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by lukasb 5y ago
Have you considered showing the add comment UI for non-logged in users, and then sending them to the register flow if they comment?
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by lukasb 5y ago
I think he did address it: "True meditation, however, is not just taking a break. It is not simply closing one’s eyes to the problem for a while. Meditation goes to the root of the problem. You need to become aware of the destructive a
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by lukasb 5y ago
https://www.austintexas.gov/police/reports/search2.cfm?choic...
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by lukasb 5y ago
"vulgar" is a much classier insult than I'm used to here
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by lukasb 5y ago
Heaven forbid someone should study something for any reason other than money. I'm pretty sure humanities majors realize they're not maximizing their expected salary.
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by lukasb 5y ago
My guess is they're using the same strategy as the Snowden leaks - drop a new bombshell at regular intervals through the media, then eventually open source the whole thing. The idea is the maximize the impact of the leaks, not to hide
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by lukasb 5y ago
"In fact, i often struggle to find words to express ideas that I can perfectly think about." Same. I'm curious about what's happening here - sometimes visual thinking, sometimes kinesthetic, maybe a mix?
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by lukasb 5y ago
It's free.
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by lukasb 5y ago
Disagree, I loved the larger text.
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by lukasb 5y ago
Is there any evidence that would convince you that actual rapes are a more prevalent and more important problem than false claims of rape? If so, what form would that evidence take? If not, you're really arguing based on faith, not evi
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by lukasb 5y ago
That's not what the study (linked from the article) says. It estimates that 2-8% of complaints are false, and that the remaining 92-98% are true.
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by lukasb 5y ago
jfengel's comment was all about how the very high bar the criminal justice system sets for arrests/prosecutions/convictions for sexual assault is not the appropriate bar for the community to use to keep itself safe. So the lo
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by lukasb 5y ago
Okay, can you give an example of evidence that you would accept in this specific case?
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by lukasb 5y ago
"only 4% of cases are provable one way or the other, and that those which are have a 50/50 chance of being true or false complaints." Not prosecuted != not provable. Not provable != false.
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by lukasb 5y ago
Aren't you more worried about the 99% of rape victims who receive no justice of any kind?
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by lukasb 5y ago
What proof would satisfy you? How is a victim of rape supposed to be able to supply that proof? Should women wear body cams at all times?
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by lukasb 5y ago
Less than 1% of rapes lead to felony convictions: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/06/less-than... Same article notes that between 2-8% of rape complaints are false. Worries about false ra
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by lukasb 5y ago
Allow me to hijack - I'm working on something to make the experience of reading the text-only version of books on OpenLibrary better (if they decide to integrate it when it's done.) Email's in the profile if you want to help
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by lukasb 6y ago
Start here: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
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by lukasb 6y ago
What you say about metta etc being less likely to induce psychosis than vipassana makes sense, Goenka retreats especially are super-intense bootcamps. Do you have a citation for the 5-10x figure? I can't find it in the Britton paper.
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by lukasb 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about the article - a lot of that has to do with the fact that over the ~10 retreats I've been on, with dozens of people that I interacted with after the retreat was over, I haven't really observed the negati
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by lukasb 6y ago
Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering can be applied to social problems. (Spoiler: it can't.)
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by lukasb 6y ago
"I also think its existence put less pressure on WP to fix bugs." IMO this is not a good reason to deny users an escape hatch to make fixing problems at least possible. To be fair it depends on what kind of users you care about -
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by lukasb 6y ago
AIUI this is slander. The reason they sound "bad" is because their time resolution is so good it exposes flaws in mixing.
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by lukasb 6y ago
Yeah. It solves the "I forgot I already have a note on this" problem too, by making search and creation the same UI.
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by lukasb 6y ago
Filter bubbles are a feature, not a bug. Having an online presence is too unsafe for too many people. If you have a better idea of how to solve that problem, I'm all ears.
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by lukasb 6y ago
Okay, but surely out of every major tech company, Apple is the closest to waterfall-style? Given what a bad name waterfall has now, that's surely notable. It seems to me that the reason Apple succeeds with a (relatively close to) water
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by lukasb 6y ago
This isn’t scrum or agile or… — most would call it waterfall BUT IT IS NOT. It is planning, iterating, prioritizing, discarding, restarting, and more. I don't understand why this isn't waterfall. Because ... sometimes Apple chan
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by lukasb 7y ago
I clicked the link and was like "ha, what, no way BT uses CSound" but I was wrong! http://simoncpage.co.uk/blog/2008/10/bt-this-binary-universe...
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by lukasb 7y ago
"There is no conceivable outcome of cosmological modeling that will drive policy changes like that." We hope

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