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by odyssey7 2y ago
If Starbucks itself isn’t clearly explaining why its Teavana teabags are safer than other plastic teabags, then the consumer is better off assuming that they’re not. Premium brands advertise what makes their products premium, so that they c
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Usually they’re paper, but misguided companies have been pushing plastic. I guess some consultants somewhere think the plastic format looks like it should cost more. Personally, to me the plastic format looks like a hazard, so I avoid it. S
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Meanwhile, Starbucks: https://www.sweetsteep.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/starbu...
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Notably, unlike Reddit, HN isn’t a business that needs to be profitable, to my knowledge. It’s a recruiting tool for a major Silicon Valley VC firm. Brainrot isn’t going to attract as much of the talent or stimulate the ideas they’d want to
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Why is it that so many of the PhDs and MDs out there are unable to tell when someone's lying to them about their very own areas of expertise? Either they're not that smart or the processes aren't very good -- though no single
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I was wondering if they meant per month?
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> From Alexander the grammarian, [I learned] to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very express
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It could get bloated rather quickly try { concurrently { const user = await getUser(userId); const session = await getSession(sessionId); } } catch (err) { … }
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> It’s just a tiny hint to get you thinking about what functionally style JavaScript could look like if we wanted. Yep, JavaScript is excellent as a multi-paradigm language. I pretty much use it as a functional one. I hear the JavaScript
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Why is this ecosystem considered acceptable? It’s because academia is a sort of anchor that preserves poor practices.
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Historically, yes, but these days it seems more like a question of priorities. To your point, it does depend: there are needle-free options available for some vaccinations currently, though in many cases children are nonetheless forced to t
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Possibly. I wonder what keeps us from adopting needle-free vaccinations. It seems like the tech has been available but not fully developed for decades. We shouldn’t be dismissive about how sub-optimal it is that children are routinely held
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I agree, but the word “certain” really needs to not be overlooked in this statement.
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This is a no true Scotsman fallacy. Any time it runs incorrectly, it was invoked with the wrong operating conditions — which seem to be defined as any conditions that cause it to run incorrectly. Sugar in the tank is an agreeable example
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“Program testing can be used to create 1 the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence” 1) edited
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No offense intended -— my appreciation for the text is sincere. Below is some of the context. Ecclesiastes 1 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Reflections of a Royal Philosopher 1 The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king
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Knowledge increases suffering
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Well, it’s not a paradox if you assume you’re special. What else would you expect from the species that named itself “sapiens?”
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It’s a cute story, it made me laugh. If this story reminds you of the codebase you work on, don’t let its romanticism deceive you into thinking that suffering is somehow actually good.
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What do you call the person who graduated last in their medical school class? “Doctor”
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Gosh it was early in the morning and somehow I was thinking in terms of factoring prime numbers when I added the security point. But consider cryptography as an application of number theory and compatibility theory. Interestingly, if there
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Yes, it’s difficult to predict where such an understanding might lead. If it reframes and redefines all of number theory, then we might call it one component of the foundational theory of number theory. Analogously, if someone proves that
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They’ve got the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. What more could they want?
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“A tritone is very dissonant, so the dominant seventh chord really wants to ‘resolve’ to something more sweet.” “I see you shiver with antici——” It’s not dissonance that makes you want to hear the completion of the sentence, rather, it’s
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Agreed: don’t end up like Lot’s wife.
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"The verifier is rigorous" But the appeal-to-authority evidence that the article presents is not. "-- the Linux implementation has over 20,000 lines of code -- with contributions from industry (e.g., Meta, Isovalent, Google)
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Consider how much more research and researchers we could have if we abolished the whole PhD thing.
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If you ask a deceased person about their life, you will find that they also will offer no evidence of a previous conscious experience. Life, apparently, resembles unconsciousness.
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In terms of logistics, you wouldn’t need to raise genetically modified pigs. You could potentially scale production on demand and it doesn’t require the environmental footprint of livestock.
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The human body and the human mind are perfectly fitted to one another. They co-evolved. Any fundamental change in the human brain would imply a fundamental change in the human form, to enable acting on the enhanced understanding. Otherwise,

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