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It would be revolutionary if "recommendations" wasn't a modern synonym for "advertisements"

I don't need to see a negotiated contract. I need to see a list of grievances the union wants to negotiate for. So far everything I have ever wanted but not had from an employer I …

Does this apply to motorcycles/motortrikes? It seems to use the term "passenger vehicle" which is a bit ambiguous.

I typed "dyslexia" into Google, and on the side bar overview it says "More than 3 million US cases per year" Edit: I dug a little deeper. It's 5-15% of the population. http://www.l…

> Dyslexia also has an IQ component which means those with low IQ are not dyslexic even if they otherwise have the same symptoms. A person with IQ 100 (or whatever the mean IQ is) …

> We do have a term: slow to learn to read. There are dozens of reasons a child can be slow to learn how to read. They could have not have access to education. They could has poor …

> The method for diagnosing dyslexia, known as the discrepancy model, was relatively straightforward: test a child’s IQ and their reading age, and if there was a discrepancy betwee…

They are all playing the same game, but the niches they found success force them to play differently. Google tried to take over fb.com with g+. FB tried to attack android with fb p…

I significantly prefer blister packs over pill bottles. Blister packs are easier to travel with. They take up less space in my medical cabinet. I can see how many pills I have left…

It fits so far out of our theoretical models that it's unfair to say it isn't proven or disproven. There are virtually infinite hypothesis that are neither proven nor disproven exp…

> Project Orion Here is some declassified test footage of Project Orion. I don't believe any of the test crafts used nuclear explosions, but you'll get the idea from this footage (…

> leap seconds Over long periods of time the approximation that a day takes 86400 SI seconds will become less and less accurate as the rotational period of the Earth changes. I wis…

Putting another $10m to follow it would be chasing good money after bad, and fall into the sunk cost fallacy.

Some napkin math. How long would it take a nuclear powered EmDrive to push a fully loaded semitrailer from 0m/s to the speed of the interntional space station? The maximum mass for…

My understanding is running this experiment in space would cost >$10m, a very pricey experiment when the expected outcome is negative.

> It seems too often in debates on big problems the argument is simply we need a market solution not how is the system designed to best utilize a market. "We need a market solution…

I used a min heap in a FANG interview. It's an obvious/good solution if the problem has a mix of reading/removing the smallest number in a data structure and writing new numbers to…

Most people cannot live w/o MMS or some apps that do not have a mobile website equivalent.

I find browsing hackernews to be one of the more beneficial activities I can do for 5-20 minutes as a break between more mentally taxing activities. Meditation, going for a walk, g…

> I wonder if that is the most realistic version of a future were we still have private lives. I think it's almost impossible for someone to build these data streams and not look a…

> As things are, if you can, it's just dumb luck. Funny, I've gotten 8+ hours of sleep over 95% of nights in the past 5 years. I must have a string of very good luck. It probably i…

Wouldn't you expect less than that on a website literally designed to be a curated list of links?

US based tech companies are making those decisions for the whole internet because internet users are voting for US based tech companies' influence with their time, attention, and c…

Simply don't replay immediately. You'll build the expectations as people learn to work with you. Some people on my team respond immediately 95% of the time. Some people on my team …

> When people realize their impulsive buys were a mistake. I think it's unfair to assume people are panic buying houses. The people I know that have purchased a house in the last s…