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by sn9 5y ago
Whether or not you lived in a red state or a blue state definitely affected the death rates due to Covid post-vaccine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv0dQfRRrEQ
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by sn9 5y ago
Fair point. I was only referring to the Dune saga.
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by sn9 5y ago
Gnosticism and theism are orthogonal and can be mixed and matched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism
814.
by sn9 5y ago
Frank Herbert only wrote six books. You only have to read them in order of publication. His son's books aren't as good and in the opinion of many aren't worth the trouble of reading.
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by sn9 5y ago
The best introduction to programming and CS online is probably CS50x on edx [0]. You can follow it up with their web programming course CS50w [1]. [0] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har... [1]
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by sn9 5y ago
For kitchen stuff, America's Test Kitchen has amazing equipment reviews. In addition to their testing process itself, they actually dogfood their advice by using their own picks in their test kitchen so they get used by tons of people
817.
by sn9 5y ago
Very few homes in the eastern world have gas burners powerful enough for wok hei either. It's mostly a restaurant thing to have burners that powerful.
818.
by sn9 5y ago
How are you planning on preventing these trees from escaping into the ecosystem and outcompeting the local flora to become invasive species?
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by sn9 5y ago
I think your best bet would be to compare the curricula and syllabi of different universities and see which books are the most commonly recommended. You could just look at Ivy League universities, or maybe the top N universities for undergr
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by sn9 5y ago
Though this is horrific to me, if it's convenience that you're after you could always take a box cutter to the textbooks, cut them into chapters, and maybe have them spiral-bound. Alternatively, you could see if there exists a loo
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by sn9 5y ago
Because it doesn't have any empirical backing, has poor predictability, poor reliability, poor reproducibility, etc. It's fundamentally not scientific and was made up by a pair of laypeople. See this article for a summary of the c
822.
by sn9 5y ago
One or two of the main characters in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon probably fit the bill.
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by sn9 5y ago
I think an argument could be made for writing code in a systems programming language like C or Rust to save energy, but I'd be much more interested to know what the same choice would be for front-end development. Could we get something
824.
by sn9 5y ago
Get a food scale and measure everything for a few days, storing the information in an app like Cronometer.
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by sn9 5y ago
You might want to look into the book Nonviolent Communication .
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by sn9 5y ago
For people interested in fat loss, the relevant benefit of strength training is that it provides a signal to your body to hold on to as much muscle as possible. (Usually in conjunction with eating sufficient amounts of protein during your f
827.
by sn9 5y ago
Surely the prosecutor's laziness keeping you in jail for an extra three weeks is something you can sue somebody about? That seems like a huge violation of your rights.
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by sn9 5y ago
"Odds of survival have long been factored into prioritizing who will get donated organs. And requiring vaccinations against devastating infectious diseases is also standard. Organ recipients are already generally required to be vaccina
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A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering: The Engineers' Daughter(theatlantic.com)
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by sn9 5y ago
Are you using property-based testing tools like Quickcheck? Some Youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=property+based+... Article by author of Hypothesis, the property-based testing framework for Pyth
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by sn9 5y ago
Teach them how to communicate better. Check out this early 20th century educational experiment to see what I mean: https://www.inference.org.uk/sanjoy/benezet/three.html
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by sn9 5y ago
I don't bother reading discussions about links I haven't read. It's usually obvious when a comment is by someone who hadn't read the article.
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by sn9 5y ago
Instead of blocking off an hour, sprinkle it in throughout the day. It's called grease-the-groove style training and it's really effective at building strength, especially for bodyweight exercises. The trick is to use a really sub
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by sn9 5y ago
Well it's in the name. It should only be your first 3-6 months of training. After that, you can move on to a more sustainable style of programming. The usual recommendations are one of Wendler's 5/3/1 programs, or maybe
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by sn9 5y ago
Using a formal methods tool [0] like Alloy [1] would honestly be ideal. [0] https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/formal-methods/ [1] https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/alloy/
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by sn9 5y ago
Yeah I get what you mean, but it's also pretty rare for people to achieve what he did in martial arts in such a small time frame. And the specifics he outlines about how he rapidly improved to the point where he could compete at an int
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by sn9 5y ago
Your confusion is warranted. These aren't terms that are 100% agreed upon and the scientific understanding is still evolving as our tools get better. The Atlantic just published an article about this very topic: https://ww
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by sn9 5y ago
Funnily enough, The Atlantic just put out an article describing why the idea of "sterilizing vaccines" itself might be a myth and why that doesn't matter from a practical public health standpoint: https://www.the
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by sn9 5y ago
It's been a few years since I read it, but Josh Waitzkin's Art of Learning discusses how he went from complete novice to winning the world championship in Tai Chi Push Hands within two years. It's a pretty good memoir for a
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by sn9 5y ago
The Art of Problem Solving books are great and really focus on understanding the concepts deeply. The problem selection varies widely in difficulty and they all have corresponding solution manuals so you can check your answers and problem

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