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by pitt1980 8y ago
sorry, I screwed that up https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/21/tech/twitter-suspends-acc...
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Twitter suspends account that started MAGA teen Native American controversy(cnn.com)
1 points by pitt1980 8y ago|2 comments
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by pitt1980 8y ago
idk, a lot of the internships that people get in college are functionally job shadowing opportunities, I think most of the advice given in this thread would be excellent advice to a person starting college internship, Depending on the field
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by pitt1980 8y ago
But it will have changed the quality of how you lived these 3 months, The remembering isn’t the important part, the living itself is the important part
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Example that I remember getting pointed out on HN a while back https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/programming/co...
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by pitt1980 8y ago
"Most of what we do doesn't matter" One of the pernicious aspects of our culture of celebrity worship is that it leads to the feeling that if something won't be recorded in a book, or on TV, or in a movie, that it doesn&
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by pitt1980 8y ago
This is a single person thing (especially a single male thing) as a single male, I can reliable predict that I can mind my own business and probably be fine as a parent, I can't reliably predict that my kids will mind their own busines
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Not sure if supposed to feel bad about this or not, but ... 10 years ago, when my wife and I had been married less than a month, there was an occasion when the dishes piled up in the sink, and my wife got upset, and asked why had hadn'
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Never say 'no', is one of the staple rules of doing improv. https://under30ceo.com/never-say-innovation-4-lessons-improv... I've noticed that conversations tend to go in interesting directions when you try to
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by pitt1980 8y ago
I guess that's a risk, opaqueness was not my intention, thank you for the heads up.
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by pitt1980 8y ago
just missing capital letters and punctuation (maybe stream of consciousness posting isn't the way to go)
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by pitt1980 8y ago
exactly how much to promise is an art form over promising and under delivering isn't a sustainable model under promising too much and you won't get the chance to deliver there's a sweet spot somewhere in there, which can be s
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Other way around, she was his mentor as a summer associate "Robinson met Barack Obama when they were among the few African Americans at their law firm, Sidley Austin LLP (she has sometimes said only two, although others have noted ut t
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by pitt1980 8y ago
> ... the divorce rate as a ratio of divorces to the total number of married women. So, the divorce rate’s decline isn’t a reflection of a decline in marriages. That doesn't seem right at all, If the decline in marriages in marriage
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by pitt1980 8y ago
When I was in college, conversation tended to flow pretty smoothly from asking people about their majors and what sort of job they hoped to get after college. (maybe the other party was bored by these conversations, idk, but they seemed to
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by pitt1980 8y ago
That's the point though, everyone in the NBA is extremely selected for height, and since we see him in the context of other NBA players we lose sight of how extreme this selection is and focused on traits that aren't particularly
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by pitt1980 8y ago
This exchange does make me wonder how often she makes plans we people who've already previously flaked on her. There probably are ways to minimize the risk of getting flaked on. Engineering your life for zero flakes, is probably sub-op
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by pitt1980 8y ago
I'm confused by "you're inducing a hypothesis via intuition and analogy" how else do you create a hypothesis? You're correct that I haven't done a peer reviewed study on the question. (fwiw, I suspect we'r
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by pitt1980 8y ago
supposedly Eidetic memory is somewhat common in childhood "Eidetic memory is typically found only in young children, as it is virtually nonexistent in adults.[5][6] Hudmon stated, "Children possess far more capacity for eidetic im
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by pitt1980 8y ago
this seems overly hostile to what appears to be a hypothesis the idea that what we're trained to notice changes what we perceive, doesn't strike me as strange thesis at all I'm reminded of this video https://www.yo
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by pitt1980 8y ago
When Lane Kiffin was the offensive coordinator at Alabama in 2015, he interviewed a recent college grad who had done his undergraduate work at Florida and Kansas. Charlie Weis Jr., the son of the former Notre Dame and Kansas coach, sought a
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Teams in the past have bucked this trend, though. The George Allen-coached Washington teams in the 1970s were nicknamed “The Over-The-Hill Gang” after they systematically traded draft picks for veterans. In 1971, the average age of Allen’s
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The NFL is no league for old men(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by pitt1980 8y ago|1 comments
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How LeBron James Mastered the Media(theringer.com)
1 points by pitt1980 8y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 8y ago
fair, are you arguing that of all the traits under consideration, height isn't one of ones of primary importance for his success on the basketball court? ie, if we keep all his various traits constant, and one by one, move each of them
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by pitt1980 8y ago
yes, its not totally clear what percentile memory LeBron has its not totally clear if there actually is such a thing as photographic memory " There are so many unlikely circumstances surrounding the Elizabeth case—the marriage between
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by pitt1980 8y ago
no his greatest gift is that he's 6'8 https://investing.calsci.com/statistics.html he has a collection of many traits that make him a unique talent of all those traits, the one with the largest standard deviation
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by pitt1980 8y ago
PR and taking credit
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by pitt1980 8y ago
so what makes a company a target for activist investors? what are various steps a company can do to avoid being a target? Are shares still held by the founder an important factor? Is it realistic for the founder to hold shares looking that
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Not totally sure I understand your point, but I think that I don't agree with this at all. In any particular country, each citizen, of course, plays their own tiny part, but ultimately, its truly a tiny part. For the vast majority of p

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