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Re:Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:32PM (#36178049)
Wait how did you end up here?
Re:Choosing happiness
on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:00PM (#32975414)
What metrics matter?
Re:Self-control secrets of the Puritan masters
on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:47PM (#32975277)
What kind of fence is it when you think you know why the fence is there but you're obviously wrong?
Re:Ask HN: Higher order derivatives in everyday life?
on Thursday July 28, 2022 @01:38AM (#32260826)
Jerk is the feeling you get when you change acceleration, for example in a car when you go from a little gas pedal to flooring it. That abrupt change is jerk. The third derivative of position with respect to time.
Re:IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)
on Saturday May 14, 2022 @01:05PM (#31379972)
The book I'm reading Weapons of Mass Instruction explains this as being part of the goals of forced schooling as designed by Carnegie and other industrialist to make easier to manage laborers.