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by kaitai 11y ago
There's a piece missing from this argument: opioids were inappropriately prescribed to start with in many cases. Think of all those folks with back pain. Back pain is complex and difficult to treat, but huge components come from 1) the
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by kaitai 11y ago
An excellent question. In practice, that's not who we select. One college in the Midwest I know of selected 1) kids related to alumni, 2) people of a certain religion, 3) people who would add to the sports and music programs, 4) kids o
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by kaitai 11y ago
Ah, the false freedom of "it's their choice!" A fine way of avoiding the conversation. The guy in the article brings up a conversation he had with some Sherpa in which the Sherpa says he is making the choice between risking h
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by kaitai 11y ago
A lot of us enjoy the process: it's fun baking the cake, making the robot, playing with the laser cutter. That's what hacking encompasses -- the play, not just the end product. And most expert bakers around here don't make th
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by kaitai 11y ago
There's something in that space, though! Before I can have friends to dinner, I need to buy the ingredients, but before I buy the ingredients it would be good to print the recipes so I don't need to go back to the store. Also, I n
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by kaitai 11y ago
Sometimes it just takes long enough to clear the roads that you can't get kids to school on time (or back home on time). They try really hard not to cancel -- I remember as a kid being in a bus that slid backwards down a hill because i
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by kaitai 11y ago
Me too!
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by kaitai 11y ago
Yep: every group cares because others care and because they don't want to make things easier for others later (that would not be fair ). Academics care because they need to get grants and promotions, granting agencies value the papers
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by kaitai 11y ago
In my field, equations and diagrams are relevant for 99% of research papers. I would poke my eyes out with a grapefruit spoon if I had to spend the rest of my life trying to do this in Word.
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by kaitai 11y ago
That's why good profs don't do spontaneous calculations at the board. They need to be done in the privacy of one's own home.
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by kaitai 11y ago
More quotes from the same piece: "The wife is like the fire, or to put things in their proper proportion, the fire is like the wife. Like the fire, the woman is expected to cook: not to excel in cooking, but to cook; to cook better tha
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by kaitai 11y ago
In the US most women feel men's bathrooms are nastier, and refuse to use them in general. Hovering & "seatpissing" is highly regional; almost none in the midwest of the US, while much higher (70% of seats?) in some parts
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by kaitai 11y ago
In some Nordic countries it's becoming the norm that mom takes breast-feeding time and dad takes toddler-time... ...for the simple biological reason that fathers can generally run faster and thus chase down the kid... ok, that's j
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by kaitai 11y ago
It already is for female go-getters.
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by kaitai 11y ago
I don't understand the argument here: the previous poster said women are pushed to take care of kids and elderly parents (for no pay, often prompting a reduction in work hours or a desire to stay at a more flexible but lower-paying job
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by kaitai 11y ago
It is mildly hard to find a copyeditor, especially for technical books. I tried recently and did not figure out where to find a quality person (for math), and gave up after not trying very hard. (If you have any suggestions let me know!) Th
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by kaitai 11y ago
LaTeX is fine for putting out pdfs. It's not a sufficient skillset for putting out an ebook in any other format. It is still a pain to put out a math-heavy book in a wide range of formats. I would say that Softcover (Michael Hartl&#x27
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by kaitai 11y ago
Are you a guy? It might have something to do with the different response.
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by kaitai 11y ago
While I take mild offense at your characterization (#notallwomen!), I will point out that many women are trained from a very young age to make those excuses and not set boundaries. They have to hug the family member who creeps on them becau
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by kaitai 11y ago
The poster is not saying that social malleability differs between genders, but that social pressures differ. When's the last time you were hollered at to smile more, for instance?
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by kaitai 11y ago
It's not -- I will go check the model number. There are about 12 I saw that looked almost the same when I tried to find the model number online.
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by kaitai 11y ago
My spouse has an antique Nokia almost-brick running Opera and can use Wikipedia. It's wonderful. He doesn't have any of the distractions of Facebook, but he can check the difference between naltrexone and naloxone or brush up on D
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by kaitai 11y ago
This is part of the point. Many of us are pedantic nerds. I had to train myself out of the exact same habits (the "what if"s, the "but you actually asked"s), but I could only do that once I realized when people habituall
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by kaitai 11y ago
We are used to some measure of equality these days, and are surprised when the burden of "doing someone a favor" falls so explicitly on random women. As we go through life we end up finding the lines at which each of us will stop.
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by kaitai 11y ago
I'd be happy to sit next to you, then, if you kept your arm off the armrest :)
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by kaitai 11y ago
It's interesting to take a view that contrasts with Sivers' article and most of us on HN -- that of someone on the edge of homelessness. I remember reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and thinking about cooking and
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by kaitai 11y ago
Not everyone's individual rights. I didn't see Scalia standing up for my right to do what I want with my female body, for instance. (I know the counterargument is that fetal rights are more important, but then the fact remains: no
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by kaitai 11y ago
Sounds like a really good analogy, in fact :)
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by kaitai 11y ago
I force my students to use this overloaded notation because I want to make very clear to them the commonality of ideas. They need to know that determinant of a matrix, length of a vector, and absolute value are all ways of measuring "s
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by kaitai 11y ago
Good notation certainly aids understanding, but math is a vast endeavor where the details matter. In switching from one programming language to another, often a rough understanding of corresponding concepts is enough: how to print has dif

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