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Being poor means that you can't delegate a task like wealthier person would do. When you are poor you are often forced to become your own mechanic/doctor/accountant/lawyer (with results that can go from decent to…
I've only skimmed the article, but it confirms what I've seen reported from people who have chronic illnesses like CFS, autoimmune diseases and Lyme: chronically low Vitamin D. levels. I have psoriasis and Vitamin D…
Are shoes really a requirement to partecipate in society?
I call it "The founder effect" of bad studies. Essentially the first few studies set the tone for the rest of the field, and it's very hard to correct the course due to the momentum. I'm glad people are starting to…
Make the rules arbitrary and impossible to follow, then selectively enforce them. Oldest trick in the book, works like a charm.
HTML, and the web stack by extension, have their faults, but the advent of the web should've been a humbling experience for Alan Kay. I deeply respect Alan Kay for his achievements, but he appears to have been stuck in…
Oh well, I must be so controversial.
Back in the day, Dev-C++ was the ideal IDE for the C/C++ beginner. Simple, easy to use and very light in term of resources. I remember being able to run Dev-C++ on a 166Mhz Pentium I with 32Mb of RAM (which was…
>Ever since I have been ill, I have longed and longed for some palpable disease, no matter how conventionally dreadful a label it might have, but I was always driven back to stagger alone under the monstrous mass of…
A high IQ seems a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to be intellectually successful. If we take the extreme case of Nobel Prizes we see that most of them have IQs 3SD above the mean. We can infer that there is a…
As I see it there are a lot of advantages and few disadvantages in WFH. Advantages: - No need for commuting. This is maybe the lowest hanging fruit if you want to reduce CO2 emissions and pollution in general. -…
A couple of interesting articles that may be related to what you are saying. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22189514/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20676785/
> Free software allows you to hire anyone to work on your software, just like with car repairs. But almost nobody does. People have voted with their wallets. Why do you think that is? To me the answer is simple: most…
People do leave home when they marry. In general, where I live, people leave home when they have to. People leave home if they can't find a job nearby, to study and to marry. Very few exceptions.
I should've said "outside the richer parts of the western world and maybe some other countries", you are right. People in the "richer parts of the western world" take pride in achieving "independence" in their 20's.…
>The problem with allowing children at home forever is a lack of forced maturity. Why bother figuring out life as an adult when instead you can continue to live carefree as a child? Hey, you can figure out life as an…
I think you are on point. There is a high probability that (a subset of) the symptoms experienced by COVID survivors are due to Myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Maybe COVID is what it takes to…
>It'll be harder for docs to ignore once there's a proper diagnostic tool. Simon Wessely is already trying to cover is ass [0]. What a wonderful guy, he richly deserves his reputation. [0]…
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Being poor means that you can't delegate a task like wealthier person would do. When you are poor you are often forced to become your own mechanic/doctor/accountant/lawyer (with results that can go from decent to…
I've only skimmed the article, but it confirms what I've seen reported from people who have chronic illnesses like CFS, autoimmune diseases and Lyme: chronically low Vitamin D. levels. I have psoriasis and Vitamin D…
Are shoes really a requirement to partecipate in society?
I call it "The founder effect" of bad studies. Essentially the first few studies set the tone for the rest of the field, and it's very hard to correct the course due to the momentum. I'm glad people are starting to…
Make the rules arbitrary and impossible to follow, then selectively enforce them. Oldest trick in the book, works like a charm.
HTML, and the web stack by extension, have their faults, but the advent of the web should've been a humbling experience for Alan Kay. I deeply respect Alan Kay for his achievements, but he appears to have been stuck in…
Oh well, I must be so controversial.
Back in the day, Dev-C++ was the ideal IDE for the C/C++ beginner. Simple, easy to use and very light in term of resources. I remember being able to run Dev-C++ on a 166Mhz Pentium I with 32Mb of RAM (which was…
>Ever since I have been ill, I have longed and longed for some palpable disease, no matter how conventionally dreadful a label it might have, but I was always driven back to stagger alone under the monstrous mass of…
A high IQ seems a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to be intellectually successful. If we take the extreme case of Nobel Prizes we see that most of them have IQs 3SD above the mean. We can infer that there is a…
As I see it there are a lot of advantages and few disadvantages in WFH. Advantages: - No need for commuting. This is maybe the lowest hanging fruit if you want to reduce CO2 emissions and pollution in general. -…
A couple of interesting articles that may be related to what you are saying. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22189514/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20676785/
> Free software allows you to hire anyone to work on your software, just like with car repairs. But almost nobody does. People have voted with their wallets. Why do you think that is? To me the answer is simple: most…
People do leave home when they marry. In general, where I live, people leave home when they have to. People leave home if they can't find a job nearby, to study and to marry. Very few exceptions.
I should've said "outside the richer parts of the western world and maybe some other countries", you are right. People in the "richer parts of the western world" take pride in achieving "independence" in their 20's.…
>The problem with allowing children at home forever is a lack of forced maturity. Why bother figuring out life as an adult when instead you can continue to live carefree as a child? Hey, you can figure out life as an…
I think you are on point. There is a high probability that (a subset of) the symptoms experienced by COVID survivors are due to Myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Maybe COVID is what it takes to…
>It'll be harder for docs to ignore once there's a proper diagnostic tool. Simon Wessely is already trying to cover is ass [0]. What a wonderful guy, he richly deserves his reputation. [0]…