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by benched 13y ago
Interesting that you would call that out. Yes, it so happens that as an approach to problem solving, that seems like one of the simplest to me. It's also a significant feature of my approach to programming - I've written code with
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No offense intended, but this makes me think of how many times I've heard people speaking about 'working' with emotions. It always makes me raise an eyebrow. Examples: "Don't dwell. Release! Don't avoid... Own!
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Personally, I tend to agree with your second paragraph. I would much rather hear "Run! Run!" than "We can still make the bus!"
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There are a lot of very well-expressed ideas in here, likely to resonate with people who practice things, or climb towers of abstractions. The LessWrong culture has a related term, which I've found useful, called inferential distance:
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This is quite an issue in my life. Believing and practicing positive thinking seems like such a self-evident, unquestionably good thing. Especially among a certain class of people, it's almost never popular or ... I don't know - &
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From what I can gather, monkishly so.
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I agree with this strongly. What I usually say is I'll believe there's a shortage of great engineers the day that in-house recruiters begin contacting me. My accomplishments are right there on LinkedIn, if you can assume I didn&
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The point you are grazing is that this approach results in many false negatives, and few false positives. This is workable for companies that are consistently able to attract large numbers of candidates, such as the ones you listed. (And ye
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I think a lot of people would have no problem predicting this pattern without looking at any Facebook data. Likewise, the participants and their more observant friends surely know that a relationship is likely to happen well before it becom
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There is no 'right way round' for so-called symptoms or so-called 'underlying' conditions, because these things are subject to feedback. Positioning in social contexts affects brain chemistry, brain chemistry affects beh
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You made a statement on Hacker News without a citation. [1] Can't do that. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242402
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I had legos when I was a kid. The Burj Khalifa is pretty much just like that.
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The OP did write "stupidly". So you aren't arguing with him.
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What I hear you saying is that you enjoy the somewhat arbitrary primate street rules that apply to interacting with people who have more power than you, and you'd rather live by those rules than laws.
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Tech people care more about hardware and software than about social behaviors.
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My heavens. This is in danger of turning all the rhetoric around depression on its ear! Everyone knows happiness or the lack of it is determined by brain chemistry, not life events. A well-adjusted person feels the same whether you run them
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You are conflating several things and speaking rhetorically, not logically. Here's what you want: "Vehicle operator runs a red light and is arrested "
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This may seem like exaggeration, but you exist in a shared open space with 7 billion talking wild animals. You really can get anything, for anything.
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In the sense that they're on everything, but serve a real purpose to almost no one?
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Really? That's what this is about? Whether Yelp reviews can substitute for government regulation?
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I don't see what this has to do with the Internet. Just because a business uses a web site or app in place of the telephone doesn't imply it needs more or less regulation.
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I have never in my life fucked with these things except page-load passively. Never placed one, never turned one on, never had a reason to click one. But I don't drink Coca-Cola either. Do these things really make the world go round? I
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Rule zero of Hacker News: never make an utterance without some appeal to an established authority.
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And this comment does not grasp the issue. For practical purposes, you'd better assume there are no cops who are that good. In cop land, that would be 'saintly'
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You aren't using the term "civil disobedience" correctly. You're not really using the term "rational" right either.
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That things are worse in other times or places isn't much of a silver lining. More of a description of yet further human on human bullshit.
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All the code I've written at my current job is deployed to an audience of something like 35 million. As of now, I haven't been made aware of any bugs reported against it. It's formatted nicely. Things are named well. I dunno.
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Rappers have collectively made countless graphic threats against people of all walks and ages, to an audience of tens of millions. It's part of the art-form. Eminem and Nicki Minaj have made explicit threats of gun violence that refer
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Oh fuck you. You're just being judgmental.
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Or maybe that's just what it's like to be smarter than most people. Your comment seems completely full of shit to me, but I'm sure it's because I'm not empathizing enough.

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