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by lkrubner 5y ago
Self reported happiness is notoriously unreliable. Check out “Are you really happy?” https://www.psypost.org/2016/01/self-reported-well-being-doe... Here is a basic primer on the subject: https://en.m.w
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Posted in part because of misunderstandings in the conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27952328
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I just posted this for further discussion on a Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27953746
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Are you happy? Self-reported well being doesn’t match with external observation(psypost.org)
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Exactly. And even though this issue is sometimes discussed on Hacker News, I suspect that the people who are down voting me don’t know anything about this issue. For them, as a basic primer, I’d point them to the Wikipedia page: https:&#x2
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I think you might be uneducated on this issue. For starters, read the Wikipedia page on this subject: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_study
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Likewise, the literature that argues that these self-reports are worthless is also quite extensive: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-015-9710-0 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us&#x
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Right, but it should be huge, it was only significantly surpassed by the pandemic in 2020, which is a clue that these are unadjusted dollars, and so the graph lacks any explanatory power.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Why was this downvoted? World War II was the largest fiscal event in USA history (before the pandemic) and it is invisible on this graph, therefore the graph has little explanatory power. Why would I be downvoted for pointing that out?
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Why was this downvoted? Does anyone disagree with the basic idea here? People's actions are more meaningful than what they say to a pollster. This should be obvious.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
That looks like unadjusted dollars? It's a crazy graph, as the biggest pre-pandemic event in USA fiscal history (World War II) is simply invisible on this graph. As a point of comparison USA debt hit 101% of GDP in 1946, a level we onl
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by lkrubner 5y ago
If anyone in tech lives in New York City and is looking to meet more people, reach out to me. I recently re-started these parties: http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/everyone-was-amazing-... I held them once-a-mont
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Actions speak louder than words, and so drug overdoses must speak louder than a poll. Even before the pandemic, life expectancy in the USA was stagnant or falling because of the upsurge in "deaths of despair". This is pre covid:
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by lkrubner 5y ago
"Users who are opted-in to tracking are subsidising those who aren't" Which gives them leverage. If they were better organized, they could make demands based on that leverage.
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When companies make a fetish of being data driven they reward passive aggression(smashcompany.com)
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No, but I was just contacted by a programmer who worked there after me, and who had just read my book. The programmer told me that the bad spelling continues. He joked "That was a nice touch. Anyone who knows John knows about the bad s
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Anyone interested in a story written in defiance of an NDA, I give you "How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps": https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Three-Steps-eboo... I wrote this because it s
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by lkrubner 5y ago
As they say, they are responding to the consensus that existed around 2000 that the Sapiens story was a straightforward "out of Africa" story.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Not on the basis of height, nor any one characteristic. They'd look at the teeth, too, and the basic shape of the eye socket, among other things. There has to be several differences before you claim a new species.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
In the ongoing debate between the "lumpers" and the "splitters" the splitters are now looking well justified in their belief that you can't take every fossil and lump into a broad category known as "homo erectu
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by lkrubner 5y ago
There is no connection between biology and politics save for what meanings currently active politically actors attempt to assert. Such assertions are purely for current political advantage, they are not made in any kind of good faith effort
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by lkrubner 5y ago
If women were afraid of long, brutal hours then they wouldn’t make up 52% of all new doctors.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
You're confusing your personal feelings about some hypothetical organization with the separate question of what the definition of "morale" is. That organization will have a level of morale even if you are not a part of the or
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by lkrubner 5y ago
"destroy morale for the remaining" This depends on how you define morale. Morale can be thought of as the willingness of people to make difficult sacrifices to maintain community ties, in the sense offered by the essay "Why S
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I need to sit down and write a long blog post on this subject, but the tl;dr would be "The modern Web environment, from programming to browsing, is a massive case of path dependence; if we were starting from scratch today, knowing all
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Thank you. I believe some people downvote it based on the title, rather than the argument, but I believe the title is also accurate.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I've previously suggested that initiation is the "root of all evil." See my essay: Object Oriented Programming Is An Expensive Disaster Which Must End: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/object-orient
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Most couples take a second job to increase their standard of living, but now millions were forced by the pandemic to reduce their standard of living, and many are now saying "Wait, this reduction in my standard of living is really an i
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by lkrubner 5y ago
This book is fantastic. Keith Johnstone was at the heart of the London improv scene in the 1960s when groups like Monty Python's Flying Circus were emerging. I used to attend a lot of improv workshops and the professional actors I knew
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by lkrubner 5y ago
My former business partner deals with the stress by smoking a lot of weed, which may or may not have affected the presentations he gives in public. You can judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8znQZ1RUckg Mor

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