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by mherdeg 7y ago
I was watching some kids in our local playground climb pretty high in some of our local trees and wondering whether this a good idea, and came across this writeup on risky play: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog&#
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Yeah I grew up hearing that "The optimal price of public transit is free". The one pitfall I was told about was something called a "free-rider problem", which in this specific context doesn't have its normal economi
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by mherdeg 7y ago
In the specific context of evaluating whether or not juries do a good job of making decisions in medical-malpractices cases (which is different from this article about glyphosate I think??), I'm confused about your interpretation of th
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by mherdeg 7y ago
A while back as a joke a friend ordered us the first 20 search results on AliExpress for 'panda' which were less than $1 shipped. Stuff trickled in from China, Estonia, and Myanmar over the following month or two. We've been
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Hey, so how do I graph the temperature of my house at each temperature sensor over time? I knew how to do that with the Nest API (see e.g. https://github.com/peterot/nest-graph or https://github.com/nbr
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Does the Nest thermostat product still have an active firmware / hardware / software team? It feels like various features have been kind of frozen in place for the past few years.
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I'm so sorry. This sounds like a very stressful experience.
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Is there a good catchy name for this "oops" stuff? It's very interesting, an interesting modern take on "embrace and extend" or "FUD".
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by mherdeg 8y ago
My two reference materials on this topic are: (1) Bruce McAllister's symbolism survey - a 16 year old high school student straight-up asked bestselling authors whether they put symbolism in their work, with various replies - https:&#x
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah I use Lob for a lot of my "write up a letter, print, and mail it with a written record of what I sent and when" correspondence. They make it super easy to send letters about as easily as an e-mail. I am very clearly not the i
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Huh I didn't realize that ProPublica did blog posts (I'm used to seeing long articles from them, often with partners, like that great Katrina piece). I used to be dismissive of newspapers re-reporting things that were not news. I
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by mherdeg 8y ago
> That speed does make a difference. When we switched from Cloudflare to Fastly we had about a 7% increase in completed sales. Interesting. Is that for the flow that starts at https://www.srnd.org/sponsor => https:&#
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Johanna Rhodes, an infectious disease specialist at Imperial College London, told the New York Times: "We are driving [the spread of antifungal-resistant organisms] with the use of fungicides on crops." The Times also cited a theo
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Should the people who use an .IO domain name anticipate any input about how they do business from former residents of the Chagos Archipelago, or alternatively the British military?
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by mherdeg 8y ago
This is interesting, thanks!
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by mherdeg 8y ago
I wonder how many of the we-left-Facebook-and-miss-it sorts of services don't have an obvious Google corollary (I'm thinking of Scuba/Honeycomb)
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah it's weird; I have a fairly vivid recollection of a picture of page 606 of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", in a blurry photograph taken against a carpet (this is where Snape kills Dumbledore); I can generally rem
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by mherdeg 8y ago
No, I don't introduce myself that way - that would be crazy. There is a popular theory that the handshake originated as a way to show your hand wasn't holding a weapon. I think the evidence for this history is shaky at best, but i
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by mherdeg 8y ago
> A lot of the time, trains between cities in western Europe are annoyingly long for a day trip, but slightly _too short_ for overnight trips - almost like an NYC->London red-eye, where you arrive just after you fall asleep. Yeah, the
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Do you have any firsthand experience trying this strategy? This sounds kind of genius.
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by mherdeg 8y ago
> Are they also going to ban other ethno nationalist movements? Yes, at least sometimes? I think they did ban the collection of accounts in Myanmar which advocated for genocide of the Rohingya, but only a few years after the genocide wa
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by mherdeg 8y ago
As a very infrequent gambler (I love Vegas but make it out there 1x/year or less) it has been fascinating to see how playing a +EV game changes my perspective on casino gambling from "This is entertainment" to "This is w
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by mherdeg 8y ago
> Isn't this just classic Gell-Mann amnesia? My favorite-thing about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect is that the coiner of the term himself, in the very speech where he coined the term, fell victim to that effect. To Michael Crichton&#
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by mherdeg 8y ago
A real-life attack based on this kind of hole was discussed at https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/ay7aoy/ide... : someone says that an identity thief who knows all their knowledge-based qu
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by mherdeg 8y ago
I have only used them twice, both in 2016: Booked a solid $134 room in Leicester Square at about 3pm same day. Went great. Booked an $82 room at an EWR hotel, a little cheaper than other OTA rates including apaglobal. Went fine. They seemed
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Interesting idea: > Then, as the interview progresses, do exactly this. About half the time give your best answer. The other half of the time give an intentionally poor answer. ... > What this does is free your co-worker to be 100% ho
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Is it a little baffling to anyone else that Facebook's entire plan if Apple killed their research-app Onavo iOS workaround was "loudly point out that Google does it too"? Surely there must have been more to their contingency
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah I mean it's mostly interesting to see that at $0/mo Onavo was a fantastic deal for FB and they are willing to pay users at least $20/mo for the same quality data. I wonder what price this instrumentation is worth to them
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Interesting. Any idea what the experience is like working at T-Mobile in the US?
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Keith's blog post on this is great : http://blog.keithw.org/2013/07/3g-and-me.html Carriers are uncomfortable about publishing the actual throughput and latency characteristics of their Internet access but ar

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