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by zeidrich 13y ago
It's a poor article, I'd be skeptical about the book too. It talked very little about teaching critical thinking skills, and instead talked about different resource distribution between a few different country's schools. I t
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Honestly I think it's neurochemistry. Things cause stress. Stress hormones float around in your brain "motivating" you. This isn't real motivation, it's stress-based motivation. Exercise in my experience is the be
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I think it's generally the same reasons that more women don't pursue male-dominated professions. I think this is typically that there's an established culture, and not fitting in with that culture makes you seem like an oddi
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The problem isn't that young employees have qualities that make them more appealing. That's just the reality of the situation. The problem is when a candidate who has better qualities gets passed over for a younger candidate base
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There's an idea that hard means you have to ruin yourself to succeed. This is reinforced culturally, in some situations if you don't portray that image, you get passed up. That idea however doesn't always correlate with data.
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Prisoners are people. Thus, the question becomes, how do we treat our people?
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If they're saving money by using cheap paper, then discarding their stock and reprinting new editions would cut into that considerably.
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It's interesting that similar studies have been done with brain-training games and they have no noticeable effect on a persons mind. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/brain.
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by zeidrich 13y ago
I was raised on DOS, but not exposed to unix or linux until much later. I don't feel that a CLI gives me more information about how a computer works than a GUI does. A GUI interface gives me a lot of clues as to how to do things I did
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I have been really focusing on my motivation and willpower lately. I used to have a very similar scenario to what you describe. What works for me is this: 1) Recognize that my willpower is limited, like a muscle it can be exhausted and nee
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I agree, we need to have far more human compilers. Perhaps, when I compiler runs across a type violation it just breaks out laughing at you. "HA HA HA! You idiot! You defined this variable as a string, and then you tried to do arithm
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Being held accountable is irrelevant. If what people want is someone to be accountable, people will get scapegoats. The key difference would be that when acts happen that defy the needs and expectations of society that those actions end. I
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Judgment has a negative effect on the efficiency of learning. Being graded causes stress and stress reduces your ability to learn. Grading can be a motivator, however, causing you to push yourself to learn things you might not otherwise be
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A prison is a place where people are deprived of liberties. A society can justify depriving people of liberties. A private interest should not have the right to do so. Yes, it's not the private interest who condemns the prisoner, but
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We know quite a lot about how bikes behave, we've been building them for decades, centuries. While we might not grok all of the specifics behind the physical dynamics, consider this: We also don't know the specifics of why gravit
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Running an apartment building with 151 rooms is a business, not retirement. You have control because you have responsibility. You employ people to manage this, but they need to make a profit. The article makes some funny arguments about ad
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In my experience procrastination is a behavior caused by the reinforcement of perceived failure. In many cases, it's the desire to stop procrastinating that you are "failing" at, and that is discouraging. Failing to stop pro
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by zeidrich 13y ago
How well do you maintain friends, family, connections and familiar culture from the inside of a jail cell? That's the kind of advice that's really easy to give if you happen to be sitting comfortably in a democratic country with
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by zeidrich 13y ago
Quantifying in terms of understanding. We already do it. We get hungry, so we eat. When we are very hungry, we eat more. When we are not very hungry we eat less. That is a quantification of our life to an extent. To me, life hacking is e
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If you need them, Windows also has most of those tools somehow replicated in Powershell. For instance, the initial example can be replicated with: Get-Content .\data.csv | %{[int]$total+=$_.Split('|')[3]; } ; Write-Host "$to
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Running a free app takes CPU resources and costs money in the form of electricity bills too. It's something that I'm sure users would be willing to do if it were advertised and well implemented.
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I wonder how much the use of methods to avoid detection by the NSA triggers warning flags that puts you under more individual scrutiny. Sure, you can encrypt most things, but then maybe you look suspicious so you get special attention. Can
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The point is more, what network? servers? backups? if all you need for your business is handled over encrypted connections to hosted services, another company is your server, and they do your backups. Do you even need a network in a tradit
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That would be the case if stampready were selling it and emailonacid were giving it away for free. Instead, Stamp Ready is a mac app which sells for about $30. Emailonacid is a subscription based service that goes for free to $70/month. Ne
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The costs of retraining and retrofitting was mentioned and bundled in at $800,000. My point wasn't that they didn't do their calculations, nor do I mean to show bias towards MS or Google. My point was that the amount of savings they would
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I think that a lot of times these sorts of things come down to peoples inability to rationalize large numbers. It reminds me of a story posted a while ago about the City of Boston moving from Microsoft products to Google Cloud products. On
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What about that soylent diet? There's other reasons we eat than just nutrition. If it was just nutriment we were looking for I'm sure we could do it easier than eating bugs.
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"The city estimated it costs about $100 a year per employee to use its current roster of Microsoft products." $100 per year is such an insignificant cost for something as vital to their productivity as their software. If the employees los
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Whether he misdiagnosed himself is kind of irrelevant. The case is: - He's had a chronic problem with sleep. - He was able to overcome his problem with sleep by realizing it was not so much a personal or moral fault, but a problem that was
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I would expect a terrible bid from a high GDP country to be a better source of bugs than a terrible bid from a low GDP country. Poor communication? Probably just ESL. Low bid? In a low GDP country that low bid goes a longer way. If you gra

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