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Recently read 2 books about this: indistractable and digital minimalism

Recommend them

Main takeaways for me

- turn off all notifications

- screen time + give passcode to spouse

- set specific times and places to check things i.e I only check Facebook on my desktop , I only open Twitter on Saturday mornings

I’ve found that if you sign up for a month of YouTube tv and then use the nbc olympics app, it’s a pretty decent experience. Oh and then you also need peacock to watch some basketball games

At first I tried sling but they didn’t have the full family of nbc networks

Oh I just picked up a 4 pack of that oatmeal stout, looking forward to trying it.

Lagunitas NIPA is the best I’ve tried so far, doubt I could tell that’s it non alcoholic in a blind taste test.

Aren’t new towns and villages built all the time? Definitely not with all the aesthetics this author is looking for, but not fair to say we as a society have forgotten how to do this.

I can think of several examples in Texas, the mueller neighborhood in austin. Steiner ranch outside of austin ( built on an old ranch ) . The woodlands outside of Houston built up in the 80s and 90s by an oil baron

I think people care about decentralization only to an extent. They really just want to it to be decentralized enough that the SEC or CFPB won't shut it down. I call this 'plausible decentralization'.

If you try to run an unlicensed exchange without KYC on AWS, you will get shut down pretty quick.

I think the government will look at Solana and say its too complicated to shut down.

Tiger parents are already evolving on this, every elite high school student is now starting non profits or micro startups to put on their resumes .

0.4% had life threatening side effects... more than a headache

282 for all of 0-17 ages

1.6% of the placebo group getting symptomatic covid seems crazy high for this age group in a short period of time, kind of unclear but it sounded like a 2 week a period

Was there a super-spreader event in the placebo group?

Are you in the US? I don’t really know any highly paid contractors in the us .. maybe I’m in a bubble but I would guess that is <5% of the market

I believe in a digital world future but have a hard time believing there would be DRM on images that would prevent me from displaying this gif in my house if I wanted to

There a wide range of data scientist roles. I’m a senior data scientist and couldn’t tell you how to do a dot product or a t test

A lot of my role is just analyzing data for patterns , implementing rules into our product, building models using very basic libraries and putting them into production, monitoring models in production.

I don't know if we have capacity, thats a good call out.

I just feel like more data is better, the scientist don't seem to understand the mechanism that causes this problem and why it affects a few people but not most.

Your link links the problem to low platelet count, is the vaccine affecting platelets in other people but not enough to manifest the issue? Maybe more data could help figure out why it happened to those handful of people and not others.

The J&J vaccine causes headaches and pains normally , I was down and out for a couple days, I could easily see someone with the issue thinking its normal and waiting too long to go in for help.

My anecdote is that I got the JJ and kinda regret it, this blood clot thing made me realize it’s pretty untested , I feel like they should be recommending everyone get a full panel blood test a week after to add more data. After the AZ issues there should have been more scrutiny of the early clot cases

It’s not a sim city decision. In young healthy people the risk of covid death is much lower than 1/200 , so you gotta see why this would make people hesitate.

On paper it’s good I agree, there’s potential, but there’s not a critical mass of tech jobs. Austin has a 30+ year head start on marketing

I live in austin, from Texas, all my family is here so I’ll never leave

But as a neutral person, the west coast just seems so much better in terms of nature and stuff to do. I get the austin makes sense cause it’s cheaper, but after a few more years of 10+% growth it won’t be

Guess the grass is always greener

I don’t see lot rentals as being predatory

Usually they are less than 500/month, that’s less than the property taxes on most home types and it covers amenities that the community has

Also most trailer park residents are not going to qualify for a traditional mortgage so the rental model opens it up to more people

20 minute walk is big difference than a 20 minute cycle. Almost every typical American neighborhood is 20 minute cycle-able. Very few do it though

Blood clots have a known set of causes and risk factors. If the people getting these clots aren’t people who normally would get clots , it’s cause for concern. The overall rate doesn’t matter much

You said it yourself that SEO has ruined search. That’s a HUGE advantage for a smaller search engine. The seo people aren’t going to spend their time targeting a small search engine. And they definitely won’t target it at the risk of hurting their Google rankings

Challenging to make the issue non trivial but fixable in an hour long interview

Does someone know why weren't stack overflow exploits more common in the early 90s?

If the Morris worm used them in 88, how did the technique get lost until this phrack article come out?

Makes me wonder if there are still entire classes of exploits that are undiscovered out there.

I like your idea, but I’m confused why you didn’t try the webmd competitor route.. 50c/user that webmd makes is pretty good really , with good SEO + content marketing you could scale to enough users to make things interesting

Ha There is almost 0 in person arguing about politics, I think that’s why it gets hostile online

Generally a persons friend group are all on the same side

In the workplace there are mixed opinions obviously. Depending on if it’s a liberal or conservative company , the majority may make mild discussion about various things, and the minority will keep quiet to not make a fuss

Not sure if gambling should have been lumped in with the other professions. A successful long term gambler looks a lot like a hacker in my experience

A low traffic cul de sac has a lifetime of way longer than 14 years, maybe that is the number for highways with 18 wheeler traffic?

Very hyped for this, the next generation of superstar coders and entrepreneurs are going to grow up in roblox

77% of nights booked were for entire homes ( not spare rooms ). I would have guessed this to be much higher, like 95+ or something.

That’s interesting and I guess the big thing that makes this different than vrbo if they can grow the spare room side much more over time

Austin house prices are up about 12% year over year