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by cbhl 9y ago
Ah, whelp. I forgot that high school is 9th-12th grade. Re-reading the high school numbers cigarettes are down 15.8% -> 8.0% (2011-2016) but eCigs are up 1.5% -> 11.3% (2011-2016). The gains in eCig usage still appear to cancel out th
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by cbhl 9y ago
Yes. That means that in a school of of 360 kids (30 students * 3 classes * 4 grades), ~36 of them are now nicotine users through vaping. You may as well dedicate an entire classroom to holding detention. The US was slowly reducing the numbe
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by cbhl 9y ago
If a UBI was big enough, steel workers could go back to work. They could run a factory and make steel, at a loss, but it wouldn't matter because doing something useful (making steel) is decoupled from their livelihood. And for the peop
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by cbhl 9y ago
> Overall, men stay up later than women I would be careful about concluding that women and men have different biological clocks from this observation. I feel like society strongly discourages women from staying up late (constantly tell
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by cbhl 9y ago
Traditional universities have "summer vacation". :)
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by cbhl 9y ago
The University of Waterloo advertises it as a feature of their co-op program. Four month work terms alternate with four month school terms. Do six of them before you graduate and you have two years of work experience.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Yes, we should also be advocating for better paternity leave policies, so that men can take a bigger role in child care. However, that does not mean companies shouldn't audit pay across race and gender, controlling for job role, level
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by cbhl 9y ago
This only covers full-time employees (software engineers, designers, and the like), right? Not any of their drivers?
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by cbhl 9y ago
I've been working in Software for about three years. Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and not that of my employer. I am an "exempt employee" under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This means that the amount of money I ge
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by cbhl 9y ago
One of the weird things about the DSM-IV definition of Asperger's/Autism was that it was defined by certain criteria applying during childhood. The literature that I was given during my diagnosis was very clear that even if all th
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by cbhl 9y ago
The paper is behind a paywall. It probably went back to the abstract page because the login / buy panel is on the right side of that page. Maybe see if your local library or university has an institutional subscription you can use to a
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by cbhl 9y ago
Waymo discovered sections of Mountain View where "the flow of traffic" was routinely 5-10 mph over the speed limit, and driving at the speed limit was actually more dangerous because it caused human drivers to try and go around th
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by cbhl 9y ago
The last time I visited Phoenix, I recall being shocked at far apart traffic lights were in the city. Between the Wal-marts and the giant four-to-six bedroom homes, it might be normal to see a major street have a mile between traffic lights
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by cbhl 9y ago
One of the concerns about treatments for ASD and ADHD is that parents could be incentivized to do what is convenient for them, rather than what is best for the child.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Can a modern tech journalist even unplug from the Internet if they wanted to? I was under the impression that most journalists have a (contractual) daily "tweet quota" that they have to meet.
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by cbhl 9y ago
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by cbhl 9y ago
Hydroelectric is one of the oldest electrical storage systems there is -- you can store more electricity as gravitational energy by pumping the water back uphill, and then letting it flow back down during peak times. There's a reason w
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by cbhl 9y ago
I believe you mean that the next person up is Ruth Porat. /s
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by cbhl 9y ago
... until Google Play Music goes the way of Google Reader :'(
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by cbhl 9y ago
I imagine this depends on how many missiles are being made: adding memory: $xxx per missile paying a software engineer to fix a memory leak: $x,xxx,xxx
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by cbhl 9y ago
I have the label of autism, but I struggle to communicate exactly what (if any) accommodations I could be asking for at work. Are there any resources you've found useful for this?
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by cbhl 9y ago
The message of "mitigating not curing" autism comes from adults who have been through really bad attempts at cures (usually marketed to their parents). Some young adults with autism I knew had undergone "applied behavior anal
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by cbhl 9y ago
For what it's worth, I am grandfathered into a $238/year billing plan and love it. If you want $/GB, try Backblaze's B2 or Amazon S3.
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by cbhl 9y ago
If you're interested in going through the literature about learning, I recommend starting with Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom by Marilla D. Svinicki.
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by cbhl 9y ago
But less well-received by the neighbors of those customers: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article49959860.ht... http://www.mystatesman.com/business/google-fiber-install-pro... ht
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Google/xsecurelock: X11 screen lock utility with security in mind(github.com)
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by cbhl 9y ago
Even in Norcal, Seasonal Affective Disorder is a thing. I think your body just notices the (smaller) temperature and sunlight fluctuations.
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by cbhl 9y ago
> - It's OK to have the user agree that he's 13 years or older. Facebook cannot possibly check whether it's true, and the age doesn't matter anyway since the contract would be valid even if it weren't the case. I
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by cbhl 9y ago
The SRE book is also a great resource: https://landing.google.com/sre/ [disclaimer: I work at Google]
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by cbhl 9y ago
I don't think any of the boat landings have ever worked live -- only the ones on land.

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