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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I encourage you to reconsider. Mental math is essential for having strong numerical fluency, for estimation, and for reasoning about many systems. Those skills are incredibly useful for thinking critically about the world.
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You are also likely to be more vulnerable to financial mishaps and scams.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
You seem to be describing some sort of anarcho capitalist fantasy land. There’s a reason no single country on Earth operates like that.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Are there any new ballot initiatives for ideas like this? I would support this in a heartbeat.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
It doesn’t ban search engines, it prevents a company from making money with their search engine through advertising.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Ads are inauthentic speech someone is paid to express. If entity A pays entity B to say or display their words or content, it's an ad. This is not an impossible problem. It doesn't need to be perfect, and we can iterate.
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> And the United States must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not a
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
> While AI has been very helpful in lowering the bar to /begin/ learning Rust
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No true Scotsman.
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Vomit inducing.
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The worldview I outlined just suggests there is some amount of obligation that we all owe to society for enabling our basic rights and prosperity (with varying degrees of effectiveness, unfortunately). And it also argues that some sort of g
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I was responding to your suggestion that property rights are supreme over all other moral and societal considerations.
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Property rights are meaningless without a social order that protects them. Aka a government and a civilized society with high trust. The value of that property increases when others in the society prosper. Government programs funded by “tak
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
They have a lot more users than Anthropic, I believe. Less technical / mainstream users often don’t know about Claude.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
When I open the app and am greeted by a mostly blank screen with an empty todo list, the first thing I think is "How is this different from any other task manager app? How do use it in a way that would help me?". And then I close
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
My understanding is that ADHD prevalence is closer to 5-10%. That's the number I've seen most by reputable sources. Nonetheless, the rest of your post resonates with me and and your points stand on their own :)
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Underdiagnosis is a much bigger issue. There are millions who are dealing with this alone and without awareness that can help them. Sincerely, person diagnosed at age 35
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> LinkedIn messed up specifically by paying influencers extra if they got people to click "See More", which is why people on LinkedIn: > Talk like this. > To increase engagement. > And take up space. Ohhh that's w
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
It doesn’t help your argument to start debating petty, irrelevant things (e.g. did they use “fallacy” correctly)
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
You are saying that what they are doing is completely useless. Plenty of other comments have explained how it isn’t.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
You are offering undiscerning nihilism. It’s both false and unhelpful. Maybe you just needed to vent, I get that. But I must say, HN comments aren’t the always the best place for venting.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Please read the entire sentence when you quote something: > That is not to say the opposite - that I think all anti-Tesla hatred/actions are justified. I'm just refuting your opinion specifically.
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It’s called boundaries.
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It'd be reasonable if hydrogen was competitive with electric, but it's not.
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It seems Deno compiles typescript to JS just like everyone else. https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/typescript/
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
You only discovered HN after your 3rd startup? :p
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Part of that is probably withdrawal, I would think.
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That’s some rarefied satire. Chef’s kiss
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Indeed, now's a great time to sing kumbaya while Putin does whatever the fuck he wants -- not including invading multiple soverign nations -- and the Kremlin laughs their asses at our stupidity and crumbling institutions.
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Oh god, barf. Well done lol

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