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by digbybk 4y ago
I suspect that a lot of deathbed regrets about not spending enough time with your kids is for the benefit of the kids. Who would say “I’m glad I didn’t spent all that much time with you and your siblings. Frankly. I had better things to do.
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by digbybk 4y ago
I really like this, but to to add an alternate perspective: I’m skeptical of deathbed regrets, and regrets in general. I don’t think your present self actually knows what your past self went through. We remember events but are bad at rememb
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by digbybk 4y ago
You’re correct, it’s not unsolvable, which is why it is being solved. It’s just a slow process, for the reasons mentioned.
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by digbybk 4y ago
Have you considered moving to a big city, even if it’s not in the US, which I know is your preference? It won’t fix all your problems but having more opportunities professionally and romantically might change your outlook somewhat. You’re i
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by digbybk 4y ago
> The cost of lab-grown meat will likely be several times that of regular meat, according to Wired. Producing meat in the lab “will never be done with anything remotely like the economics you need for food,” Pat Brown, founder of the pla
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by digbybk 4y ago
The delays, the cost overruns and the general bureaucracy surrounding the whole project are likely the reasons why it _didn't_ fail miserably. It's definitely not a situation where you want to move fast and break things.
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by digbybk 5y ago
I'm not sure if I'm optimistic about autonomous vehicles or just very pessimistic about human drivers. I have no confidence that the next driver making a left turn while I'm crossing the road won't kill me. I'm much
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by digbybk 5y ago
This might just be an assumption. We'd need to compare with childless couples. As a datapoint of one, I'm getting close to 40, just over 10 years of marriage without children, and this article describes my experience eerily well a
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by digbybk 5y ago
I've been playing semantle.novalis.org daily. It's hard enough that I don't want to start again when I'm done and I like that everyone is playing the same game with me. The problem with this is that it's too easy to
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by digbybk 5y ago
It’s surprising to me how many of my disparate interests, unrelated to my work in software, are represented here in HN.
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by digbybk 5y ago
This is the key. We like to blame people for being inactive and overweight, but we've designed our transportation and food systems so that only the most motivated can be anything else.
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by digbybk 5y ago
If a web framework in the Pyramids was discovered, it would defy our understanding of the history of technology and "simply shouldn't exist". It's a dramatic way of putting it, but it's really just saying that our u
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by digbybk 5y ago
> I don't understand why consensus jumped to the conclusion that there must be a new form of undetectable matter instead trying to figure out what we don't know about gravity. Is it implied in "I don't understand&quot
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by digbybk 5y ago
Reluctance to ask stupid questions comes from a fear of rejection. I studied physics in undergrad and I found it pretty difficult, but wanted to be a part of the group of smart physics kids. It left me with a pretty strong fear of looking s
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by digbybk 5y ago
Generally in the 100Hz or 200Hz range for the time being. What do you mean by break apart?
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by digbybk 5y ago
Can you talk more about why you should use Postgres unless you have a compelling reason not to? I'm currently investigating options for storing high-frequency data. Postgres is looking like a good option.
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by digbybk 5y ago
You may be missing my point. If no one believes in the country’s existence, including the people who live in the land that the country is purported to encompass, then it doesn’t exist. Nations aren’t tangible physical objects. They exist in
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by digbybk 5y ago
It exists only when people believe it exists. If no one believed in your citizenship, your passport would just be a little notebook with no value. When going from a world without citizenship to a world with it, nothing needs to change outsi
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by digbybk 5y ago
> It's either a fiction or it's real. This I disagree with. Nations are real in the sense that they have a material impact on the world, but are fictions in the sense that they only exist when people believe in their existence.
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by digbybk 5y ago
Based on this post, apparently citizenship is also voluntary. You might say that giving up citizenship is difficult and expensive, but you should talk to someone who has gone through a divorce. I would also counter that citizenship also alm
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by digbybk 5y ago
Citizenship is a meaningful thing to most people. Of course it's a legal fiction, but so is marriage. Personally I've never given up a citizenship, but I imagine that it'd be an emotional experience.
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by digbybk 5y ago
I was excited about Yang’s candidacy in the NYC mayoral election, but it didn’t take very long to see that he was out of his depth. In the end, he didn’t even rank in my top 5 (NYC has ranked choice now). Why does he keep running for top po
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by digbybk 5y ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to say that DDD advocates ignoring how things relate. It’s more like finding the higher level concepts that do relate to each other. You don’t need to know about internal combustion to write traffic rules. In fac
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by digbybk 5y ago
I wouldn't expect the pilots to spend an hour debating before every takeoff, but rather to have had that debate ahead of time and have a solid set of patterns that they follow so they don't have to reinvent the wheel each time. Th
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by digbybk 5y ago
People often point out how the US is an outlier in religiosity as a western, wealthy nation, but I've always wondered how it would break down if you corrected for its diversity. For example, there are a lot of first and second generati
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by digbybk 5y ago
> I've seen a few videos from various Universities I've also seen a few videos from various Universities. _Remarkably few_, given how much attention this topic gets.
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by digbybk 5y ago
This seems to be the case. Watching the Spanish dubbed version of Community on Hulu, the dubs have the study group taking an English class, while the subs have them in a Spanish class as in the original. Side note: in the dubbed version, it
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by digbybk 5y ago
Even if one of the most famous photographs ever taken wasn't called "tank man", it'd still be pretty weird for there to zero results. Try misspelling "man" or "tank", you'll get many results. &qu