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by milesvp 8y ago
At the end of the day life happens. Interviewing can take a tremendous amount of effort, and worse, since you generally need to hide it from your current employer, it also can feel gross emotionally. And on top of all that, the best time to
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by milesvp 8y ago
If you have the means to do proper due diligence, then you can find a way to get your investment dollars into the hands of someone who can invest for you, even if you can't meet the requirements to be an accredited investor. While we h
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by milesvp 8y ago
As a funny anecdote, I know one person who did so much wrong with his taxes for a high value personal business that he received a check from the IRS each of the 3 times he was audited after the business folded. I don't know the specifi
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by milesvp 8y ago
For what it's worth, the placebo effect is such a strong effect, sugar or no, that the immediate reaction of most skeptics is to attribute most things to it. HN is full of skeptics. I feel you've done a fine job defending you posi
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by milesvp 8y ago
Yeah, that's mostly because wordpress is a dog. It really uses a lot of resources to serve the smallest of content. We use a CDN, a caching layer, and object caching in both wordpress and php, to make our site perform even half-way dec
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by milesvp 8y ago
It's potentially worse than this. I've heard rumor that accounts that they suspect to be linked can get included in the dragnet. So even if you are super careful and use a separate google account for youtube with no reference to y
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by milesvp 8y ago
So, while yes, we have lots of fmri data that suggests our mind makes decisions for us, then convinces us that we made the decision conciously. I suspect it's a mistake to take this to the logical conclusion that we can make no conscio
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by milesvp 8y ago
4% draw down on a stock index fund will likely pay 80k anually adjusted for inflation indefinitely. At least, this is based on historic stock data However, I was taught in undergrad econ, that this 4% return above inflation is considered th
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by milesvp 8y ago
It's my experience as well (though I'm starting to think my insomnia is very mild reading this thread). I find my insomnia tends to get worse the more I fight it. So I stay up later than I'd prefer, so that I'm more tire
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by milesvp 8y ago
You'd think that there'd be mote of a market for less sweet drinks, but it probably depends on where you live. I really like honest tea's peach tea, which has almost half the sugar of most bottled drinks, and I can't fin
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by milesvp 8y ago
I was under the impression it's all aluminium cans that need a chemical buffer to prevent aluminium from leeching into the fluids. Long term Aluminium poisoning is probably worse than diabetes since it tends to eat away at your brain.
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by milesvp 8y ago
It occurs to me as I think about this topic more and more (sadly article is paywalled so I can't speak to it directly), manufacturing is to blane for lost manufacturing jobs. Economies are self balancing, and since manufacturing makes
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by milesvp 8y ago
We have genes that help regulate the use of water in our system. These genes can turn on and off depending on our environment and the availability of water. If you feel the urge to drink over a gallon of water, more power to you, but most o
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by milesvp 8y ago
I'm fully convinced that they shouldn't be supervised at all times. I think being alone in a house without adults is a very important experience that shapes children, and without it we end up neutering them in ways that are hard t
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by milesvp 8y ago
My understanding with flash, having talked to someone who had to write his own wear-leveling code so his hardware could use cheap memory, is it's not so much the pure throughout that can kill a flash cell, but the write pattern that ma
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by milesvp 8y ago
>My social experiment with my own children is still very early, So I had a profound life lesson at around 7 or 8 years old. I had grown up near a corner store with a lot of nickel candies, so most of my weekly dollar allowance went to ca
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by milesvp 8y ago
You missed one. 4. The government for passing legislation making the discharge of student debt in bankruptcy nearly impossible. When people talk about the inflation of the cost of a university degree I never see as the number one cause for
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by milesvp 8y ago
Piece of anecdata for you. I take 2000iu of d3 daily, and live in Seattle. I've found when I stop taking d3 it's highly correlated to feelings of depression. Once I realize what's going on, if I start taking it again usually
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by milesvp 8y ago
Look up the dirac delta function. It's a spike thats infinitely tall and infinitely narrow, with an area of 1. It's established now as a very useful tool in EE. But many people fought it tooth and nail because of this logic.
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by milesvp 8y ago
Possibly parent post is confused, but apperently to jump start a modern prius, you need to open the fuse box, which is unusual. So maybe he didn't do enough research? As to the mountains statement, here's a piece of anecdata. My b
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by milesvp 8y ago
The part where insulin pumps are electronic equipment. It's becomming more and more common for devices like insulin pumps to upload data automatically to other devices. It'd be hard to get location data I think from glucose logs.
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by milesvp 8y ago
Good luck enforcing these kinds of things. States like Washington have constitutional privacy protections that extend to curb side garbage collection. The state, or an actor working on behalf of the state, can't look through your garba
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by milesvp 8y ago
I'm not sure how much I trust these tax rates. My understanding was that government spending is roughly 33% of GDP here in the US. This was true when I was in undergrad, and it looks to be roughly correct today. https://www.
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by milesvp 8y ago
Nonsense! One of marketing's main purpose is to convince you that some thing is superior in some way regardless of whether or not it's objectively true (or even objectively provable). Tastes differ, but we're talking about ma
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by milesvp 8y ago
I can tell you what I learned from my undergrad econ professors. Every time you see regulations that look like they hurt an industry, you will inevitably find the biggest player in said industry pushing for it. For large companies, the cost
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by milesvp 8y ago
The recent studies that talk about this are slightly more nuanced. But much of it comes down to, what I suspect to be, some combination of the 60hr per week fallacy (that someone working 60hrs/wk creates more value than someone who lim
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by milesvp 8y ago
Obligatory link to phd comics http://phdcomics.com For those who don't know, he started this comic to warn people off from PhDs. The irony, is he gets a lot of emails thanking him because the comic encouraged them to get th
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by milesvp 8y ago
This was my biggest problem with the game Brass. It had too many rules to deal with game breaking moves. Time and time again, I'd see something that looked like a strong move only to realize I couldn't do it in what seemed like an
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by milesvp 8y ago
Bless you for listening. I find statistics to be one of those subjects that can be very counter intuitive and hard to grok, which leads to people just shutting down when the topic comes up. I have a hard enough time convincing people that j
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by milesvp 8y ago
Let's not forget that for C style switch statements, the implicit fallthrough is often sited as a bug (though it looks to have been influenced by fortran's computed GOTO, so certainly there was earlier precedent). I will tell you

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