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The author has implied a false dichotomy: positioning the article as “it does 10x or it does nothing” (my paraphrasing) is disingenuous and hyperbolic. My experience is that on sev…

I try to capture this sentiment all the time in conversations here in America - we are privileged simply to say, “I feel unsafe” and have it taken seriously when vast swaths of the…

Reminds me of the narcissism of small differences: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differen... Few people will care because only a few are capable of caring and…

I’ve led the software development at a design agency to build project and client collaboration tools in a web app over the last seven years. The company founders never set out to i…

yes, when the odds of winning are in my favor... But I assume you know that so you must be asking, "Is there a situation where somebody can accurately understand the expected outco…

There always has been and always will be a “tax” on those who cannot or will not apply math to their financial decisions. Of course the degree to which we provide opportunities to …

> Its been proven time and again that these meaningless level rewards are pointless in studies and often even distort/bias the data (people treat it like a board game). Do you have…

Did you bother reading it? “Historically, many studies have involved the easiest people to recruit, who tend to be people who come from advantaged environments. If we don’t make ef…

Read widely, absorb judiciously, adopt frugally

There is one measure of a government that has never failed: are people trying to get in or are people trying to get out? California's government - federal electives, state and many…

you weren't supposed to notice the similarity to, "standing around outside during your lunch hour".

Sounds like a legitimately good application for block chain - both parties can have access to the immutable transaction history. Similar to how Walmart applied block chain to inven…

Brokers (what the author calls "middlemen") have existed for ages and served all sorts of purposes in all sorts of economic activities. They serve a specific and valuable function …

Saving to copy/paste on every [X workstyle] is best thread…

We’ll done. I read the autocorrelation post when it came out a couple weeks back and it didn’t sit right with me. But I didn’t have the motivation to figure out why. Your explanati…

This kind of shit the CDC has pulled is so frustrating. I just want good information to make decisions on but do not have time to fact check everything everyone says or keep up wit…

Because all my passwords in the vault are strong and unique. Because my master password is a massive pass phrase not subject to the vagaries of limits on passwords many sites have …

Depends on a few factors like what task, innate ability, etc. Which is not a non-answer - it is THE answer: in my experience, some things are easier on one than the other and vice …

it's a good question - I avoided it in my own response with the clever use of quotation marks. But to answer, I think the term is used colloquially all of the time and of course is…

By just about any measure alcohol is a "harder" drug than marijuana but certainly more broadly acceptable.

I have quite a bit of professional experience with the OOP and functional programming paradigms. For quite a while I've held the belief that both are just tools and any non-trivial…

The problem they're going to have is not whether or not Amazon leaves Seattle. It is that existing or new corporations that may fall into this tax category will not move to Seattle…

Learning how to be truly empathetic to another person was transformational for me. Studying meditation, mindfulness and generally seeking to truly understand other humans with an o…

It appears to me that work environment is a personal preference based on an array of personality traits and motivations mostly opaque to most people until they've had a chance to t…

I argue from position 1 that we should be looking for the next breakthrough, CO2-emission-free power source. I'm extremely grateful that some people are. Wind and solar are highly …