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by jchallis 6y ago
Polya's How to Solve It changed the way I thought about learning mathematics. His treatment of random walks in one dimension (eventually all walks return to the same point) vs three dimensions (where they can escape) really affected my
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by jchallis 6y ago
I remember HR training circa 2010 specifically taught me that I could discriminate individuals based on their Sign of the Zodiac as that was not a protected area.
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by jchallis 6y ago
This does not apply to H1B1 on advice of our company's immigration lawyer. I know some folks with an interview scheduled for next week at US embassy in Singapore ... fingers crossed it isn't canceled.
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by jchallis 6y ago
Only Nixon can go to China. Only a conservative political leader who was a captain on the Eastern Front telling the nation that it was time to acknowledge the past and look to the future could be heard.
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by jchallis 6y ago
From a native English speaker: You have confused cause and effect.
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by jchallis 6y ago
Economist had an interesting article on violence related to polygamy. I'd be interested if political extremism is a subcase of a violence or something orthogonal. https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2017&#
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Army Deploys Videogames to Reach Recruits Amid Pandemic(wsj.com)
1 points by jchallis 6y ago|0 comments
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by jchallis 6y ago
Always worth noting that IKEA is a nonprofit. https://www.racked.com/2014/9/16/7576651/ikea-non-profit-com...
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As Recession Looms, Brex Stockpiles Cash, Cuts Credit(theinformation.com)
1 points by jchallis 6y ago|0 comments
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Zoox, Self-Driving Car Startup Valued at $2.7B, Is for Sale(theinformation.com)
4 points by jchallis 6y ago|4 comments
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by jchallis 6y ago
Amazon is trying hard to replace its foremen / women with computers. Maybe AWS will develop a nifty web service that allows all of us to shift people management to software.
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by jchallis 7y ago
Whatever the confusing data in this epidemic might say, there are unquestionably a hell of a lot of undiagnosed cases. 10x to 100x depending on your country's testing.
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by jchallis 7y ago
Wishing good health to our Canadian brothers and sisters. We'll grab a beer when this is all over.
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by jchallis 7y ago
A large number of my Polish friends are part of the “Baby a Boom of Solidarity”: the anomalously high birth rate that followed imposition of Martial Law with mandatory curfews.
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Shelter in place for Bay Area counties(sfchronicle.com)
399 points by jchallis 7y ago|527 comments
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by jchallis 7y ago
These are the victory gardens of our new home front.
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Poe's the Masque of the Red Death(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jchallis 7y ago
Guess you can only turn the chessboard on Death so many times.
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by jchallis 7y ago
Find a church - neither too big nor too small. Introduce yourself as someone willing to do assist with the IT/ secretarial / etc. in exchange for warm food and a shelter bed. Churches have very large networks. When you get on your
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by jchallis 7y ago
I tried this with family. - 2 older members got the point and have been very good about sticking to it. - N-2 members got huffy that they wanted to see the kids open things. No college contributions.
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by jchallis 7y ago
I tend to take these brands at face value. If North Face tells me their gear is for adventurers climbing K2, I'm certainly not going to wear that to the office. For many years Apple presented it as the purview of the cool and creative
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by jchallis 7y ago
Friesland (formerly part of Melitta) sells the kettle for about 37 euro. If you have a way to add the messaging, you are well on your way. https://frieslandversand.de/teekanne-1-4l-weiss-utah-teapot
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UAE nuclear plant ready to begin operations(thenational.ae)
1 points by jchallis 7y ago|0 comments
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His faith was extremely important to him. His essay on why he chose not to play basketball on Sunday, because it was the first compromise that would lead to every other compromise, has helped me keep my own moral compass pointed north.
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by jchallis 7y ago
Is that the same Muhin who is an avowed Anti-Semite ?
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by jchallis 7y ago
For all the tech wizards out there who want to meaningfully science from the comfort of your own laptop - help Sci-Hub scale. Your experience with helping build massively extensible web systems is completely and wonderfully needed in the ex
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by jchallis 7y ago
Guardant is an unqualified home run.
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After reading “And the Band Played On”, early HIV research had enormous ego collisions between Robert Gallo in the US and Luc Montagnier in France.
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by jchallis 7y ago
Moved fast. Broke things.
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by jchallis 7y ago
Families often have more than two people and sympathy for their feelings means sometimes folks get left out. If your family gets to avoid this pain , count an extra blessing this holiday .

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