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by Tycho 5y ago
Is it really a surprise though: the mainstream media is totally permeated with “former” intelligence operatives turned pundits, run major stories based on “anonymous sources” within the intelligence community, etc. They are telling people w
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by Tycho 5y ago
Curious if there’s anyone here who doesn’t regard this as over-zealous selective prosecution of political enemies that makes the country look like a banana republic? Meanwhile MSM pundits running around talking about witnesses “flipping” as
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by Tycho 5y ago
Maybe their plan is to have all the workers on big-city mega wages, currently working remotely, quit, and then hire replacement workers in remote locations at much lower local labour market rates.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Confused, I thought we found out last year that machine counting and absentee voting in the US were incredibly robust systems that nobody need worry about, or baselessly question. Now we hear about a single city count error that is actual
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by Tycho 5y ago
Is it stereotyping, or deserved stigma? I am not ignorant of video game culture. I’m just honest about the actual quality. I know games have storytelling. For instance, the Marathon series has an excellent story told via text read in term
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by Tycho 5y ago
And those could also be good topics to explore. There’s room for different types of introspection and self-reflection. But from the perspective of how can we learn from or emulate or find proxies for the benefits of these other factors, not
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by Tycho 5y ago
Every time pg puts out a new essay, we get into this privilege bingo stuff. It’s always irrelevant. There’s a huge audience of people who don’t care if their CEO is 300x better paid than they are, or that they didn’t go to an elite school,
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by Tycho 5y ago
Sure, some gaming could be a healthy bit of fun in a social context, but it tends not to be, doesn’t it? It tends to become a massive time sink, the accumulation of which over many years, usually of your youth (notice that older people just
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by Tycho 5y ago
If anything, old video games were more innocuous, as they didn’t try to be anything other than simple distractions that you would naturally tire of before long. Today’s games are precision engineered to be dopamine treadmills in the guise
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by Tycho 5y ago
Maybe I’m jumping to conclusions here but there seems to be something obvious that you and others in this thread are overlooking: not all leisure activities are created equal. Some nourish the soul or the body, some are spiritual deserts. V
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think his general argument is that the trends of modern history are not adequately explained by the obvious factors you mention, and that a single hypothesis that logically explains these effect-behaviour gaps is preferable to lots of a
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We moderns are status-drunk(overcomingbias.com)
102 points by Tycho 5y ago|45 comments
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by Tycho 5y ago
How much does unwanted JavaScript contribute to climate change? Recently reviewed my MacBook power consumption because battery life seemed poor (I usually have it plugged in). Using Chrome's Task Manager I identified a webpage that was
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by Tycho 5y ago
In the sense that he developed his business acumen and foresight to an exquisite degree and was then able to take well-informed risks with his own resources that in the end produced a great outcome for society (and himself). Many people fai
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by Tycho 5y ago
The negativity here is misled. Thiel made investments in companies which he thought might one day be of enormous value to society. Their current valuations, and the size of his IRA, prove him right. We can thank early investors like Thiel
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by Tycho 5y ago
Anyone got an example use case (one with real users)?
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by Tycho 5y ago
Interesting to think of all of history as a succession of layers being added to the operating system of human civilization. The interpersonal layer The familial layer The trading layer The political layer The legal layer The transportation
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by Tycho 5y ago
The distribution of car accidents etc. is known though. I think the point is to determine when you are operating in mediocristan, and when you are possibly operating in extremistan.
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think the drive to do something like this will not be with you forever. Once you are in your thirties you will probably want to prioritize your (potential) family life and will not have time or inclination or freedom to pour yourself into
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by Tycho 5y ago
Presumably Taleb wasn't showing up at the conference to promote and profit from whatever Craig Wright is doing these days, rather he was there to throw cold water on the entire crypto industry, so I don't think the indictment you
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by Tycho 5y ago
The same characteristics that animate imperialists to commit unjust acts, namely aggression, cruelty, apathy, racism, seem to be in good supply amongst all peoples of the world. The characteristics that led to Britain’s rich cultural herita
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by Tycho 5y ago
When I first heard about this, I thought it was a brilliant idea. The alternative, perhaps the norm these days, is PowerPoint-driven meetings. I find this fraught with so many problems. Firstly, while most people receive a lot of training&#
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by Tycho 5y ago
The general impression I get from the sudden burgeoning wokeness in the UK is that a lot of people were somehow able to reach their 20s thinking that the world was largely a Disney film. Then when they found out, maybe at university, maybe
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by Tycho 5y ago
As if having an “imperial past” is merely the result of some unenlightened policy decisions, rather then the product of endeavour, resilience, ingenuity and cultural brilliance.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Advertisers pay for a moment of your attention and get a lifetime of brand presence in your memory.
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by Tycho 5y ago
This makes sense. Obvious now that I think about it.
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Ask HN: Why do lenders offer long-term fixed rate mortgages in the US?
3 points by Tycho 5y ago|3 comments
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by Tycho 5y ago
Hmm, control the middle. What does it mean in chess? Set your pieces out in the middle of the board so as to starve your opponent of opportunities, without knowing or caring what exactly those opportunities are. How does one do this in busi
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by Tycho 5y ago
The way the target can “hear” the radar lock seems very equitable. As if the nature of arial combat is the product of balanced gameplay mechanics.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Is this a new phenomenon in any real sense, I wonder. All through history, haven’t there always been many “surplus men” who didn’t find a place in their surrounding society.

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