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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
It also matters how long it takes to kill - but yes. Assume it takes a month to a kill a person... that’s a lot of time to infect others, especially if say 10 days of that are asymptomatic.
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
I also find that handwriting notes forces a kind of “hear or read, digest quickly, rephrase in a short hand way the keep points so I can pay attention to the next thing I am hearing or reading” That forced summarization I think does a lot f
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Good Omens, Why There Is Something, Multiple Paths, Secret Spies and Abe Lincoln(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
I’m laughing too much at this. Agree “I’m making a $15mm investment I need you to cover my up to $100k in legal fees. If you can’t do that, deal off.” Has always sounded funny to me. But if you need money it’s just one of those things you h
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
I find that the “two minute rule” works pretty well. Whatever you want to do, set a timer for two minutes. Hit start and do that thing for two minutes and really beleive that after two minutes you can stop. Once you get going you rarely sto
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
I thought it was the other way around? As you get older your perceive time as moving more quickly? As you get older every hour is a smaller percentage of your total life, so that made sense to me?
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
You are a legend - thank you sir (or madam)
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
Came here to say this - this has been the difficulty with things like science and research since the dawn of time... you study one thing and then hopefully if you have a lot of people studying multiple things one hugely amazing thing eventu
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
So, you’re telling me there’s a chance? Dumb and Dumber, got to love it But in all seriousness, there was so much printed money thrown into stabilizing things by the Fed that a fear that the economy isn’t ready to pick itself up without t
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
Agreed - but if you live in China, the government already has your face mapped and is tracking you wherever you go... so maybe it is a zero additional cost for their citizens to give their face away to another application.
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Standup straight with your shoulders back and you will be more successful(medium.com)
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
I think I’ve seen someone pay with AliPay using their face... pretty far ahead of what we have...
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Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet(atlasobscura.com)
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
Isn’t this related to Pareto Distributions? Once you lose, you generally have lost some resources or access to resources, so now you have less resources. Having less resources, you are less likely to be able to take some resources and try t
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
How will this integrate with passwordless infrastructure? Isn’t that the way we are going?
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
It’s almost like that’s their business... thanks for pointing it out
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
O really? Morgan Stanley has mortgaged they originate and sell directly to individuals? I’m learning new things
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
MS isn’t a significant lender really so I don’t see that happening (they don’t get deposits like a Citi or JPM). Not sure how they could make that switch. That’s a huge cultural change no? Now, they do do some relationship lending in small
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
Thank you for saving the clicks! Got excited there for a moment tbh!
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
Thank you for this... I still can’t convince myself to get one. The health aspect I wonder if it really actually makes things easier to improve yourself... or is it just tracking new things for you that keep you accountable to yourself? I g
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by ButWhatFor 6y ago
"People who see stressful events as “challenges”, with an opportunity to learn and adapt, tend to cope much better than those who focus more on the threatening aspects – like the possibility of failure, embarrassment or illness. These
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Perseverance Is Great, but Don’t Forget to Prepare(butwhatfor.com)
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