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by pmichaud 8y ago
This is exactly the dynamic that's already creating the extreme polarization we're seeing, where people are living in self-selected echo chambers that have no common overlap with each other or, frankly, with reality much of the ti
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I think this is just another example of lack of common knowledge. Something isn't common knowledge unless everyone knows it and everyone also knows that everyone knows it. "Have you tried X"? No shit, X is the first thing tha
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Both is helpful, in my experience. Actually HN is a good example of getting body font/background coloration basically right.
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I face this issue frequently, and one thing that I find helps is acknowledge what's happening: 1. If you're talking to an actual equal, and you're not sure but you're trying to be helpful, then prefacing with that is goo
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https://medium.com/@alphorisms/no-jobs-for-horses-e0748f565e...
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This was entertaining to read, I like your style. I also find the webdev low status pretty unjustified. It's true that it's less mathy than other disciplines, but at scale, "webdev" is every bit as architecturally challe
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> Suppose, instead, that while focusing our conscious minds on generating foods, unconscious mental search processes can work away, in the background, unearthing a string of countries. Then, when we switch to countries, we should be able
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I get it, but it's just not my problem. If they want to figure out how to do 2 lines cheaper or whatever, that's up to them or the competitor that puts them out of business. I think what they actually do (just keep it standard) ma
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I have a sense that there's something wrong here. Wrong layer of abstraction? California imposes whatever pollution regulations it wants, then it's up to the car manufacturers how to handle that. They could choose not to sell to C
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Jesus, that is intense. I wonder if the guy was personally out to get the Doc, or if he was just a smart kid with too much time and not enough superego?
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Yeah, this happens whenever people speak more than one language. My experience of it with English and Spanish is that there are some things that are more fluidly expressed in one language or another, or there's a joke that's only
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IF you wanted to, how would you implement decentralized discovery?
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It's much more adversarial than it was at the beginning.
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I think you're not trolling, but I'm not sure. The first thing anyone smart does when they make a metric is think about what rules or other measures have to be in place to prevent obvious gaming of the metric to the detriment of t
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> I doubt Elon could design the engine of a rocket. In this case, you're wrong. Elon is actually the lead engineer on at least early SpaceX rockets.
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I think the key factor you're missing is that this issue is deeply political and historical. This isn't just a question about what's on the label, ie. black people being hired proportionally, but also about whose fault/r
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I basically agree with you, but just to play devil's advocate: > Maybe the relevant factor isn't whether the same people are in place, but rather that the process that selected those people at all, selected both the "linu
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I don't know what evidence you'd want. The claim seems self-evidently true to me. You were able to find one wiki article on a curious case of a family who, unlike billions of other people, survived as individuals for less than 50
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When you say "working to keep you" I think you're imagining the software becoming more valuable and useful to you, such that you are happy to keep paying them. In reality, those companies who don't do scummy things like
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Na. You're making a bunch of assumptions that may not be true. - Scientists, especially early in an outbreak may not have the procedures down. For example, they will have to study specimens and take samples somehow. Where or how will
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by pmichaud 8y ago
I agree with you in the narrow sense, but I bet you can't think of a metric that should be hyper-focused on for any purpose. Even something like "Lives Saved" fails pretty hard if you do it hard enough.
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by pmichaud 8y ago
Screens have glare. When I read a book I want basically all the light I can get, eg. being outside is fine. When I'm on a screen, it needs to be dim around me so I can see.
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My pet theory is that our culture is becoming increasingly atomiticized, like everyone experiencing their lives as entirely disconnected from anyone else or to history or some bigger sense of meaning. There are upsides to it, but I think pe
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There are still relatively strong effects. Whatever genes are statistically linked to things like less education, for example, are flooding the gene pool relative to others. There are plenty of dimensions like this.
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Just to expand, even if it does turn out to be a race-based correlation (like we controlled for class, and the discrepancy was still present), we still don't know why. One version is that a bunch of essentially similar cases come in, t
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A list of things that are wrong is pretty boring without plausible alternatives. Like, even if you're right, it doesn't matter because we're not comparing The Bad Thing to The Absence Of All Those Bad Things. That's triv
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I wonder if this is "efficient" though, like in the sense that it's the correct outcome given the actual incentives. Ie. the actual value of the given elected positions is such that everyone should correctly ignore that it ex
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For those who didn't read it: The headline may seem to be saying "BPD is now more treatable than before," but that is not what this is. The tldr; is actually more like "framing BPD patients as resistant to treatment is w
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This is wrong because it looks exactly one layer deep and ignores the greater complexity. Of course the answer to a DOS is to not accept the incoming requests. It's tricky to distinguish between the malicious requests and the legitimat
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As my siblings have said, arbitrary people knowing how much money someone has makes higher income and net worth people targets, not to mention unfairly weakens their ability to negotiate practically anything of substantial value. There are

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