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by nevinera 4y ago
Will it run bolo?
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by nevinera 4y ago
Initially? Not a whole lot. The point though, is that you used ruby/rails to rapidly build a startup, and then you have a successful business that is _stuck with a massive ruby/rails monolith_. This is where you start extracting s
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by nevinera 5y ago
I have doubts that destroying the universe can happen in less than O(N).
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by nevinera 5y ago
My process is somewhat more complex than that, but similar. I don't know if you've ever tried telling a worrier not to worry about something, but it's not a terribly fruitful approach :-)
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by nevinera 5y ago
From conversations with various people (and not any kind of meaningful study), it seems to me that there is a qualitatively different experience of this situation for people that naturally think about things all the time. For my wife, hav
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by nevinera 5y ago
I don't see anything in that article indicating that this is an unprecedented event, which is what the language suggests . And I do see a _number_ of places where they use the same "record numbers" text. Certainly something
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by nevinera 5y ago
I get tired of headlines talking about 'record numbers' of people - a record number of people existed this year, so talking about any other metrics in those terms is kind of pointless. Any time I see a headline of this form, my
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by nevinera 5y ago
On re-read, this jumped out at me: > Diets don't fail because they're inherently flawed and the system is more complex than we think it is. Diets fail because people fail. The system includes the people . If the people "f
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by nevinera 5y ago
> I cut calories and I lost weight" is not anecdotal. It's factual I think perhaps you're misunderstanding what "anecdote" means? Anecdotes can certainly be factual - the point is not that it's false , it&#
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by nevinera 5y ago
Your attitude toward the topic is fairly typical, and pretty harmful. "Diets fail because people fail" is true , of course - my point is that people "failing" is not always (or even usually) a result of intrinsic weakne
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by nevinera 5y ago
> overreport their physical activity, like "I can jog 10 miles", or "I play tennis about 7 hours a week", or "I regularly make 60 mile bike rides". If you do, you're the extreme outlier, and it doesn&#x
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by nevinera 5y ago
I'm not arguing in favor of any particular approach (in particular the one posed by the original poster, which I have done zero research into). If and when they launch in a meaningful way I'll bother doing that research, but I am
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by nevinera 5y ago
This is what's known as an 'anecdote', and is at the crux of the issues surrounding men's weight loss. This approach, and other very obvious and straightforward ones do indeed work perfectly well for a fair fraction of t
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by nevinera 5y ago
I mean.. I generally agree with the position taken in the article, but it's pretty light on meaningful information or detail. Is the goal just to show a bunch of people that there are more options than they think?
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by nevinera 5y ago
No, I was assuming we didn't treat all of the already-deferred tax as immediately due. There would be some large long-term effects on investment behavior though, for sure. The topic is much more complicated than my napkin math suggests
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by nevinera 5y ago
He's just being imprecise - he must really mean asset appreciation. (Reinvested dividends are still taxed, but lots of people aren't aware of that)
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by nevinera 5y ago
Exactly - right now investments function as a tax-deferred account with no maximum, which allows billionaires to accumulate wealth without any taxation. They also strongly incentivize the wealthy to push for policy changes that reduce gai
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by nevinera 5y ago
Eh, it's a fuzzy topic, because wealth is essentially income at the top end. But yes, you're correct.
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by nevinera 5y ago
Well of course it is - any persuasive piece is only going to link to sources that push the same position it does. That's why I was asking for a personal experience of the place. My expectation is that there is a drug problem in the a
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by nevinera 5y ago
I certainly expect that there's a problem to solve here, but it's completely obvious how much this writer is trying to steer my opinion by the third paragraph. I can't treat this as journalism, it's just a constant strea
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by nevinera 5y ago
"Hate" is a word that has a variety of meanings, and I was using it as a suffix - it's basically a synonym for '-aggro', a way to describing a pattern of oppositional or antagonistic behavior. (My usage is colloquia
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by nevinera 5y ago
That side-step was my actual assumption - I can't imagine that 1% of the _whole population_ currently has actionable cancer. But yes, the higher you drive the prior, the less the false-positives cost. That's a fairly normal situat
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by nevinera 5y ago
I agree, I've no idea why it would be at the top of HN. Maybe China-hate?
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by nevinera 5y ago
0.5% false positive rate is actually quite high. I don't have the numbers, but I'd be surprised if more than 1% of the people that would receive such a screening actually already have cancer , which would mean that it produces
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by nevinera 5y ago
It's not nefarious , it's a pattern of a particular company trying to game a metric, to boost their reputation. Pretend you were a dev, and your effectiveness was mostly described within your 500-engineer department in terms of &
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by nevinera 5y ago
That capability varies a lot. Long build times create a situation where the ability to swap tasks efficiently is the main criterion for being effective . I'm considered "extremely high output" in my current position, and I d
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by nevinera 5y ago
There's an angle I'm not really seeing talked about - any wealth vehicle that allows the wealthy to defer their tax burden to a substantially later point in time creates massive incentive for those individuals to push for redu
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by nevinera 5y ago
Nobody, personal meanings to the word vary too much - that's kind of my point :-) At the end of the day, somebody chose to use that word to describe a culture , and anyone with no information about that culture is going to make wildly
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by nevinera 5y ago
When you pop out a headline like "nordics happiest people on earth!" and a million people read it, what matters is _not_ whether your definition of 'happy' was technically correct within the framework of the study you&#x
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by nevinera 5y ago
Sounds like they're just using the wrong word for what they're measuring. Perhaps we should be talking about "contentment" instead of "happiness" here? The word 'happy' has an unusually large load of

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