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by lumb63 4y ago
Wow, you just made me realize why HN is so much better than Reddit. There’s no useless comments full of in-jokes and sarcastic one liners; comments are actually thoughtful and generate discourse rather than being one-line low-wit witticisms
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If you’ve not read it, you might be interested in The Technological Society. The author says, we ought not ask only “what’s the benefit?”, but also “at what cost?” In the past three years or so, I’ve been making more and more conscious deci
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How’s that? Got any additional info?
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I don’t much care if others give themselves cancer via PFAS by lifestyle choices, as long as they’re aware. To that extent, I try to raise awareness by telling people, since a lot are not aware yet. The fact that others using PFAS impacts u
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That’s it. Thanks!
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Forums were great. I miss them greatly. Not only were they better for debate, but they fostered a sense of community. They were welcome to discussion and collaboration and experimentation. People could learn from each other and form lasting
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Maybe someone else can help me out here: there is a site somewhere (I can’t recall the name) that mirrors Reddit and keeps track of what content gets deleted. If you saw that, you would have to agree “counter to observable fact” is not an a
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Looks stunning, but no thanks. I want analog dials and physical buttons and knobs for features like gauges, air conditioning, and volume.
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I was sad to see this article not mention Orwell’s Politics and the English Language. It is one of the best guides to writing clearly and concisely I’m aware of. Too much writing meanders and fails to say what it means.
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I’m not a parent yet, but I worry the same thing. It’s also bigger than parenting. I know a lot of folks in their mid-late 20s who suffer from self esteem problems due to social media. In addition to the overt and obvious depression, there
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Would you say it is a heroin addict’s fault for getting addicted to opioids after a doctor pushed them into opioids when the doctor was far more aware of the risks than the patient? We all have the ability (and some might argue responsibili
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Assuming you believe prices represent value, then if you believe that high-income earners get more out of roads than they pay for them, either low income earners get less out of them than they pay for (regressive taxation), or the price of
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I’m using the term beneficiary to mean “someone who gets out of it more than they put into it”. For the upper half of taxpayers who pay 97% of the cost of those public goods, they’re losing. Regarding subsidization of low-income earners by
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Your last paragraph makes me wonder: are there two sets of people, one of people who perform better under Agile, and one of people who don’t? We acknowledge the above is true for, e.g., work from home, but have many ever taken the time to c
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My apologies. You’re right, my math was off. I based my data off that exact chart and counted “healthcare”, “social security”, and “welfare” in my statement and just had my math incorrect. The healthcare is Medicare/Medicaid which work
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I feel like a broken record. I’ve been saying the same thing since this AI frenzy ramped up in the last year or so. I won’t restate your complaints, but I share them. I’d like to see more work done to incorporate all the advances AI has bro
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Can you really blame libertarians for wanting a smaller government? Sure, the government subsidizes some useful activities, but more than half of US government tax dollars go to income redistribution or welfare programs.
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Ads suck. I block them universally. I understand the desire to “get back at the man”, and I don’t begrudge anyone for doing so. But we have to ask ourselves, what’s the real path forward, away from ads? If a different model existed where us
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To the contrary, there are genetic changes that correlate to different chronotypes [0]. I find interesting the hypothesis that chronotypes arose as a survival advantage because tribes could more naturally sleep in shifts to stay safe during
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This is unsurprising. In college I had a 7:35 anatomy lecture in the winter semester in the US Northeast. How many students do you think were making it to a 7:35 lecture in 20 below 0 temperature before snow had been plowed, before busses w
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My personal hypothesis is “night owl”-ism is not as widespread as it seems (not to say it is not existent), but instead, our society makes it easier to be a night owl. I have had times in my life where I am out of bed at 5, at 8, at 11, and
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Heh, or they’ll democratically decide to ban you from operating in their society if you use hidden fees. A/B testing won’t predict that, either.
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I have lived in areas with sales tax all my life, and with the exception of gasoline, prices being shown with tax is exceedingly rare. At least these could be covered!
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I am trying to think about use of LLMs in education as similar to calculators. This post reflects how I was taught: students couldn’t use calculators to solve problems initially. For example, no calculators to do addition and subtraction wh
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Do you have any concrete examples of this? I’m curious.
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Your comment gave me an interesting way to think about biases: Bayesian statistics. It is no wonder we see people end up at vastly different conclusions when their starting point (bias) is so different. Coupled with this, bias is probably c
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To the contrary, I think your approach leads to, rather than understanding, identifying. In my opinion, it can be a little degrading to have one’s system of beliefs broken down to “this person believes X therefore Y”; there is probably a lo
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> Not every office is the same. This has been my experience as well. Also, not every company is the same. When COVID hit, I started working remote, and the company was very poorly equipped to deal with work from home. Communication disap
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I disagree wholly with the “revenue is easy, profit is harder” idea. I suppose it is tautologically true since profitable ventures are a subset of ones which generate revenue, so more businesses generate revenue than generate profits, thus
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This doesn’t answer OPs question, IMO (or my interpretation of what OP was saying is wrong). Sure, construction and high-growth tech startups are different investment opportunities. They have different risk profiles. As someone managing mon

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