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by chockablock 5y ago
Interestingly this has some parallels to how the brain may get wired up. During development (I.e. before the eyes have opened), there are spontaneously-generated waves of activity in the retina that feed into the brain and may help structur
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Arts and Letters Daily – a thinking person’s guide to the world of art and ideas(aldaily.com)
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by chockablock 5y ago
You can hit reload then dismiss the modal. (works on iOS)
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by chockablock 5y ago
I’ve heard that too, but for me it registered as a way of shaking people free of their fear of writing down their true objectives, lest they find themselves on the hook for missing it. Something along the lines of ‘What would you do if you
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by chockablock 5y ago
Long ago I had a college job doing data entry for a tiny long-distance carrier. We had hourly quotas, etc. and had to retype the information into several different backend systems. One day I dug up a manual and discovered that there were a
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by chockablock 5y ago
Not true in the US where asset values are ‘stepped-up’ when passing to heirs avoiding all tax on gains.
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by chockablock 5y ago
Another NYC public school parent here. You are exactly right—-both G&T and bilingual programs are deliberately introduced to schools in gentrifying areas as a way to lure in wealthier (white) families that would otherwise go private. Af
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by chockablock 5y ago
> A domestic power supply voltage (110 or 230 V), 50 or 60 Hz alternating current (AC) through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 30 milliamperes (mA).With direct current (DC),
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by chockablock 5y ago
I currently use Twitter this way. I stay logged out (deleted the password from my password manager) and visit Twitter.com/username directly for a few folks I want to read. It’s indeed way less addicting. (Twitter really wants you to lo
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by chockablock 5y ago
It’s in his cookbook “The Family Meal”. It is a curious and useful book: the recipes are for the unfussy Spanish homestyle meals they served to the staff at el Bulli each night before opening. Each recipe is one that can scale way up, and t
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by chockablock 6y ago
Thanks for the tip; connecting to a full-tunnel VPN seems to fix this for me. (FiOS in Brooklyn).
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by chockablock 6y ago
Connecting to a full-tunnel VPN seems to fix this for me. (FiOS in Brooklyn).
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by chockablock 6y ago
Not usual, IME they’re rare. I called SF 311 and requested such a sign at an intersection where people often seemed to be confused (10th and Moraga in the Sunset, IIRC). To SF’s credit, they reviewed the accident history at the location, an
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by chockablock 6y ago
You can choose to reduce or reuse, though.
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by chockablock 6y ago
The AFRL press release linked in another comment says that this technique relies on measurement of the crustal magnetic field, which is in the 10s of nanoteslas range.
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by chockablock 6y ago
Effective civilian oversight is made damn hard by the political power wielded by the police. Most of this article is in fact about the ways in which NYC's existing civilian review board is neutered and undermined by police department
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by chockablock 6y ago
It feels to me like the word 'partisan' is doing a lot of work in your argument. What if we replaced it with 'ethical'? Google's policy says they will not run ads against certain types of content that they find abho
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by chockablock 6y ago
> [Google is] policing speech on their platform Howso? Zerohedge and Federalist publish their content on their own websites. Should Google be forced to serve ads to their readers and cut them checks every month? (I would say no). Is anyo
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by chockablock 6y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23233619
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by chockablock 6y ago
This observation has been around for a while and seems important to me. Robert Putnam’s book 2000 Bowling Alone is a famous example.
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by chockablock 6y ago
Your link [1] says 37 million Americans, which is 11%, not 37%. (Still a shocking #!)
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by chockablock 6y ago
> astoundingly high overestimate for any reasonable metric 12k deaths in NYC gives a pretty hard lower bound on IFR of 0.14%. The IFR will end up higher than 0.5% if incidence in city is any lower than 27%, which seems very reasonably li
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by chockablock 6y ago
Also people reported sharing the Santa Clara link with others who might want the test (due to having had symptoms). In principle you could have the same problem with this survey: call your buddy and say “come on down to Costco—they’re doing
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by chockablock 6y ago
> None of them [academics] use Python either. Here’s a paper by Travis Oliphant describing SciPy that has >2500 citations. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=pyt... In many fields of scie
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by chockablock 7y ago
Managing non-python software and its dependencies, for one thing. I’ve used it to package Qt apps, shell scripts, even JavaScript packages that were intertwined with non-js components (though that was painful).
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by chockablock 7y ago
The full text of the study that Cora Ball cites is available at the lead author's website: https://rochmanlab.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/mcilwraith-et... From the paper: > We observed no significant reduc
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by chockablock 7y ago
FYI this article is an excerpt from a new book by the author: > — Adapted from “The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution” by Wall Street Journal special writer Gregory Zuckerman, to be published on Nov.
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by chockablock 7y ago
Worked for me just now. ‘Web’ link took me to a Google search page, clicking through to article gave me full text.
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by chockablock 7y ago
I think we got trolled :)
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by chockablock 7y ago
Yeah, from the link, the quoted number is actually the amount Wash U saved by changing light bulbs. > the school has completely replaced their lights with more energy efficient, low wattage bulbs that save an average of 376,394 kW hours

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