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I seem to have that issue with the dentist while they’re injecting into the gums or whatever. But shots in the arm don’t bother me at all. Something about the inability to see whats going on, I just imagine the dentist panicking but trying
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by emerged 5y ago
People will keep complaining about web3 until it stops being stuffed down our unwilling throats.
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Does flagging do anything other than alert mods to review? I’ve had a benign comment flagged, which was baffling, but afaik it didn’t actually do anything.
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I use a reflective metal owl to deter woodpeckers who love destroying my house. It seems to be effective because I’ve not seen or heard the little peckers since. Your comment makes me wonder if these would also help with mice.
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by emerged 5y ago
I believe they are saying that, for example, whether or not there is universal objective truth doesn’t have a universally objectively true answer.
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People are also free to stop taking opiates, alcohol, crack, or to stop gambling. Yet these things wreck unbelievable havoc on our society because a vast swath of the human population is not psychologically, even biochemically, capable of s
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by emerged 5y ago
Authoritarianism is fine so long as it’s dang.
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FYI if you watch the video and like it, he also has a great podcast (Mindscape) which often involves physics but usually combines it with some other topic being discussed with a guest.
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by emerged 5y ago
I was honestly under the impression that machine learning networks are already doing exactly that. But for sure they will continue to get better and better at it and become much more convincing.
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NFTs are a great test to see how ridiculously stupid of an idea can become popular and suck up money through sheer volume of disingenuous promotion. Network effects just weren’t factored into the resilience of our social/financial&#x2F
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by emerged 5y ago
The LinkedIn feed is actually great if you pretend it’s satire.
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by emerged 5y ago
My response to not getting a raise has been to reduce my hours proportionally. Working backwards to maintain the same effective hourly rate. I make enough money already, so it ends up just giving me more free time.
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by emerged 5y ago
I’ve proposed to a crypto company that they explicitly prevent themselves from getting rich off the ICO. They were decidedly completely uninterested. We all know the actual motivation of crypto bros, they want money. They don’t really care
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by emerged 5y ago
FYI notepad++ has a setting to open a separate instance for each file. It drives me crazy when I install on a new machine and it defaults to the behavior you’ve described.
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Isn’t it Bayesian? If you experience a few trips here and there, the sum amount of time spent in that version of reality is dwarfed by that of sober experience. So while those experiences do contribute to your understanding of reality, it’s
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by emerged 5y ago
Yea, the law should be programmed by random front end devs using house of card custom scripting engines instead.
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Well to be fair, blockchain doesn’t have much utility with them either.
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Omicron is the coolest variant so far. But I’ve been holding off catching COVID until we get a variant with extra perks like increased vo2max or loss of pain sensitivity. I’m confident at global scale we will get there eventually.
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by emerged 5y ago
It doesn’t provide either except on your own posts, right? Or is that some super karma unlock feature.
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I find HN also immediately judges things like pickpocketing, littering, punching babies, and keying strangers cars. They just don’t get it!
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Society is going through a learning process in understanding the value of scope in our social environments. If you simply connect all the nodes into a gigantic hyper graph you get a constantly evolving shithole. It’s like programming using
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The difference IMO is the scale of individual social networks. It used to be relatively smaller independent forums which had all their own particular rules and populations. Things were more truly distributed in an organic way. Now we have t
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It seems perfectly okay if you were hired at a job where on-call is a stated requirement. Is this a controversial opinion? I’ll admit that I sometimes find myself out of phase with some of the dominant HN views on at-will employment, but it
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They typically don’t know what I eat for breakfast either, because it hasn’t ever been relevant to the job.
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Being free from the government, also known as being a criminal.
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In your shoes I’d be working remotely for a California company from Texas because the labor laws from California will apply to you. It’s not a choice for me, but I’d love that.
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There is some risk there, although California has pretty favorable laws to protect you. I wouldn’t work on any project which is even tangentially related to the day job or touch any company resources while working on side projects. I’d also
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Extremely strict time management and focus. If I go upstairs to put in a load of laundry, that’s a 5 minute time slot I put back into my work time slots. The vast majority of people are very inefficient with time management, spend tons of t
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by emerged 5y ago
I turned 40 recently and have gone the route of very flexible employment (~16 hrs per week remote) at Sr software engineer salary. This gives me the freedom to do basically anything I want for more than half the day with very low stress. Fo
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By far the biggest positive impact on my sleep is reading by kindle with the warmth of the light maxed out. I get incredibly sleepy after 30m-60m and I keep reading until I’m virtually incapable of staying awake. The best part is, it also w

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