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by klenwell 7y ago
I remember 20 years ago when I was a UCSD student hearing a discussion on the local NPR station about extending the trolley to UCSD. I believe university leadership opposed it at that time. I recall one of the counterarguments was that it w
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See this NPR interview with a healthcare expert from the Kaiser Foundation: GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, why do people get hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills for staying in a hospital? ROSENTHAL: Well, the first thing I tell people when
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If you listen to the episode, or even scan the transcript, you'll find that all of this covered. For a one hour show, it does an amazing job of putting everything together.
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As a former instructor of a composition class that was a basic requirement of the university where I taught, I'd claim that this perhaps more than anything is what distinguishes (or should) a university education from a vocation school
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According the Planet Money's Giant Pool of Money, which I've come to realize is a superb postmortem on the 2008 financial crisis, this is exactly what happened: Adam Davidson: All right. Here's one of his speeches that reall
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Did you read the article? It was impressively reported and provided a comprehensive account of the problem from a white working class family that relocated to the area and had their well run dry to the backroom discussions in the Arizona le
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I see 3 sushi restaurants on the same street, start to extrapolate in my head, and wonder how we hadn't extinguished most edible fish species decades ago. From what I've read and heard on the subject, my understanding is: (1) some
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If true, this seems like it would be a huge scandal. Or at least an issue in Github.
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Maybe Kindleberger needs to read more Spenser. :) More likely, Spenser himself accepted the common myth. Or perhaps his Mammon was loosely inspired by whoever headed the royal mint at the time. I'll have to pick up that book someday. T
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I have a stupid fascination with historical finance in literature myself. I focused on Early Modern Elizabethan literature. Wrote a thesis arguing that Spenser's Mammon in Book II of the Faerie Queene was not so much about the familiar
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Long Bets has the famous Buffet/hedge fund wager, as well as the Ted Danson Red Sox World Series/USMT World Cup wager. Both now settled! But otherwise, it's looked a bit moribund lately to me. Here's a more active predic
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I like the concept of predictions for the same reason. Per Philip Tetlock's relentless crusading on the topic, it at least implies some sense of rigor, measurability, and accountability. This is one of the distinctions I make between p
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As an addendum perhaps to the Organize and Design Systems section, I'd propose including mise-en-place as it applies to project maintenance and the development environment. This centers on tooling and documentation, especially the READ
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Then let me try. I concede the GP's tone is off-putting. I don't watch John Oliver regularly because I generally find him more entertaining than informative. Yet I still think this piece is largely disingenuous claptrap. Kevin Mim
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I would assume that any site that was implementing JS-level blocks also has the appropriate robots.txt file in place.
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coa
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The way I see it is that they would have a much better chance of finding a way to overcome these ideological/historical differences through trade if they weren't constantly being exacerbated by these more basic economic/envir
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I remember seeing a white paper (from some government agency or the RAND institute) back in the 90's (actually probably learned about in some NPR interview) that predicted wars over water starting around the point we are now (approachi
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I'm reminded of an apocryphal story I read somewhere about an exchange between Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller that was supposed to have taken place at a fancy party hosted by a successful hedge fund manager. Google reveals various ver
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> Once all of this data becomes available, it will be obvious how worthless and expensive most medical treatments really are. Most prescription drugs do nothing, and the ones that do something are more so just covering the symptoms. I&#x
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From the article: > Slapping down people of lower status in the company hierarchy. This would be the other direction.
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> Asshole behavior begets additional asshole behavior from others. Non-assholes are hardened into assholes over time to survive, and a spiral of incivility reigns. I've been infected by this before. Never again. (I prefer to slap up
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Also gave Donald Knuth his first big break: > At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/sc
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One thing I noticed the document doesn't address: what if the hypothesis is wrong? Is the project abandoned? Or is that included in the eventual product/result? And is the product in this case an editorial story/article? Firs
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Interesting idea and, at a glance, it looks pretty well thought out. It was obviously inspired by Agile/Scrum and the software development process. I like the checklists and noticed it has a couple retrospective point, which I think is
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> I'm guessing that revenue from job postings (Careers section) and banner ads did not bring enough money. I've used their jobs platform on both sides (as a developer looking for work and as a hiring manager) and, regarding job
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That might be one way to reframe this to avoid the AgeLab paradox mentioned by Gopnik: "Old people will not buy anything that reminds them that they are old." Rather than, "Here's a site for older programmers," it c
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How has uptake been thus far among developers looking for a job? You may want to experiment with the way you frame this. As Adam Gopnik suggests in a recent New Yorker article on aging, one bias that works against your site could come from
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This is what I learned/intuited/assumed (?) to be the practical value of raking the gravel in a zen garden. It's not the effect, it's the process. I've also assumed that this was the moral of Zen and the Art of Moto
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I empathize. My last job was with a university that got tagged with a lawsuit threat around the time I started. Accessibility stories eventually dominated our backlog. I appreciated being able to improve accessibility. But the lack of consi

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