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by gonehome 4y ago
When slack was acquired by salesforce everyone (that I remember) on HN and Twitter were congratulating each other rather than recognizing it (imo) as a failure to compete and a mediocre outcome. Pair that with their full page ad they took o
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by gonehome 4y ago
Interesting - I think I must have just missed them, too bad because they sound cool.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I don’t think this holds up to scrutiny when you actually look at how much people are eating. What does probably vary is the pleasure people get from eating which then directly relates to how much they do it.
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by gonehome 4y ago
You just don’t eat that much naturally (maybe you get less pleasure out of it). Fat people eat a lot and often don’t know how much.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’ve never been on a calorie deficit and not been hungry. Calorie deficits are always a little unpleasant imo. It’s just suffering through that to get to a place where you want to maintain (which is much easier). I’ve lost 73lbs, 53lbs, 35l
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think he’s wrong - iirc intermittent fasting helps because it just makes it easier for people to maintain a true calorie deficit.
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You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)(physiqonomics.com)
349 points by gonehome 4y ago|481 comments
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by gonehome 4y ago
What decade did those exist? The 80s?
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by gonehome 4y ago
There’s some overlapping ideas with how groups on urbit operate. Though urbit goes further down the stack to replace the bits that make managing a Linux server hard (fixing the incentives that lead to everyone having to be on one centraliz
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by gonehome 4y ago
My take is that once salesforce acquires a product at best it’ll remain stagnant and unchanged. It’ll never get better, the smart people working on it quit and go elsewhere.
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by gonehome 4y ago
HN has always had its knee-jerk negativity and dumber biases on some topics, but the extremeness around the crypto stuff really is something novel imo. I find it not worth engaging on the topic here at all anymore (and I've tried earne
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, I'm not arguing alignment is not possible - but that we don't know how to do it and it's really important that we figure it out before we figure out AGI (which seems unlikely). The ant example is just to try to illustra
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - the existence of this post is really an example of it. "Is anyone else <obvious case of pandering to common HN tribal confirmation bias for a dominant position on HN>" -> lots of upvotes and in-group people agreein
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by gonehome 4y ago
The closer we get, the more alarming the alignment problem becomes. https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/ Even people like Eric Schmidt seem to downplay it (in a recent podcast with Sam Harris)
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by gonehome 4y ago
Outside of the edit window, but this has some of the context I’m talking about: https://apple.news/AUTfqLmWMSnC7Rz1M7QpH-Q
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by gonehome 4y ago
For clarity I’m not talking about the text of this opinion, but the larger argument that’s happening outside of it. I think you’re probably accurate about this decision and its consequences in the short term, but I thought you were missing
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by gonehome 4y ago
My understanding is the underlying argument is ultimately about fetal personhood and a national ban would be about protecting constitutional rights of the unborn (and having disputes about that rise to the level of SCOTUS for a ruling). Tha
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by gonehome 4y ago
> “The basis of that argument works for throwing out civil rights, contraception and voting rights.” I don’t think this is true? I’m in favor of women having the right to abortion, but my understanding of the anti-abortion steelman posit
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by gonehome 4y ago
Plus juice is kind of a crappy high sugar project that’s bad for you? Relatedly, I have no idea how “Joe and The Juice” stores remain in business. They’re in super valuable real estate in cities across the country and as far as I can tell n
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by gonehome 4y ago
Salesforce is where good software goes to die (or at best become stagnant and lame). Same thing happened to quip and will happen to slack.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Do you know why Fidelity Investments plaid connection doesn’t work most of the time? It’s something I hit often and have to do the old microdeposit thing (if I can even figure out how to trick the service into allowing me to do that at all)
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by gonehome 4y ago
One of the things that drew me to urbit is it feels like when I first started playing with linux. It's fun, but in a way that tackles some real underlying issues with the modern web/computing stack. The ideas are interesting and w
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by gonehome 4y ago
Not OP, but here's an old thread from the last time this came up which is the bit I'm remembering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25297823
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Elon Musk Texts Saudi Public Investment Fund (2018)(twitter.com)
2 points by gonehome 5y ago|0 comments
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’ll second code - I love that book and haven’t found a better explanation elsewhere. For more general history, Hackers, The Dream Machine, Crypto, and to a lesser extent What The Dormouse Said are all good. I’d add in In The Plex, Masters
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by gonehome 5y ago
There is nothing that would ever convince you which is why I didn't want to try in the first place. You're starting from a position of thinking you're unshakably correct (and constantly write wildly over-confident condescendi
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by gonehome 5y ago
Previous threads that go into details/have interesting conversation about specific capabilities so we don't have to rehash all of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30729538 https://news.ycom
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by gonehome 5y ago
Come on - you didn't "simply list facts" you stated wildly confident and extreme opinions and then you labeled them facts. That you can't or won't recognize this is what I'm talking about. "Literally no ne
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by gonehome 5y ago
It’s not an ad hominem - it’s a critique of the type of discourse. You’ve already made up your mind as evidenced by this reply (what you claim is “reality as it is”) and will just argue in favor of that conclusion. You’re right the differen
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’m not going to argue with someone that’s just looking to win rather than actually be curious about stuff. If you’re right you can look back smugly. If you’re wrong you’ll eventually figure it out (or not), won’t matter to me. I think you’

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