jasonmclaren

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by jasonmclaren 1y ago
Strangely, their Pricing page shows they don't offer SSO until the third pricing tier, at $99/user-month.
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by jasonmclaren 2y ago
You may be interested in reading Nicholson Baker's novel The Mezzanine, where he wrote about preferring paper straws. http://weblibrary.apeiron-uni.eu:8080/webdokumenti/6304-ip.p...
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by jasonmclaren 4y ago
Can you elaborate? My understanding is that nicotine raises blood pressure, which is a big part of what's harmful about cigarettes.
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by jasonmclaren 5y ago
I would echo this general idea of recalibrating, and add a refinement. Instead of believing the process and waiting for months to see if it works, you can weigh yourself every day and look at the moving average. That will let you ignore the
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by jasonmclaren 8y ago
I also had a Skarsta, and the crank mechanism came apart within about six months. (I raised/lowered it a half-dozen times per day.) I personally found the Bekant more reliable (though I only used it for a year). YMMV, I guess. On the
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by jasonmclaren 9y ago
There are different ways to measure how much people value their lives. Some of the most interesting involve "revealed preferences", ie. what people actually do, not what they say. For example, how much higher wages do people deman
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by jasonmclaren 10y ago
After the Vancouver Olympics, I half-jokingly proposed a Distributed Olympics: https://invisiblesummer.net/2012/08/12/towards-a-distributed... Summary: 1. The host city gets it for 40 years, to amortize the c
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by jasonmclaren 10y ago
The HN headline ("Free money for all") is a bit misleading. The article states that the basic income will only be given to 2000 randomly selected unemployed people.
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by jasonmclaren 10y ago
More expensive relative to some measure of underlying value like earnings or book value. If you look at the P/E ratio (price-to-earnings) of a stock, a higher ratio means you're paying more to buy enough stock to get $1 of earning
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by jasonmclaren 12y ago
Wikipedia says that in practice, fuel cells are 40-60% energy efficient, compared to 25% for a typical internal combustion engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#Theoretical_maximum_... Comparing tank-to-wheel