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by gexla 5y ago
Take a look at another comment on my thread, I think this person gets it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27537891 The most important value is in the depths of the thing once we have committed. This makes the commitmen
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by gexla 5y ago
This seems like deeply wise advice in a forum which is mostly too rational. Thank you. I feel like this is the sort of insight that I could use to understand why any of my friends or people I respect have been able to "settle" for
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by gexla 5y ago
The trouble with notes is that it's a huge territory and people are talking about their tools without further context. Talking about preferences between a Land Rover and a Corolla isn't productive until you start breaking down you
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by gexla 5y ago
Right, I have found that simply picking something and moving on is better than doing nothing. Even if it's the wrong thing, at least shipping that thing gets you valuable feedback which you wouldn't have had before. I have also no
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by gexla 5y ago
Does anyone else just feel a friction to committing to something because you like open options? Every choice I make for working on something is a possible opportunity cost to that better option. Doing nothing leaves me available for that be
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by gexla 5y ago
https://github.com/nushell/nushell#progress "Nu supports variables and environment variables"
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by gexla 5y ago
Maybe they don't cover the same things because the "things" are like their flags they are using to signal each other. It's like two different gangs using different symbolism to communicate with their own members. They do
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by gexla 5y ago
This must be difficult to determine. I can get by great on 4 - 6 hours of sleep and wake up without an alarm. During the day, I'll have a bit of a post-lunch slump at the office, but I don't seem to get it at home. If I take a ste
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by gexla 5y ago
Can't take the time to dig further right now, but is this a riff off... The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is a 1973 book by Harold Bloom.
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by gexla 5y ago
She didn't have to click "I agree" on a giant pop-up model explaining tracking policy? I bet they even have trackers on their website too. And how is it that they can justify trying up multiple people to attach the device, bu
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by gexla 5y ago
If you're a digital nomad, then there probably isn't a best place or else maybe you would just plant yourself there and no longer be a digital nomad.
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by gexla 5y ago
I assume the person you're replying to was referring to Markdown rather than Bookdown. It seems that Asciidoc was designed for the direction which Markdown has going with all these variants. If you find yourself chasing these Markdown
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by gexla 5y ago
Right, or you're an undocumented refugee and you can't gain access to services which handle money because you can't prove that you're not a money laundering terrorist. Meanwhile, it's the money laundering terrorists
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by gexla 5y ago
Among the arguments for decriminalization of prostitution is that women should have the right to this path to make money. I don't know the argument against regulation, but I imagine it would still remove that path as an option for many
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by gexla 6y ago
Pelosi is a master politician and the pandemic has been a fast moving situation. I could see Pelosi being against the stimulus and then fast switching based on changing currents in the minds of voters.
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by gexla 6y ago
As the article mentioned, few other companies were hiring. The mentioned period was 2000-2002, which was during the carnage of the dot com crash. The economy was in a bad state. Maybe pushing hard to make the case for the start-up to exist
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by gexla 6y ago
Could be worse, some people waste entire careers in BS jobs. There's a bit of BS in every job though. I guess the story here (other than being a joke) is to get project management software with a faster UI.
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by gexla 6y ago
Blackjack is an oddball game which involves skill and chance. But chance dominates such that it's still likely considered a game of chance. Skill in blackjack is to play a perfect game. That is, you don't make errors. Counting car
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by gexla 6y ago
This isn't a theoretical exercise. I have demonstrated to friends how the Martingale strategy doesn't work in online casinos. The strategy is alluring because the strategy can (but won't always) "work" for hours of
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by gexla 6y ago
Let's not make this more complicated than it is though. The focus on my post is house edge and how you can't beat it. Many people put up a lot of money on games of chance without understanding this basic idea. If you do understand
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by gexla 6y ago
There's no skill element if there's a house edge. The house edge is how the casino makes money. If there's no house edge, then you're essentially renting services from the casino to run a sort of player market. For examp
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by gexla 6y ago
Correct, it's called the Martingale strategy. Anyone who doesn't know the name of that strategy and why I doesn't work, shouldn't be gambling. And yet, if they knew that information, then they wouldn't be gambling.
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by gexla 6y ago
You should expect that over the long term, your losses will equal the house edge. The more you play, the more your losses will approach that of the house edge. In the short term, you'll see lots of variance. So, the answer to your ques
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by gexla 6y ago
The article lost me on the gambling stuff. The only winning move when there's a house edge, is not to play. There is no strategy for minimizing your losses (other than not playing or limiting your playing time.) Every bet you place on
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by gexla 6y ago
And also, don't eat processed meat. There's a big difference between someone who eats a lot of high quality meat with no regard for pricing and someone who lives who gets meat consumption from cheap canned goods. I would guess the
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by gexla 6y ago
Interested to hear your thoughts about the thread about living in a van which hit the front page the other day.
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by gexla 6y ago
Right, why can't I just delete my comment then? [ETA: Removed content of unpopular comment]
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by gexla 6y ago
Just because you haven't found a way to make money on Fiverr, that doesn't mean people haven't found ways to make Fiverr a valuable platform for their business. The same is true of Upwork. I guess you're being sarcastic,
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by gexla 6y ago
This. You probably don't need to focus on specific muscles unless you're a bodybuilder (in which case you should already know what you're doing.)
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by gexla 6y ago
The lightbulb moment for me was simply creating these sequences without putting much thought into them beyond that. It may have ended up a little messy but then I found that my creativity in coming up with new ideas lit up. That became supe

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