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by reader_x 5y ago
Remote work productivity mid-pandemic won’t necessarily translate post-pandemic because in the pandemic the other ways we could spend our time were so limited. In contrast, right mow I could be at the gym, having a long lunch with a friend
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by reader_x 5y ago
If people cannot argue fruitfully about questions that are part of their identity (and I agree with this premise), then it follows that for one to win politically (or convert them), the trick is not to convince people that your views are co
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by reader_x 5y ago
Can you describe more specifically where the Botox was injected? What muscle(s) did it paralyze?
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by reader_x 5y ago
This article takes the $2,600/tent at face value (maybe bc it’s click bait?) and never digs in: •what does it cost a jurisdiction to clean streets and parks of human feces when there are no portapotties? •what does it cost charities
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by reader_x 5y ago
My basic research suggests benzene exposure is not associated with skin cancer: “ Benzene works by causing cells not to work correctly. For example, it can cause bone marrow not to produce enough red blood cells, which can lead to anemia. A
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by reader_x 5y ago
That’s so cool: just occurred to me it’s like the inverse of crowdsourcing. No one guesses the right weight of the cow, but the average of all guesses is almost exactly the right weight.
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by reader_x 5y ago
This is breathtakingly well-written and also terrifying. Unfortunately this is but one version: it’s also not uncommon for children and grandchildren to milk their elders dry financially, particularly when the elders are a bit addled. If th
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by reader_x 5y ago
A doctor once told me that helmets are actually good for organ donation because they protect the brain stem just long enough to harvest the organs. Wearing no helmet at all just wastes perfectly good organs that could have been donated.
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by reader_x 5y ago
I think Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky already put the “rational market participant” myth to bed for good.
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by reader_x 5y ago
What fascinates me is that everyone with a strongly held opinion had a point before they formed that opinion. Individual Flat Earthers once weren’t, Nazis once weren’t, and so on for the rest of us. Is there research on that point of opini
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by reader_x 5y ago
I’ve observed that to make everything “data driven” and efficient, one must quantify it. Keeping track of ‘stuff’ (copies I made, time I spent, conference rooms I reserved, etc.) requires procedures that can look like bureaucracy.
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by reader_x 6y ago
Could the containers themselves be used to help create such a temporary barrier?
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by reader_x 6y ago
A similar thing happened a few years ago after my friend died in a car crash: when I saw the unbelievable comments, I wrote to the editors begging them to delete all comments and disable any more. I feared my friend’s husband would stumbl
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by reader_x 6y ago
What fascinates me about this topic is the amount of words spent on it, yet the topic of how/when to have conjugal relations with a kid sleeping in the room is never brought up. What is the norm about this in cultures that commonly co
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by reader_x 6y ago
I agree about the learned helplessness. I observe it, and then I feel it creeping up myself when I see too many people around me have been bit. But no, we’ve got to find a plausible explanation for mass learned helplessness or we're
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by reader_x 6y ago
I agree with your conclusion that it’s more likely lack of competence. I appreciate the article ending with the impossible NY website for COVID-19 vaccine registration. The situation is the same in Maryland, except that one must register f