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by User23 2y ago
Every other body system—pulmonary, circulatory, nervous, skeletal, and muscular, just to name a few, shows marked long term physical changes, called adaptations, to stresses. See Selye for the basics. Why would the optic system be any diffe
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by User23 2y ago
> Body height is largely hereditary if you can avoid malnutrition. But improved nutrition has led to an increase in average height over time. To be clear, good environment increases the phenotypical expression of genotype. A malnourished
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by User23 2y ago
Here is the definition, from the first paragraph of the source that you yourself posted[1]: The United States homeownership rate represents the percentage of occupied housing units where the resident is also the owner. A constantly evol
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by User23 2y ago
Silicon Beach software was pretty much the premier Mac game company. But I think the comment is about the game “Black and White,” which is, if I recall, one of the popular god-games of the era.
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by User23 2y ago
You are confused. The denominator is the number of households . The homeless obviously don’t have households. You could at least read the comment you’re replying to before calling its poster a liar.
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by User23 2y ago
One option is to marry someone who is willing to be the single income.
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by User23 2y ago
The primary input isn’t land, it’s tolerable neighbors. That is of course what “good school district,” “location, location, location,” and similar euphemisms actually mean. If you have a high tolerance for crime and other antisocial behavio
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by User23 2y ago
The people I know who have been in serious inpatient treatment for major depression have told me that in group every single person there shared some horrible shit in their past that directly contributed to their being there.
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by User23 2y ago
In 1980 a house that is considerably north of 250k today was 25k. And this isn’t guesswork, I’m talking about real actual houses in the same place. If anything I’m being conservative. So in terms of home ownership that $4 was at a minimum $
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by User23 2y ago
A rabbit is when the mathematician presents the next step in a proof as a magician pulls a rabbit from a hat; leaving his reader to puzzle out how the trick was performed. For shorter proofs this can be delightful, but for longer ones it be
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by User23 2y ago
> It's never been easy to get a good job unless you have an in demand skill. Not to put too fine a point on it, you sound very young. Rest assured that your handful of decades doesn’t suffice for a negative proof and furthermore ple
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by User23 2y ago
That’s because the “employment” data isn’t measuring “can a person easily get a good job.” It’s so cooked at this point it has as much to do with real jobs as the CPI does with real spending power.
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by User23 2y ago
There’s really a lot more to it than that. There is a notion of “polite mathematics” which is independent of the difficulty of the proof. If every step clearly follows from the prior steps it’s rather immaterial how long the proof is. Simil
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by User23 2y ago
Then they can't be said to value it. And judging by the number of free one year identity theft protection plans I've racked up, they don't.
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by User23 2y ago
Weird! I noticed these just a week ago.
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by User23 2y ago
> If you can get an extra lambo in your garage, by firing all your factory employees, and move your manufacturing to China, well...what do you think will happen? I wonder what would happen to a Chinese CEO who pulled a stunt like that? I
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by User23 2y ago
Go’s initial development priorities were ordered for Google’s needs. The described problems weren’t major issues at Google because they store or at least used to store all of their code in a single repo.
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by User23 2y ago
Yes, the minimum wage in Big Macs has absolutely cratered, something like a sevenfold decrease. I haven’t checked the numbers but I expect the price of a house in minimum wage hours has similarly skyrocketed. This is of course because labor
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by User23 2y ago
One fascinating thing about attending a Tufte seminar is after 2 days of a rigorous run through of, so far as I know, the only really rigorous attempt to create a science of design, the Q&A session was 80% people asking something along
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by User23 2y ago
> So then bacteria have souls? Yes. Plants, fungi, and everything else that's alive also have souls. In fact the term medical "vegetative state" is using Aristotelian vocabulary. Obviously it's not saying the patient
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by User23 2y ago
Anyone interested in consistent hashing should take a look at the simpler and more general rendezvous hashing[1] too. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_hashing
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by User23 2y ago
The soul is the animating principle. The Latin for soul, anima, is where we get our words animal, (in)animate, and so on. In the most loose sense the soul is whatever it is that a living thing stops having when it becomes a dead thing. Phil
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by User23 2y ago
> In the United States, the power is almost entirely in the hands of the landlord. Maybe not for things that reach criminal levels of malfeasance but for your average renter with a crappy landlord there is zero leverage, it is particular
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by User23 2y ago
What is criticism anyhow? Feels like you could black knight this hard with clever phrasing. “The company does a fabulous job keeping its employees loyal regardless of circumstances!” “Yes they have the best and toughest employment lawyers i
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by User23 2y ago
And they won’t have that equity available to borrow against to pay for that lawyer either.
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by User23 2y ago
They wrapped Dijkstra and Scholten's predicate transformer semantics [2] in a monad[1]! This almost irrationally pleases me. I'd really love the general concept to get wider traction too. While it's particularly useful for th
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by User23 2y ago
It was nice of them to teach kids how to identify real marijuana.
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by User23 2y ago
They may not be able to deny entry, but they can hold you indefinitely with no limit even if you’re a citizen.
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by User23 2y ago
> If it's physically grounded then it would be computable by some machine, just not necessarily a Turing machine. What makes you think that? The overwhelming majority of functions aren’t computable. The evidence suggests, if anythin
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by User23 2y ago
No. Why should it be?

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