mercer

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by mercer 6y ago
There's not always a nit-picker popping out of the woodwork! In all seriousness though, I do the same and it's so tiresome.
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by mercer 6y ago
They do, though.
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by mercer 6y ago
I think it's important to separate the various suggestions the author offers from the actual implementation. Currently, when my cursor is over a bracket, the matching one is already highlighted. I'd love it when in this situation
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by mercer 6y ago
I don't have a transcript link at hand, but as far as videos go, "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" / "Boundaries" by Gary Berhardt is also a must-see (or must-read, hopefully).
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by mercer 6y ago
> I agree with what you’re saying. But you’re proposing the same argument of “well how do you know the dealer didn’t sprinkle another drug on your weed?” Uh, that's an excellent argument for legalizing and regulating weed. Or am I
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by mercer 6y ago
It can be a recipe for serious anxiety issues, I suppose.
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by mercer 6y ago
Yeah, after I wrote my comment I figured that perhaps I overstated how useless the app would be. I imagine even with relatively low uptake it'll have /some/ effect. Even a little would help, I suppose.
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by mercer 6y ago
I think what's worse is that I suspect the whole project won't be all that useful, and a drop in the bucket compared to society-wide (enforced) change in behavior. From everything I've read, this kind of app 1) is only really
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by mercer 6y ago
I suspect customers complaining on Twitter are not the ones cared about to whoever decides to use Cloudflare.
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by mercer 6y ago
> That begs the question of why was asset Epstein left out to dry. Perhaps he threatened someone that he'd talk. Perhaps some scapegoat was needed to take some pressure off. Perhaps it just wasn't worth protecting him because o
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by mercer 6y ago
supercalifragilisticexpialidocius is easier to remember than shortids or uuids, but that distincting is meaningless when 1) everyone spells it slightly differently, and 2) who is Mary Poppins? I love projects like these but it's a bit
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by mercer 6y ago
I think OP's point was that while they might give an 'edge', said edge doesn't really help if the result is still to most people impossible to remember.
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by mercer 6y ago
Considering the limp-dicked response to Epstein's 'suicide' , what makes you have so much faith in 'the system' when possible powerful elements in this system are implicated?
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by mercer 6y ago
> But at the very beginning, there is no reason to believe she is different than any other judge who would be assigned in her stead, and the schedule would barely be affected. The judge that would be assigned in her stead is different in
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd love to see a version trained on individual subreddits (and HN separately). A bit like /r/subredditsimulator
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by mercer 6y ago
Considering how unoriginal we humans can be, I'm not at all surprised that it might generate already-existing tweets.
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by mercer 6y ago
> David Foster Wallace committed suicide because of his depression, but only after creating one of the great works of American literature. We label him as mentally ill for his depression, but we don't really have a label for the pos
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by mercer 6y ago
The problem is that even if we can do a 'perfect' brain scan and figure out consistent correlations in how its structure differs for people with various disorders, it still doesn't really help us all that much. It would be li
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by mercer 6y ago
My experience (and anecdotally the experience of many people I know) is that because a psychiatrist's proverbial hammer is medication, it's really important to either try other things first (like a psychologist who doesn't im
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by mercer 6y ago
> We're able to mask symptoms but have absolutely no proof about underlying reasons, and so we create names of things and put it in the same classification of a medical disease... but that's very different. I remember talking t
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by mercer 6y ago
I'll add that someone who might be (self-)destructively bipolar in one environment, might be able to 'manage' in another, even without medication. I've had multiple friends with diagnosed bipolar disorder, and harrowing
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by mercer 6y ago
If you do, please make it 'zoomable' (and as a result mobile-friendly). I tend to prefer reading larger size and fewer words per line, but zooming in just kept everything the same, except bigger. Not that it wasn't a great ar
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by mercer 6y ago
> The problem both Google and Facebook have is because of their attempt to maintain the illusion of impartiality, that they refuse to just say "we decided these sites are just better" like they should. Isn't the problem wo
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by mercer 6y ago
> An app like that will always have to generalize, thus limiting its efficacy to either light or very specific cases. Very specific cases was what I meant. Focusing on those for which there is evidence.
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by mercer 6y ago
I strongly suggest you don't ask these questions. I upvoted your comment because I think it's worth being upvoted, but I'm generally a downvoter when I see that someone asks, regardless of how much I might agree with the comm
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by mercer 6y ago
I find the feedback loop between TV depictions of drug dealers and the behavior of actual drug dealers endlessly fascinating.
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by mercer 6y ago
some form of CBT or mindfulness-related therapy might help too. With various anxiety issues, afaik there's quite a bit of evidence that these approaches can be very effective. don't know about hypnotherapy though, other than that
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by mercer 6y ago
I second the request, and consider a lack of answer to be somewhat damning. For the most part I feel that the 'general' HN toward various forms of therapy is often a bit too harsh. If research indicates that an approach works for
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm in Holland but everything came back up just now, so maybe you picked the exact right moment to check?
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by mercer 6y ago
I can't access my own VPS nor Digital Ocean (which takes care of DNS). Good to know I'm not the only one with issues, at least.

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