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by medler 3y ago
Can’t read this without thinking about the founders I know who started (and are still running) a successful unicorn. When they were founding this unicorn, they applied to YC and were rejected. Why, I’ll never know, but they’re both fairly i
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by medler 3y ago
The ability to drink cow’s milk evolved relatively recently, in the past 7,500 years or so. But that ability made you so much more likely to survive and reproduce that it quickly came to dominate Europe. Obviously we don’t know what traits
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by medler 3y ago
What I’ve learned from reading this article is that among things named after a Bernoulli: - if it has to do with physical forces related to air pressure, it’s named after Daniel Bernoulli. - If it’s math, it’s named after Jacob Bernoulli. O
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by medler 3y ago
North Africa and Anterior New Zealand?
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by medler 3y ago
No one is going to risk getting fired to make it look like their colleague was in the office.
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by medler 3y ago
Interesting, could you explain more?
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by medler 3y ago
I ran arch for a little while and really did not like it. Of the ~10 distros I’ve used over the years, Arch was by far the least stable. Turns out I don’t want to be the alpha tester for every piece of software on my machine. A distro like
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by medler 3y ago
By no means does this little nit invalidate the entire article. But since this article is a grab-bag of separate points, we can only critique point by point. I do think the bad cite weakens this one point—if there were better studies in sup
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by medler 3y ago
Digging into the study now. It was very small: the subjects were 16 office workers. They analyzed between-subjects rather than within-subjects, which seems a little suspicious given that within-subjects is more interesting and given Wansink
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by medler 3y ago
> For example, what you eat is shaped far more by what you see than by what you search for. The linked study is co-authored by the disgraced researcher/fraudster Brian Wansink. I guess this was one of the studies that didn’t get ret
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by medler 3y ago
Wikipedia has more context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file I first heard about “tickler files” in the book Getting Things Done. Didn’t realize they went back so far.
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by medler 3y ago
I like OCaml quite a lot so I’m F#-curious but I don’t know anything about the .NET environment and don’t currently have any need to program on Windows. What are the trade-offs between OCaml and F# for programming on Linux?
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by medler 3y ago
She was convicted on charges related to defrauding investors and acquitted on charges related to defrauding patients. A juror told the WSJ “the jury concluded that prosecutors didn’t present enough evidence to show that Ms. Holmes knowingly
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by medler 3y ago
So should everyone simply disregard any laws they disagree with, provided they can get away with it? Where does it end?
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by medler 3y ago
If the only argument against getting rid of cash is that it would make it harder to commit crimes, that sounds like a good reason to get rid of cash. I like cash because I like my privacy but cash making it easier to do crime is an unfortun
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by medler 3y ago
Key to understanding the whole thing is this: “the group that built, conceived, and directs the Biosphere project is not a group of high-tech researchers on the cutting edge of science but a clique of recycled theater performers that evolve
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by medler 3y ago
There are several studies showing that “inspiratory muscle training” can be effective for GERD. Basically you train by breathing in through small device that makes it harder to inhale, and that strengthens your esophageal sphincter. I did t
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by medler 3y ago
This is a lecture series, not new research, but one of the main takeaways is if you want good performance on modern machines, you had better be using arrays: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHxtyCq_WDLXFAEA-lYoRNQIe...
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by medler 3y ago
NYT notoriously makes a ton of errors in grammar and usage. The “NYTtypos” Twitter account is amusing reading if you’re into that sort of thing. https://twitter.com/nyttypos
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by medler 3y ago
I can’t criticize the evidence that caffeine causes psychosis, because there is no evidence, and the burden of proof is on those who believe it does cause psychosis. What I was doing was musing about a possible link between the anti-caffein
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by medler 3y ago
The anti-caffeine people profiled attribute myriad problems, including psychosis, to caffeine, even years after quitting caffeine. That they still have these problems years after quitting caffeine is actually evidence that those problems we
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by medler 3y ago
What is the easy fix? Use the .well-known/ standard instead of the current mechanisms, and roll back verification for anyone who’s already been verified with the flawed approach?
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by medler 3y ago
Everything is caused by something. I posit that everything is not caused by one thing.
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by medler 3y ago
> “I’ve talked to many people who are a year off of caffeine and they’re still dealing with crazy symptoms, everything from neuropathy to psychosis,” Bivens says. These people have suffered a “caffeine injury,” as he calls it, and he’s c
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Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?(esquire.com)
17 points by medler 3y ago|47 comments
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by medler 3y ago
You have a good point. I really meant deliberately manipulating with the intent of making them want to buy things, and especially manipulating their emotions to make them think their lives will be so much better if only they had the product
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by medler 3y ago
It is insane to me that we allow any advertising to young children at all, whether online, on TV, or anywhere else. I think deliberately manipulating kids is heinous and I genuinely don’t understand why this isn’t the consensus opinion.
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by medler 3y ago
Good catch! Fortran had, somewhat famously, the first optimizing compiler and the first commercially available compiler. My rule of thumb is that if I’ve heard of it it probably came after Fortran.
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by medler 3y ago
What problem has disappeared? There are still millions of porn sites accessible by Utahans of any age, no? (This is a genuine question. I’m not trying to be snippy, or even to disagree, just seeking clarification).
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by medler 3y ago
Deputy Secretary of State. Almost as noteworthy, but still

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