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by BoxFour 3y ago
> Or is it a model thing? Yes, this is very likely about avoiding the max 8.
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Obsidian just works on markdown files so seems like it shouldn't be a problem
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Without diminishing your achievements, the term 'elite' often refers to individuals possessing substantial societal influence, through wealth or similar channels. This usually means the top 0.01%.
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In bigger teams, scanning every diff instead of just the commit subject lines is significantly more time-consuming (a frequent activity in my experience). I often decline proposed commits that lack concise, informative subject lines, and I
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by BoxFour 3y ago
> My question at those times is less about "what" and more about "why". Why was this change made? Isn't the essence of the commit message body to delve into the 'why'? The ability to swiftly glean the &
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by BoxFour 3y ago
The economic situation of NK is far different than those two countries, and in NK’s situation you would often expect to see fertility rates above replacement.
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by BoxFour 3y ago
I think it’s the opposite, NK food security is so dire that people don’t want to have children because it’s more mouths to feed.
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by BoxFour 3y ago
> Startups work the same. If this product becomes unmaintainable in 5 years, who cares? This is a reasonable stance for a startup to take. The majority of startups likely won't last five years as they tend to fail. Being alive in fi
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by BoxFour 3y ago
Well that's just wrong. Before OpenAI I would've agreed with you, but since OpenAI's rise to prominence there has been a noticeable increase in its coverage in mainstream media outlets featuring Sam. People still read the Tim
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by BoxFour 3y ago
The study's omission of controls for a social desirability bias might skew its findings, or at least I didn't see anything mentioning one. Considering lingering stigma about using dating apps, despite the large change in acceptanc
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by BoxFour 3y ago
The situation with Alameda resembles the Enron scandal more closely than a banking crisis like that of 2008. Portraying Alameda as a typical borrower, while concurrently implementing a code change that singularly permitted them to maintain
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by BoxFour 3y ago
Utilitarianism, the principle of maximizing good for the greatest number of people, is fairly common in informing social norms and policy-making. It's a guideline, but not an absolute rule. We can acknowledge its value as a general app
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FTX functioned as a vault for user funds as an exchange, while Alameda, sharing common ground with FTX, was granted the privilege to borrow these user funds. Already off to a bad start because of the conflict of interest. Alameda was also a
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by BoxFour 3y ago
The article gets it backwards for large companies. Most of these things exist at the behest of leadership. In the absence of a PM, these responsibilities often fall on engineering managers or engineers. There are two types of effective PMs
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While it does sound this particular author was just interested in a cash grab, the author and you are both recognizing the stark reality facing many aspiring founders: the choice often boils down to taking a high-stakes gamble with venture
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by BoxFour 3y ago
Apple's slightly buggy music app and Twitter's slow load times are strategic prioritization. If they wanted to, they would write fast and/or extremely reliable software. These companies understand that minor imperfections won
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by BoxFour 3y ago
This seems like normal market forces at work. An oversupply will naturally balance out as some stores close to meet actual demand. Achieving 70% of demand from legal markets after long-standing prohibition is commendable. I don't see t
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by BoxFour 3y ago
I've seen numerous active posters here criticize platforms like TikTok while engaging in all sorts of mental gymnastics about how HN is different. Someone’s doing it already in a sibling comment. And I'm not claiming superiority;
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> I don't really think I'm going to care that they've had more or less experience in the background amongst a sea of a thousand other people. You might! Having extra credits at least indicates familiarity with the film env
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My take: It’s just classic satire employing exaggeration to highlight the absurdities of common experiences where people feel the need to justify the non-interview parts of their job interview. I often get profuse written apologies for mino
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by BoxFour 3y ago
Those companies tend to attract type As, and it’s similarly easy for non type As to feel implicit peer pressure. You don’t have to work a ton to succeed. If you prefer to maintain a 9-5 schedule at these companies, it's extremely possi
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by BoxFour 3y ago
The context here is that the entire website itself functions as an unspoken advertisement for YC, not about individuals promoting other things on HN.
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Isn't that even more problematic? Essentially advertisements camouflaged as non-advertising content?
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In Manhattan, at least, there has been a significant amount of rainfall, but things have mostly cleared up now on the streets.
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by BoxFour 3y ago
> who takes a photo then wants to know it was a photo of? I find myself doing this rather frequently. The scenario described in the article is quite common for me: capturing a photo of a plant and utilizing an existing classification ser
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> The universe will smack you hard with reality if you're grifting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_medicine Choice quotes: > a medical researcher at the University of Texas, found that on
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by BoxFour 3y ago
Your interpretation of 'grifting' seems rather narrow and may not align with its applicability to either the article or the broader understanding. Grifting extends beyond merely making quick profits or even publishing fabricated f
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There's scant evidence to suggest that modern academics uphold more stringent standards than any other group of professionals. If I were to modify your initial statement to indicate the involvement of a group of reasonably intelligent
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Several credible theories are circulating, with the most convincing one suggesting that individuals are specializing in their respective fields and dedicating extended hours at a significantly younger age. Professional athletes are now unde
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> we have this weird system where if you aren’t good enough to become a doctor purely on academics we will also consider how good you are at baseball This is not how any of it works. At all.

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