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by jmcgough 8y ago
What's hyperbolic about that? The article says: "As part of city law, San Francisco requires property owners renting out units for less than 30 days to register with the city’s office of short-term rentals, as well as be a permane
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by jmcgough 8y ago
There's been a larger push for evidence-based medicine over the past decade or two. I'd love it if our criminal justice system was more evidence-based and focused solely on reducing crime/suffering/injustice and better r
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by jmcgough 8y ago
> Why are students STILL getting fooled by this? Some are 17-18 year old kids when they make the decision, with parents who don't even know better. Others are older but don't have the critical thinking skills that you and I hav
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Both of these are about economics moreso than politics. A lot of HN readers are interested in economics, since the current state of the economy can have huge impacts on startups.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I had a friend involved in the community a few years back. Some of the stuff they did was pretty funny (like sponsoring a NASCAR car). However, the inner circle was basically a group of people in a chat room running pump and dump schemes wi
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Except UBI is something we can actually implement if we want to do so.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
They probably weren't even aware of his situation when this happened.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Some of the frustrations I've seen of people using ML1 remind me a lot of LM, specifically the lack of uniform interface between applications.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I don't mean to poopoo how hard it is to succeed as an indie game maker now, but I can barely find /any/ press or information about the game when I search for it. It's rarely enough to just build something and cross your
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A Super Fast Overview and History of Tech VC(medium.com)
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I came to the bay for a few days before a PhD interview (cognitive science). My friend convinced me to crash on her couch and find a job in SF. I skipped the interview, taught myself some web dev, and got a job at a startup. I was pretty bu
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by jmcgough 8y ago
> Despite the great advantages of using Rails in a new project, there was an area where Ruby was not able to penetrate, and not even Rails was a good ambassador. I'm talking about the corporate world. There are of course some except
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Yeah, it felt like justifying wanting to play with newer, more exiciting tech. That's fine, I've rewritten Rails apps in Phoenix and had a blast, but be honest with yourself that that's why you're doing something. Both R
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Sure, but we'd still never know which way in particular was used, so it's "lost" in the sense that we can't know what it was to replicate it exactly.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
At worst, you'll get injured if you aren't exercising correctly, but it's never going to directly worsen decline. Solving aging, mental or physical health problems isn't as simple as taking a dozen supplements. Obviously
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Diet often isn't enough as you age. You will almost certainly lose muscle (and thereby lose autonomy) as you age, unless you're getting some form of strength training. Strength training also stimulates osteoblasts, strengthening b
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Self-study is entirely possible. I worked through about half of the P1 material as a way to strengthen my probability/stats background. It's a lot of hours of work to be able to pass it if you don't have good knowledge of it
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Most likely. I'd say half or more of the biochem and neuroscience students at my school were pre-med, and the rest planned to start a PhD. There's also good (and potentially lucrative) jobs in sales for someone with that backgroun
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be discussed or studied, but that knee-jerk reactions to the topic are understandable. It's similar to the german ban on depictions of the nazi party - there are some discussions that can be h
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Because we have a long history of using differences as a justification for subjugation.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
The author kind of glosses over a lot of conflicts with friends, family, employers, and briefly mentions mental health problems. It sounds like that could be contributing a lot to his struggles. I burned out of my first job because of poor
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by jmcgough 8y ago
We probably need to make significant improvements to the grid in order to support this. Solar power doesn't feed into the grid at a consistent rate, so we need to be able to store large amounts of energy for off-hours.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
React is most useful if you have really complex state that you're trying to manage and reason about. It's probably overused because people who don't need it are just doing whatever's trendy without understanding trade-of
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by jmcgough 8y ago
The fat cells never die unless you get liposuction, they just shrink. Your body is primed to regain that weight if your diet or activity level changes.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I learned dvorak in high school over summer break. It took about 3 weeks to be up to my qwerty wpm. I actually had a difficult time going back and forth for a while. Eventually my brain decided that a heavy mechanical keyboard (my model m a
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by jmcgough 8y ago
There are no rules preventing them from doing this. I've seen far more (still legal) egregious astroturfing, like corporations funneling money into shell companies with vague names that campaign against soda tax etc.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Organ trafficking in the US is essentially unheard of. Stuff like that only happens if the government turns a blind eye to it (or encourages it, like with falun gong).
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Experienced something similar in Phi Phi last year. I was snorkeling in an emerald green lagoon, when a pile of plastic garbage floated into me :(
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I know a lot of smart people who've devoted their lives to solving this problem. It's very easy for you to dismiss it as easy or say that researchers are incompetent when you haven't spent years working on cancer research in
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Classic tragedy of the commons. No one wants to do their part because others aren't trying hard enough to fix the problem.

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