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by arcsin 5y ago
I think there's two factors. One is the nonlinear utility of money, and the other is the cost/value of losing/winning. In general money has a diminishing utility, your first dollar is worth more to you than your millionth dol
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by arcsin 5y ago
One reason is that comments get stale. People need to maintain them but probably won't. Second reason is that they think the code should be self-documenting. If it's not then you just need better names and code structure. Many boo
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by arcsin 5y ago
Regarding masks I don't think you can really compare what is happening in Japan to America. People screaming and getting kicked out of stores and airplanes. The reasoning is different also, I imagine in Japan it's mostly about laz
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by arcsin 5y ago
I think it's the difference between an individualist and collectivist culture. I'd guess that especially the kind of people that would come to hackernews will have a hard time seeing the upside of collectivism and the downside of
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by arcsin 6y ago
When a variable can be reassigned it adds the complexity of time dependence. Meaning that if you don't keep track of the order of values that variable was assigned then you probably can't understand the program. The problem is com
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by arcsin 6y ago
> but if the claim is indeed true that racists/sexists think the blog is great... that needs to be addressed as to why they are attracted there I'll try to put this as objectively as I can. There is now a cultural overlap betwe
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by arcsin 6y ago
This thread is a really good example of why people like SSC. Personally I have no problem believing biases against minorities exist in this industry. And to whatever extent it does exist I support trying to fix that. But then the discussion
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by arcsin 6y ago
From the same author as OP: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html
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by arcsin 6y ago
> Even if you want to learn a language, if you can't learn it by using it, do you even need it? I'm not really into flashcards, but I'm seeing a lot of comments like this, that flashcards are only good for memorization. I
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by arcsin 6y ago
I think probably the main issue is that a lot of people just don't enjoy studying with flashcards. You could tell them it will literally make them 2x more efficient, and even if they believe you they still won't want to use it.
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by arcsin 6y ago
> "...it's basically a psychological coping mechanism." I think this isn't quite right. Religion is a social mechanism. It creates the right incentives for its members to buy into a kind of insurance program. When a m
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by arcsin 6y ago
This is fair if you think freedom is the most important thing. Having more money has real objective benefits and most people are fine with giving up some freedom to have those benefits.
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by arcsin 6y ago
Coming at it from a different perspective, I did something similar to this by saving money on a US salary and then moving to a low cost of living country. I spent years at a time not working or even thinking about how to make money. I think
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by arcsin 6y ago
No one has mentioned so far that there are many variety of durian, which has different smells. Another factor is how ripe the durian is. For example, probably anyone could eat a montong durian that's not too ripe. The kind and ripeness
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by arcsin 6y ago
Yes and no. I’m someone who took krashen to heart and learned almost exclusively though reading. What I’ve found is that it’s possible to understand everything as long as it’s written or spoken very slowly and clearly but this is a differen
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by arcsin 8y ago
I always wonder what is the reason that they ask for US-based. One possible reason I've heard is that it makes taxes and certain laws easier for them to follow, in which case it sounds like more a matter of being a US citizen rather th
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by arcsin 8y ago
I'm not sure about that. I've seen multiple threads on reddit about cases where someone was overtipped or accidentally transferred money and there's usually a lot of comments arguing why they shouldn't have to return the
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by arcsin 8y ago
Knowing CS allows you to build unique solutions from first principles. In cases where you're tied to applying solutions that have already been decided there will be less opportunity to use your CS knowledge. I think the majority of the
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by arcsin 8y ago
I think this points to the idea that there’s a blurry line between talent and just a really early head start. Lots of the things we call skills are composed of more basic, lower level skills and in general skills can overlap in different do
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by arcsin 8y ago
It's remarkable to me that people think this is a bad thing. I feel like everyone agreed freedom of speech is a good thing until one day I woke up and they didn't. I don't mean whether or not it would be unconstitutional to c
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by arcsin 8y ago
There was an interesting event recently that happened to another live-streamer named Arab Andy. Arab Andy streams himself walking around with a speaker strapped on that plays text-to-speech and audio clips of whatever his viewers send him i