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by hmahncke 6y ago
“Early Riser” by Jasper Fforde is a great speculative fiction novel about hibernating humans. Hijinks ensue.
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by hmahncke 6y ago
Be transparent about overall company finances, and clear about how the small decisions they make roll up into the big issues that affect the company’s success or failure. IMHO, this is a company culture issue more than an incentive issue.
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by hmahncke 6y ago
Proposition H (passed) was designed to do exactly that: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-Propositio...
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by hmahncke 6y ago
Join a clinical trial here (organized by the Alzheimer's Association): https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/investigacion/ensayo... Speaking as a researcher in this field, more people willing to volunteer
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Benefits of playing video games with your kids(wired.com)
2 points by hmahncke 6y ago|0 comments
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Predictors of success in first year physics – experience not talent(aps.org)
6 points by hmahncke 6y ago|1 comments
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by hmahncke 6y ago
Isn’t the reason those few districts have big “profits” because they are the central business district where all the people from the outlying areas with big “losses” come in to work and shop? This feels like looking at a company by division
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by hmahncke 6y ago
In Los Angeles, the Museum of Jurassic Technology has a great exhibit on Kircher and his many exuberant theories on just about every scientific topic of his day. Well worth a visit.
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by hmahncke 6y ago
This is a pretty incredible story - thanks for sharing it!
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by hmahncke 6y ago
Thanks for the great explainer! Do you happen to know more about "organic matter decomposing" as way phosphine gets produced? Microbes are certainly a pretty broad group here on Earth, and I wondered if there was something more sp
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by hmahncke 6y ago
Start with the price that you need to drive adoption and early usage. Later raise the price as necessary as you understand the business and the value proposition, but only for new customers. Keep all the original subscribers around on a &qu
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Zoom security flaws known to partners including Dropbox(nytimes.com)
3 points by hmahncke 6y ago|0 comments
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by hmahncke 7y ago
(I’m not the OP) My experience was that 1.1.1.1 didn’t interact well with captive.apple.com so I had a lot of confusing experiences on planes and airports, and eventually had to stop using it.
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by hmahncke 7y ago
After all these years in SF, every time I see a coyote my first thought is still "why is that German Shepherd so underfed?"
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by hmahncke 7y ago
Should just submit the venable.com link as a new submission, it's a much more directly relevant overview of the immediate news on this type of loan.
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by hmahncke 7y ago
There doesn't appear to be a link to the "eight research articles reporting on the effectiveness of these games" and google scholar doesn't show any relevant publications by these authors - has anyone come the actual dat
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by hmahncke 7y ago
There is a great exhibit of portraits of these dogs at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles ("The Lives of Perfect Creatures"): http://mjt.org/recentaddtions/creatures.html
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by hmahncke 7y ago
Attempt no landings there.
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by hmahncke 7y ago
> "Four of the fatalities were just bad luck, involving a group of janitors who shared muscatel wine that was laced with antifreeze" I'd like to hear a little more about the "bad luck" that caused a bottle of mus
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by hmahncke 7y ago
How is "all of Toptal’s stock [is] in the hands of one person" when Toptal "attracted funding from well-known investors including Andreessen Horowitz." Doesn't funding from a16z typically end up with a16z owning sto
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by hmahncke 7y ago
I read the book reviewed in the link because Alcibiades was such an interesting character in Assassin's Creed :-). The book is very enjoyable - it's a non-fiction book, but aimed to be readable in the style of a historical fiction
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by hmahncke 7y ago
Walk up to the station, and you'll be greeted with a quick array of girls. After each step, the booth narrows your choices -- eventually leading to a final screen, where you can "adopt" the girl on the spot. Your scientists w
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by hmahncke 7y ago
Well, I do have to log in with my google account to read it...
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by hmahncke 8y ago
Obligatory Neil Gaiman quote: "Peace really was a gentle Midwestern memoir the first time I read it. It only became a horror novel on the second or the third reading."
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by hmahncke 8y ago
FWIW, students in SFUSD who want to get calculus as a senior are required to “double up” on math one year - for example, taking algebra and geometry simultaneously.
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by hmahncke 8y ago
From [1] (the meta-analysis), "Working memory interventions proved most effective (g = 0.479), though memory, processing speed, and multi-domain interventions also significantly improved cognition." From [2] (the crash results), d
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by hmahncke 8y ago
The field of cognitive training has moved way beyond preliminary promise. Here's a meta-analysis of 97 published randomized controlled trials, showing reliable improvements in cognitive function and transfer to real-world function [1]
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by hmahncke 8y ago
Trade dress was the basis for (one of the?) Apple/Samsung disputes, with Apple making the argument that the distinctive shape of the early iPhone should not be copied: https://revisionlegal.com/trademarks/lessons-t
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by hmahncke 8y ago
This is a nice study, and confirms earlier work by Tim Salthouse (University of Virginia [1]), looking at more than a thousand people (cross-sectionally), and evaluating their cognitive function and crossword puzzling activity. At every age
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by hmahncke 8y ago
Yes, but you don't really get to pick your starting point - in the study, cognitive function at age 11 predicted crossword puzzle use and eventual cognitive decline. So if you're fortunate enough to be sharp at age 11 (thanks to y

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