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by mediaman 4y ago
There is no evidence that the SAT is a function of practice and training, and a lot of evidence that training has only a small impact on SAT scores. See, for example: https://nepc.colorado.edu/sites/default/files&#
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Most career data shows that once you reach 125-130 IQ or so, it stops really being a factor in career success, and other things matter more: grit, interpersonal skills, etc. Being at the 99.9% level is impressive to be sure, but it doesn&#x
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by mediaman 4y ago
I think the market is (hopefully) reacting to margins on their core retail business, and top-line guidance. RIVN has added lots of noise to earnings.
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There's a lot of talk about high inflation rates, and what the Fed has to do to combat them, including causing a recession. It's true that inflation is high, but the data shows us that most of this is being caused by factors not r
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by mediaman 5y ago
And there is starting to be a movement against the use of the POC term, because it lumps everyone with more than a given amount of melanin into one homogenous “non-white” category, instead of recognizing the actual diversity of people from
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by mediaman 5y ago
Is health insurance not provided by the state in France? I thought employer-provided health insurance was just was an odd Americanism.
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by mediaman 5y ago
Part of the issue is that they often don't want you to decide what to build. They've separated out the "building" from the "deciding what to build", so hearing from a candidate that it's important to focus
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by mediaman 5y ago
The Rothschilds have had a substantial stake in the Economist for 70 years, including prior to the time when Pearson was a shareholder. Pearson did not control the board, had only 6 of the 13 board seats, and never had majority control of t
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by mediaman 5y ago
Lots of skeptical remarks here about engineering trees. But as much as people fantasize about native plants completely unaltered from their natural state, the ability to dramatically reduce world hunger is a direct consequence of humans&#x2
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by mediaman 5y ago
Doing a financial product as a green self-trained dev is not a great idea. But it's also a straw man. There are many great products that don't need to handle millions of users, or are not handling bank connections, that can be boo
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by mediaman 5y ago
Openmv is actually pretty great. I agree if you need 4k at 60fps, or stereoscopic, it’s not for you, but there are lots of industrial tasks that require nothing like that. I’m using it now and it’s great to program the thing in micropython
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by mediaman 5y ago
That's interesting, but suppose I like to drink a couple cups of coffee per day. It helps me get my brain active in the morning, and avoid the afternoon slump. Are there negative consequences to me or others? Not that I can identify. T
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And for the robber, crime is a lot more common than he seems to think it is. Metal theft, for example, is extremely frequent: it is rare that an industrial facility would have so little theft that such a proposed heuristic would be reasonab
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by mediaman 5y ago
Interesting. I wonder if this is a problem for some people in-person, as well, or if the video specifically causes the speech to not get processed right the first time around. If it's a problem in both environments I could see remote w
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by mediaman 5y ago
That's pretty funny. I have to admit, though: "adversity" is an odd term to use when they meant challenges specifically related to your past jobs. Ask about how a candidate dealt with conflict, or dealt with being asked to me
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by mediaman 5y ago
Interesting. If there are a lot of new vessels built, then they could be facing poor margins again in a few years after supply comes online. It's a lot like the airline industry. Once that vessel is built, the cost of each incremental
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Many utilities will do this based not on the amperage to the house but the peak kw used in a billing cycle - a capacity charge. This helps incentivize reduced peak usage. In your scenario it's strange because you have zero incentive to
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by mediaman 5y ago
Is this for a wood-construction sauna with a heater warming up rocks that you can steam water off of? That's a lot less mass to warm up, mostly air, and a lot less ongoing energy loss than a big heated pool.
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by mediaman 5y ago
Price of container shipping has skyrocketed due to high demand and the supply of ships being fairly limited, even more limited when the average trip time of a boat increases. One question I've been thinking about is whether the ocean f
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by mediaman 5y ago
There are two environmental costs to this setup. The first is that if he weren't frivolously moving electrons through his heater, there would be more to feed to the grid for other people. So there is an opportunity cost of reducing CO2
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by mediaman 5y ago
Does anyone have a good political explanation for Europe's hostility to nuclear power? Is it really just post-Fukushima nuclear concern? There are so many pressing issues at stake - CO2 production, dependency on an increasingly aggress
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by mediaman 5y ago
My operating costs for a 38' are around $10-15k annually, including a slip at a (low-cost) marina and maintenance, but doing most maintenance myself. The first year had at least $10k more in "catch-up" maintenance items. I do
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by mediaman 5y ago
What do you prefer to use now?
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The divorce rate is distorted because of those who have many divorces. It's split, also, across class lines. Marriages between college-educated people are only about 30% likely to end in divorce.
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by mediaman 5y ago
Agreed - accountants are a unique breed. They do a fair amount of basic numeric analysis and rote work that is of the sort that is beneficial to automation. But they're often very averse to technology, often stop learning any new tools
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by mediaman 5y ago
You are responding to a statement that wasn't quite made. We are talking about riches here, not transitioning from poverty to an upper-middle class income. What you say is absolutely true, but only up to a point, because money has dimi
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by mediaman 5y ago
Very similar experience with sailboats. There's nothing like being at sea, 100+ miles from civilization, reliant on the limited capacity systems on your vessel. You manage your food, you manage your water consumption, fuel, electrical
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by mediaman 5y ago
What exactly is the risk you are worried about? How is a ten-year mortgage less risky than a 30 year?
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This misses the point. Of course it is possible to build 53’ containers; you cannot ship them on conventional large trans-ocean container ships. The article you link makes this point specifically, and the company is offering containers for
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Let's keep it simple and comparable, and say the traditional retailer also has 34% gross margins. In the wholesaler-retailer model, the process looks like this: Wholesalers buys item from manufacturer for, say, $0.25. They sell item to

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