TameAntelope

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by TameAntelope 4y ago
> IIRC, the radiation levels that soon after a nuclear war could be in the "dying within a week" range (depending on the local fallout conditions). The whole point of the advice here is that you remember incorrectly. It only t
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
And yet labor participation is above pre pandemic levels, wage growth is accelerating, we just hit three year highs on new jobs in June, gas prices are finally dropping… If you think companies are some kind of accurate leading indicator her
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
What's more lethal; dying in a week because you didn't organize with the people who are left, or dying in a decade because of radiation poisoning?
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Then why does my source use it as a measurement? Why wouldn’t they be more specific, if being more specific were very important? I’m very familiar with the “BMI is not good!” argument, but if it’s good enough for Harvard’s School of Public
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
I’m assuming the “24 hours” thing is a math thing where staying inside additional time will be more harmful than getting outside and finding out what to do next. If you can do both, yeah do that, but if you could never leave your home, and
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Does this count as "Writing"? I write comments on HN, am I doing the "good" kind of writing? * Nobody (and I mean nobody) is asking me to write comments, * I'm not documenting anything (perhaps my opinion on some
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
> Two problems with writing: first, it looks easy because it uses the same symbols of speech; second, everyone who was taught the alphabet and basic sentence structures can produce something similar to writing when it’s not. Writers, how
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
> Excess body weight can put stress on your joints, but doesn't generally have any other negative effects. That seems to contradict the Harvard School of Public Health's article[0] that says: > The results showed that partic
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Haha, your comment is exactly the comment I'd expect to get moderated, but won't because it's long and dang won't read it (and he is spread too thin). Any comment citing "newguidelines.html" should probably get
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Look at his post history, you can see plenty of examples. A pattern he follows very commonly is seen here [0]: "Can you stop doing $thing?" However, it's dang's opinion that $thing is occurring, and he makes zero effo
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
I get a very different sense from the reading of his comments to users; curt and inconsiderate. He tends to make declarations about behavior that sound objective but are really just his very casual read of a situation, and there’s no appea
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Danger: that is decidedly not what HN is, at all.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
> And in this thread, today, you are talking against concerns that a government running Live Facial Recognition could result in overreach as the "Slippery Slope Fallacy". I did not do this, you inferred my position, but all I w
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Pardon? Where did I say any of that?
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
I'm honestly confused about what your point is, because so far it seems like you're suggesting that since people sometimes act irrationally, there's no such thing as the logical fallacy called "Slippery Slope"...
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Not the same thing, but it does explain your confusion.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
A substantial part of my job is to eliminate scope creep, so yes you absolutely can “just stop”. Irrational people can use things like momentum and inertia in their arguments, but that’s quite easily stopped by a rational argument outlining
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
You can’t hate the slippery slope fallacy out of existence; it’s real, it applies here, and it means the argument being put forward, that allowing one thing must mean we allow something similar but worse, is not a valid one. It’s not magic,
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
A "Slippery slope" argument is a fallacy; when the thing we don't want to "slip" to comes, there is absolutely nothing stopping us from simply, well, stopping. What you're really saying is that you don't h
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Yeah I was trying to make a joke that didn't land I guess.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Okay cool; but where is the report? Surely you didn't write all of this just to make me sign an NDA to see your report...
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
FB/Meta tracking your usage isn't even discussed in the article, and nothing about not tracking is suggested at all in the title. This just seems like an excuse to rant about disliking Facebook.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Oh get over it, your hate for FB is noted. The title is accurate, the information is news, and IMO HN users are smart enough to know what a PR release is when they read it. What are you worried about? That folks will walk this earth think
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Yeah, "This guy is great but we will have a hard time contacting him spontaneously after hours so I guess it's back to the hiring pool!" ...is not a sentence that'd be said very often/ever.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
Small point of order, but shouldn't this be retitled to, "No really, why can't we have raw UDP in the browser?" since you definitely can do UDP in "JavaScript"?[0] [0] https://nodejs.org/api&#x2
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
If it's interesting to you, go for it! You'll probably learn a ton more about anything if you're interested, even if it's not 100% relevant to your job, than you would forcing yourself to learn something you feel certai
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
The negative consequences of making the wrong choice are both extremely low and extremely loud, so I urge you to just take a guess, with a strong bias for every technology platform being async.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
SQL doesn't sit in a category that's similar to "other" languages. You often need to know how to construct SQL queries in addition to working in another language. Honestly, learning a language to "improve" you
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
I disagree; a message sent on an async platform is not expected to be responded to immediately, it's simply meant to be removed from the sender's "to-do" list.
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by TameAntelope 4y ago
No. Manage your own messaging systems, don't put that extra work onto others, as not everyone has the same schedule as you.

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