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by ksdale 5y ago
It's unreal the number of times a support person has said they "can't" do something because they don't have an option to do it in their user interface. And like, I understand that they don't have the authority
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by ksdale 5y ago
As a millenial forming a family, it's the former part of your last paragraph that's keeping our family out of the city. We live near Seattle, and we'd much rather be in Seattle, but we can't afford anywhere near the sa
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by ksdale 5y ago
There's also a large element of survivorship bias. Everything that's left is the stuff that was built well enough to last, and we don't see all the other things that are long gone.
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by ksdale 5y ago
This isn't entirely relevant, but my dad passed away a couple years ago, he was only 67 and I was 30, and during the course of his illness, I had ample opportunity to think about aging and dying. I think the most important thing to rem
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by ksdale 5y ago
I'm sorry your parents had to go through that, it sounds quite harrowing. I feel like this is equally evidence for incredible preparedness and flexibility though? The fact that such a major event was only scary for a week seems like a
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by ksdale 5y ago
I was responding to the assertion that it was a "little" rain, rather than that it was unexpected.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I mean, it was a ton of unexpected rain, and as far as I know, the only danger was caused by the flooding itself rather than any sort of supply shortages. I suspect that rather than serve as a warning of our inability to solve problems, i
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by ksdale 5y ago
A lot of the progress is due to fossil fuels/fertilizer to be sure, but given unlimited access to fossil fuels in 1900, a single person would still do a tiny fraction of the work a modern farmer can do thanks to modern equipment. I thi
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by ksdale 5y ago
You don't think anyone ever discusses Marx?
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by ksdale 5y ago
Once upon a time, I helped a group of friends start a company, and as we were going over the parts of the LLC agreement that outlined what would happen if the company dissolved as part of a fight, the entire group treated me like I was ri
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think it's hard to say there isn't demand since it was so ridiculously expensive prior to SpaceX. Getting things into orbit at this price point is quite a new thing. In a recent post on this blog, he talked about how before Spac
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by ksdale 5y ago
The fact that this is just dawning on modern society is evidence that up until just a few generations ago, people were mainly occupied with not starving to death. Indeed, some ridiculously huge number of people worries about that today as w
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by ksdale 5y ago
This is a delightful sentiment, and I'd go further and say that things as simple as being kind to the people around you, cleaning up after yourself, etc. are similarly important and impactful. They sound trivial compared to acts of &qu
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by ksdale 5y ago
I agree completely. As the parent says, people are entitled to form their own opinion of his credibility, but I don't see how you could possibly form an accurate opinion without knowledge of his mental state, and if you don't ca
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by ksdale 5y ago
Does the fact that people digest food differently make a difference? I feel like the way food is digested is "knowable" in a way that physics is knowable, we just don't have adequate tools to measure all the complexity yet. A
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by ksdale 5y ago
These categories exist, but parent's main example was diet/nutrition, which should fit into the hard science bucket because it's chemistry/biology, but currently involves a lot of soft science-y type studies because it
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think this is quite clever and it made me chuckle! I think it's plausible that access to a mediocre mentor could actually have better results, though, than reading books by the best mentors. Naturally there is room for both, but I ha
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by ksdale 5y ago
I remember reading about mPesa back in the day, and the article was talking about how there wasn't really any choice but to do SMS payments because there wasn't infrastructure for anything else. It's next gen, but also kind o
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by ksdale 5y ago
I believe he mentioned that in the first newsletter!
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think you may be overestimating the difference this distinction makes to the minimum wage person who has personally clean the bathroom.
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by ksdale 5y ago
It seems like maybe he confused positive and negative feedback? But if you think he's created a situation where positive feedback is going to cause massive problems down the line, I was interested in knowing specifically what you had i
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by ksdale 5y ago
I don't think this is unique to HNers talking about government, the reverse is also true, with many government officials assuming that most businesses are awash in cash that they can use to solve any problem (true of many businesses to
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by ksdale 5y ago
*A local city mayor who also happens to have one of the busiest ports in the world in his city. The back up is literally in the global news. It doesn't seem unreasonable for him to, at the very least, ask someone on his staff to give h
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by ksdale 5y ago
What new timebombs do you think he has installed, for example?
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think it's a stretch to call what the NYT did in the run up to the Iraq war merely "quoting the president."
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by ksdale 5y ago
Are laws the only thing preventing you from stealing?
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by ksdale 5y ago
Perhaps a level of professionalism that you would expect from someone working at a fast food restaurant? The fact that fast food restaurants can require less and pay more than ECE makes it sound exactly like a licensing problem. As a father
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by ksdale 5y ago
I don't think the parent would disagree with you, they were saying that basically all of the big media companies sow discord to get higher engagement, and that any solution that only deals with FB and not all media is likely to not be
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by ksdale 5y ago
There's a big difference though between requiring a license, and requiring that every childcare provider has a college education (like is required of teachers). Keeping a child safe is not effortless, but it's also not that hard
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by ksdale 5y ago
I feel like you're saying the same thing as the author? The things you've listed are daycare, not school... And the author's point is that we shouldn't make it more difficult for children to be in daycare-like settings b

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