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by wjnc 1y ago
This comes close to my hobby science of 20 yrs+! Toilet statistics! What distribution do people follow in choosing doors? Linear (no!), Negative Binomial (I think so, but which parameters? And do the number of stalls matter?), Gaussian? Do
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by wjnc 2y ago
I've listened to a series of podcasts (More Perfect) where it became clear to me that in the US to get lawsuits go all the way to the Supreme Court, you need both a case (de jure) and a plaintiff that is marketable. This is not a diss
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by wjnc 2y ago
I am a total noob in chemistry and Claude said that it was a great question, but the answer were quite unclear about the feasibility. Mainly theoretical filters on lab scale. So that led me to put forward the thought.
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by wjnc 2y ago
Couldn’t there exist a chirality filter on earth?
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by wjnc 2y ago
Two hours is about movie or novella worth of content. Both are priced at about the same rate. Not all games have to have 10s or 100s of hours of content. Today, I expect a big(ger) part of gamers are like me: older people who like games, bu
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by wjnc 2y ago
Glance at the study? 90k 63+ yr olds over 4.4 years followed where 700+ developed dementia.
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by wjnc 2y ago
Great story. I am a bit further along on the learning curve. Know and can do all those steps. And still, I have both an "appliance man" (actually a repair guy who also delivers and installs) and a plumber in my phone. The applianc
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by wjnc 2y ago
Then 'art' is soul!
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by wjnc 2y ago
Most 70s-80s advanced typewriter were just not regular household material. Even among white collar jobs. My parents (and mini me) worked on very mediocre type writers, until my dad got a PC from work with WordPerfect. Interesting from an ec
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by wjnc 2y ago
A legitimate question for me would be is documentation made to be read or to be written and what is the appropriate trade-off in energy invested? I might write a one off email to an individual, a email to a big audience or a presentation to
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by wjnc 2y ago
I enjoy this train of thought a lot. Capturing shareholder value by just creating it yourself. The destruction of a moat I fear is worth less than the existence of a moat a competitor has successfully built. So don’t forget to buying puts N
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by wjnc 2y ago
The logic is that the current possessor might have acquired the product bona fide and is not necessarily the thief. In order to assess this, you cannot repurpose the product yourself, but need the cops and court involved. It's the oppo
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by wjnc 2y ago
I know nothing about working in small firms. So that is probably very true. The smaller the firm, the more you do yourself. But ... if a company can save $ 10 mln. ... it can afford a set of financials.
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by wjnc 2y ago
If you’d just had a business controller, you’d have x*$10M saved and have more time for your PM-role. Yes, calling BS on leadership running their own SQL. Bring strategy and tactics, find good people, create clear roles and expectations and
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by wjnc 2y ago
I was working under the hypothesis that my fitness would generally predict my performance when compared to the world record. Turns out for +50% of the worlds top speeds, this works pretty well. New hypothesis would be that specialization oc
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by wjnc 2y ago
Back in the day I had my running PB’s and current times in an Excel (financial ey) comparing them with the line of the world records. Worked pretty spot on. Better 5k leads to a proportional gain on the longer runs. Never beat the 50% slowe
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by wjnc 2y ago
1. Go to LinkedIn. Find a mid to high level finance executive at the firm. Add. Explain. They know some of their processes are somewhat shitty and might have the grace to pull some strings / sent some internal cold mails (in ultra larg
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by wjnc 2y ago
Sorry, this was the time of “new economics” where serious economists were talking about unlimited and endless growth thanks to computers and the internet. Had to sit in class after class where professors were telling me that with IT this ti
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by wjnc 2y ago
The focus on kg/m2 (BMI) I cannot understand. Surely the lowly “body fat percentage” should be a better variable than kg/m2? Bodies are three dimensional you know!
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by wjnc 2y ago
Well here’s a story that easy to hate on. 15 kids, child support, divorced, pregnant 23 year old daughter. Let’s all go crazy. She spent more time with here children than many will in their children’s entire childhood. They’ve experienced s
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by wjnc 2y ago
Wait you are missing an instrumental point. The “razor and blades” pricing is (as the market demonstrates) a dominant strategy. The other pricing strategy (cost-plus) is preferable for the customers printing a lot, not for customers who pri
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by wjnc 2y ago
Ankersteine is very beautiful. Thanks for the tip. I think I would enjoy that myself. The bigger boxes are 16+ in age! I would probably struggle. And this on the day that 'Sinterklaas' leaves.
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by wjnc 2y ago
I read this theory on 4chan that Master of Puppets is secretly a piece of software, if you get the tuning right?
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by wjnc 2y ago
This. I had to get a little used to not fluffing around my feedback. One of our managers just asked me to give it to him straight, directly and 1-on-1 and we’d get along fine. So we did. I still am having trouble with how little, what I see
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by wjnc 2y ago
I’ve got a high performer on my team and I do think (okay, wouldn’t I ;) that in managing speed vs quality and explicit attention to the learning curve of others I’ve managed to create a few more golden nuggets. No high performer (perhaps:
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by wjnc 2y ago
If it read the CLI docs it might just make the right calls (x —-ELO:1400).
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by wjnc 2y ago
Somebody else posted Henry Molaison [1] and there is a link to Repetition priming [2]. Seems some memories are stored in other locations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison [2] https://en.wikip
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by wjnc 2y ago
I guess I agree with you? A mandatory insurance is a socialized solution. But I think the market for a mandatory insurance can still have mostly capitalist intent. Competition, private ownership of capital, the functioning of a market. Heal
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by wjnc 2y ago
People pay for each other all the time? The old pay the tuition of the young. (Well, not in the US.) Older people pay way more income and wealth tax. Via that logic any re-distribution leads to the conclusion of socialization? I cannot argu
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by wjnc 2y ago
I disagree. Insurance isn’t a bet. Bets are zero sum (or worse). Insurance isn’t zero sum. It’s a structured redistribution of risk bringing both an improved expected utility (if we assume risk aversion) And expected profits to the risk tak

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