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by ericmcer 3y ago
I was listening to a professional rock climber talk about having kids. He described it as objectively bad, but the chemicals nature was pumping him full of were making him love his kids and be unable to picture life without them.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I had the same experience working for SF bay area tech companies, mid-size teams of high income 30 year olds and only a few people had kids. Got a job with a company in the midwest, complete opposite. Almost everyone on my team has kids. Th
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Selective breeding has some huge and obvious morality issues around it, but it is fun to think about possibilities. Hyper intelligent dogs? 10 foot tall humans?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
at that rate of increase (~300 years to reach 1000+) could we possibly adapt over time? There are probably already humans who are more/less susceptible to high c02 environments.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
HN is opened subconsciously while working whenever I encounter a difficult problem. Focusing is pretty easy when the road is straightforward, but the second I run into a challenge my brain tries to escape. Not sure what that means biologica
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It feels like Apple has been very quiet about their approach in some of the future spaces (self-driving, VR/AR, AI) but then they suddenly burst out with something like Vision Pro. It seems like they are biding their time and avoiding
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by ericmcer 3y ago
If you want to really want to question your fellow human, check out some Reddit threads about loud exhausts. The number of people who steadfastly defend their right to drive a loud car is insane.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I started doing the same thing a few years ago, but on New years day instead of my bday. It is way better to just see where your head was at and what you wanted from the year ahead than to make a list of resolutions/achievements. Reall
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by ericmcer 3y ago
USA population has increased ~10% in the last 20 years. Why has that small increase in population caused a humongous lack of housing? It feels like something else is going on other than "we need to increase supply by 10% but can't
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by ericmcer 3y ago
In the long run (30+ years from now)? Or just for the few years they are in office?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It feels like selling the next generations future for cash now.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I was always told if you eat > than a certain amount/hr you will be unable to use it and it could even be hard on your kidney
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Why? If your from the USA our stance is exactly the opposite.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
You doing ok? This entire thread is spawned from an article that is rebutting simulation theory, it clearly is a hypothesis that creates interest.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
So after we die our “souls” are checked against some condition that we can’t comprehend and we get reincarnated based on pass/fail? Or is dying without passing on your genes the test?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I don’t really relate solipsism to simulation theory. Solipsism is boring and doesn’t have much depth beyond being a “whoa” moment when first encountered. Simulation theory raises actual questions about meaning and the afterlife, offers som
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Tons of unused commercial real estate coupled with tons of people who cant afford housing... I wouldn't be mad if govt used my tax dollars to incentivize conversion of giant downtown office complexes into mixed use buildings.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
In 2007 we didn't have a precedent for just printing money to cover everyone when things went down. If anything financial disasters are great for people who hold stock now. All the added money will settle there.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It does read well as a non-technical review though, where a user would only make note of those things if they were lacking. If the passthrough looked artificial and weird you would imagine that would have come up.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It would be funny if legal teams at huge companies have OKRs and evaluations. “You hit your target of 250 C&Ds this quarter great work”. Justifying your paycheck is scarier when thinking about the legal dept.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Well there is research around it, it isn’t robust enough to make stupid claims like that, but you could make a decent case that older vaccines contained things (Thimerosal) which could be causing problems. Maybe she doesn’t understand most
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Who makes money off people not getting vaccinated?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Why did she believe that? I like to believe are politicians aren’t completely insane so what pseudo/bad whatever studies led her to believe vaccines cause mental retardation?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
As I get older this more and more seems like the way. I have friends with 10+ years at a single job. They work 2-4 hours a day remotely and are so senior they would be very difficult to replace. They will easily be able to retire in their
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Couldn't we make the same claim about all polarized views (both right and left) that the media love to amplify today, but not many people actually hold?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The effects of low doses of mushrooms/MDMA make me wonder if we have been going about it all wrong. You can easily take 20% of the normal amount and have a pleasant and noticeable effect but still be highly functional. It is like our &
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I just had a discussion about this exact thing with 3 friends and we all had the same experience of being quoted a discounted price, signing up, and then being billed something higher.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I don't think this is due to anti-socialist propaganda, if anything progressive social policies are more popular than ever before. If anything this is due to social media amplifying and glamorizing people that loudly demonstrate how fi
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Makes sense, we are taught that being “mindful” of our mental state is key to mental health, but it also means everyone walks around with a handful of self diagnosed mental deficits.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
If Ford and a few other large car manufacturers accounted for 50% of DMV funding you don’t think that could lead to conflicts of interest?

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