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I wouldn’t call them “common-sense”. When a modern-day tragedy (death of a child) is required before “hug a tree and survive” becomes a slogan, it seems safe to say that they are counter-intuitive.
If humans did the right thing by default (e.g. “If you are lost, ‘Hug-A-Tree’ and stay put.”), there would be fewer sad stories.
Here’s another tiny Windows Firefox bug report.
Expand any song.
Hit play.
Collapse the song.
The song keeps playing. Would’ve expected the music to stop when the video player wasn’t visible.
As anecdotal support for “constantly tasting everything”, I offer my high school scientific calculator. After one year of 2 hrs per day of chemistry class, its crevices around the display had a permanent collection of precipitate.
I suspect that even without intentionally tasting things, nearly everything in a lab is ingested as an aerosol. It would be unsurprising if months of such exposure led someone to develop a hunch about a molecule.
If you’re looking for an experimental protocol, the ADHD MTA trial’s protocol looks pretty good.
It is described at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10591283/ and explains in detail how the doctors decided when to try increasing the dosage. It supports evand’s assertion that improvement should be noticeable quickly.
How much ambient light is there? Is it all from sunlight?
Find a company that makes or sells high quality LEDs
Buy their largest lighting fixture.
Install fixture.
Sample companies:
Waveform
Yuji LED
You may also be interested in the Transit Cost database, which compares the cost of constructing things by country.
If you’re feeling down, here’s a recent project that seems to have worked out.
San Diego Mid-Coast Trolley Extension:
Committed to building it: 2010 (“The project was adopted into the …plan in October 2010.” Federal Transportation Authority.) -- Not sure how to account for the prior work.
Normal riders riding it: November 2021 (Wikipedia cites a local media outlet.)
Predicted Cost: $2.1 billion (per the aforementioned Federal Transportation Authority document from 2015).
Actual Cost: “$2.2 billion” (another local media outlet)
I got a little weirded out at the OAuth prompt because it said “johnny” wanted to get my account. I know who Neuronpedia is. I didn’t know who “johnny” was until I did some more reading and figured out that you’re Johnny.
Please consider registering a dedicated account for the organization (“Neuropedia”, perhaps) and doing the OAuth through the organization’s account so that the prompt doesn’t surprise users as much.
In a later comment, the original poster said that the Total Protein seemed fine. Unfortunately, https://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(99)70278-7/fulltext suggests that the person looking at the labs would have to know that they ought to look closely at the albumin level, specifically. It wouldn’t be the first time that ”Reality has a surprising amount of detail” where overlooking 1 thing is enough to get into trouble.
It would be unsurprising if the albumin level turned out to be low, if the A/G ratio was slightly off despite the normal-looking total protein values, etc.
As SirTruffleberry said, this situation would be a place where having long-term trends could help.
It is also possible that his lab values fell just barely within the normal ranges.
What are you comparing?
FYI, the Waveform article promotes the use of the Kruithof curve but that relationship between lumens and preference could not be replicated by a study from 1990 (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F096032719002200102).
Chapter 5 of a 2005 thesis (“Human lighting demands : healthy lighting in an office environment”) from TU/e has specific recommendations for brightness, contrast, etc. Its DOI is 10.6100/IR594257 (https://doi.org/10.6100/IR594257).
Full citation: Aries, M. B. C. (2005). Human lighting demands : healthy lighting in an office environment. [Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e), Built Environment]. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. https://doi.org/10.6100/IR594257
The content may be public but does copyright law allow these sorts of quotes?
Which venue controls Facebook posts’ copyright? I assume that Lesswrong.com’s liability is also affected by the law that applies to the location of Lightcone’s office.
I do not know the answer but desired to mention them in case they are relevant.
Do you mean that the container with the contaminated fuel was stored outdoors in the container that you linked to?
If yes, then a couple things come to mind:
Did you confirm that the container was watertight?
Is it possible that the relatively small size of water molecules meant that they could sneak past mechanisms designed to hold back large hydrocarbons?
Thanks for the clarification.
Are you limiting the phrase “Social Security” to the funds given to the elderly or are you including things like disability payments?
It seems that having a teacher tell you when to move up/onwards is critical. Otherwise, it can be tricky to realize that the hardware is the limitation after months of working on your own abilities/skills.
Regarding the shopping example, I find that B2B websites like Fisher Scientific and McMaster-Carr have good search and filter options. Pcpartpicker.com is also a good example.
How did you mitigate the risk of being arrested as a car thief due to false reports by Hertz?
That is a deeply unfortunate line to see.
Humanity has known for decades that “[most medical calls] don’t dramatically worsen in the course of a very few minutes, and they don’t spread from person to person” (Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 2017).
In the case of red lights and sirens, maybe they made sense before bystander CPR and before we had empirical data. But not now.
The overuse of red lights and sirens doesn’t save lives. It ends them.