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by vivekd 6y ago
That sounds good in theory but research seems to suggest that homeschoolers overwhelmingly perform better on every single metric. Although I'll grant that there may be data bias in that smarter and more devoted parents are more likely
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by vivekd 6y ago
Hard to say without knowing the illnesses but for me nutrition and rest really helped. Right now I don't eat anything on Sundays and I don't do any work on that day. I also avoid eating out and stick to home cooked food using fr
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by vivekd 6y ago
They used the water currents itself as a pump to empty out the water and create a space to build on - that's brilliant!!
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by vivekd 6y ago
They didn't make the point very well but I think they may have been trying to argue that algorithms while pretending to be objective have biases of their creators built in. The ideology they are critical of being that algorithmic deci
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by vivekd 6y ago
I don't know if government is comparable with open source. Open spurce is like an ideal utopian society where everyone wants to see the project work well and have different ideas for how. Government has a lot of corruption, people who
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Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says(cbc.ca)
1008 points by vivekd 6y ago|415 comments
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by vivekd 6y ago
Agreed, there may be a cause effect fallacy going on here. Sucessful people have lots of people asking for things so they are forced to narrow more where newer people trying to get established have to take what they can get
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by vivekd 6y ago
I'm mortified too, this is a very good case for laws against ads targeting kids
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by vivekd 6y ago
I don't know physics very well, but I was under the impression that our current models said that the primordial black holes would have evaporated by now. Perhaps there was some explanation for this in the article that I missed?
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by vivekd 6y ago
I looked into solving this efficiency problem using OCRs and my attempts were a disaster. It's amazing to me that voice recognition is moving along much faster than handwriting recognition. You'd think the second problem was sim
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by vivekd 6y ago
Is it? Evolution itself seems like an expansionary process but it doesn't seem to follow that the outcomes of the evolutionary process are expansionary. It seems like many species are evolved to very specific environments like caves
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by vivekd 6y ago
I would say that's the best takeaway from this article, not use a framework or don't use a framework, but don't let yourself lapse into extremism. I noticed in node people run to libraries or frameworks for everything and th
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by vivekd 6y ago
I suppose those who are spreading bad ideas are more committed than those refuting those ideas. It takes a fair bit of commitment to even adapt flat earth or ant vax ideas in the first place. Tge internet is good at filtering commitment and
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by vivekd 6y ago
The article says the encryption was cracked on April 1st but apparently a whistleblower said that the police used a warrant to get access to the company's infrastructure back in March - which suggests to me that the whole "cracked
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by vivekd 6y ago
As unlikely as it may seem at first I lean towards the more sinister explanation. Why were almost half these bodies children. Wouldn't it have been more difficult to obtain child cadavers than adult ones. And I wonder how child cadave
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by vivekd 6y ago
I guess the question is, has anyone said that they were personally hurt or offended by it. If anyone was individually affected and not just hurt on behalf of someone else, then by all means make the change. However, if not, it looks like a
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by vivekd 6y ago
Yes, this was the opinion I came here to post, certainly my own profession of law is like this, at least where I practice in Toronto Canada but I can't imagine other places being much different. I think one advantage of computers is th
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by vivekd 6y ago
Exercise at least once every other day. It does wonders for productivity and focus.
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by vivekd 6y ago
I think the Icke conversation is the best modern example of that. After his stream was banned London Reel, the youtube channel hosting it claimed that after the removal, they were able to crowd fund their own live streaming platform. They
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by vivekd 6y ago
One thing that bothers me about silicon valley influenced thinking is that "business idea" always seems to mean "disruptive startup that changes the world and makes billions." Business doesn't have to mean that sort
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by vivekd 7y ago
Hooefully this willnget Google to take appeals from suspensions more seriously
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by vivekd 7y ago
Yes I was disappointed too, the article doesn't offer much in the way of stopping traffic jams other than 1. use one navigation system (most people already use google maps or waze which is owned by the same company) 2. get rid of stree
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by vivekd 7y ago
I was keeping an open mind about this doctor, until I read that two other doctors were willing to testify they had thought he was misdiagnosing patients. Its notoriously hard to get doctors to testify against each other at a malpractice cas
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by vivekd 7y ago
Yes, this is the first question that jumped out at me when I saw this article. How accurate are these genetic tests? Can they give us a confident assessment of reliability so as to allow us to meaningfully do a cost benefit analysis of su
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by vivekd 7y ago
One thing that surprised me was how hard it was to set up https https redirects for websites on aws and Google cloud. I needed too set up a load balancer to do https. The redirects are also hard, I have a static site using Google storage a
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by vivekd 7y ago
That's such a vague standard - every single big company has people claiming they make the world a worse place, are we going to break up nestle, every oil company, every agribusiness and pharmaceutical and car company along with google?
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by vivekd 7y ago
I do not work for google facebook or any other internet company. I do however purchase online ads for my law firm. I also tried turning off the ads for a few weeks to disastrous results. I can say the big problem in the examples in this ar
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by vivekd 7y ago
Every government prosecution office Ive ever worked with is overwhelmed and doing everything they can to reduce their case load. If they want an anti-trust investigation I'm confident it's not because they are looking for work.
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Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test(theatlantic.com)
5 points by vivekd 7y ago|0 comments
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by vivekd 7y ago
Well there must be some differences - otherwise we wouldn't have separate male and female chess tournaments. Plus we know that male and female animal brains differ in structure despite looking similar.

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