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by setgree 5y ago
I think the virality of it comes from this guy's general tone, e.g. a prior email in which he wrote: > You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS...SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME. but I agree that there's
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by setgree 5y ago
This is now the 12th time this has been posted on HN [0], and I see why, it is very insightful. But his other post, 'submission and dominance among friends,' had more impact on me. Connecting our behavior to our mammal relatives l
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I loved this! And the fact that I was parsing its lyrics for meaning suggests I’ve become too immersed in the culture for my own good
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> I'd bet in most companies the CEO is basically just a buffer between the board and the rest of the company Are you thinking of companies in general, or of reasonably prominent/stable publicly traded companies? The CEOs at the
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Today the most visually and child unfriendly aspect of the website is the dropdown asking you to approve cookies :)
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This looks like a cool project and I look forward to trying it later. General comment: one reason that the R package ecosystem often feels creaky and brittle, I think, is that a lot of packages (like this one) are pretty far afield from R’s
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RIP to a great composer, and by all accounts, a wonderful man. I took a composing class in 2004-2005 and Sondheim came in talked with us during the session on writing for voice. I don't remember the specifics, but I recall his offering
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> Advances in the type of small data AI we do — AI created without vast data sets — would have only been possible here in Europe , with its deep and diverse technical and mathematical talent. This would have been difficult in Silicon Va
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Happy to talk at length about this — my email is my HN username at gmail and my name is Seth — but I would say that a base weight or 12 pounds or less is a good predictor of who actually finishes.
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I quit in May, and since then have hiked the Appalachian Trail and just landed in New Orleans. I'll do a little part-time research work but my main goal is to write a lot and play music. Before I left, I was depressed, and now I'm
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I thought this as well. You probably have some number in mind where you'd walk over coals to get it, right? This is like that, except the barriers are tedious to endure rather than physically painful. OTOH, if you get an offer and you
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I'm always amazed when artists and producers can recognize a sound as something that can be radically transformed, because I'm pretty musical but my imagination doesn't work like that. Kanye is a genius at this. Here are two
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Very nice! For more on the subject, see this article in the Financial Times [0], which got a nice write up on marginal revolution [1] [0]: https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3... [1]:
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Shout out to the novel Blood Meridian, in which the main characters brew gun powder from volcanic ash, urine, and other things on hand
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marginalrevolution.com has daily curated links that are IMO, generally high-quality
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Trying to click this on my phone in a low-service area (I waited 10 seconds and got nowhere besides a loading screen) is a great reminder of why companies should strive to have at least some of their materials — anything related to fundrais
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To quote another SA piece, “the categories were made for man, not man for the categories” https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma... OP is saying we could change the laws that configure t
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Scott Alexander's "Adumbrations Of Aducanumab" is essential reading on this subject IMO [0]. He makes an interesting point that when the FDA approves a drug, it means that Medicare is automatically on the hook to pay for it,
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> Separately, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been examining allegations of gender-based harassment at Activision since at least May 2020, according to people familiar with the investigation and documents viewed by the Jo
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This guy is a genius; https://neal.fun/deep-sea/ is also wonderful
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Funny, I had the same experience at Mic as well. In their early days, I was invited to contribute based on some distant social connection to a founder. Many years later I felt inspired to write something again and was told that they would o
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Like 8 years ago, I began annotating a Cormac McCarthy novel on Genius, and I quickly got a DM from a site admin who offered me a “Poetry Genius editor” position — tons of free karma and the ability to make edits without review — and encour
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Paul Romer: Lancet Booster paper "is advocacy that pretends to be science"(twitter.com)
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I don't know, and it's a fair point; I think I should have just summarised the follow-up article as "here's some follow-up by the authors for context"
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> or a p value of something like p = 0.0001 This has been proposed [0], albeit for a threshold of p < 0.005. Here's Andy Gelman and others arguing otherwise [1]. They also got like 800 scientists to sign on to the general idea of
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by setgree 5y ago
yes J&J, and yes, it's back on the market; it got pulled off for like a week or two in April but returned shortly thereafter: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-and-...
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are you still on the frontline? If so I'd personally be less worried about getting severely ill because you've probably had many small doses of exposure in your time there. Which is not precisely equivalent to a vaccine but is
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You're welcome, I hope it goes well; of course I am not a doctor not a source of medical advice etc. RE: addresses: they just grabbed my driver's license and asked if I was still in the same address; the actual answer was no and I
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it's been two whole days since my booster and no covid yet :)

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