rsanek

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541.
by rsanek 4y ago
treating the symptom of vitamin d deficiency by taking a hormone orally isn't dealing with the root of the problem.
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by rsanek 4y ago
If you're not already using Anki, https://www.shortcutfoo.com/ might be the simplest way to go about this.
543.
by rsanek 4y ago
> Trying to operate on a bunch of tickets all at the same time (e.g. move all tickets in this status into some other status) requires a lot of time. Have you used the bulk issue change tool? The UI isn't necessarily very user-friend
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by rsanek 4y ago
>Always look backward before doing anything else or if a car is approaching. Better yet, get a rear-view mirror that attaches to your helmet or handlebars so you don't have to turn your full head around. It's been a huge improv
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by rsanek 4y ago
I see many concerns here mentioning how this may not be a useful law because the company may create very wide ranges. It sounds like there are some restrictions in the law that try to prevent that, but I wonder if we should be looking at it
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by rsanek 4y ago
Wouldn't be the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by rsanek 4y ago
Exactly, Anki made me start seeing forgetting as a feature rather than a bug. By default stuff doesn't "take up" space in my brain. If I really want to remember it, I can ensure I do through addition of flashcards.
548.
by rsanek 4y ago
In addition, see if you can start sleeping with your window open overnight. Even if you don't have CO, if you're sleeping in a small room with a closed door and windows, your CO2 concentration will be really high.
549.
by rsanek 4y ago
That's not age discrimination though, that's having insufficient experience. You can be denied for lack of experience at any age.
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by rsanek 4y ago
I find this happening over the long term (3-5 years after adding) too, but I think of it as more of a feature than a bug. Anki significantly extends the amount of time concepts stay in my brain, but it's unrealisting for me to expect i
551.
by rsanek 4y ago
Are you saying that they're lying about this claim in the article? > We are anchoring our salary to the 60th percentile of San Francisco, CA Why would paying higher in other regions necessitate lower than market rates in high-salary
552.
by rsanek 4y ago
Why not? It seems like your claim is based on one of two assumptions, neither of which I find particularly compelling: a) any startup hiring in SF and NYC will go bankrupt b) the devs you hire outside of SF and NYC for the same HCoL salarie
553.
by rsanek 4y ago
Interesting claim, but a typo in the first few paragraphs of this article [0] immediately makes me doubt its veracity. [0] "Price, his brother Lucas and their father Ron worked as sales agents for a another credit card processor named
554.
by rsanek 4y ago
I've thought this too but I've seen some things that put this assumption into question [0]. The way that I've dealt with it in Anki specifically is by decreasing my leech threshold such that knowledge that isn't workin
555.
by rsanek 4y ago
Knowledge work is much closer to a power law distribution than a normal one. That is, there are indeed a handful of 10x engineers, but it's not a ton of 1x and some 0.1x. It's overwhelmingly 0.1x. This paper does a good job of sho
556.
by rsanek 4y ago
Source here: https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=e... 2019, per 100k data (average of both/male/female): US: 14.5 / 22.4 / 6.8 Japan: 12.2 / 17.5 / 6.9
557.
by rsanek 4y ago
>research has shown video conferencing is much more fatiguing than a real meeting do you have a link to this research? it sounds right but I'd love to see the source
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by rsanek 4y ago
> conduct an RCT in which you hire some percentage of people who fail the test as a control group You might enjoy Work Rules by Laszlo Bock. They actually did do this at Google to validate their interview approach.
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by rsanek 4y ago
Love to see new innovation in this area. I took the app for a spin, pasting in a passage I came across recently: > In 1996, when Dolly the sheep was cloned from a single adult sheep cell, the world looked on in amazement. For some scient
560.
by rsanek 4y ago
fill-in-the-blank vs. multiple choice free recall vs. recognition harder vs. easier
561.
by rsanek 4y ago
>Why not wear it? The argument that is mentioned in the article -- "increasing helmet wearing rates make cycling more dangerous per mile... because while helmets definitely help in the event of a crash, that risk compensation result
562.
by rsanek 4y ago
By the way, this is from (2019)
563.
by rsanek 4y ago
The number of private companies that are comparable to the size of the ones in the S&P 500 is quite low. [0] If we're talking about macro trends, public co's are much more important than private ones. Do you have a source for
564.
by rsanek 4y ago
Exactly, so if inflation increases, RPI will go down all other things held constant.
565.
by rsanek 4y ago
How in particular are you affected? You should be able to ignore this if you live within your means and invest passively with a long-term horizon.
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by rsanek 4y ago
>there's an entire generation of folks; many running companies, that have never seen a real bear market If anything, this is a problem that is much less bad than it was in previous down markets. "7% of CEOs were younger than 50
567.
by rsanek 4y ago
It's wild how much of this long post is just about addressing potential concerns about spam. I remember how annoying early Facebook News Feed was with Farmville, but it sounds like this was a recurring problem for them that they had to
568.
by rsanek 4y ago
Right, all the most valuable tech companies in the world have hiring practices that are "obviously wrong." I'm not saying they got so valuable because they're using this style of interview, but if it were so incredibly i
569.
by rsanek 4y ago
4/5 days in this proposal are better than most people's existing 9-5 schedule.
570.
by rsanek 4y ago
Not sure if I'm just missing the sarcasm but almost all companies have been hiring based on the same working style of 5 days a week, 8+ hours, in office, open workspace for quite a while. What's the problem with choosing a differe

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