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Career Scouting: Dentistry(careerscouting.substack.com)
1 points by realsimplesynd 4y ago|1 comments
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by realsimplesynd 4y ago
I recently interviewed a dentist. You may find the text insightful. Note that this is not necessarily representative of the experience of all dentists. My reasons for doing so are listed on the “about” page of the linked website.
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
Brave is such a great browser, it’s one of the few software products that makes me feel really happy when I use it
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
> “ Instagram’s algorithm might suggest more extreme dieting accounts with names such as “Eternally starved,” “I have to be thin” and “I want to be perfect.” “ I know people who cut themselves because of Instagram and not feeling adequat
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
Checking out the Wikipedia page, it seems quite useful, but more observational (like, liked people do x, and that seems a contributor to their likability not a product). I don’t know how to translate that into a poster, though.
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Ask HN: How to market a cross country team?
2 points by realsimplesynd 5y ago|2 comments
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
I don’t know anything about this company (which people seem to not like), but SLAM for WiFi is looks pretty cool (and even somewhat useful).
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
COVID “jabs” seems demeaning to one of the fastest scientific kicks in history. We’ll remember the vaccine research the same as the moon landing.
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
> the MIT culture of credit theft This makes me think about who we revere as scientists and who we compare ourselves to. A lot of success in life is out of our control. Conditions produce outliers, not diligence and hard work (Outlier X
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
If you have a good understanding of how to hack YouTube (or other social sites) that seems plausible. Some list video channels appear to have crossed that mark (I bet a well trained GAN or GPT-3 could easily reproduce content of that qualit
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
This feels like the digital equivalent of a tsunami. A monstrous tidal wave that’s almost kind of beautiful despite the carnage. 17m rps is insane!
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
I may be biased, but I really love RSS. Did you know that Aaron Swartz worked on the RSS spec when he was 14 years old?
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
I've heard it used as an explanation for our species level sense of camaraderie and cooperation. A near extinction event may have been one of the best things to ever happen to us. (I don't entirely agree, but it's an interest
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
> “I realized that those ants were badasses and terminally cool” Ants don’t seem to care about legacy: one ant is pretty much the same as every other one and each life isn’t that important to the functioning of their community. All they
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
Turns out there are perks to being vegetarian and having cultural inhibitions about cow meat :)
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
Jeff Atwood explained this behavior as stemming from the fact that when you work with a computer all day, you kind of become one. Source: https://youtu.be/KZkYSSE8HHI
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
Forgive me if I read the article wrong, but maybe this has to do with randomly changing diet having a negative effect? I think optimal diet is subjective. Reason and experience are more important than other people’s data alone.
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Ask HN: How do I find collaborators?
8 points by realsimplesynd 5y ago|4 comments
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
There’s something about extinct/ancient common ancestors of humans and other species that’s so interesting and exiting.
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
Person in US school system here. I’ve had to use Chromebooks for school, and all I can think about is what Richard Stallman would do if he were in the US school system right now.
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by realsimplesynd 5y ago
I wonder if there is a correlation between being super good and having a disdain for awards or not.
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The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment (2016)(blog.plan99.net)
2 points by realsimplesynd 6y ago|1 comments
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by realsimplesynd 6y ago
I really wish I started with lisp, the unity of the whole language teaches you that you’re not just telling a computer what to do, you’re making abstractions on top of the base language.
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by realsimplesynd 6y ago
I love this philosophy, because every time I reread a book, I always find something new that I missed on the first pass through. Kind of like training a deep learning model, in a sense.
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The Digital BOR(koratkar.com)
2 points by realsimplesynd 6y ago|0 comments
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by realsimplesynd 6y ago
If anyone is interested in an extremely secure linux distro: https://tails.boum.org/
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by realsimplesynd 6y ago
> Governments seem to be universally terrified of even the slightest possibility of anyone in the world having a private conversation. How secure do you think face-to-face conversations are? (not sarcastic or anything, just genuinely int
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by realsimplesynd 6y ago
In Frank Herbert's Dune, the main hero, Paul Muad'Dib, name means "the little mouse"
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DFHN: Distraction Free Hacker News Extension(chrome.google.com)
1 points by realsimplesynd 6y ago|0 comments
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The Scientific Method Has a Big Problem(koratkar.com)
1 points by realsimplesynd 6y ago|0 comments

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