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by mpalczewski 4y ago
That post wasn't meant in that way. I'm a supporter of decentralization, a strong local government and a weak federal government (city/county > state > federal), but I wanted to demonstrate how difficult it is to compar
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only applies when countries have similar demographics. e.g. most countries are a magnitude smaller than the US(except for China, India). Most countries have a much more homogeneous population(e.g. China, India). Best comparison I can think
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
Why would you do this? Some weird insecurity?
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What's the "Big Lie"?
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
TLDR: Have some cough syrup with your Bupropion (anti-depressant) for increased efficacy.
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I do both. Fiction: almost exclusively ebook. Sometimes there's a special edition that is hard cover and has pages that feel nicely in your hand. I'll buy that. The experience becomes more than just words. In general if it is ju
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
Underlying biases are fine, even better when explicitly stated. It’s writing everything like it’s propaganda that’s an issue. Not everything needs to be an advertisement. Not everything needs to have something to argue against. When it does
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
For computer note taking, I love vim wiki. I used to use a Google doc but I really like how quick it is to open and navigate in vim. For paper note taking I like a good notebook with a fountain pen. Writing has become enjoyable once I re-di
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
It's a flaw in the way people have been taught to write and analyze writing. You don't see people using the steel man very often.
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The comments. The idea of someone doing things really well triggers tons of insecurities. "Until that guy burns out and crashes." "Are they abusing drugs?" "Bob is doing things without really understanding what he’
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
Apple creates the problem by leaving bluetooth on in the first place. When I close the lid on my laptop, no power, no external monitor, I would expect it to be sleeping. This is also a security issue. Thieves can detect that you left yo
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
This was why I originally loved my airpods pro. Then it started going random and they no longer would connect to the device I expect. Much of the problem is that for some reason even if the laptop lid is closed apple's laptop still co
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
You could just substitute "ask" with "request", and it's less corp speak but has all the same connotations. It looks more like tribal signaling.
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you can be neutral without corp speak. "Steve, what did you learn from your recent project?"
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
By just about every metric. Only bested by 2000 and 1929 for some metrics. https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2022/07/0... https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort&#x2F
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> It is completely orthogonal to weight but insulin resistance makes it much easier to gain even more weight. Insulin sensitive women on the high carb diet lost nearly double the weight as insulin sensitive women on the low-carb diet. Si
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> Indeed it is, and the solution to managing hunger (i.e. returning your whole insulin and leptin system to a more optimal baseline) is NOT going for a 90% carbohydrate diet. Leptin system returns to a more optimal baseline with weight l
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
In that case one must be assertive. Speaking this way does not come naturally especially to engineers. You don't have to articulate it clearly, you don't have to know why you are making the estimate you are making. It's ok f
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> Does anyone struggle with this, or do you have any recommendations for people like me who do struggle to understand what's happening in corporate meetings? Your brain is functioning well, especially the filtering mechanism. There&
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
Is one possible application much cheaper catalytic converters?
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
The "Do Your Own Research" title is about where he lost me. Without reading, I'm pretty sure the author didn't perform a double blind study himself, nor is he suggesting that we all perform one. The rest reads like gibb
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
> Which, in this age of cheap ubiquitous dash-cams, isn't nearly as likely to be the "inconvenient waste of time but zero financial risk" deal it used to be Chance of permanent injury or death is not negligible. e.g. get r
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
You failed at understanding the author.
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There's been an upper class for whom food wasn't scarce for thousands of years. Socrates wrote about it, and it was looked down upon as type of gluttony and quite unhealthy. However, even those upper classes, who didn't have
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
It's an individual struggle for many. Although I'm rather close to the weight I want to be(now) I struggle and have struggled with hunger too. My weight has gone up and down, I too have tried many things. The struggle with hunge
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Obesity started to be a thing in the last 100 years. It wasn't evolution.
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The rural populations seems would not like a redistricting where every district is dominated by its largest population center. Essentially this voronoi type redistricting would push more power towards cities at the cost of rural areas.
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> What I would like to know is, why it's okay for a few people to lie about the gravity of a pandemic and cost us 1M of our countrymen. 1M people died but the way your sentence is framed is that without those lies 1M people wouldn&#
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
I've been meditating regularly for at least 10 years now. My own selfish tendencies have increased and decreased during that time, it doesn't seem related. I think meditating is rather selfish, it's doing something for yours
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First quarter gdp was negative, we could very well be in a recession and not know it.

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