TameAntelope

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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Isn't this just one specific analysis using a very narrow definition of "nudge", one that doesn't even begin to encompass the work being done at those "300 "research" departments"? Further, isn't
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
> Here’s the thing: I’m a stinker. Even at my jolliest, if someone figuratively shoulder-checks me, I’m probably going to make so many mountains out of this molehill that I will adjust the topography of the United States significantly. I
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Is there an opportunity to create a marketplace that does meaningful validation and testing of the items on it, such that when you buy a product, you can be guaranteed to be getting the real thing? What could a competitor do to attack Amazo
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Well yeah, it’s probably against the FB ToS to create a burner account, so it sounds like they correctly detected an account that wasn’t legitimate.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Hm, I know you're getting a lot of responses to this, but just to throw my view onto the pile: what I "enjoy" doing (golf, video games, playing with my dogs, traveling with my wife, etc.) is not something anyone will pay me f
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
After 15 years, I no longer judge past coding decisions, and I think you can save yourself a lot of grief by not waiting as long as I did to realize this. You don’t know the constraints the previous person was under, so you can’t possibly k
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Eh, I was thinking more like, "Build us a web portal for viewing the status of <random thing> and requesting more <random thing>." than, "Run guns for us cheaply."
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
You're not the first person I've heard this from; when you say "many are now posting lists of open contracts you can bid on" where are they posting these things? https://sam.gov/content/home is what
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
What are you trying to avoid? Generic fear is debilitating; you need to identify, very specifically, what your threat model is, and address that . Just coming up with horrible "what if?" scenarios seems counterproductive and par
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Handle errors you should . Don’t handle errors that aren’t relevant to your specific code.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
What you're describing are "known" states; the idea behind "let it fail" is that you shouldn't write code that exhaustively handles every single potential outcome, just the ones that are part of your code'
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Meh, virtue displays that still help people are fine by me. I don't think this really helped anyone, but "dehumanizing" is an overreaction, IMO. "Mildly annoying" is probably the more accurate term.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Consider that not all of us mind sharing their CVs to the world. The potential for harm is quite low, and there are meaningful upsides.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
I would be thinking very hard about all the ways I could prove , definitively, that I could not be the person doing this to others.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
I think he says "the biggest fucking idiots" in the way some of us say, "aren't thinking of all the angles". If folks are getting wrapped up in the insult, they're not reading his tone correctly. He says it lo
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
No, "education" as a concept does not mean either of those things.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
It's as cruel as life. Pretending like there aren't any negative learned behaviors that cause vicious cycles from poverty is naive. When all you know is suffering, the human mind has to come up with some justification for it, so
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Depending on how you did it, you could be quite “aggressive”! “Dave, found the perfect app for you!” is aggressive. “Wow I might start using this app!” Is better.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
> no one is going to commute 90 minutes for a minimum wage job when there are plenty of jobs available elsewhere. They absolutely will, this concern has never really made sense to me. Poverty is like a badge of honor for many folks, and
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Do my research, you say? Like, find a company in the S&P 500[0] that is not an American company? A company named, oh I dunno, Linde plc, which trades as $LIN and was founded in Germany[1] and currently has its headquarters in the UK? S
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Who said anything about blind or tradition? That seems like stuff you injected into this convo, not me. I trust institutions who have a strong track record of predictiveness and desirable outcomes. Vanguard has both in spades, and has ea
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
All the way back to their Danica Patrick days they’ve been more focused on the bottom of the market (non technical users who don’t know better) than in providing a good product.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
No, it very much is not. It's literally how all education works, for example.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
That is neither smart nor safe, given your need as a human to eat and drink clean food, which requires coordination with others.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
So Vanguard (venerated investment institution for 50 years) is wrong and you (random HN commenter) are right? Sure, okay.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Not according to Vanguard[0] (the link is for VFIAX but that's just the admiral fund), the quote I gave was from Vanguard's own description of the fund's composition. You can take it up with Vanguard why they describe the fun
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
> Portfolio emphasizing U.S. and foreign large- and mid-capitalization value stocks. VFINX is not composed exclusively of US stocks.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
When the choices are, “anonymous person on HN” and “one of the most respected institutions for public health education on the planet”, I’m going to tend towards the latter, thanks.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
It is by far the best option for someone as easily triggered as the author to ignore trolls entirely, as his own article suggests. The narcissistic tendencies he’s indulged here are toxic as hell, both to him and to whatever community he’s
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Honestly, this reaction demonstrates pretty clearly that he’s not strong enough to deal with any of this, as the by far best way to deal with a troll is to ignore them. This self indulgent out-loud, “this is why we can’t have nice things”

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