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by mondocat 6d ago
My impression from the book is that companies "knew" is was bogus, but the FOMO was so strong.. "but what if it isn't, and our competitor gets it, and we don't", that they stayed along for the ride.
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by mondocat 5mo ago
Winding down is an industry term that means not only stopping operations, but liquidating assets, resolving contracts, dealing with employees, etc. So that notice is a step in the winding down process, and it would seem like one of the easi
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by mondocat 1y ago
I wore a monitor for two weeks. As someone who basically does not eat processed food, including sugar, and has 4-5 meals a day always including vegetables/fiber it was not obvious that what I ate had any reliable impact on the count. I
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by mondocat 2y ago
If you're part of a self funded plan, at least is some states, there is no external oversight over what they do or don't approve. There is an appeals process, but after exhausting it (where in our case it was the same reviewer in
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by mondocat 2y ago
> Or basically 34% of adults in America exercise their right not to vote. Maybe. Or they were unable to for any number of reasons, like not being able to get the time off work, for example. Compulsory voting does not mean you can't
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by mondocat 2y ago
The most interesting TED talks (to you) are also presumably on topics that you’ve selected to watch. In random conversation, you may need to Taylor your responses to the situation. The idea that friends are the people who exclusively share
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by mondocat 2y ago
This is the one thing I really miss in the transition to WFH: the two built in times a day where I couldn't work, but I could think about work- the commute. It doesn't need to be walking.
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by mondocat 2y ago
> What stops authors doing what I did? Plenty of people want to read, to blame lack of readership is just completely wrong. Because for three months of writing and it sounds like numerous hours of marketing you’ve made almost $8000. Whil
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by mondocat 2y ago
Are you still looking?
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by mondocat 2y ago
1. Sleeping through the night, regardless of how you feel otherwise, is a great benefit. 2. Salt is anti-diuretic, so I'd suspect the effect is real, but not specific to magnesium. And like any supplement, it works for you because you
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by mondocat 3y ago
Thinking about this more, I'd say the convention wisdom on body-weight exercises is completely backwards. They're terrible for beginners, but can be valuable for people already strong enough to do them. Why are they terrible for b
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by mondocat 3y ago
If you're able to increase your strength using body-weight exercises, then they're excellent. And they can go a long way - most people probably can't do a pull up, and very few will ever be able to do a pistol squat or a hand
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by mondocat 3y ago
> Really, you couldn't find any bad analysis to go after instead? You're missing the point though. They're not looking for bad science, they're politically opposed to this particular outcome.
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by mondocat 3y ago
> A total of 36 healthy, recreationally active young men were selected to participate in this parallel group, randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial. Inclusion criteria were: male, aged between 18 and 40 years, healthy, and bod
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by mondocat 3y ago
Since it kept me up, I'll update.. Let's simplify and look at three balls, whose possible permutations are 1. rrr 2. rrg 3. rgr 4. rgg 5. grr 6. grg 7. ggr 8. ggg There are two approaches that are intuitive and wrong, and then the
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by mondocat 3y ago
Not a unique explanation, but thinking about it like this might make it easier to understand the right answer and the wrong answer that was initially intuitive to me. Imagine calculating the odds by choosing the first ball from every permut
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by mondocat 3y ago
The actual stats on the two point conversion: "About 47.5 percent of the time since 2015 — almost exactly half that of the extra-point conversion rate." The other point is you have to make the first 2-point conversion to win. You
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by mondocat 3y ago
Because it purports to make progress predictable, and measurable, which for the PMs and managers is very important.
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by mondocat 3y ago
Programming is game-like, but agreed, it's more tool-like. tool: a device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.
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by mondocat 3y ago
Thoughts on teaching students: 1. Nobody wants to admit they don’t know. Not in front of you, certainly not in front of their peers. Related, almost nobody that needs to goes to office hours. 2. Teaching the right way to do something is the
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by mondocat 3y ago
They're all left-leaning cities, but the Gerrymandering is strong in Austin, which divides it into four Congressional districts: the 10th, 21st, 25th and 35th.
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by mondocat 3y ago
It seems there was a conflation of two expectations. The first being a material so hard that bullets just bounced off of it. The second being a material so effective at dispersing energy that bullets could not penetrate it. Kevlar is the we
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by mondocat 3y ago
A point that was not mentioned in the article is that depending on the sport, there is a gold medal match and a bronze medal match. Both the gold and bronze medalist won that match. The silver medalist lost. Of course the bronze medalist lo
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by mondocat 3y ago
I learned to use the Dvorak keyboard and was quickly as fast, and then faster than Querty. That's not what interesting. I felt like my brain was unencumbered with the additional motor control required of the Querty layout, resulting in
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by mondocat 3y ago
That's... what happens: https://www.science.org/content/article/can-dirty-mice-save-...
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by mondocat 4y ago
Because there shouldn't be a variety of price points, and innovation should not be hoarded. Healthcare should be uniformly the best it can be.
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by mondocat 4y ago
Not a unique answer, I'm sure, but you cannot feel good without exercising. The challenge can be that you don't realize how out of shape you feel until you're not, and starting to exercise can and usually does feel worse than
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by mondocat 4y ago
A keypad door lock. Knowing the door is always (automatically) locked, being able to leave the house without a key, and being able to let someone else when I'm not there either with my phone, or by giving them a code.. I'm living
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by mondocat 4y ago
Indeed. Suffers the same superficial depth as Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon. Should have been "Without the man in this photo, the photo of a man wouldn't exist."
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by mondocat 4y ago
The far more common pathway to steroids is the 40 something man who wakes up feeling tired, sore, and grumpy and decides he has to skip the workout today. Then he realizes he's doing this more and more. He discovers TRT, gets a prescri

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