Tycho

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by Tycho 10y ago
I have actually thought about getting a tutor for this reason. Do you think tutoring is a good solution for this particular goal?
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by Tycho 10y ago
Just reading.
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by Tycho 10y ago
I don't care too much about mental arithmetic, but I care a lot about my "mathematical literacy." I find that reading anything "mathy" can quickly become hard to follow. Sometimes it seems the authors are being very
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by Tycho 10y ago
I didn't take that remark as sarcasm.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Would there be any upside to a company like Uber cultivating a reputation like this deliberately? Obnoxiousness seems to be a characteristic quite ingrained into elite hacker culture.
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by Tycho 10y ago
> Its a lot more predictable than "requests", especially if the target population is something like adult citizens and legal permanent residents. In that case it would basically just be removing all welfare and giving everyone
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by Tycho 10y ago
Isn't becoming part of the target population essentially the same thing as signing up? If the cost remained exactly the same, then either you spread similar benefits across a similar group size, or you spread greatly reduced benefits o
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by Tycho 10y ago
How can they be cost neutral? That would only happen if by luck the same number of people applied to basic income as previously applied for means-tested benefits. I find this scenario unlikely! Also, even if you have some new funding source
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by Tycho 10y ago
Apologies if this has been discussed extensively. But it occurs to me that the US (and maybe other Western countries) has a retirement crisis - ie. people have not saved nearly enough for their retirement, and state-related pensions/en
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by Tycho 10y ago
Why do you need new pairs of jeans every year? I don't think I've ever had to discard jeans except from growing out of them. They are made of tough material.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Did they mention power steering?
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by Tycho 10y ago
Sometimes removing the distractions is not an option though, eg. in the work place.
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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn for the easily distracted?
65 points by Tycho 10y ago|46 comments
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by Tycho 10y ago
But as long as you realise that and monitor your intake/diet accordingly, why is that problem? Are carbohydrates necessarily bad?
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by Tycho 10y ago
Journalists really need some guidelines on how to report on statistics without veering into nonsense.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Beer has good health benefits. It doesn't have sugar in it, so it's something you can drink without damaging your teeth. It doesn't have caffeine, so it's not going to stop you sleeping (hence why people meet for a coffe
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by Tycho 10y ago
I agree, although I wonder how Uber is going to survive/thrive as a business. I sometimes wonder if their research into algorithmic dispatching and now self-driving cars are just a song & dance to distract investors. They create ne
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by Tycho 10y ago
Seems like you never read the full Trump quote on Mexicans, because that is precisely what he doesn't say. Usually when the clip is shown on television they edit it to make it seem that way though.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Interesting revenge tactic: put Trump stickers not on your car but on a Clinton supporter's car....
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by Tycho 10y ago
There was a documentary on the BBC about India a couple of years ago. In one scene a worker the filmmakers had been following got fired from his office job. He calmly left the building, went down the street and immediately got a new job in
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by Tycho 10y ago
Once I understood what a Cartesian product was and how it really relates to joining tables in a query, then I felt everything clicked and building complex queries was no longer daunting.
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Fund managers who come from poor backgrounds are better investors than rich ones(qz.com)
2 points by Tycho 10y ago|0 comments
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by Tycho 10y ago
The median household income for white families in the US is $60k. What parts of the article do you think describes activities not possible for the millions of families above that threshold? The type of success that the author celebrated was
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by Tycho 10y ago
How did the Zara guy get so rich?
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by Tycho 10y ago
I think I understand now why this type of article hits such a nerve with people like you. The idea of personal responsibility and individual decisions leading to better outcomes is anathema to your politics. You dismiss the achievement of a
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by Tycho 10y ago
I knew the top rated comment would be something like this. You completely skip past the family's achievements, ascribe some agenda that was not stated anywhere in the piece, and immediately start ragging on about privilege and focu
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by Tycho 10y ago
Reflexivity.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Is this thing about social interaction draining an introvert's energy backed up by convincing research? I see it mentioned in articles all the time. It sets off my BS detector.
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by Tycho 10y ago
So you're saying pale skin is a "hacked together" solution but modern vitamin supplements are not?
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by Tycho 10y ago
The twitter account @RealPeerReview may interest you.

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