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But first one must be able to connect with people... since I can’t do that, the rest is considered behaviors of an pointless, unrespectable, unworthy fool, while everyone else is m…

I’m not depressed, sad, angry, hurt, drunk, high or self-injurious... I’m just tired of boredom, misery and wasting. I’m homeless in a vehicle that doesn’t work in a parking lot th…

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No, read the source article. The validation data are taken at baseline from three previously published studies investigating pharmaceutical interventions to normalize metabolic abn…

Ever since the JDK 1.0 days, I didn’t get why there was this C/C++ carry-over inconsistency of manually-boxed types and non-Objects primitive types separated from Objects. A type h…

It’s called an use tax. It’s equivalent to a sales tax, reporting is required but voluntary. Not paying use taxes on internet purchases is tax evasion. Here’s what CA’s state tax c…

First, random trade wars, raising prices for all those clueless, provincial consumers whom don’t realize what made Walmart prices cheap. Next, cuts to MedicAid for tax breaks for t…

It’s absurd how much goes into the bin. Why can’t restaurants especially use cloth napkins that are cleaned off-site and also silverware, plates and cups like what was done for cen…

Stanford / Palo Alto gave up on a lot of recycling and went to “off-site sorting.” Stanford used to have 5! bins. Another fail is “recycling” at Costco, where basically no recyclin…

Future home of The Island of Doctor Moreau or a Four-Assed Monkey (s01e05). Srsly: At some point, a sizable-enough brain develops a degree of consciousness. Are we really going to …

Corruption: It’s What’s For Dinner™

CB is a YC alum.

Yeah, it seems like more and more people are delaying kids until it’s “now or never” scenario. Not good. Have kids as early as possible because of the work and energy involved. It’…

US immigration detention centers are now listed as concentration camps. It’s also interesting a number of them privately-owned (ie GEO Group, etc.) and also that many businesses, p…

Except for case, bolt already is a puppet project. Not a huge deal since both projects are widely-spaced.

Ouch. Sounds like a failed state scenario: anarchy by services disappearing and unconcern for community. When a government ceases to provide a fundamental function, such as protect…

It seems like there oughta be an app that can make it easy to pick non-/emergency numbers for a given location, type of service and jurisdiction (highway/state, unincorporated/coun…

I realize you can’t necessarily comment on individual deployments, but I’d like to publicly shame Vacaville, CA’s e911 combined with Verizon and/or iPhone plain doesn’t work. Conta…

Q: America has minor drug users incarcerated for life, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, save Seychelles. How many Wall St. bankers, corrupt DC lobbyists …

Regardless of medical / health insurance purposes, actuaries have been doing this for over a century esp. to price life insurance, among other things.

With deep learning, actuaries were inevitably, mostly obsolete, at some point. It’s unpleasant to think, that in a way, tech can now readily disrupt nearly any arbitrary office-wor…

Whatever software Pizza Hut used in the 90’s for their antique terminals to take orders and serve as cash registers. It was so slow, you could watch individual characters draw and …

A book? I can’t color between the lines on this one, maybe I can’t read between them either. Here’s 3: Collapse by Jared Diamond The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em…

Swift closure syntax, at least in In Ruby, a.map(&:succ)

Technically, any Turing-complete language can be mapped to any other Turing complete language, so it’s possible to have non-trivial syntatic sugar do anything. (Use brainfuck as IR…