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by screye 3y ago
When dealing with a difficult situation, people need a combination of faith, discretion, empathy, and consistency. Therapy is ideal for those who need all 4. Note that confessions and visits to the local astrologer also provide all 4. Commu
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by screye 3y ago
NYC's main issue is that transit transfers between services are painful. Transfers between PATH, LIRR, NYC Ferry, MTA & the Air-Train can add a lot of unnecessary precious minutes. The MTA's newly minted OMNY payment system do
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by screye 3y ago
Isn't that kind of true ? East-Asians have a minority contribution from Denisovans and Europeans from Neanderthals. > primarily descended from local hominids More like 'secondarily' descended from local hominids, but there
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by screye 3y ago
But that isn't the point he was making. Some concepts are grounded in language and others are grounded in higher order ephemeral ideas. It's like trying to plot an exponential curve with a polynomial equation. It's futile. Ja
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by screye 3y ago
> calling Nature (Nature!) an "online sensational clickbait magazine" To be fair, Nature is considered a fairly 'sensational magazine' in the Computer Science world.
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by screye 3y ago
After hiking & backpacking around a decent bit with a good few styles of shoes, I have found my answer : The Salomon X series [1] The SalomanX are the lightest hiking shoes I've tried, while simultaneously feeling rugged. They easi
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by screye 3y ago
yeah....
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by screye 3y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. Your experiences are valid, and a 50% divorce rate does mean a 50% success rate too. Hardly unlikely. But overall, the data does not lie. There are clear correlations between the 2 variables mentioned by
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by screye 3y ago
If you are good at math and like complex symbols, then learn a low level language and move into HFT. Mathematicians are well equipped to find the weird quirks needed to gain an alpha in the trading market. And low level high-performance lan
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by screye 3y ago
It's odd that the article does not mention that Hikikomori syndrome is a disproportionately male phenomenon. Most estimates put it comfortably above 75%, with a 65%-85% tolerance range. Extreme Social withdrawal isn't an exclusive
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by screye 3y ago
> subtractive solutions and don’t “grow the GDP” like brand new EVs Maybe GDP is a bad metric. In any other field, a metric this naïve would be laughed out the door. If GDP is trying to capture net effective productivity, then let's
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by screye 3y ago
On the contrary, critical scenarios is exactly where tech and AI helps a lot. You'd think Pilot would be the last type of 'vehicle driver' that would be automated. On the contrary, they were the first to adopt almost 100% sel
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by screye 3y ago
Every few years I see this posted on HN. Every time I play with it. Every time I am delighted by it. Every time, I think I'll use it. And then I don't. To be fair, my finances are simple to a fault, so I haven't felt like usi
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by screye 3y ago
"Majority of people who drown cannot swim."
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by screye 3y ago
Legacy admissions should not be legal in public universities. Massive public schools like UMass, Mich, StonyBrook, GATech, Minnesota, Penn State still take legacy admissions. It's nice to see CMU follow in the footsteps of other top pr
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by screye 3y ago
There is a joke in economics. > Simon Kuznets, the winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics, famously stated there were four types of economies in the world: developed, undeveloped, Japan and Argentina
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by screye 3y ago
Sometimes you're Argentina, sometimes you are Spain. [1] Same people, same starting point, different outcomes. [1] https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/argentina/spain... Have to wait and see. On
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by screye 3y ago
Govt. is reducing its investment in HAL and HAL had an IPO in 2018. [1][2] Ofc, Indian institutions are averse to privatization. So it has been a slow process. That being said, the direction of change is towards steady privatization. [1] h
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by screye 3y ago
Nice to see this. India is poised to have a large aviation and manufacturing industry, yet all the hard-skills are in the west. (GE, P&W, Boeing, Airbus). ISRO and Brahmos can serve as a DARPA-esque seed for upskilling highly talented a
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by screye 3y ago
> who rape, burn, pillage, kidnap and murder indiscriminately Is there any legitimate source for this other than random bad actors or anecdotal propaganda from western news source. This isn't a 10th century Viking invasion.
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by screye 3y ago
First, it's ego. Engineers are a deeply opinionated species that will not heed the advice of a man they deem to be inferior to them in technical ability. Technical competency based promotion is about managing hubris and egos. For the s
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by screye 3y ago
Different people have different priorities and bring different things to the team. Someone who does not want to be promoted, and is happy with average rewards will put in different efforts than someone who puts in a lot more and wants to ri
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by screye 3y ago
> If someone is being paid more, this person has to work more Given the number of new grads out of college working 60+ hr weeks, I am not sure there is much leeway left for managers to 'work more'. With a manager's job, ti
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by screye 3y ago
Stop treating non-sciences like sciences. The social sciences have a certain hypocrisy to them. "We do not need to be as grounded in math as the other sciences" runs up against "Our results are mathematically significant and
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by screye 3y ago
Loads of hardware startups, but the communities are not in the Bay, Seattle or NYC. Most of the activity is not being generated by Americans or in America. Lots are being started in India, Dubai and China. Even the ones based out of the US
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by screye 3y ago
Is there anything wrong with that ? Their 'Infinite resources and big property given to random nobodies'(LOTR) or 'big creators given infinite resources to create a no-name property'(Woody Allen - Miley Cyrus show) both
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by screye 3y ago
Come on, in a lot coastal discourse it is practically taboo to mention vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population. Mastodon instances are largely moderated by people from the other 30%. You are free to judge if you want. But d
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by screye 3y ago
As Canada gets more young citizens without building, their home ownership has continued plummeting. [1] Once there is a critical mass of single-issue pro-housing voters, we can expect to see a huge tsunami of pro-housing bills get passed fo
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by screye 3y ago
> Rents have gradually come down from July 2022’s peak of $1,777, but they remain nearly 25% higher than in 2019. Rents were sky-high in 2019, and they continue to outpace inflation. > The largest year-over-year declines are in Las Ve
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by screye 3y ago
Better ventilation and effective greenery also help a lot. Green areas are easily a few degrees cooler than asphalt jungles. Use smaller roads, replace lawns with large trees and allow windows to stay open. Floors near the ground level bene

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