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by trendia 9y ago
I understand how you grow food, but how do you grow service people?
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by trendia 9y ago
In addition to everything else you do, I recommend the following book: "Counterexamples in Analysis" by Gelbaum and Olmsted. You will find that many of your intuitions you picked up in calculus are violated in analysis. For instan
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by trendia 9y ago
CA was able to extract a personality profile from just likes. Imagine what an app could do if they had access to your entire message history! (Why would anyone give apps access to their messages? So that they can send / receive special
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by trendia 9y ago
I wonder if the news media's reaction to Facebook explains Google's $300m effort to save online news. $300m buys a lot of good will, and maybe some favirbale coverage.
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by trendia 9y ago
The damage was on the front-right bumper of the left-turning car. The only way I can see the left-turning car being at fault is if the left-turning car was in the leftmost lane, and the right-turning car tried to merge into the leftmost lan
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by trendia 9y ago
Tipping is also used to help the worker avoid paying taxes, since many service workers don't report 100% of their tip income as required. And although companies would be able to deduct salary expense to reduce their own tax bill, they
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by trendia 9y ago
This is analogous to saying: "Jesus teaches us to be moral, so the inquisition is just letting the government teach us to be more moral."
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by trendia 9y ago
I had the same problem. Companies should be forced to make cancellation as easy as registration. When blue apron first started, you couldn't even cancel it through the web interface -- You had to send an email to request cancellation.
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by trendia 9y ago
According to google ... Coffee: 95mg / 8oz 1 shot espresso: 64 mg / 1oz Black Tea: 30mg / 8 oz Green Tea: 35mg / 8 oz
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by trendia 9y ago
Almost as bad as the bug where they made light the same speed in all reference frames. I heard they didn't even fix the bug, they just put in some wonky fixes that mess things up when you go really fast or get close to the world bounda
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by trendia 9y ago
European shutters are pretty nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KePLmie7lE
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by trendia 9y ago
If it's the norm, why would China ever put terms limits in in the first place?
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by trendia 9y ago
> This silly popular image of Einstein as the genius among geniuses is just that: silly and popular. Uh, Einstein published four papers that revolutionized four areas of physics in one year : * The photoelectric effect * Brownian Motion
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by trendia 9y ago
There was another study that found that thinner people and athletes ate more sugar, on average, than heavier or non-athletic people. Since high sugar levels cause plaque buildup, perhaps that explains the correlation?
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by trendia 9y ago
I switched to vinegar-based cleaning solution. High dose inhalation of acetic acid seems to induce an acute reaction in mice without long-term effect, so I'm hoping that chronic low dose inhalation won't have an effect in humans e
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by trendia 9y ago
If you want to see evidence of corporate propaganda on Reddit, see www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate They definitely have some false positives, but they also have examples of absolutely ridiculous and obvious campaigns
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by trendia 9y ago
Can I trademark my likeness (as famous actors or musicians do) and then sue Facebook if they use it? I'm sure there's some reason it wouldn't work, but it's fun to think about.
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by trendia 9y ago
But even epigenetics does not cover all of the ways that derived traits can be passed. For instance, prenatal testosterone levels affect the baby [0], yet those same levels may be affected by the mother's environment. Hence the environ
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by trendia 9y ago
There are some cities that consider warehouses "Industrial" zoning and retail as "Commercial". Keeping a storefront could help you stay in a commercially zoned area if you prefer it for some reason.
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I didn't think this would ever be relevant:a man decides to eat nothing but monkey pellets. Interesting things happen to his gut. http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
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> Philosophy, history, literature, and human languages My claim was that some fields avoid data altogether so that they can't really be "disproved", only disagreed with. But in these cases, there are rigorous approaches
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by trendia 9y ago
The author is confused. 0C is special to us because it is the freezing point of water, but that doesn't really make it special within thermodynamics -- it's just the freezing point of some arbitrary substance at an arbitrary pre
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by trendia 9y ago
It seems he has found his niche: finding flags in Psychology papers. His most recent publications are refutations of other papers: * No Evidence That Twitter Language Reliably Predicts Heart Disease: A Reanalysis of Eichstaedt et al.(2015a)
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by trendia 9y ago
Are you referring to the field's own internal politics (e.g. preference to psychological doctrine or against, e.g. BF Skinner), or are you referencing American government politics? (e.g. like Democrat or Republican)
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by trendia 9y ago
I've always thought that English / many other humanities departments learned to avoid much of the controversy that plagued Psychology departments by simply avoiding any data altogether. If Fredericks and Losada had written nearly
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by trendia 9y ago
The recent internal Uber study found that long-term drivers learn how to optimize their rides for the highest fares. So there are significant differences between what the median driver makes and what the "pro" Uber drivers make.
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by trendia 9y ago
Add in that technology can measure certain things, like whether you hit the right notes, but can't measure other things, like whether: 1. your posture is terrible (shoulders, arms, etc.) 2. you are arching / lowering your wrists 3
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by trendia 9y ago
From my own experience in the gym, leaning forward can cause an almost instinctual movement to lift the bar by "pushing back" with the back. That is, rather than lifting the bar using the legs, lifting the bar by bending back. Of
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by trendia 9y ago
Will this make travel agents valuable again? They would essentially have an arbitrage position by buying bulk tickets early and selling them to customers at a discount compared to the airline price. The airlines win because it reduces risk&
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by trendia 9y ago
That sounds interesting. Do you have a YouTube video available?

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