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by khazhoux 2y ago
> Fairy tales are the best way for children to learn that the world contains evil, violence, and danger. Don’t worry about this. They’ll learn in grade school to be afraid that at any moment, a stranger might come on campus and shoot th
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by khazhoux 2y ago
It’s an innate sense which most closely resembles proprioception (knowing where you arms/legs/etc are), or remembering where you put your keys. I suppose maybe it’s similar to “seeing” landmarks on a map (not necessarily a grid) b
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by khazhoux 2y ago
But all the comments in this thread show how different the experiences are. Personally, I can’t tell after reading all of them (and previous HN discussions too) which is common and which is uncommon: clear, fuzzy, abstract, or zero visuali
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Respectfully, you don’t know which experience is really normal (most common)
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by khazhoux 2y ago
I can visualize nothing, but have excellent navigation skills. I can accurately remember the geospatial arrangement of cities and locations and routes I visited only once decades ago. That part of my brain has nothing to do with “seeing t
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by khazhoux 2y ago
> but I am convinced that it’s the people who can fully visualize things that are the outliers and not the other way around Most people can't draw (at all) and I think that supports your point. Example: https://twistedsif
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Erm... here's a simpler test: (1) picture a circle (2) do you see a circle? (3) do you still see a circle? Even replace "circle" with "straight line." I think tests like above (balls, people, details) miss the po
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by khazhoux 2y ago
I just checked... yes, I dream with imagery. But I cannot hold an image in my head. With concentration I can will an image into existence, but it does not hold still for even an instant. A shapeless tangle will interpolate into an apple a
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by khazhoux 2y ago
> There seems to be a higher-than-average incidence of Aphantasia in tech folks, at least as self-reported. But you're probably only reading about aphantasia in tech forums like this one.
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by khazhoux 2y ago
The evidence points to an uninterrupted stream of human violence throughout all history. Meanwhile, you speculate --without basis-- that this will be solved via education, positing some pedagogical or cultural breakthrough that somehow has
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Every culture in every corner of the world throughout known history.
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by khazhoux 2y ago
But you must admit, this is not the common case. If a developer regularly takes 3 months to fix every bug, then those all better be nasty heisenbeasts, because it's more likely that the developer is just slow.
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by khazhoux 2y ago
> It's not a sex scene; it is fully and completely a love scene. The love was expressed sexually. In a sex scene. I understand that most sex in movies is poorly done, but that is a different discussion (and doesn't alter the p
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by khazhoux 2y ago
> It's one of the most beautiful sequences in all of cinema -- a grieving couple rediscovering intimacy and joy. The way it is intercut with them dressing, getting ready for dinner, the way you can see it brought happiness and affir
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Is that more or less frequent than the HN anti-pattern: "I thought this was about..." as if that being wrong about what article was about was in any way interesting? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40339500
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by khazhoux 2y ago
See, that's exactly what I mean. Here [1], CISA assesses China-made drones as a national security risk. That is a non-partisan agency. But your response is: * American tech companies are just as data-hungry, if not more. -> irrel
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by khazhoux 2y ago
> While I agree with you, I doubt banning Chinese tech will remedy this problem. I don't mean this as a political issue, but in your comment I see one of the reasons Trump appeals to people. He promotes a mindset of "stop hand
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Sure, I hear you. But I do think "puff piece" is wrong word. That would usually mean a piece that purposely avoids the negative, usually with some marketing or PR agenda. Here, I think Linn was happily surprised by what he foun
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by khazhoux 2y ago
> I can't fathom how he thinks it's so intuitive. It's taken me months and years and lots of manual-reading, 3rd party manuals and numerous videos to understand what is basically just a daw. I bought an MPC 1 about 3 weeks
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by khazhoux 2y ago
I don't understand the logic. He posted to say he really likes the device -- as simple as that. How is that a puff piece? Should he have shat on it? I mean, I like my MPC Live 1...
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by khazhoux 2y ago
The question had nothing to do with that. It was whether LASIK can have life-altering complications. The answer is Yes. But to your point: I will assume the HN who posted here was smart, and that the procedure was performed by a licensed
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Another person posted that they lost the ability to see stars due to visual aberrations. That’s really sad. And it’s not uncommon, apparently.
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Someone once told there's only two times to join a startup: as a founder, or the year before they go public.
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by khazhoux 2y ago
If startup goes to zero, then everyone goes home with nothing. The founders typically don't lose any money of their own -- that cost is shouldered by angel and series-A investors. Often though, the startup has a "soft landing&quo
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Yeah that line in the article is completely off: > Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1 Employee #1 typically gets 1%. Sometimes could be up to 2%, but 1% is standard. So then the founder gets
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Eat and drink! Beer, coke, more beer, more coke.
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by khazhoux 2y ago
It’s not the cars and it’s not the walking. Ignore the unique cities like LA and NYC, and daily suburban life is the same in Santa Clara or Little Rock or St. Louis or Charlotte. But some cities are full of morbidly obese people, while so
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by khazhoux 2y ago
The “brain devt stops at age X” is pseudoscience. Some physiological growth may stop, yes, but you can still get addicted to things at any age.
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by khazhoux 2y ago
I used to get upset by things like that, until I realized that everyone(-ish) has a similar story. Still, it's amazing that for all the hours of work I put in, day in and day out for years, I could have amassed 10x more money if I had
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by khazhoux 2y ago
Ha. The real question is why I didn't just hold. That $50K would now be like $10 million.

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