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Another saying "work smart not hard", i.e. you can save a lot of time by thinking things through before jumping into executing.

If this behavior is due to ADHD, then the best way to deal with it is to get diagnosed and then medicated, as medication is a really effective treatment.

Where's the evidence of that?

It breaks my heart, especially for those who become severely chronically ill with diseases like ME/CFS in their teenage years, with little to no indication things will ever get bet…

Software development looks a lot like evolution. The market and business requirements are the environment that weeds out the unfit software. Adapt or die. Codebases that are slow t…

I like that in some fp it is: if it compiles, it runs well (aside from pure logic bugs).

It's amazing how people think a virus that lives latently in B cells and epithelial cells, and is strongly associated with various forms of cancer among a big helping of autoimmune…

It's amazing how quickly people forget about Dunning-Kruger effect and how often people widely acclaimed for their academic prowess will reveal themselves ignorant when trying to a…

Stump experts? This happens after nearly every epidemic or pandemic. Avoid over-exerting yourself if you suffer from pvfs, as that can either turn your illness chronic, or worse if…

It was the Russians. https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

Yeah, in its initial study, the nanoneedle had a 100% specificity and selectivity, and according to Ron Davis - main author - the results have held up as they've increased the numb…

Why would screening off entire categories of ideas lead to a systematically incorrect view of the world? Or why would entertaining those ideas lead to a less incorrect view of the …

I'm not talking about censorship. I'm talking about all ideas getting equal exposure. If you follow that "equal exposure" idea to its conclusion, then what should be taught in "bio…

Just because you think the state should allow any discussion and any opinion, doesn't mean you need to think its content is worthy or valuable. Do you think nazism should get as mu…

Yes, it requires me to create an account to be able to read the article. And this, kids, is why you shouldn't use Medium if you want people to read your stuff!

From the paper: Of the 20 ME/CFS patients studied, 5 were severely ill and 15 were moderately affected by their condition

I think that ME/CFS will go the same way as MS. Once upon a time, not long ago, MS sufferers were deemed "hysteric", "crazy" etc, until there was technology that could show physica…

This guide is great. Thank you!

Who else do you suggest should inform us if not scientists?

Amount of reported rapes =/= amount of rape convictions.

You could reverse that and say that you can learn how to think by learning how to code.

Extinct might not work since that human-like species might be an ancestor of ours.

What about this? function v(x) { return x; } v("yeah"); returns undefined