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by daenz 4y ago
I always understood the word "conceived" or "conception" to apply to the person being born, not the parent. Is this not accurate?
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by daenz 4y ago
It sounds like you're saying you'd consciously be a better parent to a clone because you know it is a clone.
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by daenz 4y ago
Regardless of the source of the problem, the end result is the same: not enough people. Cloning treats that symptom even if it doesn't address the source. But yes, you're left with a new problem: who will raise these new people? I
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by daenz 4y ago
>So this whole random idea of overpopulation is alarmism over nothing. Underpopulation is what I was referring to. Some countries have extremely low birth rates, and stabilizing them is important.
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by daenz 4y ago
>If I were raised by my parent-clone I would have matured faster and been more skilled at playing baby-roulette with a natural child. This is leaning heavily on the assumption that your personality is primarily a product of your geneti
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by daenz 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32589499
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by daenz 4y ago
Ethics aside, it would probably be good to conquer the population size problem. Then people can stop fighting about birth rates and immigration.
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by daenz 4y ago
State-funded email with E2EE. Every citizen gets an email address. You don't have to use it (and it will probably suck compared to competitors), but you'll have it as a permanent fallback address. And presumably it will come with
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by daenz 4y ago
I think it's important to consider the context for this advice, which is introduced in the opening: dwindling funding and competition out to kill your company. Presumably, the advice that follows is a direct result of those constraint
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by daenz 4y ago
I understand they can do whatever they want, and I also know the relationship between YC and HN. They could make job posts blend in even more, artificially boost YC-positive content, and weigh down YC-negative content, and they would be tot
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by daenz 4y ago
A dark pattern has nothing to do with whether they're justified in doing it (for instance, because this is a free site). The submissions could be marked with "YC Sponsored Post" they're still totally justified in doing i
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by daenz 4y ago
Thanks, I read it. I don't mind the no-commenting rule tbh, if the submission was tagged as "YC Hiring Announcement" To me, the submissions currently feel like they're trying to present themselves as organic content. I u
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by daenz 4y ago
I understand your point, but it's not evidence for the opposing belief. And it cuts both ways, not just one way...people who think that it's a dark pattern but also don't care to engage. Upvotes are a signal of support for an
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by daenz 4y ago
A lack of public support for an idea is not evidence for support for the idea, so I'm not sure why you would even bring up the hypothetical "whole bunch of us" that secretly feel the other way.
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by daenz 4y ago
The top comment in this thread is the claim that it is a dark pattern, and many of the children comments are supporting that, so maybe consider that your perspective is not the majority one, or it's at least not as clear as you suggest
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by daenz 4y ago
I disagree that it's a false accusation. YCombinator benefits financially from putting their job postings on the front page, I think we can all agree on that. You seem to disagree that it's "manipulation" to make their j
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by daenz 4y ago
Special posts given special statuses are by definition not normal HN submissions, so representing them as nearly identical to normal HN submissions is misleading.
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by daenz 4y ago
My definition of "HN submission" is "something that any member of the HN community can submit." You seem to be using a different definition that excludes the vast majority of the HN userbase.
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by daenz 4y ago
>they simply look like every other submission because that's what HN submissions look like. But they're not HN submissions, that's the point. >If they were made to stand out you'd likely be complaining that they ge
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by daenz 4y ago
I'm not "hyperventilating", I am attempting to answer your question...no need to be rude. Clearly it's a matter of opinion about where the line of "dark pattern" starts.
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by daenz 4y ago
If we're going by formal definitions, here are a few[0]: More broadly, dark patterns supplant "user value...in favor of shareholder value". a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing thi
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by daenz 4y ago
It's very cool, but from an auditing perspective, it's a nightmare. As a reviewer, I can't reason about the code in the same way that I could reason about human code, since there is no coherent formulation of the accomplished
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by daenz 4y ago
It's not condescending for someone to imply "I live somewhere important, you live somewhere unimportant" ? Phrased another way, if someone came in for an interview and said "I'm from Laketon, Indiana", do you t
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by daenz 4y ago
Just because you don't want to live there, doesn't make them "middle of nowhere" is my point. That's an extremely common elitist attitude that I see among tech people who look down their noses at people in rural c
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by daenz 4y ago
>And no, "too bad, go live in the middle of nowhere" isn't an acceptable answer. As someone who grew up in a small town, do you understand how condescending this is? People have homes there, have families there, work hard
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by daenz 4y ago
There's a post office 5 miles away[0], where there are plenty of businesses that you could work at. Let's not be dramatic. 0. https://goo.gl/maps/y3dERcUkD7wMLzEW8
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by daenz 4y ago
you have direct control over that.
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by daenz 4y ago
>This is one of the most important moments in all of art history. I agree, but not for the reasons you imply. It will force real artists to differentiate themselves from AI, since the line is now sufficiently blurred. It's probably
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by daenz 4y ago
1) That's not what circular logic is. Circular logic would be if I said "they don't want to consider it because it's harmful and it's harmful because they don't want to consider it." 2) You asked me why I
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by daenz 4y ago
They don't want to consider the possibility of X -> if they're wrong about X it would be harmful. Where's the cycle?

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