GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Fundamental good practices. In poker terms: you can't judge by winning or losing, only by whether your decisions were +EV or -EV.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
You're thinking of letters, not words.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
That's fair, but calling it "clickbait" and claiming you've been "tricked" implies that there's someone baiting the trap – some trickster. Also, sincerely: consider why this provoked so much irritation.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
"Bell Hooks" was literally her great-grandmother's name. It's really what someone was called. No one set out to deceive you.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Comments like that reflect more badly on you than on anything else. For one thing, the book doesn't tell men how to behave, and your knee-jerk reaction demonstrating that you don't know what you're talking about just comes
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Wonder why none of them made the list.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
"The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love" is the most revelatory book I've read, I think ever. It discusses the ways power- and domination-based roles for men negatively affect both men and women, starting in boyhood.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Are no women great essayists?
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Yeah, it turns out that conversation is somewhat complex, and we have to listen to the people we're conversing with. There are plenty of canards and dogwhistles about all sorts of issues, but evaluating whether a claim is antisemitic h
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
You seem to be interpreting "yet somehow" as disingenuous conspiracy-theory provocation. But the author was responding to another comment, and from that context (and the lead-up in the comment itself) it's clear that "ye
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
You're jumping at the least charitable interpretation of that comment. I'd suggest practicing the opposite: if someone seems to be saying something obviously extreme, stupid, etc... consider that your interpretation is what's
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Losses of Canadian forest resulted in net carbon emmissions
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
This isn't really a relevant response to the content of the article, in my view, so I downvoted.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
You sound like you've made up your mind to make negative assumptions about others. You might be able to draw on statistics, even, in support of that. But the idea that 75% of the pool isn't eligible as far as you're concerned
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Have you talked to a cardiologist? If not, you should. You might end up doing a stress test or an echocardiogram, and ruling out or confirming various possibilities. You might end up getting prescriptions for medications that you can use wh
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Does it make scientific claims? It can be a useful mental model even if it's not neurologically based - and seems to be, to many people.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
I wasn't even the person you responded to, and I still felt the warm fuzzies.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
I haven't read the book. Does it really go so far as to say that the girlfriend should say all that but shouldn't say "I would like it if you would do that"? 'Cause there's a big difference between "I do
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Bitcoin is certainly a subject of interest to HN readers, but this article is absolutely terrible. For example: what does this sentence mean? > The definition Bitcoin that guided the ruling of the district court is based on the FinCEN in
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Because the issue is flood control . Simply lowering Georgia's water table doesn't change the fact that there's variable input. Also places with less water can still flood. See Arizona.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
That's really not what it looks like from the inside of conservative religious communities in the United States, which are probably the single biggest driving force behind prudishness. Yes, they'll agree that it's "a gif
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Yes, seriously. It's an experience that some depressed people have, but it's not universal by any means.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
The author stated the meaning of "dark forest": > civilizations fear one another so much that they don’t dare to reveal themselves lest they immediately be considered a potential threat and destroyed and then completely misuses
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
That is not at all the experience that quite a few depressed people have.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
The article says not to use Venn diagrams when explaining joins – that is, conveying the concepts to someone who doesn't already understand them . You dismiss that as "silly" because anyone who already "grasps the b
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
I think you understood the comment to be endorsing spanking, where I read it as just an explanation of why people might assume violence is the answer.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
"Scheme" implies a unified/central schemer, though. We can already call it a fad, or a mania (a la tulip mania).
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
For those interested, read Melatonin: Much More than You Wanted to Know. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-...
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Yes, but that's the whole point: there's little risk in rotating pilots, whereas rotating members of the care team carries a substantial risk of key information falling by the wayside.
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by GavinMcG 8y ago
Medicine has different concerns than piloting, though. Pilots don't have to ensure continuity of care for their passengers, and can accomplish their work in reasonable chunks. Doubling the number of patient handoffs, on the other hand,

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