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by cirgue 9y ago
Spending as much time not under a roof as possible. This typically means whitewater kayaking or climbing. This is the only way I can stay sane while having a desk job.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Well yes, and it's exactly the same for video games, which almost always are about making the player overcome obstacles to achieve rewards. Video games are about creating the perception of challenge and the perception of reward, b
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by cirgue 9y ago
> People will suffer long term consequences. I don't disagree. I also stand by my comment. Organizarions are acting out of an abundance of caution. That may persist or it may change depending on what happens when a company actually
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by cirgue 9y ago
> "questionable" court cases until they find where the line is. Until this law actually gets tested in the courts, it is basically impossible to tell what the long-term impact will be. My suspicion is that Reddit et al want to
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Learning new things can be exhilarating, but it can get tough, and unpleasant, too. Explanations can be dumbed down, but the effort involved to grow further is unavoidable. Anything rewarding demands something from you, otherwise it wo
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by cirgue 9y ago
> The idea that race is a social construct is simply dumb. All of the interaction surface with 'race' in our society is absolutely a social construct which varies dramatically over time and from location to location. Moreove
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by cirgue 9y ago
Eliding someone's individuality by reducing them to their skin color is absolutely racism. If you or your family is from anywhere in Asia and you live in the US, you get to deal with that nonsense all the time.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Part of the problem is my hunger to take the CEO trail myself... from the beginning. In signing up for a 50/50 split, you made your decision about this already. If you don't feel like your co-founder is pulling their weight,
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by cirgue 9y ago
> So even though joining this startup seemed ideal, I'm finding that the CEO is out of his depth and I can't follow him. > I'd love to do this with the CEO in a lesser role. Is this about equity or about who wears the p
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by cirgue 9y ago
The same thing can be said of agriculture, and there are definitely environmental impacts, but we generally don't worry about the ground cover aspect.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I disagree with you, though I am not sure where that puts me.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Discussing gun purchases is not only perfectly legal, it is also not even hateful as many previously banned subs were. And not nearly as hateful as a plethora of currently-active subs.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Let's clarify a bit, this is for the employer owned Slack workspace. My company doesn't use slack, but it is a little crazy to me that this wasn't already the case for employer-owned workspaces.
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by cirgue 9y ago
If someone is determined to be an ass, technology isn't a barrier.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Silicon Valley has a radically different viewpoint and set of priorities than the rest of the world. This discrepancy still has not been exploited to anywhere near its full potential. Edit: To clarify, I think SV is increasingly insular, an
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by cirgue 9y ago
The point of the Stasi wasn't the information. They didn't give two shits about truth or verifiable fact, it was the awareness of survailence and the mistrust it created that was useful to them.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> For most however, they need someone to hold their hand through all the steps Part of intellectual maturity is learning how to not need the hand.
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by cirgue 9y ago
"[product x] is, from an intellectual perspective, a mish-mash of awful ideas. But it's a really good tool for quickly producing documents that are bear a passable resemblance to a [desired outcome]" is about the most ringin
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by cirgue 9y ago
The number of people committed enough to being trolls that they will keep paying you is small enough that they don't dominate the discussion.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I think part of it is the lack of voting and the presence of easily-identifiable avatars: participants have an incentive to post things that generate maximum engagement and discussion with other specific users as opposed to maximum instant
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Man made diamonds are the real thing. Not to people who want mined diamonds. They're the real thing to you if you don't care about provenience. Not everyone feels that way.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I would pay for a professionally edited newswire service that doesn't advertise and doesn't sell content to anyone other than end users.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Collage is good, but I hear that if you really want to join the economic elite, you have to get into decoupage.
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by cirgue 9y ago
The same as the social context for books, film, or any other kind of media: you talk about and experience it with your friends.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I think part of the online music discovery problem is that there is zero social context for it. Using Spotify to discover new music is, at least for me, the media equivalent of eating in a restaurant alone. Sure it's doable, and it&#x2
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by cirgue 9y ago
> If the UI of an application involves a huge deeply nested menu of actions that directly modify the visual look of the data being worked on, then a Ribbon might be the right paradigm. I would add to this 'and your user base already
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by cirgue 9y ago
Just because a system is meritocratic doesn't mean it's just in some broader sense. It just means that the behaviors that society defines as being worthy of merit are consistently rewarded. It doesn't say anything about how o
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by cirgue 9y ago
Yes, they do. Having a masters or not is orthogonal to being a quack, especially in an environment as buzzword-laden as data science/ML.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> However, applying them all would make you the worlds biggest doormat. How so? Nowhere does it say "prioritize others desires ahead of your own" or "back down easily" or "tolerate assholes", it just says to
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by cirgue 9y ago
> idealistic commandments You know the people in your life that can earn the respect of others almost effortlessly? They do most of the things on this list. The majority of adults act like petulant kids, and that's why a lot of adul

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