kscaldef

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by kscaldef 13y ago
I opened a 2007 with a synthetic cork a couple nights ago. It was great. I can't say if they hold up well for decades, but I've encountered no problems with them in the <10 year time scale.
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by kscaldef 13y ago
"Having a space to work that you can ignore people is key to getting work done. Constantly being interrupted by people you live with or other people will kill your productivity."
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by kscaldef 13y ago
"We wrote the first scoring algorithm at Goalee based on the red-green light. Within a couple of weeks we made our first algorithmic change, and made several quick fix releases to update the scoring methods in the following weeks. By the en
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by kscaldef 13y ago
You're arguing against a strawman. The article states that no one is suggesting that students not learn Standard American English. The point it is making is that it is more useful in teaching SAE to recognize that some students arrive at
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by kscaldef 13y ago
While parents do, of course, have a huge impact on their children, I think it's overly simplistic to lay the ultimate responsibility at their feet. As raganwald points out (in the other direction), when there are feedback loops at play, th
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by kscaldef 13y ago
Since we're talking about belief rather than what we can prove, I think it's extremely plausible for the causation in question to go the other way. Given the choice, would you rather date / marry someone who was happy and healthy or someon
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by kscaldef 13y ago
Are you attempting to make an argument of the form: A is correlated with B, and A causes C, therefore A causes B?
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by kscaldef 13y ago
I'm sorry, but that seems to be about earnings, not about happiness or drinking habits. Am I missing something? (It also says that women experience a penalty, whereas the original article asserts positive correlations for both men and wom
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by kscaldef 13y ago
> as someone who got married at 21, I can honestly say it's the decision I'm most happy about in my life so far. One might hope that statement was true no matter what age you got married at.
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by kscaldef 13y ago
Because unhappy people aren't fun to be around, so people don't choose to marry them? Or because depressed people are negative about their relationships, just like anything else, so don't see them as worth pursuing? It's really not hard t
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by kscaldef 13y ago
"Unmarried twenty-somethings are more likely to be depressed, drink excessively, and report lower levels of satisfaction than their married counterparts" Let's all say it together: Correlation is not causation.
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by kscaldef 13y ago
I don't think the law can be submitted as scientific evidence. (One generally hopes the law is informed by scientific evidence, but even that isn't a given.) Fundamentally, my point was that there's no scientific basis I can imagine for th
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by kscaldef 13y ago
> 1. You as a human have the ability to control your reaction to anything. Do you actually have any support for that statement, other than as an article of faith? I am honestly not aware of any scientific evidence for it.
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by kscaldef 13y ago
It is somewhat difficult to divine the precise intent of the author of the article, or of the submitter of the article to HN; but I think it's important to acknowledge that some people are going to use this article to criticize and dismis
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by kscaldef 13y ago
This article very early makes the statement that "while getting offended by something sometimes feels good and can help you assert moral superiority, in most cases it doesn't help you figure out what the world looks like." Implicit in this
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by kscaldef 13y ago
I was replying specifically to this paragraph: > I don't care about the 30 dollars turbotax charges me, I'll send 30 dollars straight to the CEO or promise to burn it. What bothers me is that I've been forced to do manual data entry - a
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by kscaldef 13y ago
And paying out all the other investors, presumably.
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by kscaldef 13y ago
I haven't manually entered more than a trivial amount data into TurboTax in years. Most banks and brokerages seem to be on the direct-download bandwagon these days.
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by kscaldef 13y ago
I'm not sure, but you may be misunderstanding the article. As far as I can tell, they _are_ following semver, and the discussion is about why they would go to extreme measures to maintain the same major version for 13 years an avoid a bina
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by kscaldef 13y ago
If you don't mind, are you a man or a woman? White or colored?
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Not to mention that $25k is considered a completely reasonable amount to spend on a car. There's no doubt that the wedding industry is a racket (oh, did you want your dinner guests to have forks? That'll be $3 each. Water glasses too? ...)
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by kscaldef 14y ago
> Two racks of baby back ribs. Bam, 5k calories, and that's not even all of the food I could eat in one day I'm not sure how you figure that's 5000 calories. While there's undoubtedly some variation, it would appear that's more in the
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by kscaldef 14y ago
> That's a lot of different things to prepare 3-4 times a morning... but my guess is you meant all those things to be 3 or 4 breakfasts, rather than an example of a normal breakfast. No, I really mean that I ate 3-4 times every morning.
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Interesting. Honestly, the sheer volume of food you're talking about would be challenging for me to ingest. A _quart_ of chicken lo mein? A _pint_ of peanuts? I'd consider a handful (2-4 tablespoons) of peanuts to be a normal snack. Thi
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by kscaldef 14y ago
I'm curious what your diet looks like such that you have to take care not to consume 4000 kcal a day. When I was cycling 100 miles a week, I found I needed about 3500 kcal / day to sustain myself, and it wasn't easy. On a typical day, I at
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Setting aside the question of whether the subject is actually feeding his body everything he needs (a question that he appears to readily acknowledge as "good skepticism"), I have to wonder about the consistency of statements like these:
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by kscaldef 14y ago
The D can be a selling point. Some things D enables: Working offline is completely transparent. If your employees are on an airplane, or if the wifi at the conference they are at is overloaded, or if the central repository goes down for s
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by kscaldef 14y ago
> We can manage the dangers of sugar toxicity pretty easily by exercising. The assertion being made is that that's not true: "The study controlled for poverty, urbanization, aging, obesity and physical activity " (emphasis added)
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by kscaldef 14y ago
The second sentence explains and justifies the first. The third refines and clarifies. If you hold that it suffices to merely authoritatively assert a claim, then they are unnecessary, but the point of the third sentence is that, in fact,
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by kscaldef 14y ago
Downvoted for generalizing from one blog post to a slam against 300 million individuals. Ironically, you appear to be doing exactly the same thing that you're criticizing.

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