DataDaoDe

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by DataDaoDe 9d ago
> IQ scores in most of the Western world began reversing sometime from the 90s to early 00s. [1] That link is for the US but similar stuff has also been observed in most of every Western/OECD nation. I wonder to what extent demograp
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by DataDaoDe 20d ago
This. If there is one thing I've learned it is certainly not that you can generalize from yourself to others, especially for medication and its side-effects and withdrawal effects. I get so sick from taking novalgin that its a medical
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by DataDaoDe 27d ago
To be fair I didn't understand the author's statements as looking down on people who dislike poems that don't rhyme. Regardless, I think, and hopefully we could both agree, that we shouldn't look down on people for any
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by DataDaoDe 1mo ago
I agree. And I would remove the basically. I give it five years before essentially just a few very senior people are managing the whole cycle. Downward pressure on wages is just gonna keep ratcheting up.
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by DataDaoDe 1mo ago
My thoughts exactly
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by DataDaoDe 2mo ago
Vonnegut is great.
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by DataDaoDe 2mo ago
I'd be interested to know what everyone's favorite opening lines of all time are. (bonus - to see how much of it you can quote without looking :) For me, its: Whann that aprill with hir shoures soote, The drought of march hath per
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by DataDaoDe 3mo ago
No reason to be sorry, that sounds like this is even better news then :)
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by DataDaoDe 3mo ago
I'm no expert, and don't know if it applies in this case, but for a cancer I had (lymphoma) I was told that aggressive can often be easier to treat or "cure" (as defined by survival rates, etc.) since it also can often b
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by DataDaoDe 4mo ago
This. Its also great for finding out all the ways you are wrong or discovering the views, data, perspectives you are missing. I use it for this as well.
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by DataDaoDe 4mo ago
Category theory is all about relationships and structural patterns. so its useful when you want to interoperability and composition between systems i.e. invariants under transformations, etc. Without reading too much into what this framewor
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by DataDaoDe 4mo ago
apparently its the font used in Edward Tufte's books. Its on github: https://edwardtufte.github.io/et-book/
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by DataDaoDe 5mo ago
Sadly this is true and lesson anyone who has worked freelance has probably learned - either that or I'd wager they no longer do freelance. Its easy to say don't be afraid to lose business, but when you're starting out, the ec
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by DataDaoDe 6mo ago
This is just cool. Nice job!
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by DataDaoDe 7mo ago
Tengo un Plan - deep discussions with experts on various topics Lifters (Ivan Llamarazares) - short weight lifting and training tips Sozusagen - interesting stories and etymologies of words The Reinsurance Podcast - name sums itself up pret
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by DataDaoDe 8mo ago
Clicking on this link just reminded me again that science (like all such restricted access journals) is an operation that relies heavily on publicly funded research and unpaid academic labor. And yet their access restriction not only remove
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by DataDaoDe 8mo ago
This is such a fun experience! The music is fantastic and really throwing me back to another time :)
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by DataDaoDe 8mo ago
We'd probably agree on this: people respond to incentives created by system design. One example that comes to mind is how London's Congestion Charge and how it has changed traffic behavior over the years depending on how the rules
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by DataDaoDe 8mo ago
Plato's works surrounding Socrates' death: Phaedo, Crito, Euthyphro, The Apology. Its fascinating to discover how many thoughts and ideas they had which are still relevant in our societies today. Also, they are incredibly readable
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by DataDaoDe 8mo ago
> The internet we rely on today is a chain of single points of failure. Cut the undersea cable, and a continent goes dark. Shut down the power grid, and the cloud evaporates. Deprioritize the "wrong" traffic, and the flow of in
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by DataDaoDe 9mo ago
Here's mine: https://johnfaucett.com/articles/2025/12-31-aphorisms I haven't looked but I'd imagine they are not so unique and others have come up with similar things before. Personally, I did like
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Ask HN: What are your favorite aphorisms?
3 points by DataDaoDe 9mo ago|4 comments
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by DataDaoDe 11mo ago
Short morning self meditation each day where I reflect on my outlook and goals for myself to be about helping other people and being kind.
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by DataDaoDe 11mo ago
ja, aber Wachsamkeit ist Pflicht. Wer Freiheit für Sicherheit aufgibt, verliert am Ende beides - das haben wir mehrfach erlebt.
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by DataDaoDe 1y ago
> The different political labels are interesting but also deeply frustrating because it paints people at odds when they're not. I agree. I don't necessarily think the two baskets analogy is even the right framework tbh. The imp
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by DataDaoDe 1y ago
interesting. I agree that governmental power should be stoppable in a functioning democratic republic. At least, we have some such examples. However, I would think, at least in the examples that come to my mind, it is far easier to end corp
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by DataDaoDe 1y ago
There are many lessons to be learned from history. One of them is that you should never trust your government to not abuse its power. Even the most progressive welfare states like Sweden end up doing horrible things (see how Sweden steriliz
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by DataDaoDe 1y ago
I used math academy for several months. I was curious and wanted to try it out since it’s a problem I’ve also worked on in the past. Th system is good, the fractional spaced repetition is a nice system and really reduces the spaced repetiti
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by DataDaoDe 1y ago
Just put your kids outside. You don't need anything as a kid to start playing. We used sticks and mud and built ourselves houses and towns and had wars and put on plays and did everything under the sun without toys or anything. Some tr
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by DataDaoDe 1y ago
That’s wild. The last time I had that experience with Python must have been more than 10 years ago. I’ll admit a decade ago you definitely did need to know way to many details about way too many tools from virtualenvs to setuotools to wheel

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