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> never discuss karma - Dao de Dang
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I'm atheist, but grew up in and around a few religions and new-age spirituality. In my teenage years, I believed in the spiritual existence as fully as I can imagine anyone believing in anything. As I reached my 20s I realized these we
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You’re not alone, but you are unique. You’re existence is the only thing that can compute what comes next on this trajectory. There is a space of possibilities ahead of you that never have and never will be available to anyone else, ever. A
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But then how do you get their email addresses and charge them a subscription fee?
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Disappointed this one didn’t make it in there: Chris Christie Closed New Jersey's State Beaches — And Then Went To The Beach https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/03/535335917...
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How do you vent to the world without the publish button?
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Replace shoes with life-changing sums of money, and replace looting with something more gray-area, and I think you can cast a fairly wide net.
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> If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job. Nope
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If someone sells small packets of flour and says it’s a powder that cures cancer, then the packets are snake oil, but that doesn’t mean flour is snake oil.
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So much hate for a data structure.
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Jeans and tshirt?
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This is great. It’s rare to find a well organized brain dump of a beginner struggling with a simple problem. There is very little record in general of the intermediate states people pass through on their trajectory from novice to expert. I
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Well, well, well. Let's recap some popular HN opinions that have surfaced lately: What Problem Blockchains Solve mrjin: centralized organizations are there for reasons, and block chain resolved none of them The Web3 Fraud endisneig
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Just leave, everybody’s hiring right now.
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If their argument was about the insanity of no-one doing model checking, I'd be on board. But that's not their argument.
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> it is impossible to write code spelling out what actions to take in all contingencies It sounds like two economists are struggling with the concept of software and systems engineering.
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I guess I should have split this into two comments. Now I can't tell if the downvotes are from pro-hitters or anti-RL'ers
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I can’t imagine hitting my child on the head, even lightly. The messaging that sends is so wrong on so many levels. Besides which, they will likely end up hitting someone else on the head when they don’t like what they’re doing. But, aside
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Tell HN: Interruptions cost more than the duration of the interruption
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Speaking for myself, this would almost certainly increase the total value I produce and the amount of money I spend.
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My experience is that speeding up low-quality content makes it more tolerable, whereas speeding up high quality content makes it less enjoyable. So now I just don’t speed up. If the quality is low, I don’t listen to it. If the quality is hi
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For me, the act of programming has taught me epistemic humility much more forcefully and consistently than exams.
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Or rather, the models should be predicting faster expansion. I think it’s safe to say the Universe is expanding at exactly the rate it should be.
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So, I think the question is: Can recipients bring a class action lawsuit against Princeton?
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I imagine the first usecase will simply be indie developers wanting to provide a marketplace experience without building their own marketplace.
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An NFT is not a digital representation of a piece of art. An NFT is a token whose identity and value is independent of all other tokens.
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NFTs only make sense within the context of a system (or ecosystem) that has a protocol for recognizing it. For example, if an NFT represented a game asset, then the game (or potentially a whole ecosystem of games) would be the system that r
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> You can cause just as much damage by wasting everybody's time with organizational politics and "safety first" hand wringing, but then what are they going to say? They’ll probably say you’re promoted!
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Wait… is this satire?
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Electric cars were a joke until Tesla showed up

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