... read as the test. It came at the end of YC. It had numbers attached to it, and higher numbers seemed to be better. It must be the test." This is a great sharing of internal mental processes. The same proce
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
No. They meant to stop him from his compulsive interest in electronics. They wanted him to play with other kids, play sports, run around. He seemed weird and they thought he would seem weird when he grew up. And running shop that fixes
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Cool! I bet it needs to be fine-tuned: % of Fortune-50 companies with CEO departures and losses taken on financial statements > 5%. Or something like that.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
That's a great contrast. Yes, Feynman had a thriving business fixing electronics as a kid. Difference: his parents didn't worry that he was going to grow up weird. They were happy with what might have become his bus ticket coll
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
No. It was a local blackout: too much load with air conditioners in the summer
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https://moneyfyi.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/5358/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bath

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