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by jurassic 11y ago
It's not a surprise that people become fat in an environment where food is cheap, delicious, and abundant. But we do know how to stop it. You just have to eat a little less. A modest, sustainable change in your diet is all that is need
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by jurassic 11y ago
Some commenters here are commenting as if speeding is some petty thing that doesn't matter. Speeding kills. Something as small as 10 miles over a 30mph may mean a doubling in fatality rate for pedestrians and bicyclists. One source: h
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by jurassic 11y ago
Can anyone here recommend any good books on the topic of UBI?
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by jurassic 11y ago
This level of inequality makes me sad. Really sad. I know I can't be the only working stiff in the valley whose poor siblings and family think they are rich for earning in the $100-150k range. Nevermind that I can't afford to buy
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by jurassic 11y ago
Totally. I'm the first to admit that I'm a lazy bike commuter and with a little grit could greatly reduce my commute costs. The point I was trying to illustrate for anyone reading is that uber is cheap, not expensive, when used to
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by jurassic 11y ago
I bike commute 8-9 months of the year, but currently am ubering both ways during this wet El Niño winter we are having as I live without a car. I estimate my Ubers this year will work out to around ($20/day for uber * ~60 winter work d
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by jurassic 11y ago
I don't really see the problem with this. Cars should yield to pedestrians and cyclists, and the only reason they don't always do so now is because of some impatient humans at the wheel who prioritize their speed over the safety o
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by jurassic 11y ago
I started bike commuting for exactly this reason. It takes me a bit longer than driving would and isn't an option for those with megacommutes, but now I look forward to my commutes as the highlight of my day instead of the stressful, b
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by jurassic 11y ago
Sounds like Uber needs to write more integration tests.
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by jurassic 11y ago
This is why pair programming is so great, especially when the duo is somebody seasoned and a new hire. Pairing is continuous code review so you address problems like 400LOC methods before they start. It also reduces the newbie's sensi
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by jurassic 12y ago
My "Aha!" moment came while reading this Kyle Simpson blog series http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-objects
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by jurassic 12y ago
I won't diminish your feelings by claiming this is a total solution, but getting regular exercise has really helped me come back from the place of despair I was in a few months ago. You don't need to be fit; I definitely wasn&#x2
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by jurassic 12y ago
I've had a few unsuccessful negotiations with series B startups who balk at paying market rate even though they have piles of cash. I believe it often comes down the the fact that they have grown headcount relatively slowly at the sam
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by jurassic 12y ago
Where are you getting the $1B savings number?
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by jurassic 12y ago
I agree the normal prices are very high, but I've learned that the key to Audible seems to be waiting for good sales to come around. They have members-only daily deals and other sales fairly regularly. I bought several books today be
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by jurassic 12y ago
IT, like the library system, provides infrastructure in support of the university's core mission. I've never heard anybody say, "Damn, the network here just works too well... let's sack the IT folks so we can focus on o
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by jurassic 12y ago
No raises in six years as inflation marches steadily on is a 10% paycut. Criminal. It's a disgrace that our college-educated professional teachers are so under-valued they have to take on multiple side-jobs just to maintain their econo
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by jurassic 12y ago
Stories like this one terrify me. No matter how young you are today, someday not too long from now you'll be 40+ and on the receiving end of this type of discrimination. Is that the kind of industry we want to be?
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by jurassic 12y ago
I have a degree in a technical field. And a master's degree, too. Both from good schools. But neither are in CS. Was it listed as required? I don't know. Lots of jobs put that down, but usually they don't really mean it.
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by jurassic 12y ago
He applied to 150 companies; that's not even remotely the same as being rejected 150 times. When you don't have somebody referring you inside the company, you're doing well to even get acknowledged by 50% of the companies yo
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by jurassic 12y ago
This happened to me recently. After the final round I had a verbal indication from the recruiter that all the feedback was positive and an offer would be forthcoming. I was pretty crushed when a day or two later an emailed arrived saying th
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by jurassic 12y ago
The way that the success or failure of a graduate student's scientific career is in the hands of a very small number of people without oversight has no parallel in private industry. If you're lucky and spot trouble early on you ca
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by jurassic 12y ago
> I'm talking real life risks to your mental and physical health, destruction of relationships, opportunity cost, and (potentially) the vaporization of that awesome scientific career that you spent over a decade building because the
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by jurassic 12y ago
The article reports that some schools are having to give large tuition discounts to attract a decent class, and the writer predicts closures similar to dental schools in the 80s. The most interesting tidbit was that "the biggest appli
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by jurassic 12y ago
I'm really excited for this! I always wanted to use Anki but found card creation to be a huge bottleneck. Bringing that to the browser, with citations, is extremely exciting.
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by jurassic 12y ago
Great story about boating. I get a similar humility and fear experience from foreign language study and practice.
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by jurassic 12y ago
$125k/month works out to $50k/yr/person. In case anybody else was wondering.
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by jurassic 12y ago
I experienced this first hand. After interviewing with a company I met on Angelist they said their best offer was 80% of the bottom of their advertised range. It was a tremendous waste of time for everyone involved, and I'm not sure w
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by jurassic 12y ago
The difference in starting salaries received by relatively inexperienced women coming out of Hackbright ($80k/yr) vs inexperienced graduates of the coed but mostly male AppAcademy/HackReactor/etc ($100k+) seems to suggest gen
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by jurassic 12y ago
Much of what doctors do could and has been written as expert rule-based systems. You might find the 1980s Mycin program for diagnosing different kinds of infections interesting; it was said to outperform members of Stanford medical school f

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