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Sorry to hear that. Sister had an aneurysm a couple years ago. They coiled it, lasted two weeks, then gone. Best wishes for your father and your family.

Put another way, if spending maybe $100, maybe even a couple hundred bucks, might save you thousands, is it really that bad of an idea? For the first few years?

Nice. Looks like it satisfies all the requirements detailed here [0]. Also, good discussion of the major difficulty dealing with money here [1]. [0] https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2022-08…

Why stop at groceries? Make everything variably priced. Vary the prices enough so that no matter how much or little you work, in the end everyone's costs (and wealth) are equal. Da…

Kudos to you. I would be quite flattered to have built a thing that competes with what a small startup built.

lol 5200lbs curb weight don’t care how good the suspension is, that thing ain’t getting around corners very well

In behavioral psych terms what you've identified would technically be referred to as "rate of responding." Its identification as the primary focus of observation in the clinical se…

Never found anything better than Fireworks for the user who only rarely needs to make basic edits to images

they're taking the piss

Two readings are relevant here: 1) Tragedy of the Commons by Harding 2) Overshoot by William Catton There is a sliver of hope that we can successfully decommission fossil fuel ener…

five week, five days a week radiation? was this "proton" radiation treatment?

Watching TV at home "wastes energy." Going out to dinner "wastes energy." Doing anything except working on a cure for cancer "wastes energy." In fact, even people working on a cure…

The energy "waste" argument against Bitcoin is really one of the silliest there is. One man's waste is another's treasure. "Unlike other economic activities, the bitcoin scheme pro…

> I didn't like the way Utah was moving though Can you elaborate on this if you can spare the time? Genuinely curious...

I think Andrew Gelman raised some serious concerns with that study. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...

https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224446581513940999 https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224448902629249024 https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224450329673994245

https://mobile.twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/11978972081...

SPJ is an absolute beast, though whenever I hear a talk of his all I can think of is the Impressive Clergyman.

I have zero artistic ability. My father is a very accomplished amateur artist. I've got into this discussion with him several times. Rather than Pollock's work, the best exemplar s…

These days, holding all other factors constant, SV companies will generally hire {gay|female|trans|minority} candidates before {male|white|indian|asian}. So companies are apparentl…

Buyback Derangement Syndrome https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyback-derangement-syndrome-15...