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by parpfish 11mo ago
One study doesn’t definitively prove anything, but this is a 30 year longitudinal analysis with 700 participants. It’s way bigger than a typical study
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by parpfish 11mo ago
this might be more of "it's hard to find a behavioral experiment that proves you're using time" rather than "it's hard to find an animal that uses time"
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i found it weird that this person has multiple friends that were able to "make bank" by having polarizing opinions. i know a ton of folks with polarizing opinions and none of them are monetizing it. what kind of world is this auth
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i could envision a situation where there's a kid that has a bad home-life situation that gets resolved or a stretch of bad mental health that could really turn things around from one year to the next.
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by parpfish 11mo ago
what happens to GPA if a kid is failed/held back a year? does it keep accumulating across the extra years? in my opinion, if you fail a year that whole year should be excluded from GPA and you just get a clean 'do over' on th
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by parpfish 11mo ago
taxing billionaires isn't just about redistributing their money. it's about changing the objective functions that motivate the ultrawealthy. when they see diminishing returns for increasing their net worth, they might think "
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i think the comment is saying that "if there's a black strip, we should pin the article/news that justified it" because there's currently a black strip up but there's no articles about a death on the first page
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by parpfish 11mo ago
so... where does the money go? is it insurance or have duplo block prices just gotten really out of hand?
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by parpfish 11mo ago
that example of the radiologist review cases touches on one worry i have about automation with human-in-the-loop for safety. specifically that a human in the loop wont work as a safeguard unless they are meaningfully engaged beyond being a
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by parpfish 11mo ago
isn't this just a way of saying that markets aren't representing externalities correctly? a company doesn't have to pay for bad things they produce as a byproduct (e.g., pollution) and they dont get to benefit from good thing
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by parpfish 11mo ago
this seems to ignore the fact that you can group by a column that isn't in the select statement. it's not something that i've found a particular use for, but it IS a thing you can do.
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by parpfish 11mo ago
you mean a billion dollar valuation that'll collapse long before you can actually get an exit?
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by parpfish 11mo ago
lots of people joke about how their jobs is "just attending a bunch of meetings", but can you imagine how horrific your job would be if you were this guy and your job actually was just "attend a bunch of meetings"? AND
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by parpfish 11mo ago
was this a case where a 1bil valuation in 2020 was increased because of covid (people wanted hotels that didn't require any human interaction) OR they were valued at 1bil pre-covid and covid killed their momentum when travel stopped?
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by parpfish 11mo ago
consumables are the way to go. as a receiver there's no long-term clutter or obligations. and depending on the type of consumable, there's the possible of getting to share/partake in it with the gift-giver and you've t
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i hate that computers define 'today' and 'tomorrow' on days centered on midnight. several times this has lead to problems when i'm doing a late-night work binge that cross into 12am and i see relative date terms tha
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i get preplanning big picture architecture or strategy, but i CANNOT plan out the actual code i write. i'm not sure if i just develop deficient mental models of the codebase, but my process for figuring out what to build is to just sit
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by parpfish 1y ago
the article title and domain really had me thinking this was going to be about mandela effects
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by parpfish 1y ago
> For months, I was puzzled as to why a great number of listeners wholly ignorant of the autistic experience were so enamoured by The Telepathy Tapes. ... I feel I’m finally starting to understand. Moving forward, the series has expresse
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by parpfish 1y ago
And to add to that- seeing a real world friend go on dates or start a relationship because of an app is better than any marketing you could ever buy. If you want to drive top-of-the-funnel growth, make the product good even it causes some f
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by parpfish 1y ago
it reminds me a bit of the debate in psychology back in the day of propositional vs. analogical representation. there was a long running debate in the literature about how mental information (like images) were represented: a bunch of discre
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by parpfish 1y ago
but the thing is... this is just how learning works in general. As you learn facts, the source evaporates away as the content is integrated with the rest of your knowledge. once upon a time somebody told you (or you read) "Paris is the
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by parpfish 1y ago
When it come to equipment, sometimes I think it’s okay for a beginner to splurge on something mid level because of resale. Do a little math and figure out how much it’d cost you to quit and cash out. A more expensive intermediate-level inst
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by parpfish 1y ago
i didn't read the original article, but an interesting aspect to the elderly screen addiction is that there's a real imbalance in content consumption vs. content creation. young folks on social media create a lot content (posts&#x
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by parpfish 1y ago
home solar makes sense when you live out in the boonies and there's an unreliable grid that goes down in storms
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by parpfish 1y ago
i feel like there's a postivie-sum game where the AI companies should start heavily subsidizing wikipedia. wikipedia gets money to stay afloat, ai companies continue to get access to their huge human-curated knowledge graph.
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by parpfish 1y ago
as somebody that has wrassled with the wikipedia dumps a number of times, i don't understand why wiki doesn't release some sort of sdk that gives you the 'official' parse
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by parpfish 1y ago
yeah, you should put your prep time into the non-technical parts of the interview. - everybody you meet is going to ask "so, tell me about yourself" so you better have a good answer. have a pitch that highlights relevant parts of
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by parpfish 1y ago
i think another part of it is whether there's any meaningful difference in value for a mediocre vs good employee. let say you ran a trucking company and decided that you'd pay more to ensure you cornered the market on 'good&#
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by parpfish 1y ago
have there been improvements to the insulation? given how good high-end coolers are now, i'd assume that there's been something with the non-mechanical parts that could have improved

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