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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
A girl broke my heart, I dramatically (I was 22) plugged "Why aren't nerds popular," into Google, found PG's essay ( http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html ), read the other ones, and decided to become a Lis
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
The grandparent comment is disputing just that.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wkrA9jP-yA
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Milk before meat.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
It does sound glib, but I agree, I really think this is the way to go.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
No joke, if your boss is not technical, I bet you could get a raise if you started using this for internal tools.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Keep going, and make it smart enough to realize life without helping people is without meaning.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Why do I care about the welfare of a company that wouldn't pay me enough to be a support engineer?
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
This sounds like a hack, but after doing it for long enough, you realize it's just a much-needed refactoring. "Doing the dishes" is made up of individual actions, guys. If the outcome of your actions is that your sink is &qu
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
I suspect "Please do not imply that another commenter is a neural net" will be one of the next items added to HN's guidelines.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Um, I mean, the contention of Mormonism (and Christianity in general) is that He did. That same being endorsed baptism by undergoing it himself. This may seem contradictory, but becomes much more tractable if you're open to the idea
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
> obsolete >just over 50% k (I feel like the glib single-character response stands on its own, but more verbosely: yeah, the trend isn't good, but a) there's no reason to assume it's linear, "fair-weather believers
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
This really is the answer. In the past I would have regarded this as horribly cynical, but not so now. You're not being paid enough to risk your career by crusading for truth, or to go down with the ship. None of this means you can&#
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Realistically, there will be two scenarios: Company Type 1, where they don't care where you live Company Type 2, where they explicitly care, and have some stupid table they look at. I suspect it will lead to a lot of employees at T2 co
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
>The average American doesn't read Twitter daily, and is somewhere between a moderate liberal and a moderate conservative[2]. These people represent orthodox privilege. Orthodoxy is not just a numbers game---you also have to factor
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
No, but since you mention it, it's interesting to note that one of the litmus tests for what constitutes a species is the ability to reproduce. A state is a three-way bargain between the living, the state, and the unborn. The state imp
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Always glad to see this get some play on HN. As our civilization gets more interconnected and systems-centric, it becomes more and more useful to have a name for the demon in the machine.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Is there some special property of the US that makes it immoral to control its territory like other nations? Candidly, this feels like grooming.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
>The broader issue is that the US birth rate is 1.77 births per woman -- and falling, which is below the replacement rate. Have you considered that the causation may be in the reverse? The article pokes fun at skeptics of women in the wo
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
The discussion on this has really not been intellectually honest, or, to be more charitable, has not taken the issue seriously enough to really dig. The "lump of labor fallacy" is...not really a fallacy, or at least can act that
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
I had the same experience; at the very bottom of the screen are "next" and "back" buttons. But it took me a while.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
And, in a sense, allows you to innovate, by lowering the bar you feel like you have to clear to make something of "quality."
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
>The "white power" symbol was the result of a spontaneous flashmob campaign to prove that journalists will pick up and run with any ridiculous "trend" that fills their demand for racism. If I understand you correctly,
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
I'd rather not say. I happen to like it existing.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
I happen to be a member of a subreddit you'd probably describe as "racism and hate speech." Obviously I find some redeeming value there. IMO the direction you're describing seems...reactive? I mean, sure, if you don&#x
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
"Tribalism" didn't come for pandemic science. Tribalists did. Every individual has the power to behave forthrightly, with epistemic hygiene. You can't shove the responsibility to do that onto a nebulous interstitial
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
You're normalizing to raw population. You want to normalize to "armed conflicts with the police" or similar. Using the above FBI 2018 homicide statistics, blacks committed 3177 homicides in 2018, while whites committed 3011-
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
In practice, this can only happen in a few ways: - development becomes a 1st-class "business" activity a la accounting, sales---not that you necessarily do it as aanger, but you're looked down on if you can't - a cultu
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Which is a really weird situation when you think about it! This gives credence to the theory I've heard that corporate jobs are "unsustainable" in that they will only hire "smart" people, but actively make their em
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
At one point I was working construction during the day and working on a visual programming language at night. Needless to say, I have little sympathy for those claiming a talent shortage.

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