heymijo

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by heymijo 4y ago
Are the externalities of desalinating seawater priced into that cost? When it comes to resources, humanity doesn't have much a track record of doing so.
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by heymijo 4y ago
> Empirically, it seems that drilling basic arithmetic and then multiplication tables early in pre K and earlier elementary will give students a better intuitive math foundation to do algebra very well. This aspect of the Common Core w
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by heymijo 5y ago
In the original iteration of Tesla’s Fremont factory Musk insisted on automation. Global automakers in the 80’s learned the limits and perils of automation. Musk decided he had to learn that mistake for himself, years later admitting the pr
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by heymijo 5y ago
Retionoids/retinols, sunscreen, vitamin c. Those are the big three that dermatologists will recommend that have evidence of efficacy for anti-aging.
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by heymijo 5y ago
How old are you? How are you gauging “aging has paused or is going backwards slowly”?
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by heymijo 5y ago
They require the person with more power to respond positively to any gambit that shows vulnerability. A direct report may try a couple of times to go deeper or be vulnerable but if the manager isn’t receptive that 1:1 just became perfunctor
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by heymijo 5y ago
Double the capacity, no exotic materials, same size as a regular battery pack and not much more weight. Tested in cold Michigan weather instead of more idyllic conditions adds credibility. This doesn't sound like vaporware. I wonder wh
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by heymijo 5y ago
Memory holed is a good term for balaji. I don't recall the specifics but a few years back I put him in a bucket of people not worth listening to. It was when he was sort of an a16z partner, but also had a bitcoin startup (hardware to m
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by heymijo 5y ago
> I sometimes wonder how 'humanoid' any potential intelligent alien species must be Great question. I enjoyed Andy Weir's take on this in his most recent book Project Hail Mary. If anyone hasn't read it yet and they
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> Can anyone who's witnessed this transition weigh in? Sure. If you don't like the way you are treated in your organization today in an open office, you probably wouldn't like the way you are treated in one with cubicles
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by heymijo 5y ago
I appreciate what you are saying and how you are saying it. Thank you for that. In an industry with plenty of founders who have said one thing and then repeatedly done another I don't think it's being jaded to be cautiously pessim
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by heymijo 5y ago
This feels a bit like those “FOR TOBACCO USE ONLY” signs at headshops who sell bongs.
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by heymijo 5y ago
TDEE = total daily energy expenditure - the amount of total energy your body burns throughout a day (fun fact, just by living you burn calories) RMR = resting metabolic rate - calories your body burns in a day just being a body (pumping blo
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by heymijo 5y ago
Two beliefs became entrenched: 1. that lead is natural to the human body, and 2. that a poisoning threshold for lead existed Robert Kehoe, working for GM, was the chief advocate for leaded gasoline, and really the only person/lab doing
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by heymijo 5y ago
> Diffusion of Innovation, because understanding how and why people are motivated to change, or not, will save you a lot of wasted effort. The knowledge in this book is one of a handful that I wish would diffuse worldwide as Common Kno
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by heymijo 5y ago
I'm curious what makes that your favorite quote. It gives me pause, mainly because I've seen it abused, ironically, often in contrast to some of Deming's core ideas. YMMV
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by heymijo 5y ago
> I was sold Mr. Elias as modern-day Mr. Rogers for all the praise lavished on him. Saint in the streets, abusive asshole in the office. I too once saw him as the guy with worldly wisdom gained when his plane (Sully Sullenberger flight
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by heymijo 5y ago
Brad Stone's newest book about Amazon goes into it. In short, Bezos hired leadership poorly. Those hires led to a culture akin to a legacy rocket company like ULA. You know the meme about devs going to Google to rest and vest? That&#x2
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by heymijo 5y ago
> Really, it’s the same sort of problem that is described in The Goal and The Phoenix Project, but on a personal level. Can you say more about this?
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by heymijo 5y ago
> history is always written by the victors You know, I always thought this too, but the US Civil War history is a very good counter example. Southerners had an outsized influence on civil war history in two ways that I know of. One wa
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by heymijo 5y ago
BoiledCabbage also had a now buried reply with more context: > Exactly this. To discuss Toussaint and 1804 and not discuss the French commander Rochambeau is extremely misleading. He brought gas chambers to Haiti via and was systematica
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by heymijo 5y ago
I responded to a now flagged comment. The gist of that comment is that it's worth knowing Haiti's history. > There is LOTS of context missing before we get to the 1804 massacre of the remaining whites in Haiti. Thirteen years
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by heymijo 5y ago
There is LOTS of context missing before we get to the 1804 massacre of the remaining whites in Haiti. Thirteen years of conflict and war took place before this happened. Why? Enslaved people wanted what the French Declaration of the Rights
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by heymijo 5y ago
Anecdotally but don’t write off the younger generation. I was teaching 6th grade social studies a few years ago. Flat earth, ancient aliens, and other conspiracy theories are in their mindshare. YouTube was their medium. I think you nailed
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by heymijo 5y ago
I really really appreciate your response. I’ll be thinking about this.
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> the secret suffering You packed a lot of insight and wisdom into your comment. Regarding secret suffering, I know someone who is so good at it that they make it easy to forget on a conscious level that they suffer from depression. It
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by heymijo 5y ago
> Sidnote, has anyone seen what the Travel channel has turned into? This thing where every show is about UFOs or bigfoot (bigfeet) or goatman. There's something here to unpack about audiences (humanity even?) if this is what netwo
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by heymijo 5y ago
#2 on the list by Robert Cialdini. Durmonski omitted the full title from the list, which it is well known for. The full title is: Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion
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by heymijo 5y ago
I see that the opinion author, Pat Garofalo, wrote a book [0], and has a substack [1]. If anyone wants to get the gist from a different source. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40122067-the-billionaire... [
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FYI: I had to disable uBlock Origin on Firefox for the article to load. Even while logged in and using a subscription access code from my local library.

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