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by ellyagg 9y ago
I'd love to hear a case made for Fidelity/Schwab being even with Vanguard. My understanding is that Vanguard's expense ratio is the best (and it goes without saying this makes a big difference over time). Has Fidelity's
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Neither by themselves, but when combined... I read somewhere that when they want to fatten up lab mice they feed them a mixture of 70% sugar and 30% fat or something similar. When you make something much more delicious and available than wh
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Is it not true for you? I know that I'm personally good at avoiding the same mistake. I'm also extraordinarily good at avoiding repeating catastrophic mistakes. I generally change my processes in the same way that Amazon is changi
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Well, I happen to have personal experience here. I had pain on the outside of my right knee for a few years. I also had clicking in my knees whenever I would squat down, ever since I was a teen. One day, I did an hour of Bulgarian split squ
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by ellyagg 10y ago
There's a totally different way to live that also has mounting evidence, and it's a way that sounds a lot more satisfying to me. For awhile now, the "obesity paradox" has been a thing, where segments of the population wh
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by ellyagg 10y ago
I just saw something about this last week when I was curiosity browsing: http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/02/23/its-official-nat... According to this research, not only did they find a Siberian link
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by ellyagg 10y ago
We're all going to die. The inability to make light of death seems like a refusal to acknowledge this fact. One perfectly valid perspective is that, when facing the impermanence of everything, nothing is off the table for poking fun at
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by ellyagg 10y ago
We already know vitamin supplements work. When people present with vitamin deficiencies, they are prescribed supplements, and the deficiency symptoms go away. The anti-supplement agenda is trivially undermined by well-known facts. So now we
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by ellyagg 10y ago
As always, the devil is in the details. Different vitamins have different effects, they aren't just "antioxidants". Showing that one vitamin supplement is harmful doesn't remotely prove that others aren't beneficial
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Yes, despite that you are grayed at this point, that example is not logically the same as the phenomenon under discussion. If you talk to a lot of people with kidney failure you might conclude kidney failure is more likely than it is. This
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Why is that question so important to you? A lot of people are drains on everyone around them and they don't move mountains. If the quest is valuable enough to society, it far outweighs the costs to a single man's relationships. As
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by ellyagg 10y ago
It takes a lot of forgiveness, compassion, patience, and courage to listen in the face of disagreement. I can't help but find this condescending. Listening should only take a small bit of intellectual humility. On controv
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Shift-option click did it for me, which is really cool. I've wanted this and didn't know it.
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Organize projects by feature: http://jaysoo.ca/2016/02/28/organizing-redux-application/
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Not only that, but there are other even more obvious properties of the set of integers that don't inhere to other sets of objects since discovered. So your claim is essentially that there are no obvious properties of integers, which le
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Oh dear. So you're taking the much stronger stance that it's not even just non-obvious to prove, it's non-obvious to intuit! If you are being honest, the set of numbers the fundamental theorem of arithmetic applies to is much
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Many people would consider the set of numbers the fundamental theorem of arithmetic applies to be more different from other sets of objects that don't abide by the fundamental theorem of arithmetic than white swans differ from black sw
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by ellyagg 10y ago
But he clearly does understand, and some gentle mockery at the other side is called for when they play dumb. I'm sure the fundamental theorem of arithmetic has a non-obvious proof. And perhaps that's precisely what a mathematician
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by ellyagg 10y ago
I actually found that part disappointing. I had sent this to my parents before I read to the end and now wish I could take it back. More and more research is pointing to strength being a leading predictor of mortality. My father has loss of
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Is there a name for a logical fallacy where actions are claimed to be morally equivalent if merely their shapes are the same and regardless of the details?
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Yeah, I realized later it was possible to interpret that sentence another way. I think my downvoter thought I was making a dumb throwaway snark, but I was actually just confused.
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by ellyagg 10y ago
(Perhaps a bit self-serving for me). So you think she's biased in pointing out that academia has systemic biases?
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by ellyagg 10y ago
I've obeyed dozens of "No turn on red" signs in my life, but I rarely see "No thru traffic" signs and until this thread, didn't really understand what the point of them was. I'm surely not hyper-vigilant a
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by ellyagg 10y ago
> not scientifically useful This isn't a peer reviewed journal, we're just a community chatting about stuff, so that's not really a germane standard. Anecdotes are a perfectly reasonable input into our personal Bayesian in
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by ellyagg 10y ago
> It's not undiscovered. What does discovery have anything to do with it? The article makes a different claim. > What we now call “old-growth” forests are simply communities of trees that have been allowed to continue on undistur
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by ellyagg 10y ago
Yes, you can search the whole web. We have been using a pool of credit cards to make up to a million requests per month.
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by ellyagg 10y ago
For sure, although you can't use the free API for making games unfortunately: https://developer.spotify.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ans... I've been curious how difficult or burdensome getti
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by ellyagg 11y ago
Here's a 70 year old deadlifting 683: https://www.facebook.com/tommy.mason.9237/videos/10207393442...
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by ellyagg 11y ago
Ouch, such a gross way of thinking. And people wonder why things are getting so divisive. No matter who you are, there are lots of people who disagree with you on public policy who aren't morons. Treating them like morons encourages th
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by ellyagg 11y ago
Why are you focusing so much on process isolation? It's easy and natural for an Erlang process to remain alive indeterminately and serve arbitrarily many requests to arbitrarily many clients, potentially communicating with many process

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