Psyladine

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>Everything (at Amazon and Walmart, at least) is priced by computers that are constantly trying to determine the ideal price that maximize profits. Do you have a source on this available? I ask due to some second hand retail experience w
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Romulans would be like the wood elves.
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>Thanks for saying this, and rightfully so! Approving a bad drug in the world where distribution channels are very well set up could have disastrous effects. Denialism's Michael Specter disagrees. Vioxx was one solution to the pain
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The idea of journaling was filling the need to talk to someone about something, but another person could never be trusted. Anne Frank would be mortified that people read her most private thoughts and fantasies. It's rooted in psycholog
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> then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all. Non-sequitor. You are certain to die, so there's no point in continued breathing?
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Disagree with the conclusion that notes are to prevent distraction. For instance, if I am driving and have a particular response or thought to an audio lecture, my interest in notation is not to maintain attention but rather an intense shor
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It's a similar idea, where the balls start in the 'finished' position, and very little tolerance to being disturbed. Recreating that state would be more trouble than it's worth.
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The best part of survivorship bias is when you are a survivor.
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Wonder what his thoughts on balrog wings are.
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>Engineering disciplines are some of the few degrees that provide you the ability to both directly solve other people's problems and have close customer contact Douglas Adams made his career reiterating the cliche engineers do not c
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Yes, the article in reference mentioned other developers harboring conspiracies like ' secret PlayStation libraries' supposedly at naughty dog's disposal, but actual credit by the developers was to their use of Lisp as a secr
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As Petzold said in Code, all the pieces for computers existed in the 1870s, but it wouldn't be until the second world war that any serious effort at leveraging computational power was attempted. All you had to do was take three unrelat
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Related articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9737156 https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/... Context helps; Crash was the playstation mario (or more app
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Somewhat obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
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Creativity is absolutely pattern matching. We're not creative as much as we are marvellous recombinators. If a creative were asked what their process is, wouldn't they have to honestly answer, "I don't know yet, but I&#x
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>The key to understanding these and many other flagrantly irrational "beliefs" is that these things are believed for social or political reasons not simply rational ones. Memetic immune disorder, if you aren't already fami
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You're on it. you can't change someone's mind, only present information that contradicts their world view, and then it is up to them to process that change, or reject it. Introducing doubt. An example from a blog on jewelry h
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Sustainable business models that don't hold their breath for acquisition.
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Kapitalrendite.
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Policing tone is passive aggressive censorship & bias. It's as hideous a concept as 'culture appropriation' or the cult of positivity. https://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
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It's a bummer, from the headline you'd think the ML designed a molecule and tests with it showed results, instead it compared known drug interactions against available compounds, sort of a rainbow table matrix. You know, what rese
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Liars Poker reflected a sudden and gross change in the industry due to hyper-success. They went from boring mortgage firms to the richest organizations in human history within a decade, and it distorted thinking and emotional responses, as
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Ah, Jeppson's Malört, only alcohol that survived prohibition on account of a taste so strong the government decided noone would enjoy drinking it.
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I go by recommendations, but I'm initially looking for chemistry - does this person jump to conclusions based on initial statements, is there an urgency in their tone (as in, getting to it rather than getting to know you), and most imp
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Friends & money don't mix. If you are owed something, get it in writing, and get a lawyer. Intra-group politics are magnified by the presence of potential earnings, and if you aren't savvy at the game, you're losing.
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Something something, invoice $1 for chalk, $9999 for knowing where to mark the 'X'.
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Feynman was undoubtedly a genius, but he also suffered from a need to be admired. The safecracking episodes at Los Alamos are a perfect example - giving the impression he was an expert safe cracker when his real methodology was guesswork an
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"A math textbook might be fascinating page turner, if only it were written by a writer instead of a mathematician" -Paul LaRocque
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Secret of Mana has a special place in history as part of its development was cribbed from the Square-Enix work on Chrono Trigger, or rather a different evolutionary path sprung from the same root.
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>Take a place like NYC, for instance, where there are so many people, from so many parts of the world, that it arguably begins to "approximate human culture and interaction as a whole." Except people are a product of context, s

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