jackcosgrove

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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Kids these days!
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I always thought gothic buildings were designed to look like forests from within. The Catholic paraphernalia like relics and candles are what's really spooky, but a well-lit gothic interior is not spooky to me.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
The Baroque style was supposed to lighten things up. Medieval art is really dark, especially depictions of hell and death, which were common. That subject reached its height with Hieronymus Bosch.
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> One gauge I use to determine if we are still at the beginning of the boom is this Has your barber/hairdresser recommended you buy NVDA?
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That's inevitable given how quickly the ranks of software workers have grown in the past 20 years.
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To address the question in your first paragraph, I think it's due to whether you think your locus of control is internal or external.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
How long does calibrating an on-the-wrist sensor take with a cuff? I used to work at Higi which has many blood pressure cuffs in public locations. I'm wondering if it's practical to calibrate a smartwatch sensor at one of these, o
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I think it's wealth and well-being. The easier your life becomes, the more you live in the world of ideas and abstractions. When you and most people around you need to toil daily to stay afloat, it puts things in perspective. There&#x2
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
The stock photos of robots with glowing fingertips pointing at charts projected onto a glass screen are :chefs_kiss:
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Your Spidey sense should tingle whenever you read about a psychology result in a popular medium. Especially if that result flatters you in some way.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
> sell the drug for $X0000/dose, even if relatively few people can obtain it A rational company would lower the price if that broadened the market and netted more profit by volume. Drugs aren't Veblen goods. The impetus for jac
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I do expect new arrivals to acculturate, not to Judeo-Christian values but rather to liberalism. (In the philosophical sense, not the bastardized way the term is used in American politics.) This is because liberalism evolved as a response t
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Even if true it doesn't prove anything because the arrow of causation could go either way. These businesses could be already worse from a financial or working environment perspective, and thus unable to hire from a pool of workers who
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Chuck E Cheese taught me a lot about the value of company scrip and cutting out middlemen.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
> yes there might be a tiny portion that wins overall Probably explained by chance. Gambling "systems" don't work unless there's a flaw in the game.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I'm unfamiliar with Vioxx and whether its approval really was a result of mistakes. Shouldn't we expect some small percentage of failures in these processes given that they are driven by statistics and confidence intervals? Is tha
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
The OG listicle. I do think it's a bit difficult to separate reputation from educational quality. Educational quality is affected by professors, facilities, research opportunities, etc, but these factors are saturated at a lot of resea
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
The population growth rate is one of the major factors of the economic growth rate. For an economy to repeatedly grow 5-10% a year, which is economic miracle territory, you almost have to be cresting the demographic transition when a large
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
There are many causes, one of which that hasn't been mentioned already is the decline in smoking. I'm not saying we start smoking to lose weight, but it does suppress appetite. Now we have FDA approved medications that can do that
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I thought the demiurge was simply ignorant not malicious. It found itself in a chaotic world and tried to make sense of it. In doing so it mistook itself for a god. That said I'm not an expert in gnosticism. Whether the truth is found
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Land reform, not revolution, is the key to unlocking modernity. However where feudal land ownership is entrenched revolution may be necessary.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I'm glad to hear the website will stay up, for now. This makes me wonder if there's a way to preserve websites indefinitely in ebook form. A small device that contains the entire history of a website, and is self-contained in the
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
On the subject of coincidences, I went to order one of the Strandbeest mini sets from this very website last week. Unfortunately their virtual store is closed for a couple weeks more. I was prepared to place an order and wait, but on the we
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
The social sciences also have a much more limited ability to perform controlled experiments because of ethical reasons, which cannot be resolved with more money. So much of the studies published in these fields are observational rather than
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I love how at the end of Office Space, Peter goes to work construction. The shift from IT work to home building perfectly prefigured the 00s economy. Talk about life imitating art. If the OP does end up making a career change, keep us updat
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Legality is the lowest bar of ethical behavior.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
The problem with moderation of forums is that the most common model seems to be one of enlightened despotism. Moderators are hired/appointed by the site owner and have sometimes godlike powers to do what they want. Are there any forums
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Probably just a mental hiccup, but the page was published by Columbia University, not by any organization in Colombia.
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I'll venture a couple guesses. 1) Humboldt's university reforms creating graduate education and research universities. This doesn't explain the seed of German intellectual activity as it was a relatively late development, but
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I've wondered if there's some way to structure an accelerator along similar lines, if not employee ownership then a partnership. For example, it's well known that startups are risky. VCs mitigate this risk by spreading their

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