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Comment · 2 years ago
That's great and all but as a content creator, she has an incentive to create sensational, viral content. Which also introduce bias like exaggeration of the risk. Being financial independent does not exclude this type of bias.
Comment · 2 years ago
>Also, I would group kids by subject, and not by age.

I would be cautious with this, they may have the same academic ability but a large gap in social skills.

Comment · 2 years ago
Even for non-emergency, the short amount of time before a health issue turn serious means that it's already hard for you to take second opinion.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think it's just that naturally nobody is keeping 100% eye contact ( except maybe like TV news reporter ), it feels like an interrogation.
Comment · 2 years ago
My recent most favourite quote is "Anything is edible at least once".
Comment · 2 years ago
I've consider it to be 4 handshakes but the middle 2 are merged.
Comment · 2 years ago
I got some message like "XML error" and just denied out of meeting lots of time.
Comment · 2 years ago
Slack's huddle just straight up block Firefox for me ( 130.0.1, Fedora ).
Comment · 2 years ago
>I wouldn't be able to simply look at some text and give you an accurate word count.

I actually think you would, lots of time I've been surprised by how accurate people can eye-ball stuffs.

Comment · 2 years ago
Google Meet, Slack Web, for example, are notirious for being Firefox-hostile. Though I manage fine with User-Agent
Comment · 2 years ago
> In reality the modal life expectancy of adults (most common age of death other than 0) has been pretty stable in the 70s-80s range for most of human history-

I am pretty sure this is wrong. East Asian cultures celebrate 60th birthday as becoming very elderly, and if you live to the 70s it's almost as if you achieved Buddhahood.

Comment · 2 years ago
That was my Physics too, but Chemistry just completely glanced over the history. Same thing with Mathematics, no backstory of mathematicians. I guess that either 1. Physics History is short enough, well-recorded, or 2. Physicists really like teaching their history.

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