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by gretch 3y ago
Have you tried replacing it with something else? I dramatically reduced my social media time a couple years ago by getting some casual games on my phone. Current favorites are NYT crosswords and solitaire. Some innocuous mental stimulation
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by gretch 3y ago
We’ve only had this communication capability for the last .01% of human existence. Even 150 years ago, if you wanted to communicate with anyone outside your town, you had to pay a horse based courier what was most likely a very expensive fe
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by gretch 3y ago
to further retort the article author: You don't have to be that knowledgeable to teach the basics. If the curriculum is binary arithmetic, there's far more skill in trying to articulately convey the concept to someone who has done
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by gretch 3y ago
"Reddit is providing little to no unique value to the world. The delta of the world with and without Reddit is close to zero. Hence no value." That's not the definition of "value" that everyone uses. Suppose there w
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by gretch 3y ago
It's not a general problem... if 99/100 won't spit in your coffee, that's still gonna cause anxiety. Not all restaurant workers are rational agents.
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by gretch 3y ago
You think you don’t until one day there’s a stat that AR assisted surgery is 50% more successful. Ask yourself - do you like it when your surgeon is using CAT scans, MRIs, blood/protein testing? Do you like it when your surgeon is wear
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by gretch 3y ago
One time I actually did watch close enough and saw something I wasn’t supposed to see - the magician somehow flicked a card flat into his inside front jacket pocket. Even after I saw it I couldn’t believe my eyes. Like, how could you flick
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by gretch 3y ago
> Third party app users are far more likely to be 1% and 9% users. They're committed to the platform enough that they're willing to seek out or even make software to improve their experience on it. You’re speculating at this wh
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by gretch 3y ago
I’m not the poster you replied to, but for starters, the problem is not that we don’t have enough money. The whole article is about how CA spent $17B and got so little for it. So how is having even more state money via LVT going to do anyth
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by gretch 3y ago
I do not buy this paper's conclusion. First problem I see is that they use Road Fatalities as proxy metric for overall goodness. If someone's driving drunk, and they run their truck into your living room at 2am - yeah maybe no one
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by gretch 3y ago
Lots of 'real gamers' developers make horrible products all the time. For example, star citizen, the game in development for decades with hundreds of millions of dollars of budget and no game to show for it. Mighty No. 9 Biomutant
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by gretch 3y ago
Sure I agree. The thought experiment cannot give insight on the severity of the punishment. That wasn't the scope though. GP comment said "There's a lot of stupid laws painted in black and white.". I don't think The
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by gretch 3y ago
No it is not immoral for everyone to farm. In fact I would actually recommend, if feasible, to start a garden in their yard for staple veggies. Just think how much energy we would save instead of shipping potatoes from Idaho or soybeans fro
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by gretch 3y ago
One thought experiment I use for morality is "What if everyone did what this person did?" And in that thought experiment, I think things turn out really badly. Not only is it materially bad, a lot of society's trust is burned
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by gretch 3y ago
No because people allocate resources based on future expectations of success. Look at Tesla market cap (a measure of resources allocated) vs Toyota and look at how many cars they sell. Tesla definitely didn’t start out winning, but people s
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by gretch 3y ago
I agree with you and have similar feelings about myself. There’s a saying I like that I think captures this well - “strike when the iron is hot”. Whenever I feel that spark swell inside of me, I drop everything else and immediately follow i
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by gretch 3y ago
> think Garrys Mod (GMod) meets the Zelda series This is the reason I don't find the game compelling. I don't want to sound like a hipster, so I'd like to recognize the incredible art direction and world design and that th
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by gretch 3y ago
I think a more accurate analogy is that if you bought those 3 items and they did have proper itemized cost, but the whole package also had a $500 shipping charge. And then it’s not obvious how to distribute the shipping cost across each ite
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by gretch 3y ago
I looked at the cited papers and accept the presented economic dynamics. But I still do not accept that it is a predominant motivation for why people are nimby. When I talk to my neighbors, I just do not get a sense of “oh yeah this dude is
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by gretch 3y ago
> Naturally then, most homeowners will want to continue to push for anything that increases the value of that investment and oppose anything that decreases it (e.g. building more housing). The example is commonly cited, but it’s irration
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by gretch 3y ago
> Let's say you're an american... and that you're plotting some anti-government movement at home. Which is more problematic Okay and for the hundreds of millions of us who are not, do we prefer our govt knowing about us or
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by gretch 3y ago
> There was a small universe of people who understood baseline concepts like getting to product market fit, how to measure and implement growth patterns, etc etc. I'm a PM and I think veeerrrryyy few people understand this, includin
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by gretch 3y ago
You put the most significant word in your question in quotes, which means that you are putting some kind of special non-standard meaning on it. I can't guess at what you mean. What do you mean is it "better"?
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by gretch 3y ago
Then I would diagnose your technique and give you some advice. In all of my personal experiences though, I've never seen someone fail on this level. It was almost always anxiety about 'proper' form. Or, they just needed to us
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by gretch 3y ago
I don't really think this is anything like that bowling analogy. -Bowling is an explicit competition. Eating is not. -Bowling has objective markers for performance (160/300). Eating doesn't -Bowling is completely human create
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by gretch 3y ago
Sorry for your experience. In my opinion those people were using chopstick technique as a vehicle for their bullying. Take the chopsticks out of the equation and they are probably doing some other form of gatekeeping.
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Also, they are very easy to wash and keep clean because they are 2 straight sticks. There's no nooks and crannies like between the tines of a fork. One of the main reason I like mine
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by gretch 3y ago
> That's basically every large industry. Yes, I'm against federal subsidies in many industries. If it's a public messaging system such as USPS, why does it deliver so much spam? How about we just pay for it and stop that p
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by gretch 3y ago
As an ethnic chinese person (grew up in the states but parents immigrated and don't speak english) I've always tried to convey this to my non-asian friends. When we go out to eat together, they always ask me what's the '
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by gretch 3y ago
Federally subsidized advertising platform is what it is

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