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by mycologos 6y ago
Looking at the other comments here, there should really be a pithy "law" like Godwin's for the act of comparing the USA to small, wealthy, homogenous countries with harsh immigration policies. I'm not saying it's ba
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My sense from the article is that the author likes psychoanalysis a lot more than CBT and underestimates the possibility that a lot of people can derive substantial psychological benefit from what look like pretty simple, algorithmic-lookin
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by mycologos 6y ago
It seems like several comments are reacting to the headline and not the content of the article. The article does not assert that old people are definitely professionally useless, it does not assert that your career is the most important thi
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by mycologos 6y ago
I like the approach described in that link, but oh man, if somebody started a meeting with "let's not brainstorm -- let's Idea Stampede ", it'd be hard not to laugh.
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by mycologos 6y ago
> Top CCP brass will be outraged at the insinuation that anything disreputable is going on, will drone on about "how dare Nike try to shame the honorable reputation of the virtuous and hard-working and well-meaning and morally super
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What makes you say that?
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Sounds nice if you can do it, but it also seems to require a deep familiarity with the author that is impossible, short of actually knowing them personally? This is what makes me nervous about anything "Straussian", in most cases
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The one-armed baseball star (2011)(espn.com)
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by mycologos 6y ago
I agree that it's reasonable to ask one's government to intervene against a powerful and possibly monopolistic corporation. However, I think this should be accompanied by the personal responsibility of avoiding that corporation.
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Interesting. I didn't know meth was cheap enough for this to be economically viable. It reminds me of hearing about cooks who took up smoking because smoke breaks were the only way to get breaks at all during service. From a short-te
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by mycologos 6y ago
Amazon is, to me, a glaring example of just how little people are willing to translate outrage over capitalism and wage slavery into voting with their feet. I've literally heard people trash Amazon's labor practices, admit that th
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by mycologos 6y ago
Any guesses as to whether the causality is more "night stocking is tough -- better pop some meth to up my productivity" or "night stocking seems like a good way to earn cash while I'm high on meth"?
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by mycologos 6y ago
TFA and the actual paper [1] it references are IMO long on insinuation and emotional rhetoric and short on concrete evidence for "elite philanthropy is mainly self-serving". Granted, the title of the actual paper is "Elite ph
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by mycologos 6y ago
> Mind you I live in Montreal, Canada. Very cold winters seem like an effective (and brutal) deterrent against long-term homelessness? Though, you say the homeless people in your area congregate in one place, do you have some idea why?
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by mycologos 6y ago
It said my IQ was 144, but I'm skeptical -- it seems to be almost entirely based on vocabulary?
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This is counterintuitive to me -- if more surface area means more light absorbed, why are solar panels flat instead of ruffled? Or are they not as flat as they look?
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> Prince, Martin, Jackson, etc Assuming Prince is "the" Prince and Jackson is Michael Jackson, if I understand your comment correctly, you're describing them as "postmodern thinkers". If so, why? Or maybe you&#x2
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by mycologos 6y ago
As an outsider to the world of elite private schools, is the idea that they will help your kid get a nice job even if they're actually just mediocre? Like, in my head the logic goes "if you're in the top 10% of your high scho
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by mycologos 6y ago
Ah, if I access these comments from the comments pages of the users who posted them, the "3 hours ago" timestamp becomes "1 day ago", so that seems to resolve things. Thanks!
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by mycologos 6y ago
Off-topic, but did anyone else see this entire thread previously? All of the comments here are listed as posted "3 hours ago", but I'm pretty sure I saw them all much more than 3 hours ago?
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> It's also a fact that many happy marriages began as a relationship between superior and subordinate. I'm curious about what fraction of superior-subordinate relationships you think culminate in happy marriages, and how low th
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by mycologos 6y ago
> I think I see what you were going for, about many HN frequenters pining for the days of old. But I don’t agree with the idea that general internet users who weren’t online back then are okay with the current state of big advertising tr
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by mycologos 6y ago
> So, what? I agree that it's not a very deep observation, or maybe even not true. But it 1) seems to explain several different reactions I see on Hacker News, and 2) it illustrates a trap that I, as a Hacker News user, find myself
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One of my pet meta-theories about Hacker News is that the frustration expressed over several apparently different stories really has a single source: Hacker News likes the internet of 10-20 years ago a lot more than the average person. One
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I made a comment elsewhere in the thread trying to quantify the way outcomes change with the mother's age [1]. Using the data referenced in that comment, it looks like outcomes are quite stable for the entirety of a woman's 20s an
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> one thing that got us both hoodwinked was this notion that a woman is as fertile at 35 as she is at 21. Um... no. So we had two severely handicapped kids. (Preamble: not trying to argue anything about parent comment's experience,