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bobdole1234
10y ago
The problem is you spend most of your contagious time feeling alright. By the time you're actually feeling ill, you've already infected everyone around you.
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10y ago
I have a couple of 80 year olds in my office, do they count as two 40 year olds?
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10y ago
Uh. Sure it does.
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10y ago
The latest research shows exactly that. In 15 years or so, what gets taught will reflect that.
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bobdole1234
10y ago
Because assholes who care about things that aren't really their business are difficult to deal with.
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10y ago
Entertainingly, I find that many of the "lefties" I know read widely on all areas of the spectrum, and those of a certain timbre only read their bubble. You'd never know that by the posturing on the part of those gentle perso
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10y ago
Biased is entertaining.
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10y ago
So, you're saying the fact they've been making billions in profit isn't success?
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10y ago
You're always learning, just because you're not where you need to be today, doesn't mean you'll never reach the bar.
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They represent the working class now, we call them techies.
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10y ago
You do, but your immune system really only needs a small boost to kill the infection, so while you might end up with a significant fraction of resistant bacteria at the end of a 14 day run of antibiotics, your immune system kills them all e
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10y ago
No, it really is that complicated. There is also the fact that people in different stages of their health react to the same diet in different ways. So, the diet that might be healthy at one point in your life, is what will sicken you at ano
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10y ago
Why does it just take following directions to make it to the front page of HN these days?
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Canada has strong protections against indefinite incarceration.
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10y ago
Not so much fixed as "Canada doesn't insist that everyone make separate deals so everyone can get fucked harder". It turns out when you have millions of people dealing together as a block, they have much more bargaining power
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10y ago
Google can match you with an advertiser based on your data without selling or disclosing that data to the advertiser. If an advertiser wants people who have searched for things related to cars in the last month, Google can send them impress
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10y ago
50%? I'm just shy of 4x.
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You know a few functional alcoholics right now, and you likely don't even know it. You also almost certainly know someone addicted to opiates and have no idea. There's only a small percentage of drug users who lack the ability to
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10y ago
No, I think the failure is to realize that you might have a huge userbase of assholes, but assholes still have money advertisers want. If you want to build a tolerant community, you build it. You don't take an existing one and try to p
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10y ago
Do more interviews. Jobs you're vaguely interested and qualified for, but aren't likely to switch for. When everything isn't on the line, you can learn to relax and enjoy. I try to never go more than a few months without a bi
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10y ago
You'll interview again, and again, until you are qualified. Then you'll get hired.
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10y ago
Woosh.
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You say hedonism like it's a bad thing. Life is short, why are you heaping guilt about enjoying something on a pleasure like eating?
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10y ago
Six orders of magnitude does give a little bit of an insight into reliability.
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We spend a lifetime building the skills that we use in our day to day lives. And most of them don't transfer.
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Wait. Did you just make a broad generalization about people because you're pissed off you've heard broad generalizations about people?
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10y ago
Portland is ok, but I'd rather price you out of the market.
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Not the first year, but the next pumps come with automated fueling as standard equipment, and we can write off the upgrades over the next few years for tax savings.
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10y ago
This is like the people talking about throwing away their scales or only weighing themselves every few weeks while trying to control their weight. The solution isn't fewer data points, it's to collect the data frequently and rigor
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10y ago
The person you're replying to isn't incorrect. He was saying that having few tests that your treat as predictive isn't as helpful as a long line of tests that are interpreted over time as predictive. Your example is someone t
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