jmcgough

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by jmcgough 6y ago
Republican state senators in multiple states (PA, MI, WI) blocked plans to prepare or precount mailed ballots. This is working as intended.
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It's a bit early to do a post-mortem when there's still millions of votes to count.
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I love how weird errors like this can affect culture and the language itself. There was an album put out last year named 彁, which is one of the more well-known ghost kanji: http://www.rd-sounds.com/c97.html
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Yeah, a 2018 UCSF study was unable to find any adult neurogenesis in humans, so it's still a controversial subject when it comes to humans. Even if we had confidence that adult neurogenesis occurs in humans, we can't really expose
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I worked in a neurogenesis lab for three years, so my attempt: The cells in our body are continuously replaced throughout our life, with the exception of our brain cells. For many many years we believed that mammals didn't create new b
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That was one of the books I picked up early in my career and still keep a well-loved, dog-eared copy. It's information-dense without being overwhelming, and teaches a lot of important Ruby concepts. I'm glad to see it's being
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They only do it in response to a news article, meaning that it's been vetted for credibility by a third party.
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If you think this looks bad you should see the discords full of pump and dump crypto scams
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Bipolar is one of the more heritable diseases. If one person has bipolar, every one of their direct relatives (children, bothers, parents) have a 10% chance of also having bipolar. As part of my experience coming to terms with bp2, I did a
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by jmcgough 6y ago
Even if the fb employee bit is untrue (I'm also skeptical), it indicates that someone can take over your account like this with no recourse.
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An excellent example would be Boeing before their merger with McDonnell Douglas. Boeing originally had an engineering-lead culture. After the merger, their exec salaries ballooned, profits grew, but engineering quality suffered. Lucratively
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Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplayer_online_battle_aren...
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You don't have to ask for leadership to do things to enable others. Like improving CI, facilitating communication with another team, fostering a positive environment. I think ICs who focus solely on keeping their head down and writing
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Reminds me of the mentality strong players in MOBAs advocate for. You're playing on a team with four other strangers, so it can be easy to feel hopeless and give up when they make mistakes. But the most optimal thing to do is to not fo
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by jmcgough 6y ago
After he fell out of the pro scene he became way more interested in chess variants than vanilla chess (more specifically his Fischer Random Chess). I can't imagine being at the level he was at, where you needed to hundreds or thousands
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by jmcgough 6y ago
> A company exists because one or more people risked wealth in order to create a net positive system What about companies that exist solely as rent seekers? TurboTax is a net negative on society - congress has tried repeatedly to simply
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by jmcgough 6y ago
Sure, wealth isn't zero-sum, but when it's built on top of people making $7.25 an hour with no benefits (or less than that as a contractor), it may as well be. And yes, there are other options for solving problems like that beyond
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by jmcgough 6y ago
This is such a straw man argument. No one is proposing something like that - most wealth tax proposals have a floor of like $100m, and a 1% tax seems extremely reasonable when most people can get 4-10% returns just from parking their money
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Yeah, not fitting in is probably pretty common among introverted programmer types. But for me, feeling like I identified more as a girl was really what pulled me in that direction.
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Trans people in general were largely ignored by research until the 2010s, so there's very little we do know at this point. But as for unresearched hunches... There's lots of jokes in the trans community about how your stereotypica
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My mother's family is all autistic engineers. I and two of my cousins transitioned as teenagers, so I've had my own theories about this for years.
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similar to QAnon, there are a lot of offshoots of different ideas that all stem from people not understanding 5G and thinking that it's unsafe, despite a lack of scientific evidence to support that. Pre-covid it was that 5G was making
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Oh, and we never killed mice - we "sacrificed" them (in the lab we said "sacked" for short). Yeah, it never sat particularly well with me. We and other labs studied neurodegenerative diseases, so we studied a model form
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We study rats because they're an inexpensive and ethical replacement for humans, with the assumption that some of the research will carry over to other mammals. It's harder for that work to translate over if we keep them in abnorm
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I have read hundreds of research papers, and I don't think I've ever seen one that described the temperature that the rat housing is kept at. It's definitely not something that's controlled for right now.
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I worked in a Neuroscience lab as an undergrad research assistant for several years. My first year in particular involved a lot of cell counting and rat care. There was a large room for housing rats for all of the labs in the building - mos
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> if they fail will they do so before they wipe out independent therapists I suspect that this would be at least somewhat balanced by therapists who work for said online therapy providers suddenly needing to work directly with clients ag
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This isn't laughing, it's desperation. Either they get bought now or they lose everything. India already banned them and they're terrified of a repeat. I think over time social networks have found more stable userbases. Faceb
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There's a good discussion of his different legal options here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/24/trump-cant-ban-tiktok-f...
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PC-88 and PC-98 software is super fascinating. Thousands of games, many with mind-blowingly beautiful pixel art which was leaps and bounds better than their American counterparts. Displays really needed to be better in Japan because of the

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