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by thucydides 4y ago
my 2 favorites: https://forum.language-learners.org has excellent polyglots https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning is good, though it has more beginners. however, it has a dramatically better UI I often
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by thucydides 4y ago
This is correct. Many highly efficient language learners, like polyglots who learn languages as a hobby, know about this forgotten wisdom. Along those lines, there's a small French 100+ year old language learning company called Assimil
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by thucydides 5y ago
I agree with your first post but to call the title a lie is not right. It seems to me that “happiness in early adulthood may protect against dementia” is logically consistent with your proposed rewrite, “people who are depressed early in
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by thucydides 5y ago
I don't get this one.
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by thucydides 7y ago
For those subjects, Major Account Sales Strategy by Rackham is good. Another Rackham book, SPIN Selling, is also a classic.
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by thucydides 8y ago
If that's the process Bezos generally uses to make decisions, it seems to have worked fairly well for him.
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by thucydides 9y ago
I've heard many people say this, and it seemed sensible enough at first. But on further thought, I sincerely can't make sense of it. Dollars are just green pieces of paper. We accept them for goods and services because... everyone
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by thucydides 9y ago
I suspect the number of influential representatives in a body is something like sqrt(n). When Pericles lived, the Athenian assembly was similarly large but only a handful were consistently influential (like Pericles)
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by thucydides 9y ago
What is Nolo Press?
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by thucydides 9y ago
Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later claimed the catalyst for his change of heart on Vietnam policy was when Norman Morrison burned himself alive outside the Pentagon in protest. I suppose that's one data point in fav
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by thucydides 9y ago
99% of popular critical feedback on ideas like this is nonsense so ill-informed it would take days to intelligibly refute to an objective third party - and the only way to convince the original negative Nancy would be to succeed. It would b
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by thucydides 10y ago
I had a philosophy professor once who was very upset after she'd graded our papers on Plato's Republic. She gripped the lectern and looked at the floor for a few seconds sadly. She looked up. "What happened here, guys? You&#x
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Move to name Paris street after Steve Jobs has Parisian leftists up in arms(yahoo.com)
2 points by thucydides 10y ago|0 comments
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by thucydides 10y ago
We shall see.
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by thucydides 10y ago
"personal brand vehicle" It's hard to find this done well. I tried this myself on Twitter for a few months and realized that, even though I wasn't saying so explicitly, it was bland pathetic performative "I'm a
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by thucydides 10y ago
It's a very emotional subject. Maybe I'm unusual in that respect - genetic differences are not an emotional subject for me. My 3 siblings and I were adopted at birth, all from different parents. From birth, we had the same environ
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by thucydides 10y ago
Here's a crazy thought that's illegal to think nowadays. If you want to avoid crazy, illegal thoughts, please stop reading. Maybe - just maybe - we're not all equal cyphers at birth like we learned in school. Maybe genes ar
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by thucydides 10y ago
OK. Hopefully I'm not putting words in your mouth. You think the author's explanation of why McMansions look like garbage is too soft and squishy. Too "subjective." In reality, it's all just personal taste, and as w
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by thucydides 10y ago
Yes, that was what I was trying to say. Maybe I'm putting too fine a point on it, but using cannabis for even one day will make you stupider and lazier the next day. Using cannabis daily will make you stupider and lazier in general. Pe
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by thucydides 10y ago
Yes. Ceteris paribus, mutatis mutandis, all else equal, blah blah blah, marijuana decreases motivation. Period. How is this controversial today? Here's an n = 1 study. A few years ago, I used a Pax to vaporize cannabis nearly every nig
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How Judge Easterbrook Kept George Ryan in Prison(scholar.valpo.edu)
3 points by thucydides 10y ago|0 comments
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by thucydides 10y ago
There are 30,000 motor vehicle deaths in America each year. In perhaps 30 years, fully autonomous vehicles could cut all of that needless carnage to nearly nothing. And what about the hundreds of thousands of injuries we'll be spared?
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by thucydides 10y ago
> "When used correctly, [partially autonomous driving] is already significantly safer than a person driving by themselves" If you're an American, you're twice as likely to die with a steering wheel in your hands as yo
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by thucydides 10y ago
This appears to be JAMA's in-house style. See http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533068 , http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533066 , etc.
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by thucydides 10y ago
“coin operated” sales person at a mature company ... more akin to a script kiddie than a hacker. It's sometimes unfairly used as a slur on the whole profession. Here he seems to be talking about that class of poorer salespeople who n
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by thucydides 10y ago
That's an uncharitable reading. I do a lot of sales now, and I've watched a lot of enterprise salespeople do their work. As in any other human endeavor, some of them are phenomenal. I routinely sat in on one friend's sales me
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by thucydides 10y ago
The quality of the comments here is so high that I often preface my Google searches with "site:news.ycombinator.com" when I'm researching technical stuff.
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by thucydides 10y ago
Holy... Okay, just went to https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions and revoked permissions for a bunch of apps. Thanks for this story.
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by thucydides 10y ago
I don't have a horse in the race. I just think you're not reading these documents carefully or considering the evidence carefully. For example, that case you cite above, the $6k copay. OK. Read the memo closely. A Walgreens exec i
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by thucydides 10y ago
Again, you make two claims here. 1: co-pays for Daraprim are very high. 2. Turing does not reimburse for those high co-pays. You're right about number 1. You cite no evidence for number 2. For its part, Turing says they reimburse for t

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