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by enoch_r 7y ago
Our house is old. There are three separate switches to turn on/off three separate lights in our kitchen. Having an electrician fix this would have been thousands of dollars, so instead we bought three smart bulbs. Similar story in our
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by enoch_r 8y ago
I've had a few different ergonomic/ortholinear keyboards and I really, really highly recommend checking out the Atreus keyboard if you want to never look down. It's so ridiculously small (42 keys, no number row) that you kn
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by enoch_r 8y ago
"Debunked" is a pretty strong word. The disputed elements of the story are mostly based on the account of one person (Venyamin Russayev, the KGB minder assigned to Yuri Gagarin) and they are contradicted by official transcripts an
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by enoch_r 8y ago
This is a pretty classic prisoner's dilemma. Anyone who defects earns $3k more a month and has no appreciable affect on the rent for any other units they may own. Unless landlords are very unusually scrupulous, the resulting equilibr
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by enoch_r 8y ago
No one who won the lottery invested the money they spent on the ticket. That doesn't mean that "buy lottery tickets instead of investing" is sound financial advice.
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by enoch_r 8y ago
Our family of four (2 small kids) needs to travel across the US three times a year. I'm fairly sure we're all humans, although the jury is still out on our youngest. :) For these trips we stay exclusively in AirBnBs. They are much
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by enoch_r 8y ago
That isn't "how lisp works," that's how most people choose to format their lisp code. And this is the entire point of the article. He discusses this at length: to reach the universality and speed of a `gofmt`-like format
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by enoch_r 8y ago
I think you're missing the point. The point isn't "no tool exists to format my clojure code!" which is obviously wrong. The author is looking to define a standard that is simple enough to define once and be used univer
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by enoch_r 8y ago
I think you're completely misinterpreting this. > All the great chefs know each other. Do right by one and they tend to hook you up with the others. > Which is to say: if you’re lucky enough to be able to do the above, do not fuc
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by enoch_r 8y ago
My concern is about relative speed. When going down a hill, everyone is going faster. I'm more worried about unskilled and inexperienced riders blowing past slower riders on the way up the hill.
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by enoch_r 8y ago
Riding consistently enough to gain speed is strongly correlated with being a better rider. I don't want to share the bike path with a bunch of 14-year-old kids traveling 40kph on electric bikes that they got for Christmas.
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by enoch_r 8y ago
You say you feel no guilt because you "have no problem with other people considering me a jerk." To me, guilt has little to do with the sense that other people consider me a jerk--guilt is about the knowledge that I've hurt s
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by enoch_r 8y ago
That intuitive obviousness is why the contradictory evidence is so surprising! I would guess that tiger moms probably influence their children's lives much more through heritability of personality attributes (like persistence, ambition
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by enoch_r 8y ago
I'm not against parenting advice in general--sometimes it's invaluable, like when you have a specific problem that's impacting you/your child's life, and you need to find a solution. In terms of long-term parenting
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by enoch_r 8y ago
Will Google also be banning ads for health insurance companies, doctors, mortgage companies, and law firms? After all, these are crucial services, the choice of which can have major consequences! You make a convincing argument[1] that adver
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by enoch_r 8y ago
Awesome, thanks for the info!
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by enoch_r 8y ago
I'm not sure if I'm cargo-culting here or just trying to figure out the point of Chesterton's fence, but I would be worried about the effects of significant amounts of salt in sourdough starter. Salt could theoretically inhib
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by enoch_r 8y ago
As someone who leans quite strongly libertarian, I do not understand what seems to be the default libertarian position on roads. The default view seems to be that government-funded highways are essentially a god-given right. If I want to tr
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by enoch_r 9y ago
I am no fan of Bolton or war, but this is an extraordinarily uncharitable reading. The article in question is pushing for a "military transformation" in which the DoD moves "more aggressively to experiment with new technologi
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by enoch_r 9y ago
Er, the quote for exhibit 1 actually suggests that intelligence is a better (but not "overwhelmingly" better) predictor than parental SES ("being born into wealth")--and reading the paper, that's in fact the correct
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by enoch_r 9y ago
There is a pretty strong empirical support for the random walk hypothesis, the essence of which is that performance tomorrow is independent of performance today.
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by enoch_r 9y ago
> they are very likely to grow more slowly than average (i.e., revert to the mean) I mostly agree with you, but this is basically the gambler's fallacy. If I'm flipping a coin every second for days, and I hit a run of 10 heads
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by enoch_r 9y ago
Shameless plug for my own tracker, in case anyone is interested: I built https://agh.io/about for productivity/time tracking. The advantage is that it's completely passive, but still can accurately classify time s
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by enoch_r 9y ago
I have a 2017 Thinkpad X1 Carbon running arch--I can't seem to change my trackpoint sensitivity, but that's about the only issue I've had.
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by enoch_r 9y ago
Also Comcast (in Portland, OR) also having major issues, resolved by tethering.
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by enoch_r 9y ago
For the USSR, what is the counterfactual? In retrospect, economic growth in the USSR was not particularly impressive compared to other poor, industrializing economics (which historically have often performed very well due to catch-up effect
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by enoch_r 9y ago
Pascal's wager boils down to "vanishingly small likelihood, but nearly infinite reward." It's fascinating because it's difficult to get to a reasonable answer in a way that is consistent with normal utility-maximi
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by enoch_r 9y ago
> Normally the way traffic works is small yields to big. Pedestrians yield to bikes who yield to light powered equipment (e.g. Forklift) who yield to cars/motorcycles/trucks who yield to heavier equipment who yield to trains wh
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by enoch_r 9y ago
Imagine people start driving through a park. Pedestrians and bicyclists complain. Drivers respond: This is just a more efficient use of space. If you prevent cars from driving into the park, they'll just cause more traffic along the ar
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by enoch_r 9y ago
https://agh.io/about / TicTag is a passive time tracking tool that randomly samples your time to get a statistically accurate picture of your life. It's like RescueTime except that randomness allows it to be for

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