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Factory diaries: My life as an undercover student worker(lausan.hk)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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Ban Targeted Advertising(newrepublic.com)
3 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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The Deflationary Bloc(phenomenalworld.org)
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by viburnum 6y ago
“Don’t get overwhelmed.” Well sure. Might as well say “just stop procrastinating.”
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by viburnum 6y ago
Comparative advantage never made any sense. It's a model of a world without technology, without supply chains, without increasing returns to scale, and only two countries.
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by viburnum 6y ago
David Burns, that's correct
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by viburnum 6y ago
There’s a kind of practical cognitive behavioral therapy developed by John Burns that’s very much in the spirit of this, without leaning so much on biological speculation. He has too many insights to summarize, but one I important perspecti
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by viburnum 6y ago
Much easier to be kind when you’re in good health.
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A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon(science.sciencemag.org)
88 points by viburnum 6y ago|47 comments
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Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast(theguardian.com)
51 points by viburnum 6y ago|7 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
It was a long time ago now but I remember reading an article about a researcher who tested his gut biome every day or so and it was amazing how quickly things change depending on what you eat.
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by viburnum 6y ago
I’m not an expert but from what I’ve read you don’t need to eat the biota to get them, you just need to make them a happy home and they’ll find their way into your gut.
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by viburnum 6y ago
The consensus view is more vegetables and fiber, and less processed food.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Does Bill Gates send his kids to austere charter schools, or to expensive, nurturing, creative private schools?
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by viburnum 6y ago
When I was 14 my math teacher requested a conference with my parents. I was mortified. All he said was that I needed to write neatly. He was correct. That's all it took to go from a B student to A+. I make a ton of mistakes if I don&#x
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by viburnum 6y ago
Biology doesn't have to make sense, it just is what it is.
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More Covid-19 in some occupational groups(fhi.no)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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The Shape of a Story(popula.com)
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by viburnum 6y ago
In “A Pattern Language” Alexander says people almost never use balconies unless they’re at least six feet deep.
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by viburnum 6y ago
This is why extremely steep marginal takes rates improve economic efficiency. If you can’t get rich by playing office politics you might as well enjoy making a good product.
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by viburnum 6y ago
This would be a good analogy if in 1935 commercial aviation had already existed for 50 years.
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by viburnum 6y ago
It’s crazy, the people who wrote the constitution overturned a constitution that was only about a decade old. They certainly weren’t hung up on what Henry VIII had intended 250 years earlier.
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by viburnum 6y ago
The official Ableton YouTube channel has dozens of very short tutorials. It’s helped me a lot.
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ADHD is spectacularly badly named. You can have it and be the opposite of hyperactive! You can be too attentive! It’s being able to control your attention that’s the problem.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Vaccines are safe become there’s a well-established process that ensures safety. That is not the case at all for GMOs. And vaccines are reversible (they don’t escape into the wild).
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by viburnum 6y ago
Hofstadter has been mostly discredited. Jeet Heer recently wrote an appraisal: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/richard-hofstadter... Tom Frank's new book, "The People, No", is scathing abo
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by viburnum 6y ago
Also recommended, stretching your low back five times a day.
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by viburnum 6y ago
It absolutely does make them not worth doing.
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by viburnum 6y ago
I actually feel stressed out looking at the icons together, like it's a test I know I'm going to fail.
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Tesla expects to demonstrate self-driven cross-country trip next year(twitter.com)
1 points by viburnum 6y ago|3 comments

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