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by parpfish 1y ago
I imagine that this is a common problem and it could be another cool “unlockable” on HN, like the downvotes at 500 karma. Once you get X karma or account age >Y years, you can make one anonymous submissions each quarter that comes from a
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’ve got a side project that I may (someday) do a show HN with. However, I’d probably make a new account for that because the project is connected to my real name/portfolio and I don’t want that connected with my pseudonymous comments
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by parpfish 1y ago
Do these scientist know they can just say “enhance”?
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by parpfish 1y ago
Oorah also owns a ton of property in upstate New York. Specifically, a couple summer camps for kids and tons of houses in the surrounding community. So that’s what their “charity” spends money on. Also interesting to note that their “boys c
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by parpfish 1y ago
Half-baked thought: when something bad happens now it’ll be all over news broadcasts and social media. I think it’s pretty well established that fear mongering will skew your perception of something bad happening, but something I hadn’t con
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by parpfish 1y ago
As another born and raised Wisconsinite: There’s the superficial “friendly and welcoming” that applies to everybody. You’ll wave at everyone you see and lend a hand if their car is stuck in a snowbank. But there’s also a very insular clanni
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by parpfish 1y ago
i'm less worried about people monetizing it than I am about people pushing a lot of bad self-diagnosis memes based on nonsense criteria ("if you sleep with your arms in this pose, you have ADHD (and maybe autism)!") or just d
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by parpfish 1y ago
The worst part about talks/lectures is that once you lose the thread, the rest is meaningless. If my mind wanders a bit 5 minutes in to an hour long talk, the rest of that hour is a lost cause
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by parpfish 1y ago
I always lol at “reduce stress” as medical advice. May as well tell depressed people to “work on your attitude, turn that frown upside down!” If people could just “reduce stress” on a whim, they would. Having a doctor tell you reduce stress
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by parpfish 1y ago
There’s a very vocal, puritanical anti-semaglutide crowd that thinks using the drug is a way of subverting the moral order. “You have poor willpower, you’re SUPPOSED to be fat as a punishment!” They don’t care that it helps people stick to
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by parpfish 1y ago
> The genius of Hims lies in understanding that consumers will pay almost any premium to avoid the humiliation of discussing erectile dysfunction or hair loss with an actual human being. Does the telemedicine appeal to people because the
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by parpfish 1y ago
Im all-in for using technicalities to get what I want out of the healthcare system instead of having them all weaponized against me.
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by parpfish 1y ago
curl -X PATCH http://worldcurling.gov/rules/firm-foam \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"status": "BANNED"}'
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by parpfish 1y ago
Just because that’s what a scores is designed to do it doesn’t mean that’s what businesses use it for downstream. The fact people always debate what a credit score really means suggests that there are too many factors rolled up into a si
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by parpfish 1y ago
There’s also a second order effect of the people using easy loans/credit money leading to higher prices for everybody else. The cheap options will disappear if there’s a big chunk of the population that will go in debt to get the prici
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by parpfish 1y ago
i can't help that think a big part of what made the internet special was that it wasn't for everybody back in the day. it used to be that only certain types of people had the means and interest to be there. going there was lik
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by parpfish 1y ago
Pot has always been tangled in the culture war. The war on drugs prohibition that ramped up in the 60s/70s was specifically done to criminalize the anti-war left.
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by parpfish 1y ago
Most of the time that people share on the internet via social media, it’s a one-to-hugelymany broadcast. As a reader, I don’t feel the need to be a good listener. I’m one of a huge crowd listening, this message wasn’t meant to specifically
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by parpfish 1y ago
I started trying to vibecode over the last couple weeks, and it sucks at 90% of the stuff I have to do at work. That last 10% is nice, but not worth the cost IMO. However, because I does show promise on a small segment of my work I could se
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by parpfish 1y ago
Especially for startups with a small user base. Not many users means that getting to stat sig will take longer (if at all). Sometimes you just need to trust your design/product sense and assert that some change you’re making is better
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by parpfish 1y ago
I thought I was going to learn about the category of endofunctors
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by parpfish 1y ago
It’s just a coincidence that he has a hook for a hand. He was Mr Hook for years before that accident where the croc bit his hand off.
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by parpfish 1y ago
When I was a kid I wanted to be in Mensa because being smart was a big part of my identity and I was constantly seeking external validation. I’m so glad I didn’t join because being around the types of adults that make being smart their iden
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by parpfish 1y ago
One of my many peeves has been the way that people misuse the term “slippery slope” as evidence for their stance. “If X, then surely Y will follow! It’s a slippery slope! We can’t allow X!” They call out the name of the fallacy they are com
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by parpfish 1y ago
Or the propagandists that use it
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by parpfish 1y ago
not just the midichlorians, but the fact that every little knob and lever in an x-wing or on your blaster has an explanation of what they do. every single alien you saw in Mos Eisley eventually got an official name and canonical backstory (
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by parpfish 1y ago
Star Wars and The Matrix anre great examples of over-explaining removing mystery and undermining your world building.
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by parpfish 1y ago
i'd argue that the biggest hurdle to home cooked software is finding a way to distribute/deploy it among your friends. im a backend guy and can easily make a useful li'l executable to run on my work machine. but how do i shar
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by parpfish 1y ago
i think the parent is agreeing with the grug article by saying "content wins over style", not giving the style of the article a score of 0
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by parpfish 1y ago
Yeah. It’s a paid app, but it gives people the option of explicitly selling their time/attention via ads if they don’t want to use money. Most users would probably pay, but some people really don’t want to/can’t and this gives the

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