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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
Fair enough.
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
>Countries are not defined exclusively by biological descent, Perhaps not exclusively, but in the main? If you are in the U.S., do you count yourself as a member of whichever indigenous people lived where you are before you? Would they
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
>But not marrying and not having children is not suicide, neither for the individual nor the society. Isn't it? Take away the moral connotations for a second. If a country's population does not reproduce, tautologically , it
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
I will always upvote anything Hypercard.
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by dropit_sphere 7y ago
For women, divorce risk spikes sharply after the first sexual partner: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-3737.... Excerpt: >The results presented in this article replicate findings fro
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
It's, uh, 20.
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
I think it will be a massive flood of new devs (maybe we're in it now?) -> overvalued tech stocks -> crash -> stricter hiring. It's not that tech, even done by shitty devs, isn't valuable. It's a question of wh
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
So this is the thing now? We don't believe freedom of speech is a good thing anymore? Who decided this? I don't recall being consulted on this. Not that I'd think of arguing , mind you! I'm loyal, I swear!
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
The other thing is that it's logically similar to "You'll wish you'd spent more of your time on your yacht than the office." Some of us have to work to afford time with family and friends, or even to afford famil
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
Hopping or starting a company to sell your work are becoming the fastest ways to get "promoted."
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
Oh, give him a break. Country has a non-state meaning of "area" as well.
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
I spent some more time thinking about this (the article). I hope all is well.
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
I am actually personally acquainted with Dr. Charlton, former editor of MH. He has some legit concerns about the epistemic effects of peer review (as well as the "business" of science---obtaining grants, etc.). I'm torn, bec
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
Started off strong, but I think he's got more to work through. I'm glad he wrote it, though---counterintuitively, showing this sort of anger is a pretty vulnerable thing.
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
That sort of behavior tends to get selected out over time. Generally when women feel like they have the option to do so, they tend to delay marriage and have fewer children. This is good for personal comfort, but less good for societal surv
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
Fortunately these new modern children are jaded and hip to the game. Drop one in a prison and they'd take over the joint in no time.
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
It's important to keep in mind that this only applies to relative desirability, though, and the mapping between "rank" and subjective desirability ("I think I did well") is...weird, with oft-cited wrenches in the
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
>Every character farmed, I'll own up to wanting to chalk this up to "AI wisdom." The feed-the-carry strategy has always seemed like precisely the same kind of premature optimization that makes AI often easy to beat.
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
No. "Shit tests" in the most common usage, refer to doing provocative things to throw someone off their stride and see how unflappable they are. The paper is about sentences that don't really mean anything, but carry some (fa
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
Sure, but team management skills often have no application without technical skills to give them context. The best leader in the world (whatever that means) will be severely hampered if they don't understand the problem domain.
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
"Servant leadership" is just another word for leadership. Good leadership is a service. It's certainly rare enough. But what people tend to mean with the phrase is the opposite: that good leadership consists of and is d
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
Obligatory mention of Screeps: https://screeps.com/
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
Abandon hope all ye who enter here (this topic)!
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
God forgive us. Reading that you might get the impression that I am now off to bomb a fur facility or something. No; I get it; I eat meat, and I can understand how our use of animals contributes to the survival of their species (if cows we
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by dropit_sphere 8y ago
This is a throwaway account, but, hey, they have their place. I'm a regular HN commenter under another name(that you wouldn't recognize, I'm not secretly patio11 or something). The article frustrates me, because it echoes a
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by dropit_sphere 9y ago
What's to explain?
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by dropit_sphere 9y ago
Over time, it is only evolutionarily useful things that are real. Are the Shakers "real" today? Are they as real as, say, Boston?
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by dropit_sphere 9y ago
> Instead of trying to find ways to divide ourselves why not focus on empathy and the reasons to work together. Don't knock division. It has its place. What division does is it stops contagious phenomena from running rampant throug
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by dropit_sphere 9y ago
Indeed. How about it? Has naive adoption of such ever been achieved, without being ultimately detrimental to the host? There is nuance, of course. Paying my taxes and helping my neighbor doesn't preclude sending aid to Africa. But n
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by dropit_sphere 9y ago
"At this point I’ve gone from wanting to praise these inventors as bold libertarian heroes to wanting to drag them in front of a blackboard and making them write a hundred times “I WILL NOT CALL UP THAT WHICH I CANNOT PUT DOWN” Natio

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