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by mcshicks 10y ago
Philip Tetlock has done a lot of research on objective measures of political expertise, specifically the ability to make objective predictions about future outcomes and likelihoods. He wrote a pretty famous book on it. The basic conclusi
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by mcshicks 11y ago
Well sort of. Consider a couple in a 4 bedroom house who's kids have moved out, but don't move into a smaller place (say 2 bedroom condo) because they would have to pay a bigger tax bill. So there are two bedrooms not being used
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by mcshicks 11y ago
Vanguard had very low fee reit index funds. If you want to generate income it is a good option (as opposed to stock index funds) because reits are required to pay 90% of their income as dividends. You can look at all the historical divide
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by mcshicks 11y ago
I can't agree with this more. I have a library walking distance that has two different interlibrary loan systems that can get books from local universities and other libraries. Both are free. There are three different public library
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by mcshicks 11y ago
If you find this article interesting you might consider the book "How Doctors Think". It's basically an entire book dedicated to the subject of misdiagnosis and how our modern medical system has some systematic flaws that co
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by mcshicks 11y ago
One thing about two's complement representation is the representation is asymmetric, you have one more negative number, i.e. 0x8000 for a 16 bit signed number is negative (unsigned) 0x8000. So a function like absolute value if it retu
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by mcshicks 11y ago
This is exactly my experience as well. I more or less use org mode all the time for organizing tasks, preparing document drafts, etc. I really like the HTML and other format exports for getting quick drafts.
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by mcshicks 11y ago
You are absolutely correct. Thanks.
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by mcshicks 11y ago
I think the big story here is the number of chips they can stack. From the article you pointed out to they were using 8 stacked dies. "The later capacity is accomplished using 8 stacked and thinned (< 75 um) NAND chips in a 1.2 mm
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by mcshicks 11y ago
I was the victim of identity theft about 14 years ago from someone employed at my company. My personal situation wasn't too bad, they opened some credit cards. But other employees had their brokerage accounts broken into. In Califo
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by mcshicks 11y ago
I really enjoy John Markoff's writing and happened to read that article before this was posted. If you really want to understand more of where he is coming from with respect to this article I would recommend reading his book "Wha
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by mcshicks 11y ago
If you are really interested in this subject (how western societies treat the "insane" as the societies themselves evolve) I would recommend Michel Foucault's "Madness and Civilization", more recently published as &
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by mcshicks 11y ago
In my previous job I did failure analysis for returned ASICs for a high volume commercial application. As the parent says in fact because a modern ASIC has structural coverage with built in self test for the overwhelming majority of digita
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by mcshicks 11y ago
This is exactly my experience (jumping ship and changing titles). I didn't see much discussion in the article about "what do I need to do to get to the next level" as a point of discussion when asking for more money. This i
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by mcshicks 11y ago
I used to work on combo bluetooth/fm/wifi chips that are used in cell phone applications. There is additional cost to make it work, both for bill of materials as well as recurring and non-recurring testing. So many customers pre
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by mcshicks 12y ago
I have that one, and it's very nice, the keys feel similar to a regular keyboard. It also feels pretty solid mechanically when you fold it out. However its not that small. The feature on the MS one to allow easy pairing to more than
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by mcshicks 12y ago
I'm curious if you have ever tried your theory out on an experienced mediator? By experienced I mean 5 or more years of a regular practice. I meditate every day, and do a couple of week long meditation retreats a year if I can. I ce