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   by stakkur 5y ago

   It's a novel that begins with a school disaster and includes all kinds of violence, including sexual. Deciding what books are appropriate for a high school library isn't an exact science, and it's often down to a few people c
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   The breathless language of this 'presentation'--and the silly superlatives like 'a triumph of engineering' tell me this is some kind of agenda presented as 'archaeology'.
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   One common thread these kinds of stories seem to always share: a single, childless person earned an extremely high (and rare) level of income, hoarded it for several years, then ‘retired’. The author earned the majority of their net worth i
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   Feldman's book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is fantastic . Succinct, myth-busting, and very readable.
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   He's talking about the origin of 'modern humans', which are specifically the homo sapien species, not about the origin of all humans. He even says so: >"Today almost everything we had figured out then is wrong. We d
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   > 'By “modern humans,” I mean Homo sapiens' Though it's not a distinction many people care about, for me this is always the fundamental context: Homo Sapiens, not 'humans'. There have been many species of human
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   Thanks, didn't know that. But I wish there was a better option for the 'default' key than the Windows logo.
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   Aaaand despite costing a small fortune and being sturdy….it has to have a ‘Windows’ key. It baffles me how that persists.
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   by stakkur 5y ago

   For AI to be truly artificial intelligence, shouldn't it be able to define when it understands?
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    Zefram Cochrane will settle all this in 2063.
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    Almost no vaccines prevent infection (e.g., rotavirus vaccine). But most reduce/prevent symptoms. In fact, it's still not proven that existing COVID vaccines 'prevent infection'--that is, provide sterilizing immunity.
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    I could recommend a hundred, but I'll limit myself to four: 1. Computer Science: The Pattern on the Stone is a nearly perfect, foundational explanation of how computers work. 2. The Mind: Brain Rules (John Medina) is a fast, well-organ
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along
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    Slavery Among Native Americans in the United States(en.wikipedia.org)

    4 points by stakkur 5y ago|0 comments
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    A quicker explanation, with some background of the technique and criticisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys Personally, despite the popularity of this technique in the Lean/Agile crowd, I've never fo
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    Public education in the US sits at a difficult nexus of political will, cultural ideology, public opinion, and educational 'theory'. It rarely goes well, because everyone vehemently believes they know the 'purpose' of pu
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    For Missouri's study to be valid, statistically and empirically, you'd have to measure the actual wearing of masks in areas with mandates, and control for other factors. Did the Missouri study measure actual mask use, and control
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    I’m confused by the conclusions of Missouri’s ‘study’. Did I misread, or are they claiming that a mask policy—whose adherence is nearly impossible to validate—correlates with improved health outcomes? For that to be credible, wouldn’t it re
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    Tech billionaires making battlefields of English country estates(telegraph.co.uk)

    4 points by stakkur 5y ago|0 comments
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    Obligatory ‘This is a what I use Emacs for and no database needed’ comment.
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    I’d honestly like to see a concrete definition of ‘tech work’. This kind of (somewhat arbitrary) data is so problematic.
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    It seems like a fair summary of laws, not ‘dripping with assumptions’. And rainwater harvesting—something I’ve spent years doing and researching—is the most common ‘off grid’ practice. There’s a continuum of ‘off grid’ out there—most folks
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    Housing cost imbalances are temporary. California migrants to the Portland and Seattle areas are already learning this. So, the real estate arbitrage of taking Bay Area profits and dumping them into Austin houses will be brief, painful, and
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    To paraphrase Seneca—the world has always been this way. This is not ‘new information’, and I’d say a meaningful portion of humans know this. The question is—so what? There is power, and manipulation of it. You are not in control of it. You
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    I buy print books for those I value and probably want to read again or share with others; otherwise it’s e-reading (especially tech/learning books).
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    I love the Framework idea, and believe in repairability. But I’ll be interested to see what Framework does when they have the (enviable) challenge of manufacturing, distributing, and supporting half a billion of them.
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    This guy fucks.
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    I have no ‘claims’ to make; this is public, easily accessible, free information. CDC running vaccination dashboard: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-... CDC Breakthrough Case Investigation an
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    Current CDC data on breakthrough cases: .04%. 99.6% of vaccinated people are not contracting COVID.
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    by stakkur 5y ago

    Emacs is not listed? Am I missing it?