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by msluyter 17y ago
The title is not meant to be taken literally. I believe it's a riff on "The Accidental Tourist," which has spawned lots of titles of the form "The Accidental X," for any case where ending up as X was not the original intent.
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by msluyter 17y ago
Wool? That's a dirty word here in 100 degree+ Austin, TX. Otherwise, matters of style/taste are subjective, or, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Pretty much everyone in our office wears jeans and, shrug , it just doesn't seem to have
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by msluyter 17y ago
I have a theory that there's a certain addictive quality not just in chess but in a lot of cognitive pursuits. Anything that has certain payoff either in terms of winning the game, or even in simply seeing the solution (correct sequence) to
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by msluyter 17y ago
Sampling bias? Could those who enroll in online college or continuing education courses be more highly motivated for some reason? Or perhaps those who take online courses are savvier technologically and/or better at self directed study, bot
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by msluyter 17y ago
Whatever the motivation, these sorts of living experiments always intrigue me. The book "Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping" (Judith Levine) is another example. I informally decided to go a year without buying any clothes back in Janua
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by msluyter 17y ago
Definitely a joke. Check the testimonials: "My first three wives divorced me because I always forgot anniversaries. I am pretty sure my fourth marriage will work thanks to the Girlfriend app?" Mark, 22 22 yr old who's been married 4 times
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by msluyter 17y ago
May have been the alcohol (despite the extra water). Alcohol consumption almost always makes me wake up early (and then be sleepy again several hours later).
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by msluyter 17y ago
The problem, however, is that somewhere along the way to that utopian society, there's a point where our traditional economy collapses because too many people are structurally unemployed. How do we handle that? What replaces our traditional
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Robots and the Future of Unemployment(business.theatlantic.com)
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by msluyter 17y ago
I'd have thought there would be more of us...?
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by msluyter 17y ago
I may be missing something, but can't you create reasonably performant KV stores in relational databases? I'm thinking, for example, of IOT tables (indexed by key) in Oracle, or possibly pl/sql function caching in 11g.
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by msluyter 17y ago
This isn't unique to the poor: However, while past studies cover a wide range of choice situations, there is a remarkable consensus in the literature that future outcomes are discounted (or undervalued) relative to immediate outcomes. Put
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by msluyter 17y ago
I really want one. I often use a netbook just to watch videos, and a tablet would have a nicer form factor. Not sure how much I'd be willing to spend on one, however.
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by msluyter 17y ago
Rice cookers turn off automatically (or rather, switch from hot to warm), so they're easier to use because you can't really overcook the rice.
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by msluyter 17y ago
Also regarding the recipe: I quibble with the suggestion not to drain the beans. Canned beans tend to be accompanied by a funky smelling bean sludge, IME; if, like me, you find that unappealing, rinse the beans in a colander.
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by msluyter 17y ago
It’s against men’s evolutionary nature to marry yet they still got married just as quickly (and they didn’t need wives to support them). Actually, as I understand it, current evo-psych holds that men (and women) have dual evolutionary s
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by msluyter 17y ago
Marshall Brain's "Robotic Nation" explores this in some detail: http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm His own view seems to be summed up as: The conventional wisdom says that the economy will create 50 million new jobs to absor
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by msluyter 17y ago
Few comments are plainly "factually wrong." For one, the facts are often a matter of debate. For two, many comments represent judgments, your own being a perfect example: is the statement "thoughtful comments that are factually wrong should
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by msluyter 17y ago
A 1pm meeting (directly after a 12pm lunch) works ok for me. It's the 10am and 3pm ones that kill me. They mean virtually nothing done in the morning or afternoon, respectively.
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by msluyter 17y ago
Here is a much less superficial article from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist who has extensively studied highly creative people: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199607/the-creative-... If I had to express in one word what
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by msluyter 17y ago
There's another option: you can learn to love what you do, or at least like it more. A typically western mindset is that if you're at point X and you want to be at point Y, the route to happiness is moving from X to Y. Simple enough, in the
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by msluyter 17y ago
Heh. Most mornings I start my day with /., HN, etc... knowing full well that it isn't particularly optimal. One thing that I think is effective, if you're in this habit like me, is to do an hour or so of work on a project before checkin
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by msluyter 17y ago
True, but I think one point the article makes that I find interesting is that people need some avenue for discussion of meta topics. We're naturally driven to justify our actions (there's a good book called "why?" on the pervasiveness of th
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by msluyter 17y ago
Mind boggling. And I thought The Wire might have been exaggerating for dramatic effect. I wonder how these maintenance costs compare to the costs of a typical IT setup? If it's actually cheaper, then it looks like a classic case of being st
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by msluyter 17y ago
My eyesight isn't great and perhaps it just takes getting used to, but I found periods rather hard to scan visually. Ay first glance I'd prefer something else.
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by msluyter 17y ago
Well, don't think the CS program was that highly ranked, but I did have to take a lot of undergrad deficiencies (including about 15hrs math). IIRC, there were leveling classes (like grad level intro to CS classes) that you could take, but t
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by msluyter 17y ago
Yes, that's correct. Not only was my undergrad degree in music, I had virtually no computer/technology experience of any kind (this was back in the 80's and I was still using typewriters to type up papers.) So it would have been pretty dif
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by msluyter 17y ago
I found this insightful: The prevalence of so many strapped borrowers is why I recommend students borrow no more for their educations, in total, than they expect to make the first year out of school. This rule of thumb won’t work for every
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by msluyter 17y ago
I'm assuming that negative interest rates would encourage spending, but I'm wondering why this wouldn't simply encourage people to move their money to foreign banks?
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by msluyter 17y ago
Indeed. Simple formula for minimizing car expenses: Buy a used (3-5 yr old) Honda or Toyota sedan. Drive it until total annual cost of repairs exceeds the cost of another used Honda/Toyota, and/or it falls apart. Repeat.

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