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by jl2718 3y ago
Simpson’s paradox. The causal axis is (more strongly) positive for career success, but the informative axis is negative for the choice to pursue economic mobility through a career versus family. In simple terms, more attractive women are mo
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by jl2718 3y ago
Are the Microsoft job offers at the same compensation still on the table?
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by jl2718 3y ago
The most common form of GMO is for tolerance of extremely high levels of pesticide and herbicide usage. This is mostly because engineering chemical resistance is a vastly simpler process than pest resistance. Rational people are not general
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by jl2718 3y ago
For most people, forward walking/running involves a slight twist of the knee that stresses the illiotibial band against the lateral aspect of the knee joint. This results in a common overuse injury in runners. When I get this, it is us
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by jl2718 3y ago
If all their job postings are not actually hiring, then they won’t get any applicants for the jobs that actually are, and then they can use that as evidence that they can’t find in-country candidates. So basically the only way to find any r
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by jl2718 3y ago
This will be important for me when I get there, but I’m still in the first quarter of my 200-year lifespan.
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by jl2718 3y ago
Literary context? I thought of: https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
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by jl2718 3y ago
> Netflix is no substitution for a hobby. Maybe, but to the brain engaged in the activity, watching movies or playing video games is much better than a hobby. Real life is only exciting about 1% of the time for anybody. Curated entertain
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by jl2718 3y ago
> they can only truly be stopped by force. It’s been my lifetime hope that there is another way through obsolescence and irrelevance. If a people have a self-sovereign mechanism for self-defense and economic participation, then the cost
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by jl2718 3y ago
Breakthrough? You could buy these machines on Alibaba years ago marketed for this purpose. I assume this means there was a cottage industry of private kidney stone treatment in Asia.
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by jl2718 3y ago
So depressed people either went into a hot room tightly packed with fit people stripping down and contorting their sweat-covered bodies, while they followed along and learned a new skill, or they did absolutely nothing. Groundbreaking resea
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by jl2718 3y ago
Back then you could send an email “from” any address without verification, and I’d bet they weren’t sophisticated enough to detect that. There were many open and/or hacked SMTP gateways. I went to a federal military school and showed p
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by jl2718 3y ago
I think we should all have recess and play tag.
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Except by your own definition the state does a worse job at benefiting people with your money than you do.
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by jl2718 3y ago
Reminder that the entire point of UBI is to eliminate needs testing for welfare. Why? 1. Administrative costs 2. Disincentive to work 3. Simplification 4. Equality The government only does one thing: takes money from people, and gives money
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by jl2718 3y ago
The problem with these lawsuits is that they require a company to prove that their promotion decision is based on competence, which is the exact opposite way that it actually works: to minimize risk to their boss’s job.
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by jl2718 3y ago
What exactly is it that made this token a security, and why was it targeted versus any of the other tokens that were marketed and sold for common enterprise and future profits? I didn’t follow because I didn’t realize that it was connected
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by jl2718 3y ago
Yes, very cool. I like the dual piston actuators, but that caliper structure seems like a limiting factor or point of failure. Also, it has to mount somewhere. It would seem natural to integrate it with the fork, so I looked up what they di
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by jl2718 3y ago
I switched to tubeless on rim brakes and had a downhill blowout from pressure cooking the sealant. I also tend to abuse my rims and rarely true them, so my brakes are always loose or rubbing. Both these problems may go away with carbon rims
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by jl2718 3y ago
I don’t know much about this, but I’m not sure “reset” is the right term here. It seems more like “overwhelm” than “reset” to what a newborn might have. Measles can cause autoimmunity, and I’m not sure it’s been shown to abate it.
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by jl2718 3y ago
If you are truly dying of metastatic cancer, and as you seem extremely well-informed and competent to make your own decisions, I feel obligated to share. Not medical advice, entertainment purposes only: Checkpoint blockades are great if you
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by jl2718 3y ago
“UV1 is a therapeutic cancer vaccine used to generate an immune response against the enzyme human telomerase (hTERT). The enzyme is essential for the ability of cancer cells to proliferate. Telomerase is present in 85-90% of all cancers, a
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by jl2718 3y ago
Remote work is more productive. Office work is more valuable. I’ll explain. Remote management is a lot more one-way and top-down tasking. It’s possible, but very hard to do it any other way. In-person teams do not require explicit tasking,
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by jl2718 3y ago
A gentlebot never tells.
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by jl2718 3y ago
Somebody please explain why every academic department in the western world does this, without assuming any motive other than pure financial self-interest.
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by jl2718 3y ago
We’re talking about clay pots here. How would you get the crown into the narrow opening? If you have two containers, one for displacement, the other for measurement, you would lose far more water in the pouring than the precision required.
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by jl2718 3y ago
I assume he used a mechanical balance to measure the equal weight of gold. Couldn’t he then just submerge the balance? If the method from the story doesn’t work, is it possible that it was just a plausible-sounding cover for the actual meth
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by jl2718 3y ago
I don’t like defeatist articles like this, but, there is some legitimacy to it, both in physiology and observation. I would suggest that the practical solution is to prioritize exercise and food selection rather than calorie restriction. It
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by jl2718 3y ago
Please stop. This is the environmental engineering version of “not even wrong”. There are so many problems it’s hard to know where to start.
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by jl2718 3y ago
When the nuclear apocalypse has passed, and the last remaining humans are living underground on mushrooms, somewhere an economist will claim growth using a model updated to include the work done by ants, and somewhere a bureaucrat will upda

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