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I hadn't heard about Rupert Everett biopic before reading this article. Sounds interesting. I want to throw out a recommendation for the Ellman biography mentioned in the article: https://www.goodreads.com/book/sho
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What metrics are they recording? Besides IQ scores.
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This is great: When the film was finished, Siegel did not want to take the credit for it and Totten refused to take credit in his place. The DGA panel hearing the dispute agreed that the film did not represent either director's creati
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Transcript of text exchange with my sister just yesterday: SISTER: Any interest in learning blockchain development? I'm getting into that world and will need someone reliable. Plus, I'll be able to expose you to projects and get
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And that the racial categories used politically and socially don't always map cleanly to genetic categories used by scientists (thus "75 percent of Pacific Islanders" rather than 100%). But in some (carefully defined) cases t
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Not sure what a "big-lipped alligator moment" is, but I thought the writer tied it all together pretty lucidly in the discussion about competing models of masculinity. Also this: > Visiting the archives of Canada’s public broad
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My favorite Harlan Ellison cameo, from Gay Talese's famous "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (someone alludes to it in TFA's comments): Frank Sinatra, leaning against the stool, sniffling a bit from his cold, could not take hi
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Actually this subject is taken up directly in a chapter of Robert Sapolsky's Behave that I just read titled, appropriately enough, "Adolescence; or, Dude, Where's My Frontal Cortex?" Some interesting stuff in there, some
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As someone who generally shares their politico-ideological bent (and is a paying member), I agree. I could see how someone who didn't might disagree. But if you're generally intellectually curious and don't necessarily see th
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To get past the affirmative-action-is-reverse-racism argument that often frame these discussions, I'd recommend checking out this thoughtful breakdown of the case from Metafilter: Yeah, debates over affirmative action are just one of
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One thing I appreciate about the internet, even nowadays, is learning about people I've never met. This isn't talking to them necessarily. It can just be someone I could imagine striking up an interesting conversation with if I di
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Ordered a few packs as novelty office Christmas gifts a few years ago. Used my own pack to repair a plastic shelf in my older refrigerator that had cracked where nothing else had succeeded. Still holding up many years later. So I think fond
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I also recommend this Ask HN thread: Ask HN: I just got my first team lead. What should I do? 89 points by endymi0n on Dec 30, 2011 | 50 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643 Hmmm. Older than I remem
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For those not familiar with Erowid, it is a great old-school independent website that serves as a hub for information on psychoactives: https://www.erowid.org/ The New Yorker article that first introduced it to me: https:&
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> They laughed, said, "stoopid soviets", but then had an oh-shit moment: what if it works? WE DONT HAVE AN EQUIVALENT PSYCHIC SPYING PROGRAM. "Mr. President, we must not allow a stargate gap!" https://getya
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Google App Engine free tier with Python Flask. I have my own starter repo: https://github.com/klenwell/hip-flask For a more full-featured boilerplate kit, see: https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init
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> A: If you have my book Principles, there’s one about this idea, Prioritize: While you can have virtually anything you want, you can’t have everything you want. Sounds obvious but if you've ever worked for an organization or with a
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FormulaFolios | Site Reliability Engineer | Costa Mesa, CA | ONSITE Full-Time | $90k-120k In this role, you will help to build out our technological infrastructure and scale our online fintech platform. Because we're still a relatively
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I just got done reading this New Yorker article yesterday: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/how-frightened... China's social credit system is glossed in the article. Doesn't seem l
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#1 brings to mind a James Gleick tweet I saw this morning that struck a chord: > “The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement.” —Billy Collins https://twitter.com/JamesGleick/status&#
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And don't forget this famous example: > [1996] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ToNp1MY3c&t=33s
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It was Murphy Finn, author of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35025680-the-long-haul Here's an HN discussion of the book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310849 A passag
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This is a great example. But I still have a bone to pick with the edited user story. It's not really a user story and crosses the line into implementation. I'd propose a further revision: "As a user, I'd like the home pa
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Candidates seem to appreciate it. It saves everyone time when something like salary expectations are clearly out of alignment. I've been using this approach for the last 2-3 years and I have found it to be successful (across 2 companie
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In addition, a summary of the hiring process. The standard one-line HN Who's Hiring summary is also more informative than most the boilerplate crap I come across. Example: > FormulaFolios | Full-Stack Rails Developer | Costa Mesa, C
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How Fortnite Captured Teens’ Hearts and Minds(newyorker.com)
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Before my first one-on-one meeting with anyone reporting to me, I refer them to this link: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/32765/what-is-... I give my reports an opportunity to raise any topics they
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> I think the analogy that stuck with me most about this was that war may be the male version of motherhood, that is, the closest we come to being true to our biological selves. Somehow this feels right, although that's just intuiti
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Art or skill is an interesting way to look at it. There are a couple somewhat opposing social skills that seem to make like easier, or more bearable, for those who possess them. One is the ability to schmooze people, or even just remember t
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This is where the rule of threes is useful for me. The third time I find myself answering the same question for someone, I'll make sure it get put in the wiki. Then next time I get asked, I just give the asker the URL. Saves time and b

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