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by _qulr 6y ago
> It has literally determined every aspect of our being. You can't move forward without understanding what got you where you are. So has physics. Why stop at hunter-gatherers, why not go back to the Big Bang? Would you argue that we
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The thing is, we don't need anthropology to tell us that inactivity and excessive calorie consumption are bad. And the solution to obesity and similar problems is certainly not to return to hunter-gatherer society. Evolution is just a
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> Physiology and psychology rely on delicately tuned equilibria, which are easy to disrupt. Agreed. My point is just that we should look at physiology and psychology as guides, not anthropology (which is interesting but not necessarily p
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> not fighting against the way that our bodies and minds were designed Our minds and bodies were not designed. They evolved — slowly — under conditions of relatively harshness and scarcity that to a large extent no longer exist. The huma
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> The quality of the added lifespan is harder to assess though. Is it? In a sense, the choice is still available to adopt the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, if you wanted. I don't know many who would want to do that.
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What I find interesting is time spent with coworkers. It's about equal to time spent with partner throughout most of adulthood, and it's significantly higher than time spent with friends. Unsurprisingly, time spent with coworkers
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I'm not defending the nuclear family, but I don't think our primitive past says anything about what's "optimal". For example, human life expectancy is much longer now. I'd much rather be a modern person with mo
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Not sure why they think The Final Countdown cover is so bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Thanks for the clarification, and sorry about the misunderstanding! My overall point is that policing the Chrome Web Store, which is Google's responsibility, is a separate issue and not necessarily relevant to Manifest v3. If there wer
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Well, that seems to be more the result of a personal grudge by gorhill than anything else. He didn't like that ublock.org was soliciting donations. uBlock isn't literally malware or much different from many other ad blockers out t
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> uBlock Origin is blocking ublock.org on the basis of it being malware. Are you saying it's not actually a malware risk, and it's really on Origin's blocklist for some totally unrelated reason? We don't have to specu
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> we're all using uBlock Origin rather than uBlock This says it all. Were any users actually harmed ? Where's the harm to justify the destruction of blocking abilities? It's ironic to cite uBlock Origin to try to argue th
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This is a strange point. The empirical results from audition-style interviews have been in for many years, and the results are indisputable. Software engineering is extremely lacking in diversity. So maybe try something else for a change? N
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Yes, that's the point. If you're hiring a senior engineer, you want to be biased toward the people with the best resumes. Insanely, the current system is actually biased against them and in favor of freshly minted comp sci graduat
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Bad hires are a fact of life. It's unavoidable. Hiring is a crapshot. Just like romantic relationships. Would you say, "I had a bad relationship once, so I'm going to grill every date to make sure something isn't serious
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> what other scalable solution do we have other than LeetCode type of questions? This question is based on a flawed assumption that interviews need to be "scalable". If you're interviewing more than 3 or 4 candidates for a
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> I don't know of a gender-neutral term here. Fanboy implies an excess of appreciation, but fan means something weaker. I would say "fanatic". Of course the word "fan" is derived from "fanatic", but per
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> No I didn't. Yes, you did, because you seem to continue to think that I was arguing against the article, when in fact I was merely arguing against the comment by amadeuspagel that I replied to. amadeuspagel was arguing against the
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There's a huge difference between playing devil's advocate in your own mind and doing it publicly. The former may be useful. The latter is usually just annoying.
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I think you misunderstood my comment? I was criticizing the HN comment that I directly replied to, not the linked article. I was quoting the linked article to point out that the comment was falling for one of the fallacies listed in the art
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You missed my point. I wasn't claiming that cows are as smart as humans. I was claiming that evolution has produced millions of species, only 1 of which is humans. So you can't just handwave "evolution" to validate human
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"4. Human-centric thinking" Every organism alive now evolved over millions of years. What's so special about human thinking? Why not cat thinking, dog thinking, cow thinking, insect thinking? Evolution isn't about truth
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There is already a large number of people who hate audition-style interviews. They don't want to defect. A public group actually makes it easier for people to avoid defecting. It's very difficult for a job candidate to talk to emp
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Does individual defection even matter? The purpose of this isn't to put pressure on job seekers, it's to put pressure on employers. The whole idea of "policing" the members seems strange to me. If you're the type of
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> The interviewers had no idea I would decline the challenge, and I politely ended the call. This happened to me too, despite assurances from the recruiter beforehand. Don't believe recruiters. They'll tell you anything to get
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Apple granted special security entitlement to notorious MacKeeper(twitter.com)
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> "impoverishing them" doesn't seem like the right goal I don't think anyone should be impoverished, and indeed I'm not a supporter of the idea of "meritocracy", but I think it's fair to take the a
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> relatively few children of affluence fall below the ranks of the upper-middle class Everyone talks about upward mobility, but we rarely talk about downward mobility. It's not impossible to go from "rags to riches", but w
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Well, it's possible that South Korea would be under the rule of Kim Jong-un right now. ;-)
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by _qulr 6y ago
This was many years ago. Maybe it's better now, but far too late for us! Also, wow, state school is a lot more expensive than in my day.

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