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by abnry 5y ago
Sounds like the Pareto Principle at play: 80% of the product is created with 20% of the effort. It is getting the next 19%, then 0.9%, then 0.09%, and so on, that is the challenge.
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by abnry 5y ago
I think the main non-conspiracy reasons fall into these categories: - Fear, hesitancy about potential long term risks. - Resistance to government mandating a vaccine (freedom, low trust in government, other options not being considered) - R
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by abnry 5y ago
Careful you don't get arrested for running a plant-fighting ring.
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by abnry 5y ago
Truth matters. Accountability matters. Future avoidance matters.
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by abnry 5y ago
No, it reveals that trust in establishment institutions are at record lows. When noteworthy institutions (Twitter, Facebook, Google) are claiming "promotion of truth" as the reason for what many believe is in reality pushing a bia
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by abnry 5y ago
You would be interested in this, starring Magnus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPFI3-W8Fqo
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by abnry 5y ago
Right, he's the customer, but he violates the customer-supplier social contract by pirating.
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by abnry 5y ago
You are not entitled to entertainment. If there is literally anything as petulant and first-world narcissistic it is the belief that one is entitled to entertainment.
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by abnry 5y ago
Do you think the fads will come and go with lower frequency as more time passes? Software engineering is a young field. I don't hear a lot about, for instance, fads in aerospace engineering but that could be because I hear little about
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by abnry 5y ago
Right. I don't really stomach how long we've been in the Middle East and I don't like the idea of those with incentives to go to war prolonging and pushing war. But geopolitics is very messy. Instability in a region can encou
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by abnry 5y ago
Of course. He kissed women in the audience left and right. But he was fully clothed, which visually, is a very striking and obvious difference.
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by abnry 5y ago
Say that you prefer no Google or Facebook sign in, but do it without the snark. You are entitled to your opinion but don't discourage creators.
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by abnry 5y ago
Self-help books are a scam because essentially we scam ourselves out of self-improvement. Instead of doing the obvious, like eat less & exercise more, we hope that some idea instead of hard work will actually make us improve. Ideas can
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by abnry 5y ago
And I'll reiterate: Just because "everyone is doing it" does not make it worth doing just to fit in. I urge you to consider that fitting into the culture isn't worth it if the culture is bad. You may not see the culture&
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by abnry 5y ago
Your eyes are closed if you haven't noticed a massive difference between the years of Elvis and today.
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by abnry 5y ago
It's not the music, it is the soft-core (if even) pornography. Just because "everyone is doing it" does not make it worth doing just to fit in.
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by abnry 5y ago
> the importance of cultural fluency in the formation of peer relationships Fluency in the culture is crap. Are we really supposed to be glad our kids know all the Cardi B songs?
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by abnry 5y ago
At the highest level, chess becomes an endurance sport. Magnus is so great because he can squeeze water from a stone. That is definitely admirable, but somewhat deflating compared to idea of the one brilliant move or insane positional play.
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by abnry 5y ago
The thing is, you've had Nobel Prize winners like Linus Pauling promote vitamin C as a panacea. Or Dawkins use his biology credentials to say something about philosophy/religion. Scientists using their credentials to give credence
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by abnry 5y ago
By definition, no, it is not.
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by abnry 5y ago
Very fascinating! You haven't happened to written a blog post or something on this, have you? I am sure HN would love reading about it.
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by abnry 5y ago
Job Posting: NASA programmer, needs at least 1 wpm typing speed and experience with compiling large projects.
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by abnry 5y ago
> This is the post truth world. Let's fight with our greatest might to make this a post-post-truth world.
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by abnry 5y ago
> First, the vast majority of people who insisted on the lab leak theory did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat. If China did have a lab that leaked the virus, they _are_ to blame. To say that we shouldn't hold thei
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by abnry 5y ago
This suggests a Bayesian approach. If there is a lab leak, we'd expect a Chinese cover-up to be a more likely than a Chinese cover-up to a zoological origin. So if your priors are that the zoological and lab-leak origins are equally li
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by abnry 5y ago
This is a pretty ignorant response. There are many ways to judge a vaccine than its effectiveness. There are also side effects. And its pretty standard for people to get the "Pfizer-flu". That's a pretty major downside to a v
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by abnry 5y ago
Absolutely. It starts to get a little too deep down the rabbit hole for me saying that Ivermeticin being withheld is the "crime of the century" and that it isn't being used because it isn't patented and so there is no fi
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by abnry 5y ago
> I haven't been involved in all this tired Sim City discourse, I guess I missed it the first few times around. I found the article interesting. >The article is about a computer game (that was originally marketed as "realist
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by abnry 5y ago
>The article is obviously using SimCity as a starting point for a discussion. Yes, a starting point for a darn, tired activist discussion. SimCity is not merely flawed, it is flawed in a way that is ruining society, as is most everything
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>the problem of SimCity This is the key: Treating, and naming as, "the problem of Sim City". That's an extremely activist lens which presents critiques of a game not as mere deficiencies, but as something that is a societa

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