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by quartesixte 2y ago
Have had this happen to me. Horrid experience.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
This is why Agile/Standups make people go crazy! The daily standup makes sense when all the topics discussed will close out within hours, blockers sometimes stand literally upstream on the assembly line, and no one can really talk to e
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Great set of photos, but man do I wish they had been able to capture just the sheer flow of people during busy times through the stations. These pictures don't do it justice. Being part of the hundreds of thousands of people walking th
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Do it with your eyes closed or stare blankly at the advertisements that plaster the walls of the train (conveniently located high up at the ceiling).
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>I'm sure there are alternatives since mass transit has been around since before phones. Japanese novels are sold in small, pocket sized volumes because this was the only way to properly read on the packed trains before the smartpho
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by quartesixte 2y ago
HA so funny seeing one without | l and I being the same glyph
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Only the Senate can remove the president. The House can only introduce articles of impeachment and vote on whether or not they go through. This, I believe, was originally set forth because the Senate was modeled as an “upper house” not subj
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Because they swear loyalty to the US Constitution, not POTUS, and can refuse to obey unlawful orders.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Related question: how many miles of conveyor belt in a typical UPS/FedEx center? How many miles of belt does a box currently traverse?
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Something I grapple with as someone who washed out of the classical music pipeline and recreationally participate in an Olympic sport: if my future child gets identified as Talented, will I let them go down the Path? Because What-If they’re
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Here’s the thing. To become a top athlete/Classical Musician requires a literal lifetime of training. Unless you are an extreme outlier of latent prodigal talent, you must start as soon as humanly possible. And then throughout this tra
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Also want to point out that top 500 ranked individuals in individual sports represent 99.99 percentile skill level against the entire pool of people playing that sport recreationally. It’s just that they’re playing against 99.99999% percent
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by quartesixte 2y ago
You’re not far off the mark. Many jobs/skills that require intense mental concentration report practitioners needing a rest period or having an upper limit to performance. A notable example I remember are the United Nations’ live inter
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Or be giant, flyable buildings that only need minerals and gas fed to it?
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The only one here that actually stands out from usage is "delves". Every other word on this list is common usage among anyone who has a decent vocabulary and a literary mind. But I guess I'll just get flagged for being a GPT
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I will commonly count things in safety critical situations with my fingers. Usually accompanied by pointing. And with a second party watching.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I find it interesting Bezos frames stress in this way. I always have found stress to come from situations with high-variable, high-consequence outcomes. Examples include dangerous situations, performing arts, and one-way door decisions. Red
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I posit there are two types of people who want to kill rote memorization. 1) Those to whom memorization comes easily without much drilling, so such experiences in the classroom was an exercise in pain and drudgery. 2) Those to whom rote mem
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by quartesixte 2y ago
You would be incredibly surprised how many people can’t do this without being forced to memorize.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about when there's simply no sign that thinking happens. I concur here, and it is (to me) terrifying how common this is. Just even basic first order cause-effect evaluat
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah deep-tech (which I am also in) plays on a different scale when it comes to funding rounds, simply because of how expensive hardware is and how big the headcount gets to just make MVPs. My friends in software startups balk at the sheer
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I have witnessed small liquidity events at Series A and Series B that allowed for some small percentage of all total equity vested (around 3-5% ish, depending on the terms of your specific options grant) to be cashed out at some multiple of
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by quartesixte 2y ago
complexity + weight probably not worth the trade off. If you can hit it with just main engine gimallinga and grid fins, why bother? also, combustion devices are always one more point of complex and catastrophic mihaps. better keep it as sim
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Weren't the cards originally for retirees to go pick up the social security check from the social security office, as well as request documents and such? It's like pension books in other countries.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Oh man this and the 17th Amendment I think created a serious flaw to the framers' original designs. But people look at me crazy when I say that the 17th Amendment probably was a mistake and the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act a seriou
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Isn't this one of the reasons why most very expensive art pieces are sold in auctions? The auction acts as a qualified appraiser because of price discovery via competition makes the price very real (after all, what is price but supply
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by quartesixte 2y ago
For actors it's slightly different, but the whole "becoming the character" part is, to me, the "writing like they speak" part. By fully inhabiting the character, they will be compelled to speak in the manner written
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah I heavily disliked most public speaking coaches at institutions precisely because of this. FWIW, I mostly coach juniors at work who will brilliantly describe their current project to me at their desk but then fall apart in the conferen
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I have read a lot. And contemplative re-reading certain passages or re-watching scenes truly does activate further analysis. For your mind no longer has to decode the surface layer and then has time to search for other patterns. The more yo
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by quartesixte 2y ago
This resonates. As a frequent public speaker and coach of others in public speaking, the top priority is to just deeply understand the material. The second priority is to create the habit write like you publicly speak (i.e develop a style).

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