Kaius

Roughly 50% make it to age 80.

Roughly 20% make it to 90.

And around 1% make it to 100.

The road curves steeply at the end!

Kaius

4 年前議論

Test

Kaius

5 年前議論

Would that American be from inner city Baltimore? Or from a fishing boat off the coast of Louisiana? Or from the Ozarks perhaps?

Kaius

5 年前議論

  Ok so I get that it could be quiet
  difficult to write sentences which
  must be of a fixed length. However
  hyperbolically calling it the most
  scarily/stunningly linguistic feat
  is ridiculous in the extreme. I am
  certain that a person sufficiently
  motivated, could produce a similar
  document. Comparing something like
  this to the work of Mozart is just
  nonsense. I mean, I couldn't write 
  a piece of music like Mozart if my
  life depended on it.

Kaius

5 年前議論

To paraphrase: "Some people commit crimes, there is nothing stopping other people committing crimes in the future; therefore everyone is a criminal."

Kaius

6 年前議論

I don't live in SF but have visited a few times. I would be incredibly angry if someone arbitrarily decided to add a whole bunch of noise into my environment for no good reason. However "interesting" the noise may be to some people, having to deal with it in my daily life would be awful! I cannot comprehend how a person or group could be allowed do something like that.

Kaius

6 年前議論

Its a question of tolerances, if they break when someone stands on them they there is a decent chance they will break when you sit on them, or sit down too fast, or sit on them on uneven ground that distributes slightly too much weight to one leg, or they have been in the sun too long and have become brittle.

I'm a relatively tall guy and am wary sitting on these, standing on them would be certain failure. They are essentially cheap trash that will spend ~12 months looking like a chair and 500 years looking like a broken chair in a landfill.

Kaius

7 年前議論

> [1] https://leetcode.com/submissions/detail/292246392/ (Not sure if you can deep link in to leetcode like this?)

It seems you cannot, 404 error.

Kaius

7 年前議論

Completely agree, he rambles all over the place with no clear narrative arch. And he completely failed to build any rapport by making weird comments about the shows logo and his lack of engagement with Joe at the start. Given he knew he was going to have 2+ hours to make his points, and the audience was going to be several million, he should have considered his approach far better.

It was an interesting discussion however.

Kaius

7 年前議論

>>"Corín Tellado was a Spanish author who wrote over 5,000 books in her 81-year lifespan. That’s over sixty books a year, assuming she came out of the womb fully literate. She claimed she could write a book in two days, and I’m inclined to believe her."

Crazy. I was going to mention that her time would have been better spent writing 1 good book rather than 5000 that (I assume because I have never heard of her name before) were mediocre. Quality over Quantity.

Then I thought, perhaps writing brought her joy regardless of how well received the final book is, so she spent her time well by making herself happy doing what she loved. Be happy in your work.

Then I though, jesus 60 books a year, that sounds like she was manically driven to write almost non-stop for her entire life, which is awful. Work will set you free.

Kaius

7 年前議論

Whats the difference between Mead and the more typical Ale home brewing people do?

Kaius

7 年前議論

I visited Venice last week and this video was a good explanation for some of the things we noticed (bricks being eroded etc). Very interesting.

Kaius

8 年前議論

I'm also based in Ireland, would you mind giving a range for what you consider 'silly' money? My impression is that Contracting works well at lower salaries but once you move into the higher tax bracket (40%) then the the disadvantages of contracting start to outweigh the benefits as most of the additional income is eaten up by tax.

Kaius

8 年前議論

"It is possible to insist that every changes is merely a small change in degree, rather than a change in kind."

Good quote from Ted.

Kaius

9 年前議論

If the drive is encrypted, how can they say in contains hashes of know illegal content? Unless the content is shared in its encrypted form along with the key... This sounds like BS on their part.

Kaius

9 年前議論

Most likely from his friends contact lists, which Facebook imported when they installed the app on their phone.

Kaius

10 年前議論

Exactly! There is a phrase in Thing Explainer where Randall is trying to say that a part of a space shuttle or something is made in Japan, instead of using 'Japan' he has to say something like "the land where the sun comes up" or close to it (I don't think he could use 'rising' but may be not be recalling correctly). It breaks down as soon as you try to convey something beyond base level understanding.

So yes, it sounds like using the most common 1K words would aid readability but you probably need to raise that to 2.5K or more. Low enough to avoid the use of complex words while also freeing the author from awkward phrasings.

Kaius

10 年前議論

Its peculiar that a group with a specific DNA marker would be wiped out so completely by climate change while another group was not (or at least prospered at a later time in the same region).

Could this more easily be explained by an aggressive disease or plague that wiped out anyone it contacted and the separation of the 2 groups (N and M) in different locations protected enough of the N group for it to prosper. Also isolated pockets of M carriers who had migrated beyond the infected area survived.

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