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by odyssey7 6y ago
This idea rings familiar to me as someone who got into the stoicism trend, but then realized issues with it. The problem isn’t that your house fell down and you lost your job and now you can’t afford therapy, the problem is that you haven’t
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This fact was confusing for me back in my school’s chorus. I don’t know if it was confusing to anyone else, but it was to me. How does a person match the pitch of the piano? I could hear a few different pitches when one note was played (in
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A lot of people accept the practice of medicine in just the way that they experience it, rather than as it could be. It's just accepted that there are limits to what medicine can do, and often times those limitations are devastating. T
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I got into PureScript last year, with a little apprehension about spending my free time with such a non-mainstream language. The community’s passion turned out to be really encouraging. I’m still writing things in it when I have the opportu
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Wasn't it the first?
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The administration is making its first steps toward building the relationships that it wants. Signaling expectations is fine for that.
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We do need the PhDs (or otherwise trained researchers). It’s the universities that don’t.
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I don’t know who might be paying whom. But speaking to regretful food decisions with lots of industry support and relatively little public awareness, I would rather our foods didn’t have so many emulsifiers in them. Their risks to our gut b
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Is it counterproductive that we expect researchers to work in universities and become professors? It seems like there should be more outlets for the calling. Our universities are proving to be a bottleneck. I see how there is an often-natur
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I was trained out of my grandmother’s accent in elementary school, because my teachers knew that biases against it would hinder me later in life. It’s a shame. If I can claim to have any wit, she’s the influence that deserves most of the cr
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This study gave a single (USD-equivalent) $5,900 payment, not a recurring monthly payment. The benefit was demonstrated to last a number of months. It's worth comparing this to the US median income. That's about $32k annually, whi
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I once declined a job offer after someone in management discussed their “greening” strategy, which was structuring the company so that older and (more expensive) employees wouldn’t be able to stay.
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A $44M scapegoat service?
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And the story's key theme of a missing sister, presented as a missing star in the sky, is apparently as salient as ever. Even today in the year 2021, countless people have come together (in their contemporary medium) to wonder and spec
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His work was epic and monumental at times, though the author mentions some stylistic developments that are more subtle as well. > If you look at his piano sonatas, in that first one in F Minor, the hands are very close together and the p
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> I wonder: Is it an exaggeration to say that composers after Beethoven, the vast majority of them hearing, were forever changed by a deaf aesthetic? I’ve heard it expressed that when a user interface is designed with accessibility needs
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As someone who recently learned monads, this exactly was a point of confusion for me.
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If someone wanted to learn more about this type of mathematics, without matriculating at a university, what would be some good starting points?
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This is the geographic dimension, but there is also the time one. The time dimension can seem to link the outbreak to the start of gain-of-function research in labs around the world. Roll a dice representing all the possible years of bat-hu
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Agreed. The advice from K&R applies, "the way to learn a new language is to write programs in it."
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Knuth as a book author has written about this on his website. “Warning: Unfortunately, however, non-PDF versions have also appeared, against my recommendations, and those versions are frankly quite awful. A great deal of expertise and care
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This is why I tell people it’s inadvisable to buy a ticket with a special date or similar. You are no less likely to win, but you are more likely to split any winnings with another player who also bought that number, lowering the expected v
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“Driskell's team used a new technique called single cell RNA sequencing to compare genes and cells in developing and adult skin.” This reminds me of a way I’ve debugged unfamiliar features in complex software systems. As in: What does
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Reminds me of mutopiaproject.org. Unfortunately, Mutopia Project’s site hasn’t been updated in a while. This is very cool and I hope it stays around.
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If I lost all “bodily” sensory input and somehow kept my mind, I believe that I would still sense my emotions. I don’t think the basic experience of existing requires a body beyond the “brain” itself.
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Companies like Geltor[1] are solving this problem. I'd be excited to see their processes more widely adopted. [1] https://geltor.com/about-us/
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My impression of the Swiss cheese model is that it's used to take liability from the software vendor and (optionally) put it back on the software purchaser. Sure, there was a software error, but really, Mr. Customer, if this was so imp
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Justice Ginsburg was known as an authority on intellectual property rights, her voice is missed here.
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In fact, it does. [1] The people who named Pluto conflated the scientific discovery with an ancient mythology and tradition of wandering stars, as if it were a continuation of it, and now certain people affiliated with the scientific commun
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Similarly, I've been saying for years that Pluto is still a "planet" if enough people want it to be. The cultural concept and etymological ancestry predates telescopes by thousands of years. Edit: To explain my position bette

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