TheCowboy

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by TheCowboy 4y ago
NBA player Kyrie Irving has been in the news recently for other comments as well: https://www.nba.com/news/kyrie-irving-regrets-flat-earth-com... Not exactly a nerd.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
What are some examples of things he's mostly been wrong about? I know he's been saying crypto is a scam for awhile, in addition to calls he made regarding the financial crisis under Bush.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Question for anyone. I tried researching grow lights and I found mixed information regarding UV emissions. It seemed like maybe some or all grow lights emit UV based on some sources, and then other sources don't mention it at all. Idea
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Mind explaining why you think this? It seems like a public database isn't a good use case for something so stigmatized.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
I once thought I was an introvert but just realized it wasn't the case in practice and now people are surprised if I tell them that, so it's not really impossible to find some balance. I think a lot of people have convinced themse
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
I do agree we could do a better job, but it's just not getting easier with the direction politics is moving. A lot of people also work (mentally) very hard to make anything economics related fit their preferred point of view of how the
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Right, the 'replication crisis' could easily hit this one study, and any study should factor in non-self-assembly coming with a price premium.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
A lot of the comments on here seem to feel this is a controversial topic, so maybe it's not that simple or it's an idea some people would find useful.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
As they said in the piece, they're also doing thinking while writing. A lot of this thinking is something that isn't going to happen if you're there in person. And the other advantage they mentioned is that it frees up their
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Writing a poem is a bit different than the writing OP doing which is communicating in general about everything and everyone. I don't want to dunk on the act of writing poems which is perfectly fine, but that's the creation of art.
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We are likely considered 'the elites' by wage labor. Even though neither one of us have made a hundred million. There exist many working class people who wanted to get back to normal (polling demonstrates this), or at the very lea
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
It's not really as bad as you think within the field of economics. If you were to major in economics, you would be taught that there is no single or multiple perfect measures of growth or innovation. It's important to have multipl
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
I really wish posters on HN would be forced to specify who they are talking about when they say "the elites" because it's often so vague as to be meaningless grandstanding and allows people to engage in goalpost shifting. No
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
If people are interested in trying something different, they also mention cachaça. Sometimes called "Brazilian rum" which is a bit inaccurate. It's getting easier to find, but it's still best to avoid the cheap versions
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
This is a common argument but it completely ignores any idea of efficiency in learning or learning outcomes that benefit the student. Most people would get way more out of studying a culture and its context by directly studying that and in
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
OP is talking about how if kids learn to be bilingual+ at an early enough age then it makes learning languages that much more easier. This is compared to people who speak one language and try to acquire a second but start in, for example, m
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Do you or anyone else have thoughts on if Zotero would be too much for someone who doesn't need to write papers or cite documents? A large component of my day-to-day work is doing a lot of research and managing it for the duration of t
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
The problem is you're posting these bullets without a thoughtful explanation. You're going to need a fragmentation of the internet to truly stamp out diversity and multiculturalism. Why you would want to do that? I don't know
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
I feel like the "Anonymity [is] central to the crypto world." ship sailed a long time ago. It was one of the original promises of Bitcoin but it is literally a public database. It's also possible that a society with more tran
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
His intellectual or competitive advantage is not market movement timing. Plenty of brilliant people exist who would be considered bad at making predictions over a broad field of categories, especially market timing. More to disagree with th
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
When do they expect PoS will be live at the latest? Before the fall or next year?
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Many people take on debt to finance a wedding. I personally have known people who were under a lot of financial stress for the first several years of their marriage as a result, and the run-up is often a stressful time.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Might be better to think of 'regular' mechanical pencils as under-engineered, where the flaws are compensated for by using a lot lead and clicking a lot. I've used the Uni Kuru Toga for years and have converted a few people t
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Another option would be to just communicate the limits of their commitment to the site to their users. Maybe people would step up to takeover/assist, or another solution would be found. At least users would know that it's on the w
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Tax law changes don't change zoning policies or other political obstacles to construction. People exist with money willing to invest into construction if they could. People also like to hate on politically-connected 'greedy develo
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Jack up interest rates to trigger a recession, and now not only do you still have a housing market that exists in its current form due to perpetual undersupply but with a recession on top. Making it too expensive to buy a home does 'he
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
No, there were flaws with the implementation that kept many of us away. We all felt vindicated when Poyo, a sketchy character we all knew about from PredictIt, tried scamming people who bet on the outcome of the 2018 elections.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
I use all of the above: PI, Kalshi, Poly It's not so much the caps that are a concern to me than the fact that these platforms haven't been around for a long time. There's no guarantee they will continue to always exist and a

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