allenwlee

confirmation bias

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i use arrays as a substitute for app-side caching via materialized views

In my mind, Markit is the biggest future threat to Bloomberg

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thanks...i barely even understood your response to be honest...i'm not a programmer but trying to learn. love rentrak--i've been talking to someone there for a while now regarding a data feed.

Very interesting. we've been using TMDB.org for our site filmquotra.com but are not tied to it. how do you distinguish yourself from tmdb?

Interesting to note that all the snowboarders refused to join the crowd and opted to go their own way. Erin the liftie, who actually took off skiers right on her own; tall Tim, who took off alone hard left; and pankey and Carlson who followed tall Tim and ultimately discovered the bodies. Snowboarders are stereotypically not crowd followers, and that characteristic might have saved them here.

haha. me too.

do you mean you just stopped reading for pleasure at some point in your life? i can't imagine myself doing that.

thanks for your thoughtful response. i too have a gut feeling about that negative correlation, and i believe brain research suggests at the least that these two characteristics are distinct, and vary in individuals.

could it be that those "rare gems" that you mention--who are both analytical and "creative"--are greater in number than you think--maybe even the majority? for example, the pure-analytical types and the pure-creative types could be a very vocal minority. They stand to gain the most by being divisive.

i also read less for pleasure nowadays as i run my startup. funny that you should mention russian literature. that is my favorite. i will read kolyma tales next based on your recommendation. the last russian work i read was the master and margarita, which was unbelievable. i have my own theories about the russians' views on human nature, but that is not for this thread!

I'd really like to know if people on HN "share an absence of literary culture" as Taleb suggests. Can you please respond if you read literature other than science fiction?

thanks for looking and commenting! good point on the "filmmakers only." The Learn More link should take you to the help page. /help.html

i don't know about this. this band basically traces the southern coastline. to me the simplest explanation is that coastlines (because they are richer) are largely white, so that inland populations in the south will be more black.

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I was not surprised due to this study that I read recently where You see similar nonlinearities http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2009/09/physical-attractiveness...

i'm amazed he did it 1 hour per day for a YEAR. i've been meditating for 2 years. the first 6 months i did it 1 hour each day. after that it fell off a cliff. i now average around 10 minutes 3x week.