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This community had unusually low rates of heart disease despite a large range of traditional risk factors. The general consensus was that this was due to the community-oriented nature of the town. Later they did follow-ups and found that as the town became more stereotypically "American" the mortality rates due to heart disease increased, especially among younger men.
I wonder if there is confirmation bias in the opinions of people who are voluntarily spending a large amount of time on forums already. They had a preference for written asynchronous communication already.
This was, to me, the greatest benefit of being put in a gifted program in 3rd grade. I was so used to everything being easy that I cried at home that I had homework taking longer than 10 minutes that I actually had to concentrate on. I asked my dad to go back to the regular program, and he said I should stick it out for at least another month. I did, and learned how to work through things that seemed challenging at first.
The experience of having to put forth effort early(ish) in my life set me up far better for dealing with life later, because I learned how to push past things that were uncomfortable instead of giving up (i.e. "grit" became a part of my psyche when it was still pretty flexible).
I probably could have learned this lesson in other ways, but the fact that it's one of my clearest childhood memories certainly speaks to the impact it had on my life. And I know plenty of friends whose first experience needing to put effort happened in college, and things seemed a lot harder for them emotionally.
Monetary or social costs were both asymmetrically in favor of the receiver because a long-distance call was expensive and a local spam call would eventually incur a high social cost (either in the innocent case of teenage prank calls being figured out by parents or the less innocent cases where the police or phone company might need to trace the source).
Yes, this is an accurate assessment from what I've seen.
> And to run it locally you need access to dev versions of all of them.
In my experience, no. If the runtime never needs to access it because you're only doing development related to datastore A, it shouldn't fall over just because you haven't configured datastore B. Lots of easy ways to either skip this in the runtime or have a mocked interface.
> And when there’s a security vulnerability in your comment system your tape library gets wiped.
This one really depends but I think can be an accurate criticism of many systems. It's most true, I think, when you're at an in-between scale where you're big enough to be a target but haven't yet gotten big enough to afford more dedicated security testing at an application code level.
- https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-...
- https://www.businessinsider.com/why-americans-call-it-soccer...
In contrast, by the third trimester of pregnancy, your total blood volume has increased by approximately 50% (3-4 pounds of additional blood), not to mention an extra 2-3 pounds of retained fluid, 2 pounds of amniotic fluid, and 1.5 pounds of placenta. All told, this is another ~10 pounds on top of the baby. Additionally, the mother / placenta is performing all respiratory and blood filtration functions on behalf of the fetus (the kidneys don't really do much prior to birth other than produce urine).
> https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/pregnancy-week-...
Personally, while breastfeeding and newborn care was exhausting, it felt more akin to training for an athletic event vs having another entity symbiotically tied to my system like pregnancy.
Interestingly, the EGG hypothesis postulates that the constraining factor is not pelvis size, but rather that neonates consume so much energy that we give birth just before a women's metabolic limits would otherwise be overrun (leading to both maternal and infant death). Based on this, the increased energy demands of our larger brains mean that we have to sacrifice neonatal motor skills or drastically improve the metabolic efficiency of adult women.
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/38/15212
> In humans, maximum sustained metabolic rate is thought to be 2.0–2.5× basal metabolic rate (BMR).
> By 9 mo, metabolic demands of the fetus threaten to push maternal energy requirements beyond 2.1× BMR. Extending gestation by even one month would likely require metabolic investment beyond the mother’s capacity. Instead, the mother delivers and the neonate’s growth rate slows relative to its fetal growth rate, keeping both the offspring’s and the mother’s energy requirements in check.
Interesting observation - in this light, confirmation bias could almost be considered a variant of Occam's razor.
> If a document is provided early and I have a conflict at the begining of the meeting I can read the document ahead of time and join the meeting 10-20 minutes late without missing anything.
This seems like it would lend itself to selection bias - only people for whom homeschooling is a good fit continue to pursue it.
Do this as part of the interview and not something they have to do in their "spare time" at home. It's not uncommon for large companies to do all-day interviews anyway, so a way to structure this can be to have the interviewee come in in the morning, provide them the problem and allow them to ask any questions they might have (as if it was a real work problem), then allow them the morning to work on it.
Then in the afternoon you can review the solution and ask them to talk through how they arrived at it and what their thoughts were during the process.
- https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20160606/women-more-prone-t...
The only reason I have an understanding of what a "mind's eye" might be like is that I do dream visually. This is apparently not uncommon among aphatasics.
The movement is frequent enough that a measure of health for the baby starting about 3/4 of the way through the pregnancy is to have the mother count movements until she reaches 10, which should take between 30 minutes and 2 hours.
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Also, if you think about this in the context of the Sun, you get a really visceral feel for just how much energy is being produced. Black-body alone is transferring that energy to us. Scary.
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If you're ending up with a lot of unread topics you don't care about, the answer is to mute that topic (you can mute a single topic without muting the whole stream, which is awesome but a lot of people I've worked with didn't realize you could do this).