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by elvis10ten 4y ago
how do vegans rationalize owning pet animals?
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
Will you say people don’t also compare video games to tobacco/drugs? Or people can’t get addicted to working/video games/etc? > Video games or work do not expose you to *ads or recommendation systems* You must be joking? W
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
That makes sense. Do you see the general public making a similar shift that most people on SM besides some of my friends are “not real” people? I slightly disagree with the parties, school part. Most people with “great bodies” are most like
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
Again, I think this analogy doesn’t work. Firstly, alcohol is inherently bad for you. SM is not. SM to me is more malleable and we can choose to make it what we want. We could apply this to most things from video games to work.
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
In topics like these on HN, people often compare social media (SM) with tobacco/drugs. I still disagree with this comparison. For one, social media is not inherently bad like smoking/some drugs. The only SM I use currently is Inst
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
TikTok is just way too “thirsty” — they try too hard to get me hooked which is a massive turnoff. I have the app. I only open it to upload videos. Then I ignore it and its notifications. Instagram works well for me. I have “trained” it to r
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
Reread my comment I wasn’t trying to prove a point. I explicitly stated why I included the quotes :) I wasn’t going to repeat what the other comments already said: you are right but you are missing the point? Like you said: > But it is
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
> How do you combat the desire to note every little detail (how do you decide what's important)? I try to focus on the general idea of each section in a book. > Also, do you take notes directly in a text editor Yes, in markdown.
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
Thanks. I will read this and update the summary. I have updated the book link to point to the second edition.
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
Other comments have already responded to this. I will just add two excerpts that came to my mind when I read this in the book. > The constraints imposed in building large software systems are the limitations of the human mind; opposed to
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A Philosophy of Software Design – Book Summary and Notes(elvischidera.com)
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
For people that skip colleges, it’s like skipping a generation. This is especially true when skipping colleges is not the norm in whatever environment you find yourself in. I started working when I was 16, most of my friends and romantic pa
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
I think social media is just serving people what they want. We can argue if this is a good thing or not. > Addiction is not healthy, and neither is social media. Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world?
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
I hear this a lot, but doesn’t corroborate with my experience seeing folks at calisthenics parks. This [1] is what I look like with only body weight training. Even if I could, I intentional don’t want to get any bigger given how it affects
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by elvis10ten 4y ago
You can always increase your reps or add extra weight to your body (weight vest, etc). Both are very quantifiable.
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
An adjacent comment just responded with what I was gonna type. > … All that's being pointed out here is that it can't both be the case that there are no relevant differences between men and women and also that a phrase like &qu
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
A bit off tangent: Why do we still use the phrase “women & children” in 2022 in times of war? That language seems to exclude men that aren’t involved. Why not innocent adults & children?
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
You are right, forgot to add that. We only did this at a small scale (I.e: mostly for our own consumption).
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
> “ Chicken should be so good in itself that it is an absolute delight to eat as a perfectly plain, butter roast, saute or grill.” I said something like this to my ”modern” friends, they laughed at me for having low standard. It was some
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
Cancel culture isn’t new, what is new is that the cancellers are now “decentralized”. In fact this is the first successful web3 product built on web2. Someone create CancelCoin. Just trying to be funny while still staying relevant to discus
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
I choose to try to be both, as there is no law of nature that says you have to be nice or kind.
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
I’m not arguing that this system is not better than what you/OP compare it to. I’m only responding to “level playing field”. The Philly mom is just an example to show how obviously absurd that statement is.
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
Ha! OP said it’s a level playing field, I’m not arguing if it’s a better system than what you/him compare it to. Just like how I would argue take-home/side/past projects are an amazing signal compared to credentials. I won’t
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
Level playing field? C’mon. A person using a premium resource most likely have higher quality material and sometimes access to a seasoned professional that can give personalized feedback. Who has more time to do leetcode? Who has a good net
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
I always find that people who claim that they or a geography have fewer/no status sports are only referring to the “popular” games. There is always an alternative game. People in Europe claim it. I have lived in Africa, Europe, US and
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
Haha! So true. But even if we aren’t as intelligent as them, we could be “unique”. Someone would probably want a collection of this “cute” but less intelligent humans/animals?
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
Reading this, I realize I’m more scared of other intelligent entities (AI/Aliens) turning us to pets or putting us in some zoo/cages, than I am about them killing us.
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
As someone that have lived in both Boston (USA) and Berlin (Germany), I don’t agree. What places in Germany are you comparing to US Macdonalds?
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
I think we have fitness wrong in this side of the world. I grew up seeing 60 year olds that were as fit as youths in the west. They didn’t have a treadmill or did keto diets. My take away was fitness should be a lifestyle and to avoid lots
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by elvis10ten 5y ago
Well a problem could be averted before you have it. There are lots of examples: Like buying a kinesis keyboard before you actually get RSI. Or an ergonomic chair. You were heading towards a problem, but might not know without an “ad”.

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