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by nefitty 6y ago
Systems eliminate the risk of overshooting or undershooting, on the occasions that we misestimate our capabilities/capacities. Like Sisyphus, if he had set his mind on getting the boulder to the top of the mountain, he would objectivel
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by nefitty 6y ago
For additional context, the author is JB Classen. From his Wikipedia page: > A widely-reposted 2021 Facebook post claiming that the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 could cause prion diseases was based on a paper by Classen. The paper was
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by nefitty 6y ago
For people who are intensely worried about prions, it seems that eating less meat will decrease their chance of exposure.
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Why hackers in 1999 could access any Hotmail account by using the password ‘eh’(reddit.com)
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by nefitty 6y ago
I’m confused. Are Marxists not supposed to be rich or own property? What would an ideal Marxist do with their wealth, donate it?
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by nefitty 6y ago
I fell in love with computers by wasting hours messing with Windows settings and internals. Thinking now, it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of space for that sort of stuff in most people’s routines, especially if they’re stuck in a browsin
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by nefitty 6y ago
What about some sort of index placed at different intervals for easier discoverability
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I think gp’s downvotes are a good example that most of us aren’t ready to consider that, let alone admit it.
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by nefitty 6y ago
What do you take photos of and with what? I think that my lack of a storage strategy is part of what has held me back from really pushing myself to produce more data/art/music. I imagine a sort of life logging habit with photos of
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by nefitty 6y ago
Today my team decided to use RudderStack because it’s open source and cheaper than segment. I’m integrating GA UA API as a destination and it has been a chore, but I’m really keen to help support OSS products as much as I can.
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by nefitty 6y ago
What’s interesting is that the fact that this story is gaining traction might make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. That’s the danger and stress of pure-momentum trading, which crypto basically is. It’s full on gambling. I tapped out early 20
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by nefitty 6y ago
This makes sense to me. For example, there are other farther-left viewpoints that I haven’t heard represented or being advocated for, specifically thinking of animal rights. When I can pick out viewpoints like that so easily, it makes me wo
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by nefitty 6y ago
This is what I found from their job posting for a backend engineer, ”You have deep expertise in building, deploying, monitoring and scaling systems on AWS. You understand the ins and outs of Python, Postgres, Redis and more.” I also found o
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by nefitty 6y ago
I, uh, sincerely hope you’re not in charge of any apps I use.
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by nefitty 6y ago
Would people be happier if, instead of advising her not to waste her money on the service, they had presented her some objective data about outcomes in regards to people like her? I mean, is it mean if it’s true? They basically just interpr
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by nefitty 6y ago
This comment helped clarify a lot of my intuitions regarding privacy.
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by nefitty 6y ago
If that’s your response then what’s the point of trying to rationalize your meat eating? If you like meat that comes from animals that are unnecessarily killed then that’s your prerogative, but don’t try to dress it up in spiritual terms li
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by nefitty 6y ago
Animals don’t “contribute”. That implies some act of conscious sacrifice on the part of the animal. Those two paradigms can be boiled down to “Animals are pretty objects that I can kill and eat if I so desire.” It’s the polar opposite of re
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by nefitty 6y ago
I’m sorry. To clarify, the entirety of a mouse’s interests are less than the interests of a child. This includes external interests, like the interests of the parents, etc. I agree regarding the generally higher capacity of healthy humans t
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by nefitty 6y ago
Do you happen to know of any best practices guides that might help others achieve similar results? I’m working on an app that might have to scale very quickly at launch, and I want to do my best to help our team do it right.
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by nefitty 6y ago
My current internet samsara cycle is Reddit, HN and Twitter. I truly feel like there are hooks in my brain that compel me to mindlessly browse these three sites over and over again. The better I get at them, and the more positive feedback m
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by nefitty 6y ago
Premium communities where mods are compensated and Reddit takes a cut.
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by nefitty 6y ago
Of all the commentary I’ve read on this issue so far, this might be the scariest anecdote so far.
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by nefitty 6y ago
Maybe I’m being idealistic, but wouldn’t a company with such a huge surface area of customers be wary of doing something like that intentionally? I couldn’t find any information about it in their Privacy Policy, besides a mention that they
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by nefitty 6y ago
I remember an interview where someone with a very common first name, something like Sarah or Anna, described what it was like living with that name. She said it was so common that it basically represented the concept of “woman” or “girl” in
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by nefitty 6y ago
As an anti-speciesist vegetarian, I’d like to note that the above viewpoint probably sounds as extreme and incoherent to me as it does to most other people. Parity as regards rights should be based on interests. There is nothing special abo
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by nefitty 6y ago
A developer has to hold a cogent mental model of the problem they’re working on. Someone copying text might be able to do it while thinking of other things. If a developer is interrupted, their mental model “pops” like a bubble, and they mi
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by nefitty 6y ago
I get the schadenfreude. I used to dismiss the suffering of people who were “beyond” the survival levels of Maslow’s hierarchy. This changed for me when I read that Peter Singer himself focuses on influencing survival-level needs for those
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by nefitty 6y ago
I’m totally out of the loop on this but curious to know Hayes’ views on racism, especially considering how likely it is that he holds libertarian views. It piques my interest because I’ve recently been hearing heterodox views from commentat
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by nefitty 6y ago
If you can keep from throwing anyone under the bus, what besides cannabis are you talking about? Binge drinking? Coke? Ayahuasca-fueled technical design?

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