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It would be nice if those of us who handle WFH under a pandemic very well have some leverage after it's resolved to continue a WFH schedule. I really don't care for the long commut…

It seems like being human is a messy affair, and one particularly hard to sort out.

It's not just culturally routine, but culturally shamed for not adhering. Additionally, it does not take much time at all. Meditation requires more investment in time by a factor o…

Only a small amount of the population engages in any behavior that requires active lifestyle modification. Exercise and diet are hardly adhered to despite being relatively simple. …

I'll chime in as someone who has used Django and its ORM for about 5 years and I have to say it's a pleasure to use.

One issue I've seen when assessing some of the vegetarian or other plant-based diets proposed has been neglecting to account for protein. Most men at least don't enjoy the muscle l…

Protein in terms of protein / calorie ratio of food tilts protein sources to meat and dairy. Easy way to compare foods and meals is to compare grams protein per 100cal of a given i…

Yes, but they had to teach me how to read later in life. This is a two-for-one strategy, because the reading skill transfers much more easily.

You can't rely on it as the only means of learning, but it makes for the foundation. Conversation is hard to begin with, but conversation when you don't understand what is spoken q…

I learned how to turn a stream of nonsense (from my perspective) into words by listening to hundreds of hours of Spanish TV that I didn't understand. Spanish audio + Spanish subtit…

Why trust either of them?

What happened to New York?

However, sometimes you want to maximize protein per a meal's calories. Some things may seem 'cheap' but to maximize protein with those items you will blow out the calories chart. F…

Anyone successfully apply it to programming interviews? As lame as it sounds, I'm wondering if it could be useful there.

Yeah, understood. Personally, I commend him. I sure as hell wouldn't put my name to controversial topics (even if said discussion itself should, ideally, NOT be controversial). In …

So, basically an attempt at image clean-up. His audience created a regular discussion based on the terminology of his original content, but he's trying to become more popular to a …

He's one of the top mods, no? At least from glancing at the list.

For something inaccurate, why would it be the pinned thread with nearly all the activity? Edit: Doing a search for the title shows that it's been the main tradition for ~ 2 years. …

Ahh, ok. I recently came across his blog and the subreddit, and based on the huge activity in that thread I figured that was a prominent creation of his. Thanks for the clarificati…

He has a very interesting weekly discussion thread about the Culture War: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/akk8nc/cult...

I thought I remember it being a campaign position, mainly stemming from it applying downward wage pressure on tech workers. It looks like it used to be but then he changed it. > Do…

He campaigned on the opposite, didn't he?

There is no free lunch.

It's really cool, but it's not going to be useful until you correct these errors. You might want to provide a note to readers in the meantime.

> There's no answers because the author gives thanks to a grad course in evidenced based teaching where he claims the only way to really know something and remember it is to figure…