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The ingenuity of people who live in tiny amounts of space.
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Go above 8 cores and they start getting slower as memory gets horribly congested.
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âœIf we give an oxytocin blocker to female voles, they become like 95 percent of other mammal species,â Dr. Young said. âœThey will not bond no matter how many times they mate with a male or hard how he tries to bond. They mate, it feels really good and they move on if another male comes along. If love is similarly biochemically based, you should in theory be able to suppress it in a similar way.â
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When investors see a fund manager generate a higher return than his
competitors, they will move their money into that fund and out of the
other ones. And money managers are rewarded based on the size of
their fund, or the level of returns. The managers do not risk their
own money. If they can provide a bigger gain for a few years, they
win everything. They might even be lucky enough to be retired by the
time their investors are paying the piper. The managers who have the
discipline to understand and avoid the Martingale tricks will not be
able to compete on the basis of their returns over a few years, and
will eventually lose their funds and their jobs.
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The rate of major complications fell from 11% to 7%, and the rate of inpatient deaths following surgery fell more than 40% from 1.5% to 0.8%.
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Difficult reading, and triggering, but very worthwhile.
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More importantly, they drop productivity.
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Not just career, actually - it applies to hobbies too.
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US agents at Guantanamo Bay tortured a Saudi man suspected of involvement in the 11 September attacks, the official overseeing trials at the camp has said.
Susan Crawford told the Washington Post newspaper that Mohammad al-Qahtani had been left in a "life-threatening condition" after being interrogated.
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Very wise words
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Date: 2009-01-15 04:21 pm (UTC)Not convinced by the "Ignore the content" one though. I'd be miffed and frustrated if people did that to me. And it seems quite arrogant: he's advocating assuming you know better than your interlocutor where they're really coming from and what they really mean.
Could have been worse, though: he could have made out it was a strategy specifically for interacting with women, as the Mars/Venus nonsense seems to do.
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Date: 2009-01-15 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-16 10:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-15 09:46 pm (UTC)I'd been using the beta for ages, as after my initial dislike I found it a lot easier. When they launched it across site, there was palpable rage in the comments.
The designers tried point by point replies. Didn't work. They put in changes based on feedback.
They got shouted at by people, including people complaining that they even when the thing being complained about was a specific request.
It didn't help that they weren't restating the reasons for the design (they were on an old post from 2006 that was on a different community), and they didn't really explain why it was deemed effective.
People just didn't like it.
Two weeks later, most people had got used to it and were accepting most of it, because, while I don't like bits of it, it's just better. And significantly easier to use for newer users, which was the objective.
The visceral reaction to a change of design, from a lot of users, is DO NOT WANT. Then they complain.
I think the article is 100% spot on myself.
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Date: 2009-01-15 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-16 08:24 am (UTC)Seems to be an artefact of the reposting is that it double-encodes everything.
I'm going to tweak it now and see if that fixes it.