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by findthewords 4y ago
There are three ways to flush acute glutamate buildup from the brain: 1. Exercise. The brain can direct glutamate to be used as an energy source to dispose of excess amounts. Glutamate naturally flows by diffusion from areas of high concent
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by findthewords 4y ago
These are very good guidelines that aren't respected well enough. Clicking between the tabs on Windows Task Manager (processes, application history, and so on) takes about 0.8 seconds on a modern desktop.
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by findthewords 4y ago
We can take a look at the St. Louis Fed "Fred" database take a look at historical affordability of 20 % down payment. Let's divide two numbers, a and b to get a ratio of yearly median wage divided by median house price, from
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by findthewords 4y ago
Well, they have multitudes of assistants at their disposal. Delegation multiplies one's productivity factor. It's like gaining access to multiple CPU cores.
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by findthewords 4y ago
Thank you, very useful information. Never thought of neck problems but my ergonomic situation has been bad for a couple of years now and lines up with these problems.
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by findthewords 4y ago
I've been dealing with similar problems for a few years now, ever since all my wisdom teeth were removed.
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by findthewords 4y ago
Ignore it.
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by findthewords 4y ago
Narrower "operating leverage".
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by findthewords 4y ago
To make housing affordable, one must make it unpalatable to investors. Lack of housing is not a problem - an excess of demand from speculative investors fueled by too low interest rates is the problem. Affordable housing is uninvestable h
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by findthewords 4y ago
Brooks, they don't have excessive cushioning (which is bad) like my indoor Nike shoes.
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by findthewords 4y ago
Demand-side economics: Low mortgage rates create a shortage of affordable housing by increasing demand. For example: -Speculators buying things and selling them for higher price later, that is a rational thing to do. -Normal folk who simply
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by findthewords 4y ago
The housing developer seems to be a purely supply-side economist. The argument that ever lowering interest rates lead to "affordable" homes is not evident in any real world data that I've looked at. Evidence points to the con
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by findthewords 4y ago
Hypothesis: The deal will go through once his stock price goes back up - if this were to occur it would be strong circumstantial evidence to suspect he is timing the market.
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by findthewords 4y ago
My 2 cents: "it's the economy, stupid"
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by findthewords 5y ago
Head related transfer functions are quite well understood. The difficulty is in personalising the HRTF as everyone's ears are different. Sony has looked into it quite a bit: https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/18&
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by findthewords 5y ago
When it comes to engineering talent, I wouldn't be so sure. Steam is also among the biggest marketing platforms, especially for early adopter gamers.
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by findthewords 5y ago
Windows 10 warns that burn.exe contains Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml. I'm sure it's fine but Windows doesn't let it run. The demos that work are stunning and inspiring.
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by findthewords 5y ago
In other words, the market is saturated?
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by findthewords 5y ago
No surprise that Android begs the user to enable location data with popups that can't be turned off.
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by findthewords 5y ago
No idea how this will play out, but this is very reminiscent of Yahoo and Tumblr: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tumblr-sold-to-wordpress
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by findthewords 5y ago
Simple. Focused. 5 key points, that's it, a button to click for more news. No scrolling required to read the main content on the frontpage. I like it.
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by findthewords 5y ago
A clear example how money in the military-industrial complex (or DARPA) directs innovation paths. The military does not approve of hydrogen blimps, and so neither can the civilian sector use them.
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by findthewords 5y ago
If this planet had a carbon tax, perhaps those subsidies wouldn't appear so egregious.
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by findthewords 5y ago
I find that constant user interface refreshes reflect the company culture and less so trends. They love to build new apps. I wish they would have incentives in place to maintain old ones. An easily accessible, trusted repository for Win32 p
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by findthewords 6y ago
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite orbits decay rapidly thanks to atmospheric drag.
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by findthewords 6y ago
That's what money is.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Lending at interest only leads to unlimited aggregation if the risk of lending is zero. Zero interest rate policy and government backed securities is indeed as close to zero risk as possible in the real world.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Only because the government has provided poor alternatives. Is Uber a better allocation of capital than infrastructure projects?
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by findthewords 6y ago
The fact that "proles" even exists in the modern vocabulary should indicate something. Bin the population into wealth centiles and observe the curves. The Gini coefficient is not a magic arbiter of inequality. See the Great Gatsby
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by findthewords 6y ago
Is social mobility also meaningless? The two are linked.

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