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by djhn 11y ago
You're right. To disambiguate, I was saying the pragmatic/economic effect "dominates", which economists use to imply being stronger, not even necessarily by much, but enough to override culture at the margin. > all of
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> As long as people are interested in eating, drinking, partying, culture, socializing and having casual sex - cities as most desirable places to live are inevitable. Eating, drinking, partying and casual sex are just that - culture. Cul
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by djhn 11y ago
Calling sleep cumulative is slightly dangerous, you can't recover lost sleep or stock up on it. But Sleep deprivation and its adverse effects could be describe as cumulative, with a slow rebound.
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Historical, pre-digital precedent: In the case of sudden death, there would not have been any way to securely dispose of any private "data". So your private information, diaries, works you purposefully didn't publish, unfinis
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I completely agree with you, but this isn't mutually exclusive with facing retaliation (in terms of internal politics, for instance.)
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I don't know why this always works - at least on a large enough demographic - this strategy of being literal, candid and self-aware to leave the audience with an impression of total honesty and transparency, in contrast to the rest of
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I don't think you can usually draw any conclusions regarding either 'niche status' or 'presence/lack of competition' from the word vertical.
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I love it, but I think it should get progressively harder? It's too easy to keep going far longer than seems reasonable to spend on the game.
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by djhn 11y ago
Could you recommend some seminal books / articles on timeseries analysis of heart rate data and similar physiological variables? PS. Have you heard of / tried Beddit?
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by djhn 11y ago
> IPO > preserve our culture, mission and goals. Pick one. Or is there a historic precedent I'm unaware of? On a serious note, the shift in the latter parameters can be smaller than in an acquisition, but to "preserve"
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by djhn 11y ago
Do UK engineers command salaries anywhere near SV level though?
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OSX: lots of crashes, sync errors, etc.
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Why not http:// ? To me it looks more obviously like a web address. www just looks weird
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I've seen it too. That's a lot of confidence in their SEO.
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Why not just http:// ?
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Where can this fascinating part be read in more detail?
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There is a long track record and large body of research on this topic in economics, and there's no need to reinvent the wheel as the results are well known and largely uncontroversial. TL;DR: Money outperforms vouchers and stamps.
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by djhn 11y ago
A nordic capital, 1mil population, old-style city centre. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadsplanesystem.jpg (1st picture). 15 minutes walk to central railway station connecting (kind of) to the rest of the w
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by djhn 11y ago
> the biggest challenge I had with math was being put off by cryptic notation. I tend to want to read things to myself in my head as I look at them on a page, and when I'm looking at (new/unfamiliar) math notation, and I don&#x
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by djhn 11y ago
I find it difficult to relate to someone who could hold this opinion. It may be a feature of not being a parent.. But how helpless exactly do grownups think kids are? Beyond the age of 5, maybe 6, a child is surely more than capable of inde
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Applies especially (mostly) to folks pre-internet. I mean, what most people share about themselves (in)voluntarily nowadays is much more than journalistic surveillance would have yielded a decade ago. Of course, if your PR agency is good, a
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by djhn 11y ago
I use Skype all the time. Occasionally it would work badly, which would cause to try something else (Hangouts, the apple facechat thing, facebook, some generic flavour of WebRTC). That something else would work much worse than skype under t
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by djhn 11y ago
I reckon the death of marginally medium-to-highbrow low-profitability journalism and the emergence of clickbait only appear to be connected. Clickbait will appeal to population, spring up new clickbait ventures, and descend down a spiral yo
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On the other hand consider those depicted as the "poor" stereotype: Many young people in Asian cities will have low incomes and little to no savings, however many/most will have security and ability to self-sustain: a rural f
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> But in general there is an argument to be made that natural resources should be publicly owned, or at least rented with the profits going to the public. First made famous by Henry George, if anyone is interested. An interesting use-cas
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Markets are fairly self-correcting. Excess content will kill lowest quality content producers (not enough ad revenue). Homogeneity of content will create ways to differentiate (niche publications). Globalization... well, some niches are som
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Self-selecting for an affluent demo is an easy way out - and leads to more advertising income. AFAIK The Economist and the like are steadily growing paper subscription rates. And isn't the fact that most publications doing "genera
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The fun in that is gone, it has trickled into your wallet.
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Which country is this? That would be quite a remarkable and a radical law!
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The United States was born out of outrageous treason - violent revolution against the crown and established law.

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