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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, more likely to get infected on exposure than an unvaccinated person that has not previously had the disease. The source link supports that claim as far as I can tell from what's on that page and doesn't say anything about va
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by gonehome 5y ago
I mostly agree, but I think the core difference with HIV is how it's transmitted. You're more in control of your transmission risk. That's less true with Covid given its contagiousness through the air. I'm of the opinion
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by gonehome 5y ago
I've always thought Palantir's name was particularly good. The seeing stone lets you see things, but is easy to misinterpret if you're not careful. It is itself neutral, but can be corrupted for evil. Lots of power, but hard
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by gonehome 5y ago
I really disliked the hardware, battery life was awful for me even after replacing it with their extended size OEM battery. It felt like cheap plastic crap too (imo). The iPhone 5 was the first iOS phone with turn by turn nav and LTE which
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, I jumped ship earlier. I had the Nexus One, Nexus S, and Galaxy Nexus (which was a horrible phone) and then jumped to an iPhone 5. It's hard to find hardware as consistently good as the iPhone and after the redesign from 12 onwar
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Practically-a-Book Review: Yudkowsky Contra Ngo on Agents(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by gonehome 5y ago
As long as the market is allowed to build housing to meet demand it's not too bad. Main issue in Palo Alto (and to a large extent the rest of the bay area) is that there's massive population growth in the bay area, but very little
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by gonehome 5y ago
Any specific reason? Why did you think it wouldn't last?
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by gonehome 5y ago
There could very well be a non-anxiety effect and I'm not trying to dismiss that. For me, I've experienced the difficulty sleeping, early morning wakefulness, heart rate, nausea, stomach issues, and sweats as physical symptoms of
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by gonehome 5y ago
Similar for me, thought I was dying because of the intensity of physical symptoms. Got a lot of blood tests, turned out it was anxiety related - I was surprised at the intensity of physical symptoms that can happen from it. While I’d guess
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yes - 1Password is excellent and in the rare class of applications that actually ships new features that are both unexpected and useful!
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by gonehome 5y ago
What’s interesting about this is that a little reason can be a dangerous thing. The current vaccine debate is kind of a modern example of this. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...
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by gonehome 5y ago
> "I don’t see anybody arguing that people doing this shouldn’t get charged." This comment is basically arguing that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29932479 They frame it a little indirectly, but it&#x27
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by gonehome 5y ago
There's a group of people that like to pretend heroin is less harmful despite all the evidence to the contrary. I'm not sure if they're users rationalizing their own use or what, but it's an odd thing I've noticed.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Only if you keep the market alive. Arrest the dealers and administer the drug to addicts for free at clinics? I think that would be an interesting approach. I'm not a policy expert. I used to agree with you, but I think part of the iss
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by gonehome 5y ago
You can advocate for policy that works to improve things that lead to increased crime and be strict about enforcing the law when crime occurs. While this doesn't necessarily fit cleanly into existing partisan politics, it is possible
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by gonehome 5y ago
Imo the comment you’re replying to is a kind of progressive left-wing university faculty lounge flavor of upper middle class politics and is not representative of the vast majority of Americans (but is overrepresented online). I’d suspect m
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by gonehome 5y ago
Arguably SF’s lack of police response enables continued drug abuse and homelessness. See: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/rescuing-jessica-s... This person has no interest in treatment. They want to do d
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by gonehome 5y ago
There are a lot of poor people who are not thieves. I’ve always felt this framing condescends to them. Sure, there’s certainly more incentive to steal at the academic extremes (bread for your starving family), but people raiding trains for
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by gonehome 5y ago
The first 8 or so chapters of HPMOR are not really representative. I'd suggest reading chapter 10 (sorting hat chapter) for a better example. That's at least when I started to really like it.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think it's pretty good, there's just a class of people that like to sneeringly look down on it. Cynicism (maybe snobbiness?) masquerading as intelligence. I've found the ideas in it (and the larger lesswrong community) to b
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by gonehome 5y ago
The origins outside of HPMOR: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aSQy7yHj6nPD44RNo/how-to-see...
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think the worst outcome of their attempts to tax others this way is that it'll blow up in their face and they'll lose leverage over the app store. I'm okay with them enforcing app store policy guidelines etc. I think what t
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah I think you’re right, I suppose I was thinking in the context of early career or first job. I think you get more attention if you have a lot of YOE.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I've found internal referral to be the only reliable way to get an interview at competitive companies. Generally I think the below is true when it comes to getting interviews. - Internal Referral (this is the best way) - Twitter leadin
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, I agree - South Park got this right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_in_China “As a result of the episode's criticism of its practices, the Chinese government banned the series entirely in the country”
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think that's a fair question. I guess my idea of winning is like the web vs. gopher. I want the good, federated protocol to become the default. I want my friends to be using it not because I have to nag them to, but because it's
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah - I saw they were working on that, I think that's a smart approach.
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by gonehome 5y ago
> "Matrix is already competing." Sure, s/compete/win - I don't think they'll win (hence why they'll be a niche). > "The problem to "fix" is not a technological one. It's socio-eco
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by gonehome 5y ago
> "I think this is just not true, my grandmother would use whatever I tell her to use she doesn't care if Signal has "better UI" according to some people." Protocols are slower to change, this is why XMPP lost to

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