throwway_278314

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by throwway_278314 2y ago
I heard this was one of the social functions filled by the Japanese postal workers. Their official job was to deliver the mail, sure, but they were also encouraged to spend a few minutes talking with everyone as they delivered the mail. Tha
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
If you are in a bubble, stay there. It is a happier place. Yes, young adults today are more willing to "cancel" their parents. Often enough it is for issues which a generation ago would have been seen as the child not accepting ad
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
Putting in a plug for Open BCI https://shop.openbci.com/collections/openbci-products which has been making EEG equipment for DIY use for years, and has some scientific validity claims. Including their https:/&#x
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
Oh, but they can put blinky video ads all over the page so no matter where you look there are things to distract you. yeah yeah adblock pihole yes I know.
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
Just imagine how much more efficient you would be if you were using R's DataTable. Look, I applaud your skill, but at some point even a master craftsman realizes that the swiss army knife may not be the best tool, and a leatherman offe
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
Work which exaggerates the blindness. The people were told to focus very deeply on a certain aspect of the scene. Maintaining that focus means explicitly blocking things not related to that focus. Also, there is social pressure at the end t
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
> And I fail to see why our human brains couldn't be doing something very, very similar with our language capability. Then you might want to read Cormac McCarthy's The Kekulé Problem https://nautil.us/the-kekul-
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
To defend the humans here, I could see myself thinking "Crap, if I don't say 1+1=3, these other humans will beat me up. I better lie to conform, and at the first opportunity I'm out of here" So it is hard to conclude fro
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
That phrase was probably a bad choice of words; I believe the fuller intent was "Let's fund initiatives which build our community, like teachers and school lunch so our kids aren't hungry. That's more important than fund
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
rowing is good, you're right about that. So is sandbags/rucking (goruck is the premier brand). So is kettlebells, but I have no idea who is good for training that. Key thing is to find something you like doing. And I'm with y
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
You don't see a person who needs workout advice from HN, but in case anyone else reading this might, > Running hurts my knees I've been following ATG (from Ben Patrick, the "knees over toes guy", google/youtube i
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
I remember the happy days when a telephone number (also an email) was a ephemeral, changeable thing. Not a permanent unchanging form of ID. Alas, if you move out of the country for a period of time, it is a challenge to maintain the host co
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
so modify the law to deprive an owner of their legal property which was given to them by the law? Not sure that's a precedent I'd want set in a common-law country, and not sure that would hold up to judicial review under common la
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
entity resolution is hard everywhere. Because the world is dynamic, but the common understanding of "entity" is a static object. and the only perfect description of the world is the world, just like on a more trivial scale the onl
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
Not quite. They do have the nitrogen in the air they brought down with them in their lungs. Repeated freediving can cause the bends. https://www.tdisdi.com/pfi-diver-news/freediving-and-dcs/ has some tables for fr
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
really??? I've developed in R for over a decade using two terminal windows. One runs vim, the other runs R. Keyboard shortcuts to send R code from vim to R. first google hit if you want to try this yourself: https://www.free
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
I'm not sure you can eliminate fraud. You can shift it around, but not eliminate it. Sweden thought going cashless would reduce crime. Nope, crime increased.
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by throwway_278314 2y ago
I've been out of work for close to 6 months now, actively searching, interviewing every week, and finding that what the job market seems to value is that you have done the exact same thing as what they are hiring for. I've discove