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by csallen 2y ago
Maybe exciting is the wrong word, but compelling is a better one. For example, just the order of how you present information matters. Compare these two approaches: 1. "If you don't floss enough, then <BadThing> may happen. H
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by csallen 2y ago
Also, while I'm at it, I'd suggest maybe putting an hour or two of research into how to make content… exciting? I know you're a dentist and a software engineer, not a YouTuber, but it's worth looking up a bit about what
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by csallen 2y ago
This exactly. I don't think the average person is as comfortable as a medical professional at starting at videos/images of messed up teeth, injuries, disease, etc. It's not exactly what we want to stare at when learning.
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by csallen 2y ago
Your heart's in the right place, but these videos are hard to watch.
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by csallen 2y ago
Many people are so uncomfortable with risk that they publicly advocate (and personally live by) a policy of taking zero risk. Of course they also throw away the very real benefits that come packaged with many risks.
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by csallen 2y ago
This is all fascinating stuff. I love the idea behind memory palaces, and this stuff about place/grid cells sounds like the explanatory science behind it. Any reading you'd recommend? > And clearly we humans forget many of the
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No
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> The word modern has somehow become associated with “something better”… Well, that's because modern typically is better. Humans don't like problems, issues, inconveniences, accidents, or flaws. So many billions of us are c
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by csallen 2y ago
Thank you for saying this. It's always baffled me that people will decry ChangeX as unnatural and wrong when it happens in their lifetime, but happily build their lives upon NearlyIdenticalChangeY so long as it came before them.
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by csallen 2y ago
> Only a very few people possess the level of discernment needed to know how bad your local concert hall's piano is, and precisely how it is bad. If their art dies out, maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we
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by csallen 2y ago
There was no revenue or profit stolen. The copyright holder had an exclusive license (a legal monopoly) to copy/sell/distribute their work, which is essentially a legal contract we've all agreed to as a society. The copyright
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by csallen 2y ago
There's definitely a hit to search traffic if you go this route, as Google is unlikely to rank you above a competing article for a competitive keyword based on only an excerpt. The Information simply doesn't care. They have an exp
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by csallen 2y ago
Minor nitpick, but he was not stealing, he was infringing copyrights. To "steal" is to take another's rivalrous property without permission, such that you now possess it, but they no longer have it. To "infringe a copyri
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by csallen 2y ago
Ah, I see. But I also think that sircastor's point when they said "hackers" was not that lawyers can bypass the intent of the law with impunity. Rather, I think the point was that lawyers will frequently attempt to interpret,
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by csallen 2y ago
I think you're essentially proving the op's point. In your own words, "A judge's role is to prevent people using ridiculous loopholes." In that sentence, "people" === lawyers
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AI doomers have been writing extremely popular books and debating on stages and podcasts for well over a decade now. These have been almost entirely people who are not themselves running AI companies.
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by csallen 2y ago
It says that 54% read below a sixth-grade level, not at a sixth-grade level. So even if you were to genuinely think that sixth graders are impressive readers, that would matter little, because most of the country is worse. Presumably yo
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by csallen 2y ago
> I'd say they're not doing too bad at all. I'm astonished at this POV. When I read that more than half of the country is "unlikely to correctly evaluate the reliability of texts," I see this as evidence that w
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by csallen 2y ago
Hired for what roles?
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by csallen 2y ago
GTA V is a sandboxed game, the purpose of which is to largely to wreak havoc in a virtual world where nothing can go wrong. LLMs are a powerful and little-understood real-world tool that the public has been given access to en masse. Tools w
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by csallen 2y ago
Only semi-related to satisfaction, but I was looking at a chart of suicide rates by industry recently[0]. And the lowest rate for both men and women was "Education services" and "Education, training, and library," aka te
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Bridge recombination enables next-generation genome design(arcinstitute.org)
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by csallen 2y ago
Yes.
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As much as I'm sure many HN types would love for this to be true, it's not actually true, and it's important not to get carried away thinking "I prefer X" means "The world prefers X." The vast majority of
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by csallen 2y ago
But this analogy fails, too, because in Silicon Valley, the serfs aren't attached to the land. Generally, someone who's an early employee at a tech startup has the option to go be an early employee at a different tech startup, w
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by csallen 2y ago
What's one piece of data from your links that supports your assertion that "[e]very single city and state in the U.S. has a vacancy problem"? There isn't any. I'm not sure what your motives are. But your claim about
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by csallen 2y ago
> Let's see the data then. You made the vague assertion that "[e]very single city and state in the U.S. has a vacancy problem." You provided zero data to support that statement, or anything remotely close to that stateme
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by csallen 2y ago
You're confusing increases in household formation with increases in homebuying. You can create a new household without buying a house. For example, if you live with your parents as a 22yo, you and your parents count as one household. I
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by csallen 2y ago
I copy-pasted this comment to my friend, who's the chief economist at a major real estate company you've heard of. Here's their response, verbatim: > "Bullshit. It's not population that matters it's househo
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by csallen 2y ago
How is restricting supply not a problem? The fewer houses there are to buy, the higher prices will get, because there are more people competing for less.

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