hoorayimhelping

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by hoorayimhelping 9mo ago
> All ads are poisonous This is a silly and short-sighted blanket statement. People used to love getting catalogs, which are just big books full of ads. In the right context, people appreciate being informed of products that can help im
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by hoorayimhelping 2y ago
3. You are strong enough to provide a serious and credible threat to the king if he implements a policy that threatens you. Example: Valve in the early 2000s before or as they were building Steam to challenge the video game publisher model.
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by hoorayimhelping 2y ago
>* However the both act in the brain the same way and both lead to bad ends to the vast majority.* This is a poor justification for making something illegal. Chocolate and cocaine operate on the same neural pathways, but one is clearly m
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by hoorayimhelping 2y ago
> I don't think there is such a thing as truth This is a self-defeating statement. It's false on its face. If there is no such thing as truth, then this statement can't be true because it would mean there is at least one
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by hoorayimhelping 2y ago
last.fm found me some of my favorite bands of the last 15 years.
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by hoorayimhelping 2y ago
This isn't the world we've built, it's the world we live in. We didn't create this world, and we aren't yet powerful enough to change the nature of reality, so to blame humanity for the necessity of defense is silly
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by hoorayimhelping 2y ago
I was diagnosed 15ish years ago when I was 26. I tried medication and absolutely hated it. It changed who I was. Medication is a crutch. If you're completely crippled and you need it, then you should use it temporarily. But be very ver
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
A Brief History of Time deals with this subject very well. It's a very easy and quick read, meant for a wide audience, not a technical one. It's readable in an afternoon. The concept that time is relative to the observer is where
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
Also, it's worth noting that Apollo astronauts are not average-health men. They were selected for their extreme outlier health attributes, which is why so many of them live so long.
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
Space is generally defined to be 100km above earth's surface, an arbitrary point called the Karman Line [1]. Orbit is when an object is traveling so fast that it reaches the horizon of a body before the body's gravity can pull it
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
If you've ever seen fruit on sale, you've seen a coarse version of this.
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
Capable with current technology if intercepted early enough. I think most people visualize an asteroid hitting earth like a ball hitting the ground when dropped at arm's length. In reality, orbits of celestial objects are elliptical, a
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
It's not like this is limited to "bad players." It's standard procedure for almost every website. Whether that's good or bad is a separate topic - the point it's not just nefarious people using cookies to watch
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
> I have been diagnosed with ADHD this year. How do I best tell prospective employers I might need some accommodation in this process? As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD a decade-and-a-half ago in my 20s: You don't. You don&#x2
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
> Warhammer Online, Guild Wars 2, etc. were all great games from the business perspective. OP said: > all these mmos were popping up saying they were the "WoW killer" Guild Wars and WHO weren't positioned as WoW kille
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by hoorayimhelping 3y ago
I don't think this is good news, it's at best not-bad news. We're already inundated with content , most of it copycatting other content, and it's replacing meaningful things, like archetypal stories and philosophy. Look
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by hoorayimhelping 4y ago
A hypothetical guy works at a hypothetical startup that publishes a lot of blog posts, and he's not the greatest writer, so he uses a hypothetical service that does AI-based editing for him. He loves the service and recommends it to ev
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by hoorayimhelping 4y ago
Tangential but related: "Toxic Propellant Hazards"[1] a video made in the mid/late 60s and published by the US National Archives Youtube channel. In addition to having some great information about hypergolic propellants, and
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
>We just learned that it takes only $200m to buy a law in the state of California. Incredibly cynical and reductive. I cast my vote on prop 22 based on my personal beliefs about where the government should sit in a relationship between t
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> on the one hand, we need informed citizenry who can dissect media and think critically That isn't what universities are creating though. They're creating people who think one specific way about the world. The problem is that
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> that's not the ideal that gave birth to the university in the form that we recognize it. I get it when people say this, but at the same time, I don't. Why are you basing the effectiveness of the institution in modern times o
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Yes. But even more than seeing their space junk, we would have seen evidence of them being on earth in the ground. Civilization changes nature, and when looking through nature, it's very easy to see evidence of civilization. It doesn&#
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> The motivation for fictitious wars against bogeymen is to empower and bankroll law enforcement while diminishing the civil rights of citizens. Thank you. This trend where people recast everything in the 20th century to be racially mot
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> The system is supposed to prevent people from dying, 346 people died, the system is broken, it is a fact. Of course we work backward from there. Isn't this just outcome bias though? You're arguing that because there are 346
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
> It was, but the follow-up action designed to minimize risk of loss when caught by customs rather than avoiding import of fraudulent goods blurred image of your intentions. It seems pretty clear to me, I think you're missing the p
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Orcas don't eat typically humans, there are many examples of them not doing this when they could have. I have no evidence to support this, but if they're intelligent enough to have culture differences between pods, they might be i
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
reddit and HN were very focused when they started out. Reddit was like 70% talk about lisp when it started. HN was very much about building business with VC money (which wasn't talked about all that much when it started). They were als
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I think you might be in a tech bubble if you think Americans are blind to how biased and disgraceful the media is. Most Americans are middle of the road when it comes to politics, and middle of the road conservatives and liberals are sick
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
I saw John Darnielle in a coffee shop in Durham, NC a few years ago. Me and a coworker walked up to him and told him we loved the Mountain Goats. He said thanks and immediately started talking about Durham and how great it was. He talked a
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by hoorayimhelping 6y ago
Domain Driven Design: https://smile.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Compl... It's not about designing APIs, it's about designing your software to reflect the reality you're encoding into your softwar

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