“ It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ.”
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Pretty unconvinced by this argument, it mostly hinges on the video stream size.
On position 161, there's an article submitted 13 hours ago with 4 upvotes and 2 comments.
On position 69, there's another article submitted 10 hours ago, with just 11 upvotes and 3 comments.
My hypothesis is that daring fireball articles get flagged, regardless of their content.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/january/fed-infla...
1) To what extent does starting programming at a young age help in becoming a good programmer? 2) To what extent are young people better at programming than older people? 3) To what extent are older people better at programming than young people? 4) How much do years of experience count?
Brief thoughts:
1) It helps a bit, but most people don't start very young. Solid foundation of math, logical thinking is important, though.
2) Young people have better memory are able to focus for longer periods of time, and learn quicker.
3) Older people have more knowledge of the world, and are better at communication and navigating social relations, which is very helpful at real world programming jobs, not so much at coding tests.
4) Experience is very important. Some of it generalizes to the entire programming domain, other parts are specific to languages and frameworks. Some fields change rapidly, and there experience is more transient.
An accident would explain the glaring absence of an actor with both motive and opportunity.
I didn't know that. I thought Tips was an app that gave you a couple of dozens of tips, and nothing else.
I’m going to steal this!
Huge recency bias though, with Obama and Trump on 1 and 2.
I wonder what the map would look like if you multiplied everyone's score with the number of people born in the same decade, and divided by the total score of people born in the same decade.