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Three Successive Chairmen of Long Island's Suffok County GOP Were Klansmen
Long Island had the largest population of Ku Klux Klan members in New York State during the 1920s.
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There Is No Differences in Metabolic Rates of Men and Women
When controlling for other factors (like age, weight, etc.) a paper found that there is no real difference between the metabolic rates of men and women.
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Metabolism Changes by Age
Metabolism differs primarily in four distinct stages of life. From infancy to age 1 metabolism accelerates to 50% above the rate of an adult.
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GitHub Codespaces Is Too Cumbersome and Expensive to Replace Local Development
After trying out GitHub Codespaces for work, it’s clear that—while impressive—it is not a suitable replacement to developing locally.
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§ What Is the Market Value of Working Remote?
We can come up with a valuation of remote work by looking at a few signals: what you would forgo, what do you gain, what others gain, and what others lose.
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Legitimized Client-Side Scanning
The reaction to the recent announcement that Apple would begin scanning iCloud photos for CSAM was not just because of privacy concerns, but because it legitimizes other service providers to do the same.
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Google Employees Could Face Pay Cuts Due to Working Remote
In a recent article in Business Insider, a leaked pay calculator and interviews found that some employees face pay cuts if they continue to work remotely.
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TypeScript Records With Enum Keys Are Exhaustively Checked
In TypeScript, a Record type used with an enum for keys is exhaustively checked.
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Low Psychosocial Safety Is Associated With a Threefold Increase in Risk of Major Depression
A study performed on Australian workers that looked at contributing factors to developing major depression symptoms found that low pyschosocial safety climate was associated with a threefold increase in risk of development major depression symptoms.
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38 Percent of Remote Workers Work From Their Beds
A survey found that 38% of remote workers regularly work from their beds.
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We Are Close to a Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major ocean current that could be close to collapse resulting in severe climate impact (extreme weather, ocean levels rising).
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American Workers Are Willing to Take a Pay Cut to Work Remote
A survey by Breeze, an insurance company, found that 65% of people would take a 5% pay cut, 38% would take a 10% pay cut, 24% would take a 15% pay cut, 18% would take a 20% pay cut, and 15 % would take a 25% pay cut.
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Remote Work Is Not Necessarily Better for the Environment
While not having to commute is equivalent pay raise, it’s not necessarily better for the environment.
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20% of US Workers Are Expected to Work From Home Permanently
While just 5% of the workforce in the US worked from home prior to the pandemic, 20% are expected to work from home permanently.
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Permanent Moves From SF Have Fallen to Pre-Pandemic Levels
Much has been written about a great migration out of San Francisco.
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Mark Twain Remarking on Lake Tahoe
Mark Twain had a deep appreciation of Lake Tahoe. “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.
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Consensus Macro Forecasts Provide No Value
Macro forecasting is an area where it is easy to be as right as the consensus, but very hard to be more right.
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Time Crystals Break Time-Translation Symmetry
A time crystal is a repeating pattern in the time dimensions which breaks symmetry with the law of conservation of energy.
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Why Hasn't Remote Work Become a Political Issue?
Remote work seems like a natural extension of death-cult politicians to rail against remote work like they did against masks and vaccinations.
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Human Intelligence Is a Special Case of Artificial Intelligence
There is every evidence that intelligence can be embodied materially. Our intelligence and mind comes from matter.
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Taste Is the Refined Sense of Judgment and Finding Balance That Produces a Pleasing and Integrated Whole
Having ‘good taste’ is difficult to define. Taste is subjective, it is only confirmed by assent from others (from Immanual Kant) a kind of determinate negation.
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Design Is How It Works
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying “Design is how it works.
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90% of the Population Needs to Be Vaccinated for Herd Immunity From the Delta Variant
Because the COVID-19 Delta variant is much more transmissible (translating to a higher R rate of 50-100% higher than a year ago) and mRNA vaccines are 90% effective, we need 90% of the population to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity.
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In Sales, Top of the Funnel Growth Cures All Ails
In sales, the difference between hitting your numbers and not has more to do with the volume of your top of the funnel than anything else.