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   Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? [pdf](web.stanford.edu)

   2 points by tacon 5y ago|1 comments
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   Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird(hyperallergic.com)

   2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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   Conservation of (Orthographic) Gemination (2004)(itre.cis.upenn.edu)

   1 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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   Arabs Have Failed Their Language(newlinesmag.com)

   2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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   Making Things Hard on Yourself: Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning [pdf](bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu)

   2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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   How to Tap Memory Systems to Deepen Learning(kqed.org)

   1 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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   Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)(raptitude.com)

   350 points by tacon 5y ago|247 comments
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   by tacon 5y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Original_Pronun...
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   The Ransomeware Economy(threadreaderapp.com)

   3 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tacon 5y ago

    If you want to dive deep into Jaynes' ideas and even discuss them live in a group setting, this is the perfect time for you. There is an amazingly social polymath, Shrikant, that used to run live discussion groups in New York City. W
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    Controlling nerve cells with light opened new ways to study the brain(sciencenews.org)

    2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tacon 5y ago

    If the non-compete is just a part of the overall employment contract, that means you are working without a contract. That can be problematic if the contract establishes benefits for you, like your salary, your bonus, your vacation, etc., e
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    by tacon 5y ago

    The Texas Medical Center is moving ahead on its Bivacor rotary pump artificial heart.[0] It does not appear that Bivacor is a bridge to a transplant, but rather an end point. They kept a cow alive for many months a few years ago. Since i
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    The mindsets and practices of excellent CEOs(mckinsey.com)

    2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    The Cultural Implications of Silence Around the World(rw-3.com)

    2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tacon 5y ago

    A visual guide to how the research study assigned points to the subjects by ability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9HlxskZjw
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    Ability to sit and rise from the floor as a predictor of all-cause mortality(academic.oup.com)

    12 points by tacon 5y ago|6 comments
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    by tacon 5y ago

    Agreed, very counterproductive to their mission. I was able to get the site functioning with uMatrix still operating by using the vertical three dot menu and disabling referer spoofing. Even then it wasn't clear how to get to the cont
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    by tacon 5y ago

    Suppose you wanted to become as fat as possible, as fast as possible? How would you pull off that trick? You might stop to think about your answer before continuing. One way that happens all over nature is to gorge on fruit, just like bea
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    by tacon 5y ago

    Rather than depend on a single person's experience about running email systems, you might check out the Mailop mail operator's list: https://www.mailop.org/
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    Measuring Dependency Freshness in Software Systems [pdf](ericbouwers.github.io)

    2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tacon 5y ago

    This second episode with Dom D'Agostino discusses potential cancer treatments with the ketogenic diet: https://tim.blog/2018/06/05/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
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    Could All the Experts Be Wrong About Parkinson's?(prnewswire.com)

    2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tacon 5y ago

    Andy Fastow getting six years is not serious jail time? And his wife got a year. I think they were non-concurrent to allow their young children to have one parent free at all times.
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    by tacon 5y ago

    My general understanding is that ejection means you are abandoning a state that can safely accept updates from the original source. "You're on your own, buddy. Good luck!"
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    Your Gym Routine Is Worthless(unherd.com)

    4 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    A Few Thoughts on Depression(noahpinion.substack.com)

    2 points by tacon 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tacon 5y ago

    Yes, that is exactly the thesis of the classic paper "Programming as Theory Building"[0], that it is the theory in the human's head that we pay for and that the complete history of the code is often not enough to effectively
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    by tacon 5y ago

    That "background check" service would be a joke, and out of business almost immediately. Let's say it was a lease application. I certainly am giving my real name, previous addresses, real phone number, real email address, r
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    by tacon 5y ago

    I was doing research in a huge Texas oil company, amazed at some pronunciations. Schlumberger -> Slumber-jay, etc. There was a cute young female petroleum engineer (very rare back then), and I asked her to pronounce "c-e-m-e-n-t&q