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by majos 7y ago
Curious, how do you think a decade of journaling has made you a better writer? Most writing advice heavily features feedback, from peers, instructors, friends, editors, and so on. But journaling almost by definition prevents that. And it&#x
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So, fasting this long is only possible if you have a lot of weight for your body to somehow cannibalize?
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Weren't the original balloons animal bladders, which seem gross but certainly biodegradable?
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Why would ice cream vendors want to all compete in the same place? It seems economically counter-intuitive.
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Seems like there's a parallel with the rising cost of US healthcare. In both cases the consumer (student/patient) is insulated from the cost (easy and prevalent student loans + general belief that college is a smart investment&#x2
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You simultaneously believe in IP and are confused that American companies are upset by IP theft by Chinese companies? Why would they not be? It's not like they agreed to well-defined contracts trading away their IP. It's reasonabl
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This reasoning confuses me. Your abdication of power cedes it to whoever's next in line. Maybe you are unsure of your ability to appropriately wield power, but that is only a good reason if you think you'd be worse than the next p
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Some variant of this sentence seems to be in every article about how tech is dangerous. Deliberate and effective manipulation of addictive behavior is a real thing tech companies do, but IMO this "dopamine hit" language is so popu
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I'm in my 20s and everybody I know regularly and casually uses profanity, even the R-rated stuff. Older people of HN: is this anecdotally something that decreases with age, or is our generation genuinely more profane? I would think hav
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HackerNews isn't blocked in China? That's surprising.
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> I'll find something you're probably insecure about and use that to sell you shit. What's an example of this? I'm generally confused by your claim, because I've used a whole lot of internet and literally never b
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Same, I played a fair amount of Goldeneye as a kid with no problem, but around the same age I saw a news clip of the execution of Nguyen Van Lem and remember being seriously disturbed by it.
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I have heard this argument before. I think there are some works of art that do "make war real" -- Saving Private Ryan viscerally portrayed how chaotic and horrible fighting is, in a way that made any kind of heroism seem oddly
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> That argument supposes that high school teachers ended up with that career by looking at all job prospects and picking the one with the best economic prospects. Not really. I'm supposing that people choose careers based on some co
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Some people are sufficiently talented that a mediocre high school education doesn't hurt them. I think more people have enough talent and latent interest to "go pro" in math or STEM but won't get there without a good t
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True, but there's a heavy selection going on there. A packed complexity class might mean 50? enthusiastic undergrads out of several hundred math/cs students at a university. A dedicated and charismatic professor might be instrume
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Agreed. Math in particular is an area where mentorship matters a lot. Pretty tautologically, math relies on correctness , and correctness can be tricky to grok on your own. On the other hand, if you're trying to paint, make music, or
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For those debating reading the piece -- do it! John Urschel wrote it, and he's probably the most qualified to do so. I think his point is broadly correct: the way we teach football, and the way talented football players get mentored in
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> And if it is wrong, then so is wearing make-up at work. Women I know wear makeup at work because many people view makeup as a "professional" or "put together" look, the same way a man might neatly comb their hair, n
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There are a remarkable number of unsupported assertions in this comment.
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Do these things actually contribute meaningfully to air pollution? I think "rolling coal" is silly because it's so childishly spiteful, but I've rarely actually seen it. Loud cars and motorcycles seem to be everywhere .
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If I could pass one dictatorial law --- hypothetically ignoring constituents and implementation details, but limited to pretty low-consequence stuff --- I would give serious consideration to pricing car honking at max($5, $5 x # of seconds
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For a little while. But earplugs are not comfortable for hours of use, and they can cause tinnitus-type effects if you do that.
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Not really following this logic. If the briber disappears, the bribee no longer has an incentive (at least in this case) to behave as the briber wanted. If instead the bribee disappears, it's quite plausible that the next bribee will h
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I struggle with this issue. I'm a big fan of the idea of transparency given, as you point out, context. But many people are terrible at looking for context, even when it's available. Wherever transparency exists, some aggregator
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The existence of many slot machine and lottery addicts --- even for the simple, totally probabilistic kinds --- seems like strong evidence against your second point.
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Legislation already exists either restricting gambling or ensuring that it works in specific, semi-transparent ways. I'm not aware of similar restrictions on microtransactions (though I'm unfamiliar with microtransactions in gener
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That's certainly a problem, too. I'm suggesting that it's useful to really kindle an interest before starting in on the harder parts of studying it, not that the harder parts should be put off indefinitely. In particular, lea
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One point stood out to me: he thinks one "trouble with STEM" is that young hopeful scientists get herded into the math/engineering side of things -- if you dig biology, then you must know chemistry, hence physics, hence math!
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This study has 11 participants each in the player and non-player groups. It seems...hard to draw a reliable conclusion from that.

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