sporkologist

What about the example of not wanting to see work type ads on sports subreddits?

Richard Feynman had to consult a mole on his left hand to remember the difference between left and right.

One could almost say that it is a form of bait, that is trying to get someone to click on it.

> It could be a good way to catch leakers, too

That's what we need, to catch those darn leakers, no matter the cost to our society's future.

Or melamine.

Wrong answer, citizen, the state requires you to carry a phone!

There may be a Facebook app to blame.

> Now its just incremental phone updates.

Don't forget the watch, and the advances in dongle technology.

The title clearly implies an assumed cause and effect relation, while the article itself doesn't even propose any mechanism for causation, only that there is a correlation. I consider this a form of clickbait (and bait-and-switch), therefore my snarky reply above.

I was trying to make a broader point about cause and effect misdirection in low-information study results such as this (Finland is unusual in its great school system... It is more usual to attend a sauna than not to.... unlike most of the rest of the world) but it came off as pretty ignorant sounding to a lot of people.

I'd bet that frequent yachting is also healthy.

This seems good: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/night-owl-s...

... so this is supposed to make us feel better about the current situation?

> crescent roll, cream cheese, apple pie

That one just looks awesome... well, a crescent roll is similar to pie crust anyway

So I guess Priceonomics has to prove that their predictive ability is better than their client, who one would assume is already very familiar with their target market. That is a tough sell.

> You could invest hours, days, or years in a writing project, only to find out that you’ve picked a bad idea that doesn’t interest people.

To paraphrase Elon Musk: Keep asking for criticism, especially negative, about your idea. If your idea has merit, people will like it, and that will result in a better chance of success. If you can't handle negative criticism, then you need to work on your own skills and handling rejection.

Tricking people via this Priceonomics "pre-article-writing" trick just seems like a trick.

> How can we get the government to respect our right to put anything in our body that we want to?

Sounds simple in principle, but too many people making too much money off stuff being illegal.

Thanks for mentioning that book, I hadn't seen it before but it formalizes a lot of things that have helped me in the past. Also they mention the Finland educational system. Yeah I'll have to get a copy of this one.

Get a good teacher and take weekly lessons for the first few months. Make sure your instrument is up to snuff. Make a habit of practicing at least 30 minutes a day of technically hard stuff. Most importantly, find an instrument (and music genre) that you love.

Meanwhile in Finland.....

It's starting to look a little like the Volkswagen fiasco.

You have an extremely tough sell there. It sounds like you're trying to get in on a commodity product, without the sales chops. you may want to continue working for someone else -- that's not a bad thing, it just sounds like where you will be better off.

> wrecked teslas

Wait what? where is this supply at

> animals were able to make sounds with vocal cords well before (like 100 million years before)

Um, no. Even between chimps and ourselves lies a vast gulf of unpronounceability, just due to vocal chord physics. Yet more interesting is the mapping between formants and meaning in linguistics.

This kind of thing leads to many "wait, what?" moments... confusing and aggravating to someone just learning syntax.

> we began fluoridation of the water because the only place we can store it is in your liver

"Oh, haha, my attorney is telling me to shut the f* * * up! Sorry about that slip of the tongue."

I think you can be excused a bit, it does read a little like Tony Robbins at first glance

Maybe a toggle for enabling/disabling device driver for mic?

And the efficient.

To get to the other side.