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by araneae 16y ago
Or the rich kids' arteries.
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by araneae 16y ago
Yes, but I'm usually paying more than the payment amount on the high interest one. How much has to be done manually, since my income fluctuates.
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by araneae 16y ago
That doesn't control for wealth.
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by araneae 16y ago
The only paper I've read on this (and I unfortunately can't find it) suggested that students who go to pre-school, as opposed to those who go straight to kindergarten, have a higher rate of behavioral problems. Of course, that's for ALL pr
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm sorry, I really dislike this answer. Obviously this guy knows that he should love his kid. He was looking for specific answers on how to introduce the kid to computing. And you gave him this glib, content-less, greeting card answer.
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by araneae 16y ago
Is this a request for input? I personally haven't come across any "rate my start-up" posts I'd considered spammy, but maybe that's because the measures that are currently being taking have been effective (marking as dead, lack of upvotes fo
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm not going to vote. It's not rational. It's a lot of effort and my vote is proportionately very small and therefore can have no effect. EDIT: Whoever downvoted this, YOU are the reason that HN is going to pot. You may not like that
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by araneae 16y ago
I had three student loans, and I am doing it the mathematically correct way. I paid off the second-largest with the highest interest rate before it came out of deferment, and am currently working on 2 and 3, putting all the spare cash into
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by araneae 16y ago
I've taught a fairly large introductory course, and every exam we'd have maybe 1-5% of the class taking a 1.5 or double length exam in a separate room, depending on the severity of their "disability." I'm not an expert or anything, but all
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by araneae 16y ago
Yes. The paleolithic diet excludes grains for the reason that it was not included in the Stone Age human's diet. If Stone Age humans did have refined starches in their diet, then if you wanted to follow a truly paleolithic diet you would e
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Humans were eating refined starches 20k years before agriculture(jetlib.com)
3 points by araneae 16y ago|4 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
User interface is AMAZING. Color schemes and the default look... not so much. :)
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by araneae 16y ago
Oh, cool! Although a different month would have been nice for those of us who are also trying to write a novel :).
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Ask HN: Is there a NaNoWriMo equivalent for programming/apps?
12 points by araneae 16y ago|7 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
Agreed. I think downvoting starts a revenge cycle, and the methods that are in place to prevent revenge only make the revenge less direct. For instance, you can't downvote replies to your comment, but you can go into their user history and
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by araneae 16y ago
Right, and there's a lot of good research into why people become criminals, and most do not do it because they're thrill seekers. Instead, it mostly has to do with their expected costs and benefits, just like any other choice. If one comes
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by araneae 16y ago
Agreed. I'd even go a step further and say the number itself is meaningless. What's the sample size? The stand. dev.? But most importantly, the sampling method sucks.
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by araneae 16y ago
The kids in South American countries that subsist only on beans and rice are malnourished. It's better, but don't forget the vegetables.
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by araneae 16y ago
I take the opposite approach. Why should I spend $10/lb on tenderloin beef when I can get tip steak for $3.50/lb? It goes in one end and out the other. At least a good office chair will last you years and possibly even save you back issue
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by araneae 16y ago
Spoilage has nothing to do with what's "left to spoil." Cooked ramen noodles will spoil just as readily as udon. Bacteria need moisture to grow. Udon is sometimes sold fresh (wet), and that will spoil. Dry udon does not spoil. As for pal
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by araneae 16y ago
Hey, do you want to know what the side effects of birth control pills are? Nausea, loss of sexual function, mood swings, increased risk of stroke, pulmonary embolism, and heart attack. Give me some Provigil any day.
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by araneae 16y ago
My SO takes Provigil infrequently and has reported no loss of creativity. Next this guy is going to tell us that LSD bring him closer to God, and you're going to believe him? Anecdotal evidence about the effects of drugs are mostly worthles
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by araneae 16y ago
Some of us put vegetables and eggs in our ramen. Ramen in its true form is not just the noodles.
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by araneae 16y ago
This could be true for humans in general, if humans weren't products of evolution. Ever notice that anyone who writes blog posts about babies on HN are absurdly pro-baby? It's because we wouldn't pass on our genes if we weren't. It's poss
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by araneae 16y ago
Another thing to add re: age is that the father's age generally tracks the mother's age, (plus a constant) and that is optimized downward. Even women who are 25 show a decrease in fertility and increase in birth defects over those who are
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by araneae 16y ago
For the vast majority of parents, it doesn't matter. If you're worried about it, invest in a baby scale and weigh regularly (keep in mind that babies lose weight immediately after birth, though.) Doctors can give you a chart for normal
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by araneae 16y ago
And the reverse is that if there is a line to the women's bathroom, use the men's. I never understood the segregated bathroom idea.
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by araneae 16y ago
We had a weekly biology quiz that was randomly generated from a set of questions, but would save your progress. However, it gave you the answers to the questions you got wrong in real time, but it would only send your answers at the end
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by araneae 16y ago
In my experience, the median grades are higher for smaller classes, and those smaller classes are often more advanced and populated by graduate students. It's not that the professor is easier, it's that everyone works really hard and learn
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by araneae 16y ago
>it probably won't work these days. Oh, it absolutely works these days; it's even easier. My undergraduate institution publishes median grades for each course. There's a bit of an uproar though because they're going to start printing t

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