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by ex3xu 8y ago
This a very moving piece of journalism. Thank you for your contribution. The takeaway for me, I guess, is that you the words "Medical Emergency" and "Dying" need to come out of your mouth on repeat if you are in a situat
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by ex3xu 8y ago
Interesting list. Quick thought, if you're going to maintain a web page like this, considering adding links for the convenience of people you share it with. Also helps with SEO for the targets.
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by ex3xu 8y ago
I do have phases where I add HN to my /etc/hosts file, but randomly I come across useful insights on hacker news, so I haven't quite taken the step of quitting completely. But if I see an interesting article during a period w
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by ex3xu 9y ago
Sarcasm aside, I think this is an important point, and I would like to know if you or anyone here has suggestions for plug-and-play analytics solutions to look into for those of us who would prefer to avoid Google Analytics?
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by ex3xu 9y ago
As a theoretical solution to what you are saying, you could implement this in aggregate -- the ISP accepts a flat "content" payment from all its subscribers, sums the time spent on each site from each user, and then pays out micro
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by ex3xu 9y ago
I recently picked up a book called, "No Wall Too High", the translated man who escaped from a Chinese labor camp under Mao Zedong. In this book, during his time in a re-education camp in Lijiang, the author relates seeing the stor
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by ex3xu 9y ago
I'd theorize that this has something to do with the fact that the hippocampus is implicated in both determining locational context (for navigation) as well as task management and executive function. I've read a bunch of books on t
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by ex3xu 10y ago
I do marketing and AdWords for a company that specializes in local contractors. Modern online marketing is a race to the bottom that only Google wins. Fundamentally, regardles of industry, marketing is a simple logistics problem -- connect
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by ex3xu 10y ago
For those who are looking to read more on this point of view: The Unexotic Underclass: http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/ Silicon Valley's Unchecked Arrogance: https://thedevelopmentset.com&#
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by ex3xu 10y ago
Sounds like something that Carol Dweck's ideas ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck ) could help with for you, when she talks about fixed mindset versus growth mindset. Right now, it seems like you are looking for
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by ex3xu 10y ago
It seems to me like a pretty big inductive leap to generalize that no skills whatsoever are transferrable across disciplines from anecdotal evidence and one study indicating the inability of ping pong players to improve their physical refle
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by ex3xu 11y ago
This article resonates with me -- anecdotally I think it's fairly well-understood among educated people that in modern times, variations within a population exceed variations between populations, rendering broad-scale generalizations l
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by ex3xu 11y ago
As a first generation Chinese-American, I run into a similar problem converting back and forth between Chinese and English -- where English only has words for thousand and million, the Chinese prefer to speak in units of ten thousand (wan).