Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Unfortunately most commentaries are not public domain, so you may have to shell out some money for a good one. But they were invaluable when reading Shakespeare and Dante, as it made the difference for me between reading Dante and unde
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> But in a certain sense, Satan is not absolutely evil and not having no good characters at all. For instance, as the example mentioned in the article, Satan is quite empathetic towards his fellow fallen angels -- and this empathy, would
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> ...when geography is no longer the key dividing line in tribal affiliation. You will see a rise in low level violence, and that will be associated with a decline in the primacy of the nation state. But it will reduce the risk of global
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
>> "enjoyment is subjective" and "who is the critic to judge," > ...are both valid positions and ones that I hold axiomatically true. Maybe in some cases, but I don't think it's correct axiomatically a
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> Home values and bankruptcy have been public record for a long time. There is a public interest in being able to see all transactions and history on property, and it’s important for debitors to be able to know when people have declared
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Yeah, what's the motivation behind this? I hope it's not going to turn into another weapon in online political battles.
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> Leaders can see their community dying after the former big industry left -- with lots of luck and years of a strong economy they may be able to attract some replacement industries that keep the town prosperous (but not not overly so).
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
>> US cities are legally parts of states, not standalone entities. A city is a municipality.
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> Cost of housing going up also increases the wealth of homeowners in the area. This is not purely bad. The local government represents the current residents, not future ones. Raising house prices could be a windfall for current homeown
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It's not a binary choice. The sweet spot is in the middle.
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> If all we're talking about is getting a small number of people a leg up That's the wrong interpretation. It's about giving a large number of people each a personalized leg up. It's equality-inducing in the wors
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> Most people do a terrible job negotiating for compensation (and by terrible I mean they don't even try). He's talking about stuff like Uber . Their whole deal is having a take-it-or-leave it gig-employment offer. They&#x27
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Yes, a correction to the most dehumanized form of employer-employee relationship possible, which is following the logic of the market (dominated by asymmetric information and power) to its end.
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Personally, I think web forums like that are a poor substitute for actual interpersonal social connection. A 1-1 relationship with a friend, colleague, or supervisor can give you in particular a leg up when you need it. Any broadcast me
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> I guess part of why I posted that is the audience - I imagine in submitting this article to HN, it is meant to resonate with two subsets of people here: That's a pretty limited view. There are plenty of non-entrepreneurs on HN wh
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On Design Approval and Intentional Flaws (2013)(nathanbarry.com)
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> Fixed that for you. Do I need to get the CIA and various wars lists from Wikipedia? Please, do tell me of the CIA's murderous and oppressive domestic activities since 1950 [1], and how they have been of a comparable magnitude to C
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If you fail, it tells you you were wrong (some red text at the bottom) and gives you another challenge. I think it will sometimes just give you another challenge for more data, but it won't have red failure text.
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Storefronts are difficult too, I don't think I'm ever good enough at those to satisfy it. The most reasonable one seems to be street signs, but I think it fails me for not flagging the unpainted back of one.
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> This creates a twisted Turing test situation where, to prove you are a human, you have to pretend to be a machine's idea of what a human is. Exactly. I think Recaptcha was better when it was looking for consistency with other hum
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> I'm really trying to get better with my discussion here, so what in my post could have been considered arguing in "bad faith?" I'm not trying to trick anyone into something here, I'm being pretty explicit about
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I don't really agree with that. Maybe that's true if you try to come up with a positive and universal definition of true enjoyment, but I think it's totally possible to rope off areas that are clearly not it. Those areas wo
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> Not only spot, but also invests the energy in calling it out and explaining it. > Many business failures i've witnessed happened ultimately because nobody had the energy to cut down the bullshit forest that constantly regrows a
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> but than Sean Parker never gave back the millions he earned via past Facebook impl's...so his point is somewhat entirely hollow.. That's not true at all. His explicit confession makes what once could only be speculation so
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> sharing photos with your aunt is not like heroin That's missing the point entirely. You can say heroin is a "well designed products" because it's users enjoy its immediate effects and keep coming back for more. Th
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>> Social Media giants) exploiting dopamine triggers and psychological drives for social validation > Isn't that a fancy way of saying they are making their product do things that people enjoy, so that people will use the prod
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I have no position on whether Google employees are essentially using dumb terminals or not but... > if you are presupposing they use Chromebooks as dumb terminals, I don't know where you're getting this $1000 figure from. If th
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> Even if a developer is extending or modifying a messy part of the code that is rife with bad practices, don’t ask the developer to fix them in that pull request just because their changeset happens to touch the messy code. I don't
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> So I would say there probably was a nationwide spike in out-of-stocks spread out over a few days. But it isn't really because of OTS. Is it though? If OTS drastically decreases the backstock, wouldn't it also decrease the ab
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If you take the slack out of a system you make it more "efficient" but also more fragile in the face of the unexpected.

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