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by ellyagg 6y ago
Is she the first person to do both? That's gotta be a pretty awesome feeling.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
I've heard this rationalization before but it falls down on closer examination. If propensity for outrage at "controversial figures" is asymmetrical, then factions that exaggerate outrage get to control the conversation.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
There are a ton of RCTs showing that vitamin D supplementation prevents respiratory infections: https://www.google.com/search?q=vitamin+d+respiratory+infect...
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by ellyagg 6y ago
I don't know about all-cause mortality, but this recent review says vitamin D supplementation definitely helps with respiratory infections, which is more germane at the moment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2
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by ellyagg 6y ago
How did the Superior Court become aware of it? I doubt they routinely study home mortgages...
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by ellyagg 6y ago
People would publish flashcard sets (share part of their notes tree) and others could fork and modify those sets, like GitHub. This is in my plans if I ever have enough time to compete in this space.
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by ellyagg 6y ago
Feels like more and more there's a ton of smart people converging on ideas. I wrote a flashcard web app with WF as the filesystem. Right now it's very powerful as a personal use system, and I've considered making it public.
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Reminds me of the Sacco and Vanzetti case, which I learned as a kid was an unambiguous miscarriage of justice and xenophobia. It's perhaps not well known, but there's pretty good reason to think they were guilty all along: https:
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by ellyagg 7y ago
It's weird because I'm just as afraid of a black swan of unforeseen, runaway financial collapse due to pandemic countermeasures. People seem awfully glib about how many will die from the pursuant depression.
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by ellyagg 7y ago
He's probably talking about the rationalist community, and people did. https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1233174331133284353
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Low-effort here means "short"? There's nothing wrong with short. I find these essays, even the short ones, useful and insightful. I hope PG is not unduly influenced by the recent backlash to his publishing more. I came to thi
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Love it! I always wanted to make this, but for public basketball courts.
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Man, it sure is hard to make decisions in this world, isn't it? I've helped several friends and family fix their chronic back pain through deadlifts and similar. Chiropractors didn't help. They didn't believe in or could
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Indeed. My wife broke her back in college before we met. Since then she'd had chronic back pain and she figured that's just what she'd have to live with. What fixed it for her was hip thrusters, which are targeted toward the
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by ellyagg 7y ago
One way would be to read a lot of the type of writing you want to emulate. But you'll get the best results by putting a lot of directed and specific practice into it. Ben Franklin wrote about his method in his autobiography. He would t
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by ellyagg 7y ago
You can re-style arbitrary (or well-designed) HTML in lots of different and cool ways with CSS. But you can't re-style it to the new particular design that management wants. And even if I'm wrong, the last decade has proven that y
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Anything you tie your well-being to can be taken from you. And will be in the end.
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Only having to install one app to get a consistent experience around the world is high value for me as a user.
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by ellyagg 7y ago
My wife's family lives in a slum in Caloocan City in the Philippines. When we stayed with them for a visit, it was amazing that I could just pull up my Uber app and get a ride to BGC, which took 1 1/2 hours. There is no other way
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by ellyagg 7y ago
On a personal note, I hope you're wrong, because Uber has added a ton of value to my life.
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by ellyagg 7y ago
Would you care how often you make breaking changes on your API if you control the client and it's your only consumer?
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by ellyagg 8y ago
I think it's a cousin of bike-shedding.
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by ellyagg 8y ago
Perhaps only a little easier. I've known so many jerks in my life and none were Elon Musk.
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by ellyagg 8y ago
Something I didn't use for a long time in Django development that turned out to be helpful is the Python debugger. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1118183/how-to-debug-in-...
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by ellyagg 8y ago
If you learned English outside the US and particularly as a second language, I could see this style being pretty strange and maybe hard to follow.
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by ellyagg 8y ago
My brother hit the top spot with the first article on his blog in April and he didn't do anything special. Your content has to resonate and maybe you have to get a little lucky. But it's definitely not all gamed content.
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by ellyagg 8y ago
My dad was a programmer and I'm a programmer. I don't think I'll ever make a salary as high as he did[1], and that's in absolute dollars. Yet, my quality of life is definitely better. I take vacations all over the world.
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by ellyagg 8y ago
Ironic that you complained about lack of data and then launched into an anecdote. I have a few anecdotes about the DMV. I wonder if research would back up my hunch that the DMV is really bad at customer service. I'd certainly bet on it
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by ellyagg 8y ago
Someone at burning man just recommended CBD so I'm excited to see this timely validation.
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by ellyagg 8y ago
The breathing in and out by counts thing frustrated me for a long time. It didn't help calm me at all, but the advice is everywhere. I can easily shallow breathe into my chest all day long. That doesn't fix anxiety. You need to br

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