theorique

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Comment · 1 month ago
Yup.

Whenever disagreeable, humorless scolds start squealing about how "everybody must do X" or "everybody must stop doing Y" ... it makes a lot of people want to do the opposite.

Comment · 4 years ago
A passport is probably the most common ID issued by a federal government entity (Department of State) in the US.

A military ID is a also federal document (Department of Defense) but that only applies to a certain subset of the population.

Comment · 7 years ago
almost sends a negative signal.

Could you expand on that? Is there some common feature of people who have completed nanodegree courses?

Comment · 7 years ago
Left-wing newspaper reports on actions of left-wing employees of major tech company based in left-wing geographic area.

I'm quite sure this article is going to be unbiased...

Comment · 7 years ago
"I get freedom of speech, but I don't believe that people should actually have it."
Comment · 7 years ago
No one is arguing that people should be harassed "literally all the time" (or ever).

Some of the more egregious deployments of "safe spaces" in universities happened in response to controversial campus speakers who were deemed to have views that were threatening to some students. According to some campus radical leftists, the very presence of such speakers was "violence" and a literal "threat" to marginalized students.

Of course, the students could simply refuse to attend the talks of speakers they didn't like, but that wouldn't make as dramatic a statement as creating an explicit "safe space" where they could congregate.

Comment · 7 years ago
Is that really true?
Comment · 7 years ago
If you dry out the used pods and their contents, couldn't they be burned for energy?
Comment · 8 years ago
There are no secrets to weight loss. Eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter if that involves keto, or vegan, or one meal a day. Thyroid problems also don't change physics.

The point of the article is, the timing of feeding vs fasting leads to differences in fat storage.

The work of Dr Fung, among others, suggests that concentrating eating into a few (4-8) hour period per day causes better outcomes than feeding during the entire waking period.

Same thing with the balance of macronutrients. Tuning the ratio of fat:protein:carbohydrate can make a diet more filling and more sustainable on fewer calories. This enables that "calories in / calories out" rule to actually work and cause reduction in stored body fat.

Comment · 8 years ago
The lesson is "quantifying the cost of getting killed".

The method by which that lesson is conveyed to the student is the Socratic method.

The point is that the Socratic method of asking leading questions and building agreement at each stage was more effective in getting the point across than "do you understand X? OK, good."

The student constructs the knowledge him/herself and internalizes it better than otherwise.

Comment · 8 years ago
Now I work from home where my wife and toddler are. Being home to educate her is worth more than just about anything. I don't have to drive 2 hours every day just to be an ass in a seat. Two hours where all I do is sit in a car and wish to be home.

To be fair, an hour by car each way is on the long side of a commute, at least compared to the US average. (For some cities, it's probably pretty good.)

Comment · 8 years ago
I maintain that the best way to minimize the effect of a lane closure is to use whatever lanes are legal/open for as long as possible -- because leaving an open lane of travel unused only exacerbates the problem.

I agree with you. Fully packing an 'ending' lane until it actually ends is most efficient from a road usage point of view.

(I have lived for 10+ years in the Boston area but did not grow up there.

Comment · 8 years ago
In my experience, culture fit is exactly that - a nice way of saying that the candidate was "a huge asshole or complete weirdo."

It's shorthand for "I think they could probably do the work, but I don't think that I/we could actually stand working with this particular candidate".

Comment · 8 years ago
Culture: "we have a billiards table and like craft beer. YOU SIMPLY CANNOT FIND ANOTHER STARTUP LIKE US!" /sarcasm

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