dwaltrip

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811.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
Extinction rates can be measured and modeled. What’s unscientific about that?
812.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
I was pretty skeptical about dating books. But I’ve been reading “Models - Attract women through honesty”, and it has a lot of very good advice in it. I would recommend it to any guy. The TL;DR is to improve yourself, work on your insecurit
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
> Edit a few minutes later: This actually prompted me to refresh on the subject. It might be the case that Meehl is actually making the same argument as this article, only it gets distorted when repeated. Some things are reliably measura
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
It wasn’t just one woman who came forward… Obviously, I have no idea what actually happened, but at this point it doesn’t look great. I hope the truth is uncovered in court and we find justice.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Tl;DR He appears to have a track record of abusing women.
816.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
It sounds like people are getting thrown off by the headline where you ask them to justify their existence, which kind of derails the discussion. The more interesting question you pose is: What is your moral framework?
817.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
It has the overwhelming disadvantage that no one wants to do it. It’s not that interesting or exciting.
818.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
Humans can do much better science than a probe.
819.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
It may be an enormous challenge but I’m glad people are trying.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
JS and Python are my primary languages. I've toyed around with Rust, and it is pretty cool. There were a number of nice moments where I was surprised with how much it felt like I was writing high-level code. However, the overall learni
821.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
It would still be cringe and egotistical.
822.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good...
823.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
It’s just a bottle of liquid, exercise some self-discipline and don’t drink it.
824.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
It’s super fun and easy to get started with.
825.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
TL;DR It doesn’t let you edit. Which is frankly insane. P.S. This blog post was way longer than it needed to be.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
The models of the world that we construct are very, very rough approximations. Don't hold on to them too tightly. They may be useful, but they are wrong in many important ways. There is always more to learn about the world and its vast
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Sure, of course not. But some advice is more clear than others…
828.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
If one gets a degree in some esoteric, non-practical area of study, then yeah it is wrong. Or at least very much incomplete advice.
829.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
Frontend end is crazy because many UIs that do useful things are inherently quite complex. UIs, by definition, are how people interact with software to solve problems and accomplish goals. The problems we solve and the goals we achieve with
830.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
Based off some of the other comments, here is the idea I’m picking up on: If a particular market isn’t that competitive and has oligopolistic aspects, more transparency may increase the “effectiveness” of the oligopoly. Instead of hospitals
831.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
If it is difficult to use or poorly designed, then yes.
832.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
Measuring psychological well-being is not easy. With emotional dysregulation or trauma, which comes in many varieties and is more common than people realize, the path towards healing often involves someone feeling "worse" at first
833.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
I'm sorry that happened to you. That really sucks. However, this happens more often in crypto. It is much safer to use a regular bank.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
The article is not talking about a regular checkbox that you would use on some web form. It's a special checkbox that you click infrequently, as a reward when you do something for a habit you are building. A lot of commenters seem to h
835.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
For the general use case, of course. There's a good argument to be made for a special checkbox / button that you press infrequently as a reward for completing an activity for a habit you are building.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Have you tried the Mindscape podcast with Sean Caroll? He has some really great episodes mixed with some less good ones. Definitely more of a science focus as opposed to technology, but there's a broad mix. My strategy is to skim the d
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
I was an early adopter of bitcoin (2012) and I'm pretty over it at this point. It hasn't managed to do much more than be fancy digital gold. I don't find gold very interesting. It isn't a productive asset. It's just
838.
by dwaltrip 4y ago
It took me 4 attempts to find a therapist who is actually helpful for me. It’s a hard job.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Fundamentally, the idea here is to learn to love and care for yourself no matter what job you have, what relationship you are in, and so on. Much easier said than done :) But it is a very worthwhile pursuit. And future jobs and relationship
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Those are ads. It’s a perk that YC companies get. Otherwise, HN and YC are fairly independent, from what I understand.

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