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FDA approves first study on ecstasy-assisted therapy for social anxiety(rawstory.com)
2 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
The article was very different from what I expected, and as an American I agreed with pretty much all of it.
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Why this European never wants to live in America(fluentin3months.com)
23 points by nether 13y ago|32 comments
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by nether 13y ago
"It's not a gender thing, it's an effort thing." Then why are there vast asymmetries along gender lines in virtually all aspects of dating? Look at OkTrends ( http://blog.okcupid.com ), or Dan Ariely's p
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Why Online Dating Sucks For Men(alternet.org)
2 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
The Surface Pro got a rave review from Penny-Arcade: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/09/23/the-surface-2 (seen on HN). I'm an Apple guy now, but if I were to do college again I'd probably opt for a
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by nether 13y ago
2-y/o MacBook Air. Well, some components (most of it) are new replacements following a spilled beverage (had drop & spill insurance). But the specs are the same.
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Crafting fake eyes is family business, rifts included(latimes.com)
2 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
62e9 LoC?
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by nether 13y ago
I was JUST thinking about something like this a week ago. I termed it "formula explorer" and was going to ask some people if something like it was in Excel 2013 (at work we're on 2003). This would be great for my mechanical e
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by nether 13y ago
I doubt anyone opting for a meal replacement drink is expecting it to taste great day-in day-out. It serves a (utilitarian) purpose, that's all. Enjoyment's barely a concern, it's liquid food.
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by nether 13y ago
> - filter out (gently fire) the ones that aren't as good God I would hate this. I'd rather be told that my work sucks, and shown examples of better work, so that I could actually improve and not just wonder if I was let go f
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by nether 13y ago
It's not just Stanford. This is really just one instance of the preprofessional training vs. intellectual enlightening debate on the role of universities that's been going on since the '50s (when universities started receivin
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by nether 13y ago
I've always noticed higher-end restaurants tend to price everything in whole dollars.
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by nether 13y ago
And can everyone stop using '''triple single quotes''' to mark quotations. English isn't Python; they have different syntaxes.
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by nether 13y ago
They're hard on my attention span too, but I think the style is better than the catchy inverted pyramid of NYTimes and the like. It's a bit more like the Economist in that it builds up arguments, getting "fat" in the m
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by nether 13y ago
/trv/ has a remarkable ongoing discussion on living and working in Antarctica: https://boards.4chan.org/trv/res/751390 . There was also one about working on freight ships.
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by nether 13y ago
> [] were always better and more interesting in the old days Replace [] with your favorite magazine, newspaper, website, music genre... Was it really any better, or are you just wiser to the bullshit now?
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by nether 13y ago
Everyone has unique opportunities. We'll never have perfect equality of opportunity or social connections. Buffett and Gates weren't born into the lower strata of society, but nor were they born into the very upper elite. How ma
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by nether 13y ago
All of the evidence out there, however limited, is in favor of Dvorak (that 1996 Reason article you linked not withstanding). Lower finger travel = less strain = less RSI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_
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by nether 13y ago
It was also covered by Planet Money and written up: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/is-it-nuts-to-giv... PM also followed an American building contractor who was attempting to build a schoolho
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South Koreans Learning Talmud(aish.com)
2 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine(popsci.com)
1 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
This is a HUGE outlier among birds capable of long endurance flight, if the data turn out to be accurate. The Alpine Swift is tiny, 2-ft wingspan and 0.2-lb weight. In contrast, the Albatross stretches its wings to 12 ft and weighs 20 lb, a
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by nether 13y ago
There could be a tiny pendulum generator, like in watches.
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by nether 13y ago
According to the Gini, Russia has more income equality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq... I can't imagine it being true though given this story, my experiences traveling across Sibe
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by nether 13y ago
Yeah, that's the value of a "benevolent dictator" in business. Skunk Works had one, Apple, Python, Ubuntu, and SpaceX too, and all blazed incredible trails in their fields.
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by nether 13y ago
I know that feel. I'm at a tiny aerospace firm that manages to move slower than any of the huge companies where I once worked. I'm in the process of trying to convince my analysis group to move to a real SQL database instead of
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by nether 13y ago
Favorite quotation from Kelly Johnson, former head of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works: > Voting on everything prevents anything very stupid from happening, but also anything very brilliant. You can guess who called the shots in his aircr
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by nether 13y ago
A software job in aerospace (avionics or analysis) can be worse than a pure software position, because your managers understand your work even less. Also, there are huge gulfs between reading about X, studying X at the university level, and

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