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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
This makes sense; you're training yourself so similar decisions will be easier in the future. The benefit of the 2% better choice over the rest of your life is worth thinking about for longer.
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
The airplane bullets story actually shows how success stories can be valuable. If you take them in aggregate and look at what's not there, there are some common themes: - No one ever says they gave up - No one ever says they wasted tim
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Related: https://medium.com/meta-verses/ready-layer-one-c1028b6a9537 https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/08/neal-stephenson... I'm not sure what to think - is the idea to
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
"Steel man" means the opposite of a straw man argument. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/steelmanning
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
Okay, which weekly live sketch show do you prefer? For me, the virtues of SNL are that Weekend Update usually has good topical jokes, and once in a while there's a sketch like "Potato Chip" or "Monkey Judge".
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by Uhhrrr 4y ago
This is really nicely put: "purity ratchet", "redemption hustle", "disease of politeness".
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I click them more often than not. My favorite part of HN is that the comments are usually collectively better than the article.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
And any article along the lines of "I had a terrible work experience" is viewed as an open invitation to participate in Story Time.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
2000 seems high. Besides learning basic rules, a book (or whatever source) can point out some common openings and why they exist, and also some endgame scenarios (like how to avoid a stalemate (or force one, if necessary)).
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
It's easy to look at Musk's tweets and think he's just doing buying in so he can shitpost more effectively, but he is savvy enough to realize that Twitter is not nearly as valuable as it could be. Its reach is as huge as any
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Description of working on Kung Fu Panda from Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty): > My hats off to anyone that can write a Dreamworks Animation film. They have a unique process. > First they storyboard the entire film. That i
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Some benefits of simple software architectures(wave.com)
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
>I realized even they will pollute my feed with politically divisive topics, whether it be from them retweeting something, or liking a tweet, or even entering into the fray themselves Sorting by "Latest" rather than "Home&
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I've noticed this as a general pattern, when someone doesn't like plan X or doesn't want to do X, but the reason they give is bogus. And when you point out why it's bogus, they offer a series of other bogus reasons. Some
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I'm only a casual fan at best, but my impression is that there are already informal tiers, and things like the draft and (attempts at a) salary cap are designed to counter that hierarchy. So I don't think this would go over well.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
It seems like a fine place to practice.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
> “USAF says we need top talent cyber warriors,” he continued, enumerating the many barriers to competing with the private sector for such individuals. “Let’s say we successfully do that, and let’s assume we can cut through the bureaucra
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I'm making the point because I'm selfish. If there are more people in touch with reality, then that benefits me.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I think it's nice to thank strangers who offer corrections. I'd rather be corrected than have a false feeling that I'm always correct.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
nitpicking
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
> How do you folks in the west ever get any work done? Twitter is very much not real life.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
There's interesting information about Apple in the post, but you definitely have to subtract out all the stuff this person has going on.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Benign explanation: for whatever reason, they're not getting the newsletters so they're trying to subscribe again using a throwaway.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Yes, doing that is also a terrible idea.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
IMAO, they shouldn't try. They should say, "Facebook connects you to your friends and family, and you should expect the degree of validity of information shared by your friends and family to be similar to that of the information t
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
What are you doing for the rest of the time?
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I lived in SOMA in the summer of '94, and it was pretty clean. The Tenderloin was bad, and the Lower Haight wasn't great, but neither of those places had tent cities and human poop.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I found it very boring. I wonder whether Gates was using it to signal: "Although it takes place in a dystopian future, the robots aren’t a force for evil. Instead, they serve as companions to keep people company. This book made me thin
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I read Hawkins's "On Intelligence" a few years ago and enjoyed it. For anyone here who's read both that and "New Theory of Intelligence", what's the relation between the two?
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
This sounds interesting and I've never heard about it. Is it just about categorizing feelings better? Any recommended links?

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