bjo590

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by bjo590 6y ago
It would be revolutionary if "recommendations" wasn't a modern synonym for "advertisements"
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by bjo590 6y ago
I don't need to see a negotiated contract. I need to see a list of grievances the union wants to negotiate for. So far everything I have ever wanted but not had from an employer I was able to find by switching employers. What is som
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by bjo590 6y ago
Does this apply to motorcycles/motortrikes? It seems to use the term "passenger vehicle" which is a bit ambiguous.
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by bjo590 6y ago
I typed "dyslexia" into Google, and on the side bar overview it says "More than 3 million US cases per year" Edit: I dug a little deeper. It's 5-15% of the population. http://www.ldonline.org/arti
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by bjo590 6y ago
> Dyslexia also has an IQ component which means those with low IQ are not dyslexic even if they otherwise have the same symptoms. A person with IQ 100 (or whatever the mean IQ is) learning to read slower than average is different than a
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by bjo590 6y ago
> We do have a term: slow to learn to read. There are dozens of reasons a child can be slow to learn how to read. They could have not have access to education. They could has poor eye sight. They could be malnourished. They could hav
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by bjo590 6y ago
> The method for diagnosing dyslexia, known as the discrepancy model, was relatively straightforward: test a child’s IQ and their reading age, and if there was a discrepancy between the two – average-to-high IQ, low literacy – that child
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by bjo590 6y ago
They are all playing the same game, but the niches they found success force them to play differently. Google tried to take over fb.com with g+. FB tried to attack android with fb phones. They both are fighting over direct direct messagin
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by bjo590 6y ago
I significantly prefer blister packs over pill bottles. Blister packs are easier to travel with. They take up less space in my medical cabinet. I can see how many pills I have left without looking inside of an opaque container. I actually
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by bjo590 6y ago
It fits so far out of our theoretical models that it's unfair to say it isn't proven or disproven. There are virtually infinite hypothesis that are neither proven nor disproven experimentally, but because theory states it's i
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by bjo590 6y ago
> Project Orion Here is some declassified test footage of Project Orion. I don't believe any of the test crafts used nuclear explosions, but you'll get the idea from this footage (on why it's a terrible idea that could on
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by bjo590 6y ago
> leap seconds Over long periods of time the approximation that a day takes 86400 SI seconds will become less and less accurate as the rotational period of the Earth changes. I wish calendars would be either purely astronomical in nature
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by bjo590 6y ago
Putting another $10m to follow it would be chasing good money after bad, and fall into the sunk cost fallacy.
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by bjo590 6y ago
Some napkin math. How long would it take a nuclear powered EmDrive to push a fully loaded semitrailer from 0m/s to the speed of the interntional space station? The maximum mass for a semi-truck fully loaded is 36000kg. The EmDrive gene
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by bjo590 6y ago
My understanding is running this experiment in space would cost >$10m, a very pricey experiment when the expected outcome is negative.
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by bjo590 6y ago
> It seems too often in debates on big problems the argument is simply we need a market solution not how is the system designed to best utilize a market. "We need a market solution" is politician for private interests want to c
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by bjo590 6y ago
I used a min heap in a FANG interview. It's an obvious/good solution if the problem has a mix of reading/removing the smallest number in a data structure and writing new numbers to the data structure.
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by bjo590 6y ago
Most people cannot live w/o MMS or some apps that do not have a mobile website equivalent.
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by bjo590 6y ago
I find browsing hackernews to be one of the more beneficial activities I can do for 5-20 minutes as a break between more mentally taxing activities. Meditation, going for a walk, getting a snack or a drink, and a quick chat with a friend ar
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by bjo590 6y ago
> I wonder if that is the most realistic version of a future were we still have private lives. I think it's almost impossible for someone to build these data streams and not look at them. Look at the mass amount of surveillance eve
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by bjo590 6y ago
> As things are, if you can, it's just dumb luck. Funny, I've gotten 8+ hours of sleep over 95% of nights in the past 5 years. I must have a string of very good luck. It probably isn't due to lifestyle choices.
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by bjo590 6y ago
Wouldn't you expect less than that on a website literally designed to be a curated list of links?
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by bjo590 6y ago
US based tech companies are making those decisions for the whole internet because internet users are voting for US based tech companies' influence with their time, attention, and clicks. It's open and democratic.
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by bjo590 6y ago
Simply don't replay immediately. You'll build the expectations as people learn to work with you. Some people on my team respond immediately 95% of the time. Some people on my team turn off all slack notifications and check it t
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by bjo590 6y ago
> When people realize their impulsive buys were a mistake. I think it's unfair to assume people are panic buying houses. The people I know that have purchased a house in the last six months would have purchased a home regardless of
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by bjo590 6y ago
I didn't watch Netflix last month and I was still charged for it. Streaming services are only a bargain if you watch a lot of TV. If you watch <5hours/month/service than the value proposition begins to become questionabl
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by bjo590 6y ago
Amazon's profit margin is small, but only a fool would say they aren't making money hand over fist. Profit isn't the only measure of 'making money'. ATT's revenue was $181B in 2019.
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by bjo590 6y ago
> Zuckerberg is deathly afraid of competition and he is very aggressive about protecting Facebook's stranglehold on the social media advertising market. It is incredibly common behavior for large businesses to raise the barrier of e
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by bjo590 6y ago
> This is a great observation. I think that every business looking at option 1 would run away in terror, as that would mean competing directly with Amazon. I don't think pivoting online is a suicidal move for many business, but it t
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by bjo590 6y ago
I won't run the numbers again, because I think the meat of my comment is in paragraph 2 and 3.

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