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by minblaster 7y ago
Sorry, not convinced that the earth has been uninhabitable for humans in the past few hundred million years. What conditions made it uninhabitable everywhere on the planet? Earlier posters made it seem like the problem with climate change w
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by minblaster 7y ago
We like to think of rationality as objectively true, but it’s not. Rationality is based on axioms that “feel right” and even the idea of being rational “feels good”. Is it rational to believe the parallel postulate? In unchanging laws of ph
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by minblaster 7y ago
You do realize the chemistry of the atmosphere has changed far more than a few ppm of carbon, right? Like oxygen varying from 15% to 35%? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Sa.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Do you want to manage a company, or do you simply want financial freedom? If it’s the latter there are easier ways. Real estate and index fund investing. Google FIRE.
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by minblaster 7y ago
There was a temperature in recent times (hundreds of millions of years) where humans would not have survived, anywhere on Earth? Yet giant dinosaurs with the wrong ratio of mass to surface area did? Really, when? How much hotter was it in t
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by minblaster 7y ago
“All humans are going to die because the temperature gets too hot for our biology” is fallacious. Do you think we’ll gain 30C and Siberia will become unlivable? Does everyone die when the summer temperature is 30C higher than winter? We are
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by minblaster 7y ago
It’s simpler to create a db, password, keep up with correct salted hash scheme, email password reset, mail service, getting through spam filters, user profile icon? As soon as you’re dealing with customer info you took on a bunch of require
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by minblaster 7y ago
Thank you for sharing that. PG doesn't seem to realize there's a tremendous survivorship bias in what you read about kids due to the taboo of saying you regret it.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Get financial independence and escape the need to kowtow to those who don’t have your interests in mind. Tech is one of the few industries where this is possible fast. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13&#x2
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by minblaster 7y ago
For most, college education is a signaling method. You learn on the job. If this weren’t the case, just hire people who dropped out during senior year for a wonderful discount. They got 7/8s the education!
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by minblaster 7y ago
I normally don’t like the time = money idea (not all hours are equally valuable), but for a commute it makes sense. You paid about 40 bucks to get back 1.5 prime hours of your life, plus the mental stress.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Yep. And the interaction with coworkers is shallow/guarded because of the nature of work. It’s like longing for the interaction offered by a long flight. Chat with your neighbor, get on with your day. Why not have social interaction wi
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by minblaster 7y ago
YAGNI was coined for a reason.
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by minblaster 7y ago
I agree. It’s amazing how easily people slip into the ends justifying the means. Yes, he’s contributing now. Doesn’t excuse the practices that got him there.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Sounds like they’ll learn a valuable lesson about not relying on services they aren’t paying to keep alive.
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by minblaster 7y ago
It's less than 1% of c unfortunately [1111 miles per second]. ( https://www.google.com/search?q=4m+mph+in+miles+per+second )
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by minblaster 7y ago
Thank you. People cling to the efficient market hypothesis like it’s a law of nature.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Turn off simulations where the net amount of suffering vs joy is negative? Even if it’s barely a net positive it’s not necessarily worth the suffering.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Starcraft is an incredibly complex game. 10^26 possible moves at any point (you can click/drag anywhere on the screen, pressing a keyboard button as you do so), imperfect information, real-time constraints, etc.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Look for 1-star reviews of existing software, and make something that fixes those pain points.
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by minblaster 7y ago
The developer will consider whether the app is worth the fee. If they aren't committed to maintaining the app, they'll stop paying and it will be removed.
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by minblaster 7y ago
I agree. On a tech forum the bias is to consider the internet a panacea. Look at the US. We went from ~0% internet penetration in 1990 to 75% in 2017. How much have real wages changed since then? We fantasize about an impoverished person le
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by minblaster 7y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/internet Almost none of the desperately poor had internet between 1990-2000, yet poverty fell steeply.
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by minblaster 7y ago
That tax is one of things keeping app quality high, and they have to pay people to screen your apps. They can offer an educational scholarship.
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by minblaster 7y ago
Unfortunately, some relative comparisons don't matter as much as the absolute. A world where the number of slaves is objectively increasing (as it has now) is worse I'd say. The total amount of suffering is more, even if there are