4thwaywastrel

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Getting nerd sniped by the h-index(davidxyu.substack.com)
1 points by 4thwaywastrel 2mo ago|0 comments
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by 4thwaywastrel 3y ago
Dialectical text editor for co-evolving ideas with a partner https://dialectica.app About: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORaXKVYI7aIcn_r3OxJJd4_o...
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Looping(theapolloalmanac.substack.com)
1 points by 4thwaywastrel 4y ago|0 comments
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by 4thwaywastrel 5y ago
I can't be sure because I've never tried heroin, but it might be possible to feel that good without drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism
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by 4thwaywastrel 6y ago
This is what we do, but we warn rather than just swallow it. I find it the best of both.
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The Sun Room
1 points by 4thwaywastrel 6y ago|0 comments
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by 4thwaywastrel 6y ago
I feel ike #5 is why many people like GraphQL, and #1 - #4 is why many hate it. It becomes much easier to understand what data exists and build tools on top of it's schema. But the extra cludge it adds to optimise the specific case of
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Tyler Cowan and Glen Weyl on an ambitious plan to reopen America(conversationswithtyler.com)
3 points by 4thwaywastrel 6y ago|1 comments
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by 4thwaywastrel 6y ago
A fascinating discussion on "How we reopen". Learn more here https://ethics.harvard.edu/covid-roadmap (Made my morning to see both these names pop up in the same notification when I woke up )
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by 4thwaywastrel 6y ago
Had the disorienting experience of listening to this very episode while absently browsing hacker news and reading this comment
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by 4thwaywastrel 7y ago
I don't think the posted conception of the culture war as a "holding pattern of conflict" is incompatible with the idea that it's also a legitimate outpouring of the voice of the disenfranchised. Some might say that we&#
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by 4thwaywastrel 7y ago
The 80,000 hours podcast probably had the largest intellectual impact on me of any media in 2019, not only in terms of actual content but pointers to other thinkers / ideas. My favorite episode was probably: https://80000hou
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Ask HN: Ever had to abandon large parts of a project 6 months in? How'd it go?
8 points by 4thwaywastrel 7y ago|4 comments
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by 4thwaywastrel 7y ago
I agree, there's a difference between having an opinion and using a companies platform to express that opinion.
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Ask HN: What personal little shell aliases, scripts or hacks bring you joy?
3 points by 4thwaywastrel 7y ago|3 comments
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by 4thwaywastrel 8y ago
I also noticed this when I visited China. Drivers and pedestrians seemed much more aware, presumably out of necessity. Interestingly the road toll in China looks to be X10 worse than in the US from this wiki page, so make of that what you w
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by 4thwaywastrel 9y ago
Credit Sense Australia | Backend Web Engineer | ONSITE Brisbane, Australia If you've ever worked with distributed systems and JavaScript (ideally but not necessarily at the same time) I desperately need another set of hands attached to
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by 4thwaywastrel 9y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but if it's easy to build homes (as has been for a number of years) due to low-interest rates and steady employment wouldn't that lead in an increased supply hence dropping prices?
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by 4thwaywastrel 9y ago
I ran a mobile payments app for years that buckled under the weight of machiavellian people constantly trying to find ways to cheat the system. The problem isn't just the existence of scammers imho, the problem is that the two players
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INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT [pdf](esp.org)
1 points by 4thwaywastrel 9y ago|0 comments