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by pattrn 5y ago
How does survivorship bias relate to this post? > Looking back, I cannot believe how much I’ve been able to ship over the past 6 years by just following this one rule. This seems to be his only conclusion about the effect of working a li
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by pattrn 5y ago
Good point. I just checked the paper, and it's true that the vaccinated population had proportionally more 60+ year olds (by about 3x). As I read through this more, It's a bit surprising that out of 805,124 people (includes uninfe
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by pattrn 5y ago
The author links the following paper as a source for his comments: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3868853 . Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, the mortality rate of the infected, unvaccinated p
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by pattrn 5y ago
Posts like this make me scratch my head. He describes his parents as first generation immigrants who moved to the United States and built up enough wealth in one generation to put their kids through college. Then he denigrates capitalism an
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by pattrn 5y ago
I think it's technically defined as private ownership of the means of production, but don't quote me on that. My last economics class happened many years ago.
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by pattrn 5y ago
No worries! I agree in part with your original statement, which is why I was asking for more detail. As a society I think we have too much confidence in our predictions about macro events, especially ones involving human behavior. Even the
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by pattrn 5y ago
> We didn't survive as a species thanks to life guiding philosophy or in general thanks to a conscious thinking process in which we tried to predict the future. Not sure I understand you correctly here. Choosing to build shelters fr
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by pattrn 5y ago
It's important to consider that converting between the long-term store of value and the short-term medium of exchange is a taxable event, so if your asset gains value at exactly the same rate as inflation, you still end up losing money
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by pattrn 6y ago
This is the one thing that bothers me about TypeScript as well. I've ended up using frameworks like `zod` to do runtime type checking of endpoints. It has gone a long way towards decreasing edge case failures -- I just wish they had so
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by pattrn 6y ago
I used the qualifier "assuming Conley told the truth" to establish an axiom, since the author did that implicitly. Everything else was pure deductive reasoning. That aside, I personally believe that the entire media and all public
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by pattrn 6y ago
Interesting read, but I'm not sure the analysis of the following exchange is correct. > Q: But was it ever below 90, here or at the White House? > CONLEY: No, it was below 94 percent. It wasn't down in the low 80s or anythin
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by pattrn 6y ago
As a competitor to Scrivener, I'd love to know why you think that. (I just deleted a paragraph of text so that I don't influence your response with my own opinions.)
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by pattrn 6y ago
One could also assume that there's a 1% chance that a mask is harmful (let's say due to oxygen deprivation). If that person believes that they are harmful, then why would take the 1% risk? (For the record, this is not my opinion.
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by pattrn 6y ago
That type of response may result more from lack of education than from political ideology. Where I live, there are a fair amount of educated liberals and conservatives. I run into liberals and conservatives alike who give a similar response
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by pattrn 6y ago
Was in the same boat (regarding the Javascript ecosystem) until I discovered NextJS. It's pretty opinionated, but lets me get fully functional React sites up and running in with sensible defaults in minutes. Not exactly as clean as PHP
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by pattrn 6y ago
Hi pearce! Thanks for the great feedback. The editor does allow exporting to both Markdown and Word, and I'm slightly embarrassed that we forgot to mention it on the front page. I'll fix that. (The last section near the bottom doe
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by pattrn 6y ago
Hey all! I've been working on this for the past 6 months, after many years of being a wantrepreneur. This is the first time I've launched a product and taken payments. Would love to hear any feedback or questions on any aspect of
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Show HN: NovelPad, an online editor for writing novels(novelpad.co)
8 points by pattrn 6y ago|3 comments
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by pattrn 6y ago
Can't read it because of the paywall. Either way, I'm one of those Americans that wants to be free to do whatever I want that doesn't directly harm other people, including being stupid. Most likely I won't intentionally
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by pattrn 6y ago
Solo founder here as well (launching my first product in a week, so keep in mind that I don't have much experience). My process looked something like this: - Analyze market (Can this make enough money?) - Chat with target market (Will
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by pattrn 6y ago
It's a unfortunate that he doesn't include the equivalent class-based implementations of his logging quiz. Event lifecycles notoriously obscure order of execution, so I'm not sure the alternative is any clearer -- especially
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by pattrn 6y ago
That's primarily why I listed all of the typical state taxes. When you combine property tax, state income tax, and sales tax, it can come pretty close to the federal income tax. Point taken, though. I probably should have qualified inc
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by pattrn 6y ago
I completely agree with you that the culture isn't for everyone. Many towns lack basic government services like trash pickup and public utilities, likely due to the reduced taxes (I haven't done a comparison, so this is just a gue
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by pattrn 6y ago
I live a mile north of New Hampshire's southern border. We have no income tax, no sales tax, the median property tax is within $800 per year of the neighboring states, and the median income is only $3,000 per year less than Massachuset
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by pattrn 6y ago
Don't really have the time to do a complete write-up, but for what it's worth I've completely moved my company from GitHub to GitLab within the past year. We found the group and project hierarchy to work very well for organiz
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by pattrn 7y ago
In that case, the odds of a Yian being a terrorist would increase, thereby increasing the odds of a Yian getting searched. If we assume that the odds of being a terrorist varies based on demographics, then this would catch more terrorists t
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by pattrn 7y ago
Not sure if you're referencing the constitution's original intent for state legislatures to elect senators. If you are, here's a good reference for anyone interested in the topic: https://www.senate.gov/artand
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by pattrn 7y ago
This mirrors my sentiment prior to moving to Boston. It turned out to be the opposite. It took more time to get to most places in the city than it took to get to equivalent places when I lived in New Hampshire. You name it: grocery stores,
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by pattrn 8y ago
That's incredibly embarrassing. Thank you for pointing it out! I wrote this post while going through a bad head cold, so I'm afraid I missed quite a few typos and errors of that sort. Hopefully that's the last one.
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by pattrn 8y ago
This is my first blog post relating to software design. It talks about how naming and design go hand in hand, and about how readability takes priority over design. I'm aware that there are some pretty strong opinions out there, so fire

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