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Some things are more important than code(github.com)
12 points by boffinism 5y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 5y ago
I think the critique and the passage go hand in hand: if Samsung repaired the break for free, they would be the ones bearing the risk of the new technology. Because they didn't, they're making the customer bear the risk. That the
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by boffinism 5y ago
Am I the only one who would have preferred this idea to be expressed as an idea rather than an anecdote that features the author changing the life of a grateful acolyte with their incredible wisdom?
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by boffinism 5y ago
(Context: Am dad. Love kids. Find parenting super tough. No regrets.) How's this for a rule of thumb: if you can be happy without having kids, don't have kids. They're very hard work, expensive, and often bad for your mental
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by boffinism 5y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/947/
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by boffinism 5y ago
> How do you nudge yourself in that direction on a perpetual basis, as opposed to visiting it by stunning your mind into submission and silence? > >Subscribe to Naval Not sure if this was deliberate, but I'd love to know the c
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Analyzing the Bizarre Sale of Melania Trump’s $170k NFT(vice.com)
2 points by boffinism 5y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 5y ago
Article as it originally appeared: https://archive.fo/6taZ8 Discussion of article's flaws here: https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1491361991541538817
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BBC removes article about 'self-made crypto millionaire'(bbc.co.uk)
41 points by boffinism 5y ago|14 comments
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by boffinism 5y ago
This feels like it could be resolved by technology. I am happy to identify myself to government entity A to prove my age, but I don't want A to know what sites I visit. I want to visit site B, but I don't want to identify myself.
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by boffinism 5y ago
The problem with articles like this is that they take one good clear simple point, "the existence of experts using heuristics causes predictable over-updates towards those heuristics", and pad it out with so many examples and alle
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by boffinism 5y ago
I thought HN randomly pushed new submissions to the front page for random users, and measures how many votes they get before deciding whether to put them onto the home page for more people. There was a post about the mechanism recently. (It
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by boffinism 5y ago
She made her comments in an article specifically about what it's like to be a Classics 'Don'.
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by boffinism 5y ago
Counterpoint: Classicists are not linguists and they're not supposed to be. There's no shame in a Classicist admitting they find Latin fluency hard, because it's a very secondary skill. There are some people who have that ski
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by boffinism 5y ago
That's like complaining that so-called 'No Code' web platforms are actually using code behind the scenes!
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by boffinism 5y ago
In the article she specifically talks about how blockchains are a godsend for data harvesters . I think it's disingenuous to pick out one of her criticisms, ignore the rest and say "that criticism by itself isn't as bad as t
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by boffinism 5y ago
I found great jobs by only working at seed and pre-seed startups (you have to be experienced/able enough to market yourself as a CTO). At this stage, there is no drudge, there's just adventures. Mostly failed adventures, but if yo
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by boffinism 5y ago
The point is that one beer to many turns a would-be stalker weirdo into a stalker weirdo if they already have the kit to hand.
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by boffinism 5y ago
I don't understand. That is not a shit website.
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by boffinism 5y ago
You can still make shit websites. Lots of people do. The problem is, they're more fun to make than to visit. So don't get huffy if potential visitors go to social media instead.
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Beanie Baby Price Guide(old.reddit.com)
1 points by boffinism 5y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 5y ago
What is 440% less than 1, then? In my book, it's -3.4.
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by boffinism 5y ago
> 440% cheaper than S3 per GB. However the author thinks percentages work.... They are not right.
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by boffinism 5y ago
Ha! You mean the one mention in the article where they said that diet seemed to have a bigger impact on sleep quality than popular mindfulness practices? So even an article that downplays the significance of mindfulness contains too much
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by boffinism 5y ago
Moxie says 'Ys are often X'. This says that's a 'lie' because 'Most Ys are not X'. Hands up if you see the flaw here.
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by boffinism 5y ago
Honestly, the process didn't sound _that_ onerous to me...
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by boffinism 5y ago
Also, as characterisations of 'strategic' go, that's... not one.
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by boffinism 5y ago
I feel like 'and you don't know where they are' is maybe the redeeming phrase in halpert's post. If you have an idea that you think would help some people, and you have no idea where such people are concentrated... maybe
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by boffinism 5y ago
Great use of the word 'hews' in an article about hues.
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by boffinism 5y ago
Man, I miss those parties sometimes. I also don't miss the 3am night bus home, already hung over, with the creeping realisation that I spent all night spouting bullshit and may have accidentally committed to joining an extremist politi

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