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by vjk800 2y ago
A license is needed to be a beaver in England. Beavers not carrying license cards will be considered illegal aliens and returned to their country of citizenship.
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by vjk800 2y ago
> If you read a few books on mathematics you think you're easily going to become one of the top mathematicians? Many ambitious people try to study math and decades later are disappointed by how they are still mediocre in their field
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by vjk800 2y ago
It's weird that I've never been overweight and you describe basically how I normally feel. I've never felt hungry in the morning. I've never eaten a lot. When I was younger, I often forced myself to eat more, because I f
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by vjk800 2y ago
> There’s also rates of sexual side effects in excess of 70% [1] and they cause weight gain which is separately associated with depression. I can't find the source now - if someone can, please help me here - but there was a theory t
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by vjk800 2y ago
Scott Alexander's views on Adderall prescriptions (for ADHD) is a good read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
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by vjk800 2y ago
> For example, my neighbor in California - he had an ability to look at an equation and actually visualize the plot of it like a graphing calculator. That is certainly intelligence. That is certainly something you develop - and even make
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by vjk800 2y ago
Maybe. Or maybe there is just a certain fraction of people that are incapable of learning it. Like dyslexia, but for mathematical operations. I mean, it's not like we're not trying. Math is taught in every school at every age grou
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by vjk800 2y ago
> Financial literacy itself is quite simple: spend less than you make. Maybe for the quantitatively minded Hacker News audience this is simple. But there are quite many people who have no idea how much they are spending, or sometimes eve
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by vjk800 2y ago
> What makes financial decisions hard isn’t the math. To be fair, I've met quite a few people who also struggle with the math. To the Hacker News audience this seems unfathomable, but the very idea that you end up paying much more w
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by vjk800 2y ago
I'm not sure if I buy it, but required number of people needed for this is so low that I'd encourage other people to take it up anyway. It's worth a shot. Any volunteers?
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by vjk800 2y ago
Buy a lot of forest, cut it down, and replace it with a smooth concrete surface.
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by vjk800 2y ago
I don't know if I can even blame the doctors for that. I mean, for a list of very generic and vague symptoms like that, there are probably thousands of viable diagnoses. Running every possible test to catch some rare disease every time
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by vjk800 2y ago
There basically isn't non English software engineering. English is the universal language in programming and software engineering, much like Latin was the universal scholarly language in the past. Sometimes even to the extent that the
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by vjk800 2y ago
I have never seen this product or heard the term "blue raspberry" in my life, so probably not around the world.
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by vjk800 2y ago
I thought all parents knew this nowadays. I got my children kick bikes at the age of two and so did many other parents I know. My older started riding a regular bike at the age of three and was able to do so for short distances with only a
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by vjk800 2y ago
> 150 years ago, the average person was illiterate, poorer (in all senses of the word) and less connected to the world around them. Over a 100 year old grind, schooling fixed all that. Illiterate, yes, but likely better at other skills l
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by vjk800 2y ago
The real fun starts when they start writing the insurance contracts that are only meant to be readable by ML algorithms. Imagine thousands (millions?) of contract pages written in practically incomprehensible language, designed by an ML alg
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by vjk800 2y ago
> If you never take big swings and big risks and are happy with small wins and stable growth you'll never win the big prize. You don't win the big price either by taking the big swings. I mean, some people do, but they are so f
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by vjk800 2y ago
By stating that people's private business shouldn't concern others, you are also imposing a moral system on others. Throughout most of the history, and to many people even now, morality extends beyond what's observable to out
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by vjk800 2y ago
Indeed. I went to what was considered an elite university program in my country. Most of the people even there were borderline normal, although probably in the top 1% of the population in mathematical abilities, but some few people seemed t
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by vjk800 2y ago
Since we don't observe any sign of anyone else explore it, or even broadcast themselves through it, it might be that it's not possible to explore it.
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by vjk800 2y ago
Yeah and the smallest thing that got zoomed in in the video was a galaxy. Like our milky way galaxy, so still fucking huge.
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by vjk800 2y ago
I don't know if most people's work ethic is that high. At least mine isn't as I'm writing this from my home office during working hours while having basically procrastinated all day today.
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by vjk800 2y ago
When slacking in the office, it's essential to find other slackers to slack with. At home, I can slack alone just fine doing all the stuff that I normally do at home.
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by vjk800 2y ago
1) Even if it doesn't improve performance, athletes might still think it does and try to get the asthma medication. It might surprise you how much lore and voodoo surrounds professional sports. People are willing to try almost anything
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by vjk800 2y ago
> Some of that is almost certainly confounded by the fact that many asthma medications - most notably salbutamol - are performance-enhancing drugs; an asthma diagnosis allows an athlete to take drugs under a therapeutic use exemption tha
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by vjk800 2y ago
> so you're stuck building obsolete parts on an obsolete process. Isn't this what every corporate wants? Steady supply of income with no R&D, marketing, etc.
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by vjk800 2y ago
I think this would seriously tank the smartphone business. The reason why I have to buy a new phone every few years is basically sugarcoated planned obsolescence. If the software running my five year old Android phone was public domained, l
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by vjk800 2y ago
I've also known people who have participated in some EU funded research programs. The consensus among the researchers who apply for those funds is that you write whatever bs gets you the funding and then you do whatever research you we
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by vjk800 2y ago
As others here have pointed out, Gaia-X successfully funnels money to EU cloud companies and maybe this is what it's supposed to do. The deal is: company agrees to write some bs on how it contributes to this project and they get the mo

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