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811.
by hawkice 12y ago
So, obviously you can't retroactively become professional, but it looks like they've cleaned up their act since then. https://www.metamed.com/ScientistsDoctorsResearchers They have a Chief Medical Officer, and all
812.
by hawkice 12y ago
> Does negative emotional reinforcement really work at such long time remove? So, I don't know about regret specifically, but when researchers asked people to remember instances where they felt specific emotions, and asked how stron
813.
by hawkice 12y ago
Wiki says: "A taboo is a vehement prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake, under threat of supernatural punishment." This clearly d
814.
by hawkice 12y ago
Mandarin is the winner on that front. It's the lingua franca everywhere in China sans Hong Kong, although a lot/most people in some areas speak it only as a second/third language.
815.
by hawkice 12y ago
There's also evidence that we are less susceptible to biases when given hypothetical scenarios in foreign languages. I am considering keeping my todo list in a foreign language, in case that helps me prioritize e.g. sales, where things
816.
by hawkice 12y ago
(quoting you from another branch in this discussion): > They aren't victims of their circumstances, they're victims of their own consumerism. Yes, creature comforts should be comforting and worthwhile instead of anxiety inducin
817.
by hawkice 12y ago
Or not own a couch. I have literally never owned a couch. When did this become a need?
818.
by hawkice 12y ago
I see a lot of posts by the author curious as to why people downvoted -- is it okay if I ask? This seems like _the_ comment I would want to read if I had the option of selecting a tl;dr or general reaction. He's not even saying they&#x
819.
by hawkice 12y ago
By far the best reference on this subject is the Aguanomics blog and his book Living With Water Scarcity. This article barely scratches the surface of the insanity of water allocation and the difficulties of regulation surrounding the indus
820.
by hawkice 12y ago
So, the obvious question is, overrated by whom? Certainly not Isaacson, that's the whole point of the article. But us, the reader? I would think not, the hypermajority of the progress we see is clearly the result of teams. Sole founder
821.
by hawkice 12y ago
So, I'm not entirely sure what the point is of the (2011) tags is, but my understanding is these are consistently and regularly updated and changed, made sure to be up to date. How much of a regularly maintained scholarly work needs to
822.
by hawkice 12y ago
This was precisely the point I came here to make. Saying the third person singular pronoun is gendered in Mandarin isn't quite right (the 3 characters all sound the same) -- it's gendered in Chinese characters, which is why (I ass
823.
by hawkice 12y ago
So, the appeal of transducers is plug-and-play fusion. Like, it takes quite a bit of work to get newly created non-list types to fuse correctly in Haskell (that being said: you can do it in Haskell, which is kind of amazing considering how
824.
by hawkice 12y ago
I think you'll find we completely agree -- the simplification seemed appropriate because it really is a question of how US law applies to objects located and plausibly operated by people who aren't Americans. An important point yo
825.
by hawkice 12y ago
This sounds right to me but all my James Madison and Thomas Jefferson -fu seems to be failing me. Can we get a citation here for their intent? I'm getting some quotes that indicate they were worried about majority vs. minority stuff, b
826.
by hawkice 12y ago
The Fourth Amendment is part of a document legally defining and describing the rights in American legal tradition, in this case a right that you and I both find to be a core part of our humanity and social contract (which is why it is so im
827.
by hawkice 12y ago
Not sure this counts as a technicality. Do all foreign objects get 4th amendment protections (the servers were in Iceland)? Can I invoke defense of someone else's 4th amendment rights -- even without specifying who that is? Both of the
828.
by hawkice 12y ago
Most of the concern is whether the spec says compilers/interpreters _must_ perform TCO. If they don't, users can't write that kind of code, because otherwise, on some users' machines, it will bork the whole site.
829.
by hawkice 12y ago
One possibility (as someone who did not downvote) that could lead well-meaning people to sincerely disagree with you: Your framing of the problem of empowering professional women treats women as professional objects being acting upon by men
830.
by hawkice 12y ago
My more specific concerns were twofold: (1) Discussions of numeric ranking systems for attractiveness, which are (I hope) strictly out of scope for HN, to say the least. (2) Insinuations of intra-workplace attractions being directed -- not
831.
by hawkice 12y ago
I'm going to say this whole line of thinking (maybe this entire story/link) should be marked with the dual "has potential to very easily become offensive for little purpose" and "probably not actually interesting to
832.
by hawkice 12y ago
This is some deeply Talmudic reading of a fairly straight-forward description of engineering deploy cycles. But why stop after just putting those words in his mouth, when he could be retroactively understood to mean so much more! Move fast!
833.
by hawkice 12y ago
First thought: this person has described a clear way in which his job is (truly, seemingly unfixably) broken. Second thought: this seems like a business opportunity. Why are there such high-ritual organizations employing these people? Third
834.
by hawkice 12y ago
This article is surprisingly light on details, and their websites seem to have few others. Does this mean that Meteor will support SQL databases for the 1.0 release?
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by hawkice 12y ago
That's remarkably similar to saying: 'If you have a sense for what makes a trade deficit occur and think that one will, it isn't a big leap to look at the value that can be transferred through international trade and say &#x2
836.
by hawkice 12y ago
The exchange rates of normal currencies are primarily interesting as tools to look at trade deficits &c. I can't think of an analogy with Bitcoin. I think the only reason this is interesting is because so many people treated as an
837.
by hawkice 12y ago
I am extremely concerned with: > [Don't] Personally fix bugs and ship features. So, obvious but mostly irrelevant concerns: Team size. If there is only one person you manage, this is likely a mistake. You don't clarify when thi
838.
by hawkice 12y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but it's a thread about health, and you mentioned, so: If well prepared, brussel sprouts can be quite delicious. Depends on the effort you want to put in, but you can grill them over low flame with some garlic and s
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by hawkice 12y ago
I ran cross country in high school, running for about an hour 4 to 6 times a week. Extremely boring, pretty much only did it because my parents forced me to do _a_ sport and I didn't want my suckage to hurt a team (I skipped a few grad
840.
by hawkice 12y ago
Perhaps the most troubling element is that optimizely seems comfortable claiming 100% certainty in anything. That requires (in Bayesian terminology) infinite evidence, or equivalently (in frequentist terminology) if they have finite data, a

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