mycologos

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by mycologos 2y ago
No, please, I come to Hacker News to get away from platitudinous, short, vague LinkedIn advice.
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by mycologos 2y ago
Could you? Some elections only feature old candidates. This limit is a way of making sure there is at least one non-old choice.
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by mycologos 2y ago
The thing that's missing is living under a functional government.
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by mycologos 2y ago
Unlike the United States government, the Mexican government has been fighting, and maybe losing, a civil war against cartels for a long time. This episode is, if anything, a positive step in that civil war, in the enemy-of-my-enemy sense, s
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by mycologos 2y ago
As far as I know the example you mention was the work of Andrea James, and not Conway, but Conway's continued collaboration with someone that cruel and unhinged is, I think, an aspect of her life that shouldn't be ignored. (Does i
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by mycologos 2y ago
"Most" is pretty hard, so I'll just pick one I think is good. I'm paraphrasing here, so errors are mine. Sea otters, which feed themselves through long dives to and from the ocean floor, with a blind and hurried pawing f
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by mycologos 2y ago
I mean, he certainly would have known exactly what he was doing at some point in his life, but skills and judgement do degrade with age.
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by mycologos 2y ago
If you're a layperson interested in these sensory questions, I highly recommend the book An Immense World by Ed Yong. It's a 400-something page tour through the many senses animals have and we (mostly) don't. It might have
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by mycologos 2y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect, and its many misspellings, might be the most overused term on this website.
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by mycologos 2y ago
A modern example is Dana Gioia, who switched from poetry grad school to business school, did that for ~15 years, and eventually went back to full-time writing, chaired the NEA, and is I think the current poet laureate ot California. Here&#x
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by mycologos 2y ago
Doesn't this kind of make sense? Stuff with high personal resonance, by virtue of being personal, has a specific audience. That sounds trite, but I at least tend to underrate how much the stuff I really like is just a weirdly shaped ke
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by mycologos 2y ago
My theory for Tokyo is that its relatively low housing costs come from lax enforcement of zoning and building regulations, and lax enforcement comes from a culture of trust that doesn't exist in other comparably big cities.
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by mycologos 2y ago
+1 for The Death of Ivan Ilyich, it's a marvelous example of an author depicting something you (probably) haven't experienced and nonetheless convincing you that's what it's really like.
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by mycologos 2y ago
Having this transactional a view of interactions doesn't sound fun. Is it something you're trying to change?
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by mycologos 2y ago
A somewhat rude answer may be that, despite being very old, University of Salamanca is not prestigious -- outside of the top 500 in all major global university rankings -- and is therefore more likely to be willing to employ somebody who ca
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by mycologos 2y ago
> If you believe you have a moral duty to be the best person you can then passing up that opportunity in favour of the facsimiles is morally wrong Maybe a better statement would be that casual connections only offer facsimiles of the de
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by mycologos 2y ago
I don't think strenholme is saying that those casual relationships are morally wrong, but that they're only facsimiles of the connection found in a deep and long relationship (especially one formed when young), and that pursuing f
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by mycologos 2y ago
> Can't be toxic culture if everyone wants to work there Some counterarguments: 1) this only works if information flows out of the organization, but OpenAI has used NDAs to suppress criticism 2) OpenAI seems to me to polarize the pe
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by mycologos 2y ago
> You're either one of the few winners and get to live a comfortable life with a professional job, or you're off to WalMart or an Amazon warehouse, or Prison. The "kind of comfortable middle class life" is shrinking q
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by mycologos 2y ago
Denmark values cultural homogeneity enough to mandate that children over the age of one in high-immigrant areas formally designated as ghettoes attend 25 hours per week of public daycare including instruction in "democracy, equality an
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by mycologos 2y ago
See, I don't like Sam Altman either, but this habit of criticizing people for their faces seems wrong-headed. Isn't it his behavior that we should be criticizing?
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by mycologos 2y ago
> Because they don't think about the consequences, and don't want to. This is a dangerous way of thinking about people who disagree with you, because once you decide somebody is stupid, it frees you from ever having to seriousl
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by mycologos 2y ago
Sucks that he had to do it, but the notion of Tom Waits making Rain Dogs and then pivoting to spending a bunch of time thinking about Doritos must be one of the funnier quirks of music history.
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by mycologos 2y ago
Gaming is perhaps more child-adjacent than other topics?
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by mycologos 2y ago
Man, I haven't thought about it in a while, but running in the dark is exhilarating, something about the blur of low light vision makes it feel much faster.
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by mycologos 2y ago
They're responding to a comment about playing tag across a college campus, not a park.
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by mycologos 2y ago
Having senior leadership and rank and file publicly proclaim their love for each other in identical ways, as happened during the leadership debacle, read cult-like to me.
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by mycologos 2y ago
That was compelling, albeit for reasons I can't seem to elucidate, kind of like Knausgaard, right down to the mystifying self-presentation as a sort of loser who nonetheless has many friends and lovers (though maybe everybody, if they
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As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash from Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose(nytimes.com)
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by mycologos 2y ago
Chatbots can be decent for unemotional steelmanning. It's nice to prod somebody's positions without getting worried about upsetting them. I have done this with no interest in tricking it into a "gotcha" moment. I think i

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