Viliam1234

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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
My friend ended up in a hospital, when some jerk moved into the small space in front of him, and then had to jump on the brakes because the first car unexpectedly slowed down. My friend also jumped on the brakes but the distance was too sma
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
You sound like a nice person, but the typical reaction is different, so the people on the spectrum spend their entire lives training to protect themselves against that, i.e. masking. It would probably take some time to gain their trust.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
A copyright violation?
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
> it’s hardly “recovering” the origins of EA to say that it owes a huge debt to Peter Singer Guessing by the contents of this comment section, many people seem to believe that EA was invented by SBF, so it can be quite a shock for them t
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
> It's basically just spending money to change the world into what you want. Oh, god forbid people try to change the world, especially when the change they want to see is fewer drowned children. Or eliminating malaria.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
> Always they claim they're doing good, not throwing the money away. And the core idea of Effective Altruism is to actually verify those claims.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Or maybe you are just making that up, because it feels bad to admit that some people are more interested in helping others than you are.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
Happiness in long term is mostly determined genetically. It's like asking why smart people aren't taller.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
I wouldn't mind public torture for violent crimes (hey, if it is acceptable to torture the victim, what is it unacceptable to torture the criminal?), but the part that when they apologize they get a 50% discount is stupid. Either the p
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
The more good solutions there are, the more shameful it is if we cannot adopt any of them.
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
> tearing apart feedback from surveys That's amateur behavior. Real pros design the feedback forms in a way that only allows you to give them the answers they want to hear. "Which three company benefits are most important for y
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by Viliam1234 11mo ago
> The decision was made: ship now, refactor later. I guess we already know how this ends. There will never be "refactor later", because there will always be a new feature to add, or a new product to ship. "Later" is m
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Signaling cynicism and borderline psychopathy is cool. Empathy is perceived as a weakness.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
People find out that we actually think in different ways. Five minutes later: Someone writes an article about why his way of thinking is superior.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
I am not an expert, but I think this could be improved if the smartphone operating systems had better security models. For example, an application needs "access to your disk storage", because it needs e.g. to save photos. Okay, le
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> Mathematicians like to see their matrices laid out on paper this way (with the array indices increasing down the columns instead of across the rows as a programmer would usually write them). Could a mathematician please confirm of disc
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
That's already an improvement over having the first option selected by default.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Exactly. I wouldn't mind having three options: "Yes", "Maybe Later", and "No". It's the missing third option that sucks. Like in Android: Do you want to back up your photos to the cloud? "Yes&q
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> Suffering has a purpose Maybe some suffering has a purpose, and some suffering does not? It doesn't have to be always this or always that.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Consider the incentives of the corporations. They have no shame, no professional pride; they only care about money. What makes more money: releasing a crappy product today, or a better product next year? The former option gets you some mone
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> I'd hate to be the one who refused updating the libraries which caused the security breach and significant loss of data, reputation and money. The trick is to be working on a different project when that happens. Then it's som
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
My parents did something similar for me, and I still remember the lesson a few decades later. I think the details matter here. If you give your child $10 every month to make one bet, sometimes they win, sometimes they lose; you are doing it
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Oh, youtube videos. Five minutes into the video, still just a looooooooooooooooong introduction, no example from the exam yet. That's what we get when we pay video producers per minute.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Perhaps the voters really enjoyed the first two paragraphs...
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Have you done a survey, like how many people ran away because of the massacres per se, and how many ran away because their leaders told them to (for reasons unrelated to avoiding a possible massacre)? You seem to assume that it is 0% of the
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
There is a generation of programmers that became interested in computers only because they felt that computers were cool. Mostly useless, except for playing games, but cool. Only later the knowledge also turned out to be a source of money.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> Others left on their own volition That's a nice euphemism for "they saw the next village massacred, so they ran away when the army approached their village".
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Similar idea: make a list of "required" and "optional but nice to have" skills for the position. Among the optional ones, include experience with a non-existent technology. Discard everyone who claims to have the experie
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> How can you learn to learn if you don't know how to learn? Obviously, first you need to learn how to learn how to learn. I believe that this will be the most important skill in the future. Once you have mastered it, you can easily
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Make it a subtitle, 1 pixel large white letters on white background, and you got the money!

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