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by arikrak 8y ago
Based on the other sleep link posted here [1], this article itself warning people about sleep might be the thing harming people's sleep and health. It's fine to tell people who are doing other things instead of sleeping that sleep
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by arikrak 9y ago
I bought the turbo tax CD which claimed to come with phone support from CPAs. The CD worked fine for the most part but the phone support was basically a scam.
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by arikrak 9y ago
How often do websites just trust a security question for verification? I thought they usually ask it along with something else like along with a password reset email.
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by arikrak 9y ago
The Priceonomics post didn't really say much more than the Atlantic article, I don't think it discussed synthetic diamonds or the internet or anything. Cubic zirconia looks identical to diamonds but it's not chemically the sa
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by arikrak 9y ago
Also there are many things people spend on that don't cost more in one place than another, e.g ordering from Amazon. Or going on vacation to another area.
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by arikrak 9y ago
Answer: Since there's no way all the cities in the US and Canada would actually agree to such a pact, so Amazon will just pick one of the remaining cities. I agree that cities should not be offering free land to a company. But it seems
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by arikrak 9y ago
Most sites just send password reset info to your email. I thought these questions are usually used just as an extra layer on top of that? So someone would need to hack your email and guess your question, which makes it less of an issue if y
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by arikrak 9y ago
I meant how to avoid waking up too early. (Some techniques seem more geared at helping people fall asleep.)
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by arikrak 9y ago
- I wonder what are the best ways to treat early morning awakening. I guess the sleep deprivation technique mentioned in the article could be a possible solution. Though it wouldn't be very helpful if it didn't last long term. - I
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by arikrak 9y ago
You can say that about every single instance of competition. Yet when governments run things they don't generally do as good a job...
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by arikrak 9y ago
Big companies are a safer bet. The company should be around in a few years, they have established best practices, good compensation, normal hours (~40/week). Even if one later deiced to work at a small company, it helps to have gained
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by arikrak 9y ago
He and dhh (of Ruby on rails) should form a club or something. There's so much buzz around startups but sometimes a business is the way the go. The issue is even a small business is much more difficult to succeed at than a regular job
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by arikrak 9y ago
At large tech companies, RSUs and bonuses aren't that different than cash.
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by arikrak 9y ago
But you also breathe in co2 with every breath so would need to subtract that..
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by arikrak 9y ago
Meanwhile the reverse happens when a tree builds itself by pulling out carbon from the co2 in the air
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by arikrak 9y ago
> Doctors and other highly paid professionals stand out in this respect. Our autoworkers and retail clerks do not in general earn more than their counterparts in other wealthy countries. You need to compare doctor pay with pay on other s
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by arikrak 9y ago
I think one issue with Wikipedia is it started when people still thought anonymity was great. (E.g. look at Craigslist compared to more modern sites like Airbnb.) So it's harder for editors to be accountable or for their biases to be k
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by arikrak 9y ago
That's almost entirely just to pay the interest on the debt, they're not actually trying to reduce the debt itself. See the first NYT article: > Every second of every day, the M.T.A. pays $83 in interest. That’s $7.1 million in
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by arikrak 9y ago
Looks like they just re-published their article from a year ago: http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-je...
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by arikrak 9y ago
It seems like Kotlin is similar to Dart in many ways. New languages like them are able to be more concise while Java is stuck staying compatible with its past.
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by arikrak 9y ago
This is not at all how computers play chess: > A computer can beat a human at chess not by searching for the satisfaction of making an elegant move, but sifting through millions of previously played games to see which move is more likely
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by arikrak 9y ago
> But the hockey-stick takeoff The hockey stick is lying horizontally though instead of vertically. If it took 3 days to go from 0 to beating the top player in the world, I wouldn't have expected it to take 21 days to beat next vers
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by arikrak 9y ago
> The techniques used for speech recognition seem to have little in common with those used for image recognition, and both are different from those used in expert systems. I have a hard time seeing how image recognition, for example, wil
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by arikrak 9y ago
> Like many universities, the value of YC to founders is mostly signalling and network. What you actually learn at YC is a minor component of the value (since you could learn most of it just by reading or watching videos) While this soun
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by arikrak 9y ago
What are the cons of using Credit karma? I'm fine with them showing me as many ads as they want on their own site. But I'm not sure I want them giving over my address and phone number to other parties who can then send as much spa
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by arikrak 9y ago
Do they give out your data to other parties who then spam you, or do they just show you offers on their own site?
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by arikrak 9y ago
Maybe the confusion over python 2 vs. 3 is why people have so many questions about it.. </snark, mostly>
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by arikrak 9y ago
It's interesting that Watson appears to rely so much on processing text, which runs into so many difficulties. It would be helpful if (for a given disease) every patient's medical records were tracked as structured data. Machine l
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by arikrak 9y ago
> This study is evidence that if your aim is to make more money, switching from salaried work to running an incorporated business is typically rewarded with a significant boost in earnings. What about survivorship bias? I.e. most entrepr
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by arikrak 9y ago
In classic Tetris you can slide the piece briefly after it lands, so you can always keep the game going.

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