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by patcon 4y ago
Ha! I was just about to comment saying the same thing! I like it a whole lot :)
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by patcon 4y ago
Ah that's a good point. Though on consideration, I would venture a guess that the purpose of each program might be as different as the governance of each company. Outcomes might be comparable, but I'd bet the arrival path and conv
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by patcon 4y ago
thanks for responding! i might feel a bit differently, but I think I hear where you're coming from: that it does a disservice to great people when we flippantly imply their greatness originates from simplistic things outside themselves
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by patcon 4y ago
(upvoted!) can you say more about this sensibility of yours? I'm genuinely intrigued, as I haven't heard a take like that before :) At risk of asking a leading question: is it some idea that deep truth should come from reason rath
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by patcon 4y ago
I've never read it, but I can tell it has something deep to say, due to have channeling the knowledge learnings into the production of the knowledge object has brought so much joy and intrigue and life-changing epiphanies to readers. I
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by patcon 4y ago
I felt similarly. Thinking through the article's comparison between first moment in time and "smallest possible positive number", maybe it's sensible... > even though there’s no first moment of time, we can still meas
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by patcon 4y ago
> my weird brain quirks made me a highly paid professional rather than that annoying car mechanic who might solve a hard diagnostic problem quickly but takes forever to get around to your oil change Thank you so much for being humble abo
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by patcon 4y ago
> So turning down 10mil to earn 3mil is indeed a sacrifice. Agree whole-heartedly. I'm all for reducing exec pay and wage disparity, but still... let's give ppl props when they do pro-social things. That's the moral equiva
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by patcon 4y ago
Yeah, the Red Cross can screw right off. And libraries. Things should not exist in this world if they can't pay their own way... Sorry, my words above feel gross. I don't normally write sarcastic comments, and I don't like to
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by patcon 4y ago
Kinda makes sense to me that the wealthy might be the astronauts of this thinking. My experience being voluntarily without home (and living in parks) tells me that erecting a barrier between your work and your material needs, that allows yo
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by patcon 4y ago
Sorry, in short: Assume partner (A) and (B) have existing social ties, ie. they're not strangers, and the closer, the better. Options: (experimenter says) 1. "Hey A and B, for every day you meet your fitness goals, I'll give
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by patcon 4y ago
Nice! In case anyone is interested in the science of this effect and it's surprising power, this is an almost exact reproduction of an experiment, in the field of "connection science" or "social physics". (NOTE: Th
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by patcon 4y ago
What the sibling person is saying is relevant, and I'm kinda confused why you dismiss it as a straw man > I'm describing the nature of creativity and no, the creative process is not simply fitting things together somehow. Many
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by patcon 4y ago
> Combining things, making things transition into other things, making them look like something else - all that are procedures that humans can master(it's just that the computer can do it much more quickly). Have you not just descri
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by patcon 4y ago
> IMO, American society would benefit from teaching Roberts Rules in high school. Understanding how to have groups come to decisions without forcing consensus a crucial underpinning of society. Agree on the value of teaching Roberts rule
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by patcon 4y ago
Respectfully, I think the distinction they're making it that "writing ONE failing test then the code to pass it" is very different than "write a whole test suite, and then write the code to pass it". The former is m
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by patcon 4y ago
Also read the book due to comments here. Was very aligned with some of my interests in relationships between language, information, life/intelligence and metaphor <3 You might get a kick out of this paper (though some may find it&#x
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by patcon 4y ago
> mentioned the head of the project doesn't know I exist Was this said in a way that may have been trying to get you to feel like you're missing out and encourage you to come back to office? Not saying that's appropriate,
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by patcon 4y ago
I keep such a list in Roam, and usually neglect to pluck things from it. But it's more that when I go to add something and it's already there or has some relation to something already there (e.g. same author), I'll often give
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by patcon 4y ago
Hard to participate as an English-speaker, but just to scope out a still-thriving BBS: students at the local university maintain a telnet BBS called PTT, which is essentially the Reddit of Taiwan. As I understand, it's been crucial in
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by patcon 4y ago
disclaimer: i'm a bit of a lateral thinker so you might not like some of my metaphors, but fwiw they're backed by a biochem degree and a not-insignificant number of years working at intersection of tech/society/democracy
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by patcon 5y ago
Saying all this with thoughtful consideration: First, I hear ya. But I don't feel he's described his colleagues well enough for me to have your convictions. I can tell that even in reading it, I'm dropping into the roles the
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by patcon 5y ago
STRONG agreement! I think if we'd found a way to co-exist with Neanderthals, we'd be faring much better with toeing around the edge of the great filter of Fermi's paradox[1]. The contemporary ability ("contemporary"
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by patcon 5y ago
I'm a bit passionate about this, so my words below may sound "absolutist", but pls understand that being open-minded is really important to me. I'm willing to listen. With that said: > I really don’t like the idea of
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by patcon 5y ago
Seems maybe inspired by this: https://github.com/isaacs/github Was a great resource (and place to vent with like-minded users) before GitHub finally conceded and created a public issue tracking system of sorts <3
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by patcon 5y ago
> They exist in quiet and sometimes quite intricate underground conversations . YES. Nailed it. In my understand, it's broadcast that is weak at communicating nuance. But if you can figure out how to "tell stories" that
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by patcon 5y ago
A helpful comment below by @dhesive_wombat mentioned: > The Highway Code doesn't have the force of law. I would imagine it's the case that driver's education/training must (or is more likely to) adapt curriculum to co
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by patcon 5y ago
For those wondering what this meant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nLDkIlZcU
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by patcon 5y ago
Def a real concern. If anyone is interested to mitigate it yourself, these are helpful :) https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/about-cu... https://github.com/dependabot/dep
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by patcon 5y ago
I recognize that this is kinda subjective, but I'm a bit baffled that someone wouldn't find 1-in-20 to be "common". Though it's not homogenous, that's very conservatively the equivalent of one child in every cl

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