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by afarrell 4y ago
It also can be actively harmful to accomplishing the mission. It removes the sense of proportion needed to wisely weigh tradeoffs. It suggests that people play out roles in the Drama Triangle ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by afarrell 4y ago
In most cases, yes. Most.
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As noted elsewhere, most of the money wasn't transferred via dogecoin. But reasonable financial transaction systems don't attract the advertising attention that this was able to. Does that make it a good financial system? To the d
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by afarrell 4y ago
> Everyone deserves safe and clean public spaces. There is a cost to this and that cost includes the coercive use of force to prevent that behavior.
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by afarrell 4y ago
> emblematic of many of the problems the US faces - "it's too hard to fix $problem_with_well_known_solution because of entrenched interests, so let's create this absolutely awful parallel system that creates a whole new wo
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by afarrell 4y ago
I have found one: Sending the Jamaican Bobsled team to the olympics. I highly doubt that this could have been done based on Postgres. Postgres is too boring and stable to attract the necessary attention. https://www.npr.org/
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by afarrell 4y ago
People can have multiple motives. I have a two cousins who joined the army national guard. It is simultaneously true that they: 1. Enjoy shooting guns and driving fast. 2. Have an interest in protecting the US.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Oh I'm sure bad acting does occur. That is not the question at hand. The question at hand is: Is a recommendation to use memory-safe programming languages evidence that those languages are less safe than we previously thought? There ar
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by afarrell 4y ago
Thank you for translating the analogy.
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You have far greater faith in the ability of a leader to create organizational alignment than I do. Are you sure there isn’t some part of the NSA which is on an ego-driven mission to prioritize national security?
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It seems like the lesson is that if the company and its workers know that there’s always another project to work on next, then there’s no incentive to drag out this one.
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The trick is to have a living room and a regular habit of hosting something like “Monday night in” where people come over and just hang out.
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It is bad because it takes a problem and makes it much worse.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Focus on building relationships with people and mentoring them. Identify future potential cofounders. Invest in other areas of your life.
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That only works if you assume high-quality objectively-understandable information.
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One thing that can help you articulate that part of you wants to say yes because X and part of you wants to say no because Y and part of you wants to still say yes because Z. Writing out things into a journal is good because you can write t
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by afarrell 4y ago
The most frustrating thing about this discourse is the missing sense of proportion. 1. Starting things and setting them down does not make you a phony. It makes you easily-excitable. Thats okay. You’d be a phony if you deceived someone, inc
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A video game is a puzzle and it is fun to watch someone successfully manipulate a puzzle. Live sports are with people and people don't like watching others be manipulated.
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No, but it is very close to creating an intellectually friendly atmosphere for smart people who want to design rockets.
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Right. I can control the rubbish in the natural environment. I cannot control the rubbish in another person's worldview -- only my own.
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“Leave someone better than you found them.” It led to me staying faaaaar too long in an unhealthy relationship, trying to cure problems that I imagined myself responsible for causing. Sometimes you need to forgive yourself and move on. The
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No, what you are feeling is the natural exhaustion that comes from being absorbed in drama. The reality is that the situation is not an emergency. It is a slow-rolling problem that calls for sustained creativity.
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Probably. It seems like something a veterinarian would know about. This is a question of whom you trust more: A. Random websites who have something to sell. B. Random strangers spending spare moments of attention on a website about startups
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by afarrell 4y ago
> similar focus … as the allies devoted to winning ww2 Given a choice between diverting attention & resources to alleviate a 1943 famine in Bengal and keeping transport ships available for the war, Britain chose to allow the famine.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Speaking as the son of someone who runs operations for the a federal district court, every ounce of the “violence” bit is covered by pounds and pounds of cultural norms and a fair bit of ritual as well. Our aversion to violence is not new.
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> At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence Cripes. Nope. If this was true, how do you explain backyard cookouts, pool parties, trick-or-treating, or Christmas present exchanges? How do you explain folk dance f
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Or at least raise the salary cap alongside seniority for roles beyond a certain level.
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First, get yourself set up with sources of feedback that can let you play around with things safely and get rapid feedback. This could mean setting up a sandbox environment. This could mean finding someone more experienced and asking, “Hey
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For now, I’d argue they should be regulated by the people working on them. OP’s complaint should be ignored. And yes, hammers are regulated by non-government adults to the degree that people cannot figure out how to handle the consequences
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Paternalism is me telling you what to do with your work. Those who are silent are largely humble or uncertain.

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