magicnubs

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by magicnubs 6mo ago
YoY change in jobs is still probably not the best way to visualize overall market health. As you say, you also have to take into account the number of people of fill the jobs. To me it seems like the least misleading statistics would be a g
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by magicnubs 1y ago
It all comes down to glutamate and gaba again. It's been really interesting to see how fundamental these two molecules are as I have learned more about medical biology/neurology. They are implicated in so many medical and psychiat
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by magicnubs 1y ago
Agreed. The child prodigy is overvalued in popular perception. It is a subject of fascination precisely because it is uncommon. Most really great work is done by people with plenty of experience; it's just not that interesting when a
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by magicnubs 1y ago
Same. I've been explicitly told "Neutral Face. Don't smile." for my passport and driver's licenses in NC, FL and CA (Redwood City too).
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by magicnubs 1y ago
I wonder what everyone else thinks about this claim made by the article: > The enduring strength of a state-dominated Chinese system that can pivot, change policy and redirect resources at will in service of long-term national strength i
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by magicnubs 1y ago
There do seem to be parallels to America's rise to the dominant global power. In particular, they have so much of the global manufacturing infrastructure, like the US did after WW2 destroyed much of Europe's, and I don't see
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by magicnubs 4y ago
The lectures and assignments for Oregon State's CS475 (Parallel Programming) are all available online. [0] There are lectures [1] and a project [2] about SIMD. I really enjoyed the entire course as a survey of parallel and high-perform
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by magicnubs 4y ago
I'm reading elsewhere that this may not be true? https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6928529...
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Thunder-cougar-falcon-bird?
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> The drums of the 24 m analog calculators are of course not 24 m long. I was disappointed
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> religious intake of ~3 litres (250 ml per kg) Intake of what? (I'm guessing water?)
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Seconding this. It's been like night-and-day since I started using a CPAP.
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Gabe Newell just applied for NZ citizenship as well
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by magicnubs 6y ago
I was surprised to learn this too! Looks like they were only married for around 8 years (1957 to 1965), so they divorced before he was really famous. Maybe that's why it's not more widely known?
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by magicnubs 6y ago
It could also be both; not because someone recognized him, but still because of who he is (non-random). Maybe he was just said some neo-nazi shit to the wrong person.
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by magicnubs 6y ago
My dad (in his 50s but in great health/shape) got a flu around the same time that you did, and had similar problems. Felt flu-y for 3-4 weeks, and then for months afterward he felt weak, had an elevated heartrate, and would get winded
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> The Japanese companies earn very low returns on equity. They have a bunch of businesses that earn 4, 5, 6% on equity and it is very hard to earn a lot as an investor when the business you are in doesn't earn very much money. Not s
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Many colleges are trying this now, at least near where I am in the Triangle region of North Carolina (Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State). They call them "flip(ped) classes".
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by magicnubs 6y ago
I'm not sure where you live, but my experience has been the complete opposite. When I was a poor working kid nearly every other poor kid I knew in high school started working at 16. Some of my friends from wealthy families did as well,
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by magicnubs 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand. SEC employees are being secretly trained to destroy it from within?
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by magicnubs 6y ago
We're you referring to pallets used in warehouses/shipping? I think they're using a different definition, i.e. "a straw-filled tick or mattress", "a small, hard or temporary bed". https://www.me
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Someone I know is a post-delivery (or "mother+baby" nurse) who just had a baby a few weeks ago. The most recent guidance is that one weak drink in a day is probably fine and the best time to have one is near the end of a feeding s
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by magicnubs 6y ago
There are tons of bacteria that are either neutral, good for you, or that you even *need". You just only hear about the ones that are bad for us, because they are comparitively rare.
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by magicnubs 6y ago
I read recently that NY was the state where the highest number of people moving to Raleigh were coming from as well. The migration seems real from over here.
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by magicnubs 6y ago
Three times in the past year, I've had packages marked as "Delivered at/in mailbox" that weren't actually delivered until 2-3 days later. The most recent was particularly worrying, since it contained my new passport
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> True, but I don't think the average person back then had much idle time either. I think this gets to the heart of it. The people hanging out in the cages in the article were not the average person. They were almost invariably well
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by magicnubs 6y ago
We were talking about what Chinese emigrants can get inside China, so they probably mean that Chinese nationals (usually) wouldn't be subject to racism themselves.
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by magicnubs 6y ago
It could easily still be luck if they bought Tesla or TECL 3 years ago and that is where their 4x return came from. Regardless, even if you have a strategy that works for now, that doesn't mean it will continue to work forever. Anyone
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> Something about Tiktok, whether the algorithm or the sheer volume of content, seems to discourage the sort of look-at-me envy-bait narcissistic posturing that is so common on Instagram. I haven't used Tiktok, but from what I under
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by magicnubs 6y ago
> In the first month and a half as a paid app, its been able to generate $42 in sales! > At one point in June I even made it to #7 on the list of top paid news apps!!! So being #7 for sales in a whole category on Apple's all stor

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