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by bkandel 2mo ago
> Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, told me she’d spoken with a student who was struggling to read a book written in Old English. The culprit: Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel A Clockwo
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by bkandel 7mo ago
As far as I can tell, my kids and their friends never actually play the game either, they just collect the cards. I don't think they even know the rules.
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by bkandel 11mo ago
China's greatest weakness is that their working-age population has already peaked and is in the process of plummeting, which will continue over the coming decades.
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by bkandel 1y ago
From https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD004816_statins-primary-p... : > Of 1000 people treated with a statin for five years, 18 would avoid a major CVD event which compares well with other treatments used for preven
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by bkandel 1y ago
This is fascinating! Would it be possible to add some explanations for some of the gay ads? I feel a little clueless but I don't really understand why some of those are targeting the gay community.
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by bkandel 1y ago
I think it's just always hard to find stuff you like, and time is a great filter. There are tons of new series that my sons like: the whole Percy Jackson world, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Man, Lemony Snicket, Nathan Hale's Hazardou
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by bkandel 1y ago
It's an oversimplification of how the body works to the point of not being useful. For example, if you eat 2500 kcal a day and maintain a steady weight of 150 lbs, it is not the case that if you change your diet to 2200 kcal you will c
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by bkandel 1y ago
I think this is pretty common! More sleep makes everything better -- attention, immune system (getting colds less often), mood, etc.
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by bkandel 2y ago
This is so off-base I don't even know where to begin. "Maybe you just don't get to ... ride on planes" -- so the kids never get to meet their grandparents or great-grandparents who are too unwell to make the trip because
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by bkandel 2y ago
I actually had the exact opposite conclusion from the analysis: Dreidel is a great kids' game of chance, because it's easy to come back from a few bad rolls and it's almost impossible to lose.
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by bkandel 2y ago
I get that the author really dislikes UHC, but most of these are just really not interesting. For example, of course they want media inquiries to go to the media relations team. That's why they exist! As for referring to a recently dec
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by bkandel 2y ago
Yes! Especially if you have kids -- minors go through TSA pre-check lines with parents with pre-check, even if the kids don't have pre-check on their own.
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by bkandel 2y ago
I suppose this is true in some abstract sense, but not in companies of any reasonable size when it comes to hiring. There are lots of things that are firmly set company-wide, like the type of health plans offered and the company contributi
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by bkandel 2y ago
How is this by accident? He was specifically looking for datasets for this purpose and found a good one, then loaded it into a program to find man-made structures.
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by bkandel 2y ago
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. It changed the way I think about what's important, both to me and to other people and societies.
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by bkandel 2y ago
There's a huge difference between when we know how an organ system behaves in a particular circumstance vs. when we don't. Take, for example, the hepatic function in biogears: https://github.com/BioGearsEngine&#x2F
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by bkandel 2y ago
> If we had stayed on the Adams curve, we would be consuming 2-5x more energy than we do today. For the US, that means that GDP per capita today would not be the current amount of $65k, but $100k-$200k. It is a catastrophe that we don’t
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by bkandel 2y ago
It's a bit strange that the author doesn't mention the population projections published in The Lancet a few years ago ( https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/population-forecas... ). They note a lot of the
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by bkandel 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1845/
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by bkandel 2y ago
I had a strongly negative emotional reaction to the ad. Dwelling on crushing musical instruments, kids' toys, books, sculptures, and then the paint spurting out at the end into a depressing post-industrial warehouse -- something about
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by bkandel 2y ago
I was amused!
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by bkandel 2y ago
Matzah pizza!! Super convenient, you can just leave a box in your pantry and take one out whenever you need a quick and easy crust.
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by bkandel 3y ago
I use the Azure GPT-4 offering. It's not always 100% correct, but for technical questions in areas I'm not very familiar with, it's close enough. I can get much more done in a given amount of time than I would have been able
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by bkandel 3y ago
When I was in a Tesla Uber, I found watching the front screen that shows where cars are around you frightening. Cars would frequently move around and change position unexpectedly and in a way that had nothing to do with actual car movements
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by bkandel 3y ago
> Although, as noted above, the instructions for the narrative section of the SGO report require submitters to “[p]rovide a written description of the pre-crash, crash, and post-crash details,” some Cruise interviewees expressed their be
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by bkandel 3y ago
> "So far this year, 99 percent of measured ad placements have appeared adjacent to content scoring above the brand safety 'floor' criteria set by [the Global Alliance for Responsible Media]." This is ... not entirely
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by bkandel 3y ago
No one's calling into question that there was an explosion. The question is over the cause and the extent of casualties, which people who lived next door likely wouldn't be in the best position to evaluate.
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by bkandel 3y ago
Analog watches are the best.
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by bkandel 3y ago
Can't speak to all games, but I have found that the Mortal Kombat/Tekken style fighting games really aren't that much fun to me anymore. Smashing buttons is fun for like maybe ten minutes, but it gets boring real quick.
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by bkandel 3y ago
Another underserved group of users is people with ADHD. I think a "minimize distractions" mode at the OS level would be very welcome by a lot of people.

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