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by jfaucett 9y ago
1. Waking up - Sam Harris 2. You are not so Smart (Psychology, Bias, Cogsci) 3. All in the mind BBC (Psychology) 4. Buenos Dias America (north, central, and south american news, with. focus on usa) 5. More or less behind the statistics BBC
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Basically, I don't accept what you and most people accept - that humans have free will, we could have made a choice X instead of Y, etc, etc. I know its not a popular opinion, and I don't expect to convince you of my views in a co
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My point has to do with the notion of retributive justice i.e. that punishment should be inflicted because the criminal deserves it - in a quasi-religious sense i.e. he is evil or deserving of hell. This usually carries along notions of mor
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Its odd to me how many people in this thread are either for or against this decision, not based on a fixing a problem rationale but on moral grounds that this person deserved or didn't deserve the punishment. Does your computer progra
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> Is this worth getting? I can't speak for this book, but Phoenix and Elixir in general have incredible documentation and example libraries/apps all over the place. I built a production app in Phoenix and got up to a very rapid
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Here's some things I do. 1. Make predictions over short (next day, next hour) to long (next month,year) term. When you are right or wrong ask why. Make a hypothesis and test it out in your next prediction. You can and should do this wi
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> Bitcoin itself is a technology of resistance. Private crypt-currencies more so. this. Centralization of power arguably removes risks and is "safer" - at least so long as the power holder acts benevolently. At least that'
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Is this surprising to anyone? This is the very sort of problem which Bitcoin was designed to avoid -decentralized no single point of failure. This is why you should be using your own wallet where you control the money.
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Completely agree. I arrived at a more or less kanban methodology, with a few leftovers from SCRUM of things that do work, like biweekly reviews of the past "sprint period" to evaluate progress and direction, and groom the backlog.
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> Gold is certainly the ideal model for something like Bitcoin I disagree. I don't think Bitcoin should strive to be a store of value like Gold is. Today most Gold investing is just based on fear, because people see a government mis
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According to www.merriam-webster.com hip means "having or showing awareness of or involvement in the newest developments or styles". Or "very fashionable". It seems to me too, the word is more associated with dynamic mov
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> You are fooling yourself if you think that this won't affect you just because you don't live in the US. You're right of course. Economies are chaotic dynamical systems. Precisely, what I meant was "there is a high p
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As someone who is not in the US and will not suffer any negative consequences of this, I'm interested to see what will happen. We know the catastrophe hypothesis - ISPs will throttle content, customers will lose badly, innovation will
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agree. The 2 years core curriulum in the US college majors is an indictment of US high schools IMHO. I like the system here in Germany a lot better, its not perfect but it doesnt waste your time as much and gives you way more options.
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When it comes to climate science, I wish more people had at least a minimal idea of what is going on. For a simple summary of relevant data, see https://www.skepticalscience.com/ which has good summaries at a layman's
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Cohen's kappa explained(dsj.hackertarian.com)
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> We need more people teaching math through visual intuition. I would modify that slightly and say rather just through "intuition". Visualization helps a lot, but you can also have great intuition from situations, stories, feel
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Show HN: Virt DOM a tool for creating interactive UIs(nathanfaucett.github.io)
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Show HN: Immutable JavaScript Data Structures(github.com)
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It seems you're assuming democratic systems/processes are only two party and rule by majority i.e. votes of > 50% means power. Thats not what I said, but if thats your definition then though a valid point, it still doesn't
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When this is the outcome, I am definitely against democracy. The Nazis were elected into power through democratic processes, does that make anything they did somehow ligitimate? Do the venezuelan people deserve to die of starvation and lack
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regardless of what you think of Trump, this is the correct action. The maduro govt is not just full of issues, they are murdering and starving their own population and any funds are used to prop up the privileged few elite in the aristocrac
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I can't believe the author doesn't mention gitlab. Setting up full CI on gitlab is amazing. They have the easily integratable gitlab runners i.e. travis-ci functionality + different build stages for automatic deployment via ansibl
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Yes! To me this is an area where rust could really shine. Embedded development in c is chalk full of headaches that rust has the right medication for: package mgmt, code reuse, safety. I would love to see more people building packages and f
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> Learning effectively is not the same thing as doing effectively. You have to learn in order to do and doing is the means for learning. Its iterative and both reinforce one another. So from my viewpoint, which admittedly is largely from
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> if your job is repetitive you are doing it wrong. If jobs weren't repetitive we wouldn't group together a specific set of tasks under a label and hire people who can accomplish said tasks. We also wouldn't even be able t
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> This isn't medical school where you need 8 years of education and experience before you can begin to practice your profession with a limited chance of killing someone. Completely disagree with this statement. Being a doctor and be
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I kind of get what you're saying. I live and work in Germany where there is the stereotype of a very high standard that we carry around on all our products i.e. there are companies that would not do business with us if they did not get
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> I can confirm this. We say "Allah." Is there any difference at all? I was under the impression that all abrahamic religions referenced the same "God". So when a Muslim, Jew, and Christian say "God" are the
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> I think Buddhists will be very disappointed... Actually, Buddhists would be very happy indeed, no reincarnation means nirvana has been reached :)

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