Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
I have no problem believing that Americans find the Fahrenheit system intuitive, but you are failing to see that for metric users, Celsius is 100% intuitive. I know exactly what sort of clothes to wear for each gradation (assuming it's
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by Bakary 4y ago
I think this is a theory of mind issue. You are used to Fahrenheit intuition and living in the US, so people arguing against your perception seem to be bikeshedding or being willfully obtuse/superior. I can perhaps relate my subjective
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by Bakary 4y ago
B5 is very common in Japanese stationary, in particular those silky-smooth notebooks.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I can't really respond to this without restating the arguments already made earlier, but ask yourself this: isn't it an odd coincidence that this appraisal of the situation on your end is absolutely ideal for the employer? - It le
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by Bakary 4y ago
Visiting the country for only a few weeks isn't going to give you much more insight on the place than random commenters, especially if by your own admission you were already prone to overestimating your understanding.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I haven't made the count, but the number of people living in countries that recognize Taiwan is tiny and likely smaller than one percent of the total population. Therefore, by the definition as supplied, Taiwan cannot possibly be a sta
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by Bakary 4y ago
Well that is to be expected, because much like theatre musicals don't have that WISYWIG immersion expectation at all. To test your belief, it would make more sense to picture a "serious" historical movie where the actors port
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by Bakary 4y ago
I am aware of this historical reality, but note that I specifically mentioned a Jewish camp inmate. Now, you might say that it's entirely possible that an Ethiopian Jew, somewhere somehow, was caught in the Holocaust's net and sho
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by Bakary 4y ago
I see what you mean. It's definitely true that the ideal solution would be to introduce this at the contract stage. The difficulty of doing that is in a sense what prompted me to respond earlier. For most workers in industries where it
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by Bakary 4y ago
Racism certainly plays a big part in the frequency of such complaints, but it nonetheless raises some important questions. Ultimately, nobody really, genuinely holds the opinion that an actor can be of any appearance for any role. There w
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by Bakary 4y ago
Alienating fans doesn't mean you can't also alienate and bore the general audience as well. It's definitely true that wokeness heavily contributes to some of these failures, but the alienation of fans is not exclusively about
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by Bakary 4y ago
The opportunity cost is there to prevent that, and the tastes of the fans don't always coincide with the general audience.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Applying Occam's razor, given that this process has repeated for years over multiple franchises, the conclusion is that the core audience is not who you think they are. Online commentary creates a strong visibility bias. Reddit is perh
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by Bakary 4y ago
Slacking off can have moral implications in that it can make your coworkers' lives harder, or can be a problem for the public if it's a socially useful activity like healthcare. If those conditions aren't met however, I don&#
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by Bakary 4y ago
Entrepreneurs benefit from free toil and public investment all the time. Try starting a business in a poorer country with no good institutions nor infrastructure, inefficient education etc. and it'll become abundantly clear what you ar
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by Bakary 4y ago
The entire employer-employee relationship is predicated on power imbalances specific to our economic and legal system, so how tragic is mouse jiggling, really?
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by Bakary 4y ago
Knowledge work output would probably increase significantly for most knowledge workers. Time is the resource but really it's just energy management
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by Bakary 4y ago
I hear what you're saying but it's helpful to look at this with an additional layer of abstraction. This is not just virtue-signaling in combat with edginess-signaling for their respective audience. It's more importantly a te
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by Bakary 4y ago
The more specific requirement other than looks is a personality type that is ebullient and resistant to stress from risk-taking. I don't think it's a coincidence that modern-day rappers have many face tattoos and extravagant style
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by Bakary 4y ago
Amusingly enough 'set' has the largest number of different definitions in the English language! To steelman the author's argument, I think it would have been better to focus the blog post on how people can sometimes deliberat
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by Bakary 4y ago
If a non-mathematician is confused in this way, they won't be able to use the concept for anything useful anyway. I'm saying this as a non-mathematician.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Adding sounds to single-syllable words is also helpful to reduce ambiguity.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It does sound silly, but if we were to audit our lives we might find probably our own Pelotonic traps somewhere else. Reminds me of that webcomic with the cubicle dweller laughing at animals falling for simple traps.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Some animals do expend calories strictly for signaling like we do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't think it's so clear cut. Baumol costs disease already goes a long way, and developers only receive exponential rewards if they have significant equity. Some can go solo or succeed at the startup route but they are a minori
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't necessarily disagree entirely with the author, and it's definitely true that the onus is to some extent on the speaker. It's just that the core of the author's argument can be redefined as the person not being eq
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by Bakary 4y ago
>They can certainly have consequences though, and consequences can lead to meaning. But the point is that you do need an observer capable of perceiving that meaning. It doesn't make sense that the observer would be the source of the
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by Bakary 4y ago
I know that low-empathy privileged commenters are to be expected on HN, but I nonetheless find it impressive that such a short comment can illuminate so many biases in one go.
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by Bakary 4y ago
These improper nouns show mostly a failure of the listener (not that I blame them) to be aware of the underlying culture behind the word. But to contribute in a useful way to the conversation or the actions involved, you would need that c
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by Bakary 4y ago
Based on the context, I have a strong feeling that we are not getting the full version of the story here.

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