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marifjeren
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marifjeren
2y ago
this is neat. i like the guy's confidence. the animations on the work page are very framey for me, not sure if that's by design
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2y ago
I was like.. "Why do so many of the non-wall posts seem to have fire emojis in them?" Turns out: if (text.includes('fire-emoji') || wall > 3) { wall = -1; } It's funny how palpable this snippet is while looki
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3y ago
Yes. (source: > In 2024, 13-year Brood XIX, which is the largest of all periodical cicada broods, will co-emerge with 17-year Brood XIII; these two broods are adjacent (but not significantly overlapping) in north-central Illinois. - htt
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3y ago
this is a lot more hopeful messaging than I'm used to hearing about addiction but I also think it's worth noting this limitation from the study: """ institutionalized individuals or those who experienced fatal or se
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3y ago
No dice. The search continues..
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3y ago
Someone who isn't me is getting in touch with a computer science librarian at a top 10 university about this paper. I'll update here with whatever I (don't) learn.
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3y ago
+1 this study was "Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled"
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3y ago
> the article is an example of what OP is asking for I don't dispute that. It just might also be a lie.
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3y ago
I'm skeptical.. It doesn't even sound like they've actually started on whatever AI/ML projects he's talking about. They're having profitability problems and needed to cut costs. I assume the AI mention here is
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4y ago
So.. you should do the things you're supposed to do, even when you don't want to do them? Isn't this already plainly obvious to literally everyone?
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4y ago
> literally all of my applications have been rejected or ghosted How many is "literally all"? What's the number? After how many days of not hearing back do you consider an employer to have ghosted you? Do you follow up wit
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4y ago
https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176 This course on Open Yale called "Death". Shelly Kagan talks about whether the soul exists, what death means for the individual, why/whether death is bad, and finally t
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marifjeren
4y ago
I'm just quoting the article. Agreed though, perhaps nothing is a fact. All statements are false. Some are useful.
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4y ago
Allow me to save you a click: "established scientific facts can be identified via a solid (>95%) international scientific consensus"
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marifjeren
4y ago
Also: any use case where the final destination link contains a one-time access code for something.
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4y ago
Noticing a theme already.. architects are fun killers! “Good architects prefer plain, old working tools.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33880398 “Fight the urge to use ‘latest and coolest’ technology. (…) Stick to wh
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4y ago
You're implying the attacker shares (among other things) skin color with the author, but is there evidence of that?
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marifjeren
4y ago
Hmm yeah. Uppers, SSRIs, nicotine (if that's not already considered an 'upper'), ...
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4y ago
"people with low BMI" seems like it refers to a large group of healthy people, but it actually refers to folks who are underweight. In China, that's like 1 in 10 people. In the USA it's closer to 1 in 50. I wonder what k
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4y ago
Thank you for asking. My BMI is 31 and it's because I eat too much.
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4y ago
Of course it's no surprise that people who eat less weigh less. The surprise, I think, is that people who are underweight are relatively sedentary. Maybe this is not that much of a surprise either though? I wonder how much of this has
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5y ago
Am I the only one reading the original study and not finding the word "sleep" in it at all?
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5y ago
> Sure, it’s easy to look back 10 years and say X is just Y, cause it’s been around for 10 years! Exactly. If the author published this in 2008 he would be saying "the iPhone is just a rehash of Blackberry but with a touch screen.&q
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5y ago
I disagree. Job performance is believed to follow either a symmetric normal distribution or an L shaped distribution. In either case, the mean is either very close to or greater than the median. See e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wil
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5y ago
It will lend a metallic taste to the fruit’s otherwise sweetly acidic flesh.
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> It's whether something legitimately represents power. > Viewed this way, taste is the expression of what you percieve to be power based on your experience What about displays of disposable wealth, which demonstrate power in a w
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5y ago
Just from a marketing perspective, I think it would have been wise if they'd held off their Google Drive integration announcement and made it part of their premium tier.
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5y ago
Why did you write that as EVERY.DEVICE.I.OWN? Does that refer to something besides its literal meaning?