drewblaisdell

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by drewblaisdell 7y ago
> Opinions filled with "human rights" concerns from people far removed are probably ethically and morally correct, which is... cute. We're fighting an Urban War over here. War is always a good excuse to ignore ethical conc
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by drewblaisdell 7y ago
That was re: corporate incentives. The lack of/lower minimum wage abroad is a major incentive for moving labor out of the country.
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by drewblaisdell 7y ago
Because it isn’t reasonable - it is confidently worded nonsense.
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by drewblaisdell 7y ago
> Hence, the solution to low wages is to stop importing poor foreigners who undercut American wages. Couple that with the elimination of corporate taxes, and there will be no incentive for offshoring or inverting. You forgot to mention t
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> This is why I always cringe at articles that say "Nobody can afford to live there." The reality is that lots of people can "afford" to pay these prices, more than there are homes, hence the high prices. A classic ex
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> in reality wealth is largely the result of labor and ingenuity The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that this is true.
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> region noted for fake deaths There is a place that is known for this specifically? Where can I read more about this?
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
Thanks for the info. > Majority usage outside the USA violate ToS. Bummer.
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
Maybe someone on HN will know the answer to this: is it easy to enable/disable service with Google Fi? My use case is to use Fi while traveling internationally for a few months out of the year while switching back to my existing plan i
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> Heuristics are the only way to tackle this. Yes. This is why every single comment of mine in this thread recommends a specific heuristic with which to tackle this exact problem.
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
I agree with much of what you wrote, but disagree that the question is nonsense. From a specific utilitarian perspective, "wasted human potential" only matters in so much as it impacts human suffering. If we want to maximize pleas
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> The onus was really on them to demonstrate that trusting third parties with our communications is a reasonable thing to do. In general, I agree, but the context here is dozens of HN commenters claiming that FB is a bad actor/net
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> Nice spin on it, but Facebook is still a bad actor (despite what you say). This needs to be a conclusion, not a premise. I do not have a firm belief about whether or not this is true, but I keep seeing people list bad things about FB a
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
You’d think that the fact that it is a commonly held belief that FB literally sold users’ data on Hacker News might cause some of us to reconsider our worldview with regards to FB and its practices. You’d think.
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
Whether or not that is true, my experience on here is that the amount of effort and self-doubt involved in this response by the average HNer is so low that I suspect jealousy and schaddenfreude are often involved. For example, consider how
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
I just discovered Sunrise Mart on a trip to NY last week! It is a shame that we do not have an equivalent in Seattle (Uwajimaya is not the same and does not have bento AFAIK).
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
Isn't HN itself a counterexample?
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> FOV is a problem that lenses simply can't solve Would you or someone else mind elaborating on this? I am unfamiliar with this problem.
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> You should be far more interested in what's happening when you boil a pot of water and convection rolls spontaneously form. Serious question: why?
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> Effective altruism is only arguing how we should ration the resources we've already allocated to helping people. I'm not sure how to determine what "effective altruism" is arguing, but prominent EA advocates like Wi
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
I don't think I understand your comment. There are people we don't know how to save, but there are also people we do know how to save. The Against Malaria Foundation, for instance, claims that every ~$3k donated results in the pre
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> Surely that can't be true either or we'd be spending all our time saving people. Advocates of effective altruism argue that the best of us do this, and that if we all did this, it wouldn't take all of our time.
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
You are misreading me and the poster above. I was simply explaining what he meant and why it could be seen as rational. The issue is really not as simple as you describe. Of course every life is worth saving, especially the lives of childre
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by drewblaisdell 8y ago
> Wait what? With your reasoning we could leave those Thai schoolchildren in that cave. In order to save more lives that can be saved more cheaply, yes.
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
Unrelated to the article content, but what ever happened to Dalton Caldwell? I was very into the Dustin Curtis/svbtle hype in 2009-2013, and remember reading Dalton's articles from way back when. Is he blogging elsewhere now or ha
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
IANA scientist, but the article claims new evidence that a reduced calorie diet can slow metabolism, which would impact the “surplus” side of that equation.
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
I am 5’8, and if you are familiar with studies of someone similar doing the same thing, I would love to see them. :)
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
(sorry for this becoming an AMA) I lift weights three times a week to medium-low intensity (squat/deadlift/bench). I sit/stand and code full time. I sleep at least eight hours a day (sometimes more).
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
I have lost ~10lbs, but I was not overweight (on the high side of normal BMI, but I also lift weights). My muscle mass seems unaffected (or even slightly greater) - these days at the gym I only aim to maintain what I have, and my lifts have
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by drewblaisdell 9y ago
Tough. I stopped eating breakfast (for the most part) a couple years ago, so this time it was just skipping lunch and eating an early dinner. Still, it took less than a week for this to become normal for me, and it has not been difficult to

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