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Executive Function Theft (2023)(hedgehoglibrarian.com)
2 points by flocciput 2y ago|0 comments
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1980s–1990s Romanian orphans phenomenon(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by flocciput 2y ago|0 comments
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by flocciput 2y ago
Similarly, you might be interested in the Adam Curtis documentary HyperNormalisation: https://vimeo.com/191817381
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by flocciput 2y ago
not the same article, but same subject with more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42664097
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by flocciput 2y ago
> Finally, on Christmas Eve, a group of armed black New Yorkers (reportedly not including Ruggles) boarded the brig Brilliante and managed to rescue two of the men. This sentence kind of contradicts the author's point though? After
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by flocciput 2y ago
I've been waiting for someone to mention Liars' Game! When I started watching Squid Game that's the direction I hoped it was going in. Still good, and season 2 seems to be more in that vein than the first was. But in general
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by flocciput 2y ago
How much does it cost (not to organize, but for someone to attend)?
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by flocciput 2y ago
What I've found is that while local coffee shops are sit-down friendly, they all close at 1, 2, or 3pm, at least where I am. 5-6pm if they're a chain. If I want a small bite to eat, a hot drink, and a place to work after 5 I basic
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by flocciput 2y ago
You may want to flag the posts quoting American Psycho and Office Space as well, then.
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by flocciput 2y ago
To add to your list, you can also find Richard Borcherds teaching math on YouTube.
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by flocciput 2y ago
What's with the weird jump in life expectancy around 47 years in or so? It's especially visible at higher values of the 4th slider.
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by flocciput 2y ago
The "Missing Notes" page is interesting. I thought it would be a list of notes they need examples or specimens of, but it's actually individual lost items, specified down to the serial number: https://www.theibns.o
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by flocciput 2y ago
Of course the LiveNearFriends website is only for people in the fucking Bay Area and lists houses that are millions of dollars. I would love to live near friends. I've been trying to find a place cheap enough and close enough to an ar
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by flocciput 2y ago
Elaborate on that?
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by flocciput 2y ago
If you're not already familiar with it, you might get a kick out of Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language": https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
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by flocciput 2y ago
Yes, I've observed personality changes within myself even depending on which programming language I use. JavaScript, for example, seems to make me much more inclined to use expletives and pull out my hair...
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by flocciput 2y ago
ChatGPT spotted.
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by flocciput 2y ago
For one of my friends, metformin was the key for finally losing weight. It got their insulin resistance under control, which had been causing them to crave food constantly throughout the day, way more than someone with normal insulin sensit
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by flocciput 2y ago
I was just thinking recently about how much I hate the imposition of time limits on things like this! Although I'm not super interested in figuring out my own or others' IQ, these are a fun set of questions to mull over.
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List of CB Radio Slang(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by flocciput 2y ago|0 comments
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by flocciput 2y ago
Ohh good point! I admit I also didn't bother to look up NEAT, but looks like non-exercise activity thermogenesis, which aligns with your interpretation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-exercise_activity_thermo.
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by flocciput 2y ago
> All of these efforts to know listeners ignore music as an interactive art form. These Spotify features suggest that music is entirely about your own pleasure and ease and not something that’s meant to be engaged with, sought out, and e
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Spotify Wrapped's AI podcast and other personalization features(vox.com)
1 points by flocciput 2y ago|1 comments
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by flocciput 2y ago
Good observation; but I think metabolic differences leading to higher/lower IQs is a stretch (and smells weirdly eugenicist! but that's just my personal opinion). It seems obvious to me that being poor makes it harder to be health
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by flocciput 2y ago
Did a quick search for "hair" since in my experience the most obnoxious part of using a traditional EEG cap was having to rinse the gel out of my hair in the sink afterwards (I was in a research study and had to do this multiple t
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by flocciput 2y ago
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by flocciput 2y ago
This is a 404 for me. But here's a link that works: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GYY8QMPZAJRVRZQD7EJT/ful...
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by flocciput 2y ago
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39... > Moreover, epidemiological studies show that a high intake of animal protein, particularly red meat, which contains high levels of methionin
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by flocciput 2y ago
Lots of people in this thread alluding to similar experiences "speaking truth to power" or "failing to read a room" or "not playing politics" and suffering the fallout from it. But as someone at the start of th