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by kansface 4y ago
It’s a classic innovator’s dilemma no matter how successful they are at building stuff - there is no way Google will launch a product that eats 40% of their own lunch.
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by kansface 4y ago
> The funds raised will be used to provide liquidity to current and former employees and address employee withholding tax obligations related to equity awards, resulting in the retirement of Stripe shares that will offset the issuance of
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by kansface 4y ago
> I know the HN crowd loves big engineering, and that in theory all these problems could be solved with enough investment and practice building plants etc., Has the US successfully built anything big or hard in a generation or two? Hi
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by kansface 4y ago
This is story about kidnappings and extortion, no? Thats actual crime with actual victims.
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by kansface 4y ago
It seems like it would be trivially easy for the Police to set up stings.
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by kansface 4y ago
Both! Mental illness is quite often self reinforcing outside of the original etiology - clearly so or else it wouldn’t exist as a common meta stable state.
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by kansface 4y ago
I'd suggest you read though a book on Cognitive Behavior Therapy if you are actually interested. Evidence suggests working through a book to be around as effective as any other intervention. I just did the same[1] and found the solut
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by kansface 4y ago
Are oversized billboards harmful? Do advertisements on every surface of public space cause physical harm? Is a yard full of non-toxic junk poisonous to its neighbors? Do parking lots lining every Main Street cause anyone direct physical
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by kansface 4y ago
It does, actually. It’s the difference between struggling and being preoccupied with struggle. Anxiety doesn’t make fuel cheaper, end war, or racism; anxiety is not a virtue.
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by kansface 4y ago
> But I would guess, that is couple orders of magnitude easier than self driving for example. The more I think about this, the more I believe you to be incorrect! Identifying the correct item in the bin is hard - things are in random
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by kansface 4y ago
The better solution would be to locate government agencies in red states so they are staffed with representative employees who are at least theoretically sympathetic to their values. Those agencies would cease to be a perennial target for
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by kansface 4y ago
I have a degree in physics, but have been a working programmer for 15 years. For me, intuition is the only thing that remains and that is slipping, too. This post is like visiting an old friend I haven’t talked to in as much time.
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by kansface 4y ago
JS let’s you throw any type as an error.
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by kansface 4y ago
I'd say removing the interstate from the Embarcadero and Hayes Valley is a substantial improvement, but your point still stands. That was politically unpopular and required a major earthquake.
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by kansface 4y ago
Hating your out group is not a virtue.
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by kansface 4y ago
What does optimize mean in this case?
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by kansface 4y ago
> The argument implies (but does not state, because of the absurdity), that spending less money would raise scores. I think the correct take away is spending on education is only very loosely coupled to outcomes once some very low thres
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by kansface 4y ago
Given that they are testing theory, yes. What theory underlines psychology? How does one relate the findings?
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by kansface 4y ago
We did build beautiful things post war! A driving tenant of Modernism was to bring good design to the masses through mass manufacturing - better living through ~science~ good design (see eg MoMA's Good Design Exhibition [1]). If yo
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by kansface 4y ago
Even if this were correct, the specific 20% matters.
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by kansface 4y ago
The article mentioned direct government action to censor, remove content and/or people from platforms, no?
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by kansface 4y ago
> almost all of society knew that if they united for a great purpose, they could achieve great things. What purpose do we share?
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by kansface 4y ago
Is that actually correct? What about the down payment difference, as applied to the cheaper house?
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by kansface 4y ago
Is this not just a matter of culture? New Yorkers’ conversations are so compressed that they outright overlap. Any silence is an invitation and anyone with something to say is expected to just say it - to make room for themself. Califor
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by kansface 4y ago
Both modes are subject to failures. Waiting is subject to live locks and interrupting is subject to thrashing. The socially maladroit or power tripper will misuse or abuse either system.
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by kansface 4y ago
Developers mostly just plant fast growing trees.
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by kansface 4y ago
Part of the problem is that the medium changed. We used to get one episode a week with frequent commercial breaks. Watching episodes of Seinfeld now, back to back, I agree with you.
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by kansface 4y ago
I've read that Houston isn't regulation free per se. Zoning was mostly replaced with neighbor associations of one sort or another which are just as restrictive with regard to dense development.
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by kansface 4y ago
Doesn’t the nuclear heating happen regardless of us harnessing the energy or not?
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by kansface 4y ago
Both Texas and California struggle to keep the power on. They both make memes about it, too.

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