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by sammalloy 4y ago
Heh, I figured this out quite by accident several years ago. I noticed that I tended to gain less weight when I cooled the rice in the fridge just after cooking it, instead of eating it straight from the pot. I couldn’t explain it.
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I’m going to miss her. I know she’s 76, but if she started a podcast, I would listen. I love her voice.
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> Inflation is happening because everyone is making more money Real average weekly and hourly earnings have decreased. > and everyone got a bunch of during covid Several thousand dollars is more money? That’s one rent or mortgage pay
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> I use to love hearing Sylvia Poggioli say her name. We must be twins. It was the highlight of my day.
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"High-IQ populations are more patient and more risk averse than low-IQ populations". https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...
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> I think it may also explain why some very smart people are not appreciated; they say things which are far too nuanced for most people to understand; others often won't understand the depth of the argument being made. Smart people
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> No one foresaw the internet. That’s because it was Byte magazine. If you were reading High Frontiers (1984), which became Reality Hackers (1988) and finally Mondo 2000 (1989), you would have thought otherwise. I used to buy them at To
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It also sounds rooted in Epictetus, the Greek Stoic. Interestingly, Christian monastics used the Enchiridion of Epictetus to guide their intentional communities.
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> it is seen as a matter of social status Just rewatched the film "Margin Call", and salary as social status is one of the main themes that arises in almost every scene with the junior members of the firm.
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> I first thought of it as an anomaly, and now I see it as a trend This has been going on for decades. I was complaining about it back in the year 2001. It is not new.
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> Do you mean college used to be paid for by taxes and now students have to pay for it and that's why college is so expensive? That’s exactly what it means. Not sure why you think this is an opinion. It’s a demonstrable, historica
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> Colleges need to cost less. Much less. Conservatives have waged a targeted attack on US education by shifting the federal and state tax burden to students. This began with Ronald Reagan and ended with the Koch network. Conservatives
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> Haynes manuals were fantastic! Are they still popular today? Yes, they are still popular in the hobbyist community for many cars made before a certain date. The manuals are highly accessible in the US because the public library system
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> The point is that if one is raised believing there will always be a helping hand, it is better to not expect much, even if there is nothing wrong in asking for more help than supposedly more "individualistic" areas I don’t di
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> the reason people indoctrinate isn't because they want them to be negative, but to realize that being pessimistic is actually going to be a more reliable way to have a plan for life when no one is able to help I take it you are a
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> I thought that was a good idea, until I started seeing posts about stuff I knew really well. There’s no perfect system or perfect just-world. Like you, I see mistakes like this all the time on Reddit, with some of the best examples of
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> It's in part the upvote / downvote, an horrible gamification of online discourse triggering your need to win the "spectators", even if you end up not having any vote at all because no one cares. Not everyone plays t
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> advanced innovation by tricking people into ordering food from existing restaurants on fake websites? Just want to point out that what you are describing is called a "ghost kitchen", and it’s a bizarre and terrible idea that
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You have a point, but I recall reading an article recently that argued that weather forecasting is far more accurate today than it was, let’s say, ten or twenty years ago. But it also seems to be harder to predict for other reasons. I spe
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Republicans get elected and rollback regulations. Democrats get elected and are forced to bailout the industry the Republicans deregulated. Rinse and repeat as a variation on Jude Wanniski's "Two Santas" tactical strategy.
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Jim Cramer makes $5 million a year picking bad stocks.
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> Silicon Valley has a real problem with groupthink This problem is found everywhere where humanity organizes and cooperates in groups. It’s in no way unique to SV, tech, or any other field. It’s also the dominant style in the corporat
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Mr. Burns has entered the chat.
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> I think that one of the reasons they're thriving is that they charge a lot more than $2 for coffee and $8 for pancakes. Yeppers. Here is the price of coffee and pancakes at my local mom and pop in 2023: Coffee: $4; Pancakes: $13
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> It should be a celebration when there is rain. Have you experienced any of these storms due to atmospheric rivers in the past several years? This isn’t just about rain. It’s entirely unpredictable and chaotic. Flooding, wind knockin
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They had a problem a few years ago that seems to be cleared up now, and I’m not sure what caused it. Basically, everyone was complaining about how you could hear excessive lip smacking, leading to acute misophonia in people who otherwise d
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Heads up: Safeway brand organics green tea with matcha has an unusually high amount of natural caffeine, like crazy amount. And no coffee jitters due to synergistic effects of l-theanine. Perfectly fine if you can just limit yourself to
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10 ounces for $87. That’s crazy.
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> it was possible to change someone's mood by that. Online content definitely impacts mental health For approximately 10% of the population, who are considered highly suggestible. For comparison, Fox News had 1.21 percent of the US
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Environment and suggestibility could explain the contagion hypothesis. There really needs to be a close proximity to the source; this means that online content isn’t really going to spread it. You need to be physically located in the envir

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