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by a3voices 11y ago
Maybe it went wrong when they started chopping off everyone's heads?
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4chan Message Board Sold to Founder of 2Channel, a Japanese Web Culture Pioneer(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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How Britian covered up the friendship between Hitler and Edward VIII(nypost.com)
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Much of software engineering (and probably other white collar work) is subconscious thought that is invisibly churning in your brain. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to speed it up. So working more hours isn't helpful beca
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by a3voices 11y ago
This should go without saying but if you go against your culture, your chances of finding a life partner and having children are less likely. So genetically you are tailored to "fit in".
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Well perhaps that is true but then you will experience a lot more mental incongruity. For example, gay and transgendered people have much higher suicide attempt rates. The more you deviate from traditional family values, the unhappier you w
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by a3voices 11y ago
Well I think the fundamental issue is that it is impossible to rationally prove which values are more important than other ones. You have to almost arbitrarily decide. For example you could hypothetically design an artificial intelligence t
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I'd argue that being an effective altruist actually makes you less rational. As part of your genetic fitness, your brain is optimized for survival, reproduction, and keeping your children alive. If you're in the middle class and y
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by a3voices 11y ago
Because Obama likes to kill bad guys.
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Well it seems like he correctly predicted JavaScript would take over the world.
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Well the largest scheme is probably how banks create money out of nothingness through lending, but it's legal. "By creating money in this way, banks have increased the amount of money in the economy by an average of 11.5% a year o
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by a3voices 11y ago
So she swapped a good standard of living for a poor, isolated one and was surprised it wasn't usually a good time?
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by a3voices 11y ago
If you choose to build this, there is an opportunity cost because you could be building something more important.
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by a3voices 11y ago
Legitimate country or not, I found it amusing how people on HN were surprised it exists when it's just been sitting there for a long time. I guess everyone is at different stages of learning.
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Do you frequently hear about countries for the first time?
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Maybe the problem is you don't receive enough value for doing things quickly. For example, if you were paid $1 million to do a programming assignment quickly, you probably would.
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I used to do pager duty for a large consumer-facing company, so this is amusing to me.
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Process kills developer passion (2011)(radar.oreilly.com)
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by a3voices 11y ago
I wonder how much of this stress is caused by technological advances. I bet Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. is making these poor kids neurotic.
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by a3voices 11y ago
"I lost the final in Cincinnati to Federer 6-4 in the third, a match I easily could have won." Probably something thought by the countless people who have lost to Federer time and time again.
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by a3voices 11y ago
$10^90 and $10^100 are identical since both would represent 99.9999...% of all dollars. Spending just a small fraction would flood the market and decrease the value of USD. Consequently, unless you have a large military at your disposal, th
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by a3voices 11y ago
Most likely it's more effective to acquire smaller companies and grow them.
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by a3voices 11y ago
Maybe the universe is a user interface for your consciousness, and physical objects don't really exist.
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by a3voices 11y ago
I don't think solitary would be that bad with Internet access and TV. Maybe the problem isn't solitary but that they don't get these things. Also I would prefer not to have a cellmate in prison.
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by a3voices 11y ago
Out of curiosity, 92% of startups that reach what stage? Seed funding, series A, series B, etc.? edit: It's companies that are picked by YC
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by a3voices 11y ago
Why would you ever work on the internals of how trees work? That has 0 business value 99.99% of the time. It's all solved problems. And even so recursion might not be the best approach.
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by a3voices 11y ago
I often fail recursion questions during interviews because I don't like thinking about recursion. It's too stupid and pointless to think about.
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by a3voices 11y ago
Good thing I sold nearly all my stocks last week! Too many bad experiences with bitcoin taught me things.
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One theory I have is that if people don't factor you into their long term goals, they won't want to devote too much time to you. Or maybe I'm overthinking this whole thing.
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by a3voices 11y ago
Maybe it's because I've always found it difficult to engage people I don't know well, for a variety of reasons. I'm still struggling to get past it. I'm no longer scared to, but still have other mental blocks preven

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