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wavefunction··on How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross
It's of course a cultural thing rather than a single unifiying rule. In the South of the United States strangers strike up conversations and I can ask people about themselves without it being weird. In the North of the United States, I wouldn't bother unless I already knew someone well and if I know them well why am I asking them for?

Wouldn't do it in Japan, Germany or Scandinavia; would do it many other countries.

wavefunction··on Thinking About Thinking (1999)
Continuous introspection and extrospection.
wavefunction··on Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details
Negotiating with every country in the EU serially is not that much better than in parallel.
wavefunction··on The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public
The Federal Minimum wage has remained at $7.25/hour since 2009 when it was increased under the Obama administration.
wavefunction··on I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It
Who says TicketMaster didn't raise ticket prices?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ticketmaster-c...

wavefunction··on Space Harrier – Developer Interview Collection
My jam at the arcade in Manitou, CO.

This interview seems uniquely Japanese while still reading incredibly charming and interesting. Some meta-design along with the nuts and bolts of what this small team accomplished.

wavefunction··on Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
I think it would depend on the efficiency of the metabolic process and availability of catalysts for that process at site. If it's very efficient then perhaps not very much is present, having been metabolized.

Just some musings from a non-expert.

wavefunction··on SF fines two landords $2.25M for illegal Airbnb rentals
This seems to be a literal case of "laying down the law" when the phrase usually just refers to some authority figure disciplining a subject.
wavefunction··on Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out
What about people who the boss isn't sexually interested in? What sort of work environment and career can they look forward to, potentially? There is a reason many societies and companies discourage or prohibit relations between employees and tortured allegories about neighbors borrowing milk won't change that.
wavefunction··on Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices
Forgive me if I prematurely discount the UX opinions of a Gregg Abbott political appointee explaining that a laughably amateur user experience is the fault of the voters of the opposing party.
wavefunction··on Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices
Yes but given limited resources it's more feasible to obtain a random sample of the population you're looking to gain insight with and derive your observations from the sample.

Assuming it's a properly representative sample.

wavefunction··on Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim
>cargo shorts and t-shirts

Those aren't really conservative work clothes though, at least in the popular conception.

wavefunction··on Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114622...
wavefunction··on Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana
At least with Colorado the rate of increase in accidents was lower than the rate of increase in population resulting from new residents moving there. So per-capita accident rates actually fell.
wavefunction··on Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are Trying to Go It Alone
Nah, the Wild West is long gone and exists only in Hollywood characterisations which people today imbibe as truth.
wavefunction··on Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
I wouldn't say that nothing has changed but nothing has occurred like what anti-cannabis activists claimed would happen.

One outcome that gets mentioned is that vehicular accidents increased in Colorado following legalization but the population growth outpaced the relative growth in accidents, meaning per-capita vehicular accidents actually fell.

Some data on cannabis and accident rates: https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/evaluating-res...

wavefunction··on Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
time has multiple vectors

downvote me if you will but you were the one claiming dinosaurs are birds

wavefunction··on Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
google the constituents of the phrase and build it up from there

birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs aren't birds

you've reversed the vectored direction of time in your claim

wavefunction··on Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
You have the direction of the time vector descriptor backwards.
wavefunction··on How a New York Times Software Engineer Ended Up Covering Miss America
HyperCard was a fancier PowerPoint.

I was deep into HyperCard at the relevant time.

wavefunction··on How to Be Better at Parties
Birthday parties. Cool ones, at least.
wavefunction··on Federal chokehold on marijuana stymies studies on epilepsy, autism
There are stores in some of the legalized states that are processing debit card transactions through some company in NYC. I expect it will be possible in MA stores.
wavefunction··on Company using Mechanical Turk botches U.S. Senate campaign finance records
Turk is an ethnicity.
wavefunction··on Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but changed Earth's climate: study
Well the argument that human activity isn't the reason for climate change isn't completely ruled out by this historical evidence but I think it provides compelling evidence that only the dishonest can disregard.
wavefunction··on The bonnethead, the world's first omnivorous shark
Humans can't digest cellulose. We call it instead dietary fiber, and it's important for our health. Not sure if this shark is actually directly digesting the cellulose or relying on gut bacteria like ungulates. This shark possibly notwithstanding, I don't believe there are any vertebrates than can directly digesting cellulose

Regularly consuming plant material for nutrition seems like enough of a bar to render the shark an omnivore.

wavefunction··on Is the Lean Startup Dead?
I thought the wealthy were job creators, captains of innovation, stewards of the future...

We'd be better off taxing these folks who can't find anything to invest in and redistributing the funds to the worst-off. The economic activity would inevitably be captured by these same ineffectual investors but at least the material situation of the poorest among us would be slightly better.

wavefunction··on First Ring System Around Asteroid (2014)
We could just kill all the light pollution and give everyone something truly spectacular to look at.
wavefunction··on Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
Sin is not for you to judge though. That is for your G-d alone if you follow your scripture as I assume you assume you do.

"He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored."

Mark 3:5

wavefunction··on Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
Keep it up, this is exactly how great programmers are made!
wavefunction··on Why is Stubbs BBQ sauce for sale in a Prague grocery store?
The other thing is Stubbs was founded by an African American gentleman from Lubbock.
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