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by gerbilly 7y ago
Your whole post is just an empty argument from authority. Who are you and why should we just believe what you are saying any more then the study?
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> The facts are that nobody knows how climate works No the facts appear to be that you don't know how climate works. Why are you so passionate about this issue, what's in it for you anyway? Do you stand to make millions off of
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> The grandparent pointed out that the concept of 'being mean' can't easily be applied to animals. The complex cognition of 'being mean' might apply to an animal, or it might not. I'm not arguing that. What
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> frequently think it's "impossible" to make software that addresses and solves the issues of all groups. I find this increasingly to be the case. The fashion now is to do everything with MVPs and sprints. The big hidden a
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1. We compare ourselves to to others and compete with them. (Keeping up with the Jones's) 2. Humans aren't good at predicting what will make them happy. 3. Work comes in quanta (9-5 job, either you have one or not). For some rea
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They neglect maintenance because we reward resolving outages and fighting fires more than we do good stewardship. Imagine the following scenario. Acme Co. has some piece of software that is critical to the operation for their business. Dave
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It's trivially false that we can introspectively observe all of our mental processes. Call it what you will, but there are parts of our minds, whose functioning can be observed but which we don't have access to. It's so trivi
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> Isn't the entire idea of "being mean" an abstract and intellectual idea? Not really, it boils down to harm prevention. I believe that, as humans, we greatly overestimate our own reliance or abstract ideas. If we notice s
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Yes, I'd say he was right in the main points, but wrong in the details. It's trivially true that, while we can observe some of the workings of our mind, we cannot observe all of it. That part that we can't observe can easily
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I don't agree that it was mostly about ideas, Freud's main insight was to deduce the existence of the subconscious mind: i.e. the idea that we don't have direct access to our entire inner world. It was a big departure from th
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Most squirrels are scatter hoarders: almost everyone's seen a squirrel bury a nut in a lawn. They bury their nuts all over their territory and remember the locations and retrieve them later. What you might not know, is that in old gro
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By 1985 the prices must have really dropped because the character encoder on my Apple ][e clone was actually an eprom that contained multiple copies of the bitmaps. It had extra address lines that weren't even used. Same thing for the
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I think people are tripping up on the word 'evolution' too much. The more important word in the article is 'inevitable'. Sometimes it's good to be reminded that there is nothing inevitable about everything in our l
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There's a huge imbalance of power between the company and an individual worker. So it's "kind of" not the same at all. Why are people so quick to defend the powerful?
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Big pickups are just another facet of the 'Harleyfication' of personal transport. There's a subset of people that seem to like big, heavy, noisy soot belching vehicles, perhaps because they imagine it projects power to drive
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I'm waiting for the app to come out that lets you drive your car using your phone. Then people could play with their phones as much as they want while they drive, and do it safely. The smartphone is the true center of modern life. Al
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Texting while driving, that's why. From here I sit on the porch, I can see that about 2/3 of drivers text while driving. I'm convinced that no amount of campaigning, punishment, or scare tactics will suffice to stop it. It is
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> You're "ego" quip is not very charitable of this community And the blanket dismissal often posted here in a knee jerk reaction isn't very charitable to a whole body of research, that is arguably harder to operationa
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It's a kind HN received wisdom that all psychology studies are false or invalid. Personally, I see this blanket dismissal as one of the blind spots of our otherwise intelligent community. Perhaps because so many of us are engineers, an
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https://imgur.com/gallery/3Cu7f2T
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It may not be for you but I found the Hitchhiker's guide to be a fantastic blend of escapism and humour. The humour has a surreal, divergent type of quality. Not everyone is going to be a fan. To speak to the particular quote. It&#x27
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A 60,000 year old cure for depression(bbc.com)
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Labradoodle Creator Says the Breed Is His Life’s Regret(nytimes.com)
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While this is almost lost knowledge these days, humans and other animals have always paid attention to each other to find out what is going in on around them. The nature (or absence of) bird or animal calls or activity can tell you that the
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>My life as a conservative is much better without social networks where they censor me non-stop I would have thought that it's the best time ever to be a conservative. Seems to me that we are awash in conservative views, and that co
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HN does not maintain a social graph and push notifications to you. I'd say that's what makes a site 'social media.'
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> deleted all my tweets. Killed the app. Killed the Reddit app. Killed Instagram. Killed Facebook. I agree with the bulk of your comment, but I couldn't help but notice... If the solution is to not use all these apps, apps that are
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Ansible can be used to create VMs too. I used to use it to provision AWS instances and to configure them after. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_clou...
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You can do both, it's not mutually exclusive.
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Don't sling epithets. My using the word 'native' was a proxy for a type of culture: a close to the land hunter gatherer lifestyle. You know one that would necessarily make them keen observers of their natural environment. I

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