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by jyounker 6y ago
BJ Fogg takes this further with his "Tiny Habits" method: https://www.tinyhabits.com/ . He adds in the idea of environment triggers (e.g. you go pee) and doing the smallest part of the habit that you can cope imme
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by jyounker 6y ago
Quadriplegics do have altered cognitive function. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6387693/
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by jyounker 6y ago
This is anecdotal, but having grown up poor, I can tell you that the research is perfectly applicable in the first world.
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The smaller your donor base, the fewer people you have to make happy. My personal belief is that this is why income inequality is inversely correlated with democratic representation.
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> We spend more per kid than we ever have. While true in absolute dollars, it doesn't really seem to be true in inflation adjusted dollars. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbUD16t4aaM6rCOmFogjxkVhRpJ...
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The same can be said of those on the other side too.
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if the enemy knows you’re there but doesn’t know exactly where then it’s a huge benefit to get in and out as quickly as possible. it’s also a huge advantage if the enemy is moving fast and you know where he is, but you don’t want them to kn
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by jyounker 6y ago
If you consider people born in 1927 (the inventor of the system) to be generation Z, then yes.
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by jyounker 6y ago
You don't have kids, do you?
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I believe that's called "lisp".
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However, a very small child can ride it. :)
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by jyounker 6y ago
Here's a great summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIr_v3a5T-s
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by jyounker 6y ago
At the point I'd be happy if all unix tools had a `--json` option. Then the whole space issue goes away. So do a bunch of parsing issues. Unix tools standardized a character representation (e.g. everything is ascii). The next step is
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by jyounker 6y ago
Now his team has a problem :)
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by jyounker 6y ago
Surely if a business plan has value, then it can be started without an initial investment, right?
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Alexis de Tocqueville's, "Democracy in America" (1835,1840). It was the first history/sociology book I read that I really enjoyed. I came away with a clarity that there is an essential character to American politics and
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by jyounker 6y ago
This one works for dating too. If you are trying to get rejected, it turns out to be incredibly hard to do.
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by jyounker 6y ago
As somebody who grew up poor, but has many friends who did not, being born to wealth hurts far less often than being born poor.
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If you're building real systems, it is not the case that complexity of the problem is obvious. I've just spent several years in an organization where inherent complexity was discounted by important technical decision makers in the
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by jyounker 6y ago
I don't know if that's really true. While the software that runs on the mainframe is the same, mainframe hardware has advanced considerably.
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by jyounker 6y ago
I think the author misses the single biggest advantage of `identifier: Type`. The moment `Type identifier` syntax encounters higher order functions and types, you end up with messes of parenthesis. Figuring out what a type means then involv
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by jyounker 7y ago
The expected lifetime value of a 60 year old is around 5 million. So one million sixty years dying is a cost to the economy is about 5 * 10^12, or five trillion dollars. The US GDP is around 22 trillion a year. Therefore each million >=6
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by jyounker 7y ago
Yeah, it's wonderful how complicated the natural world is. We're still discovering stuff every data. Recently it was discovered that one of the most unique looking critters in the world (the mata-mata, a turtle) was actually two s
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by jyounker 7y ago
The cat doesn't have to actually catch the mice and rats, as they are instinctively afraid of the smell of cat urine, even in small amounts.
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by jyounker 7y ago
My understanding is that the idea that wind turbines kill birds in huge numbers is based on the original wind turbines. These were much smaller in radius and had many more blades and spun much faster. Think of a giant farm water-pump
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by jyounker 7y ago
We can't tell anything from the article. * We don't know how many people were tested. * We don't know how many people tested positive. * We don't know the false positive rate for the test.
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But the code and products are also pieces of spaghetti :)
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> This one likely came from one bat contacting one human in Wuhan It's just as likely that it comes from pangolins: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/sri-tcc03172...
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by jyounker 7y ago
> we decided we wanted uncontrolled immigration The US is notoriously complicated to gain entry to by legal means.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Muni sucks, and it simply seems to be a matter of miss-management. Timed stops? What are those? On the other hand BART is fairly effective, and once you're in the city a bicycle will get you from one end to the other in forty-five minu

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