pmichaud

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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   Yeah this is huge, and the sophomore mistake here is to try to "aikido" the people who are using feeling words to describe judgement. Ie. to immediately rephrase their statement into more a "correct," NVC-style format. I
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   I almost agree with you, but I think it actually does bring you much closer to resolution. The reason is that by default the rhetoric and content, (as you've put it) are deeply conflated in the minds of the people who are engaged in co
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   I agree with the gist of the other people who responded to you -- NVC success stories just look like someone winning, so you're not going to necessarily notice them. The robotic phrases are a training tool, and in many unfortunate case
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   I thought so too, but when someone gets involved in divisive topics online, they get what they get.
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   I was wondering the same. It's really hard to quote Trump because of the way he talks, but I looked up a transcript of the press conference in question: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   I don't think this is a nuanced enough way to think about it. Most of the reason I still use my macbook and basically the only reason I'd consider buying a new one when the time comes is "soft lock in". I'm not lite
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   I was recently in Northern-ish Ontario, and I had to pump some gas, so I was in the shade of the roof overhead the pumps. It was about -40 degrees. I was standing there in relatively dense clothing, since it was cold, and I was out there fo
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   Reuters and AP are the news wire services from which most new networks get their news. They are both super boring and terse, and there are RSS feeds for both.
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   by pmichaud 7y ago

   I think bribery is probably bad. I am curious though, when I try to put on my super naive hat, how it's very much different than a normal market transaction? Like sure if bribes are part of the transaction then it stops being completel
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    If you read my original post it was a straightforward statement about my preferences for myself, and nothing about what I thought the right thing was or what other people should want. That wasn't an accident. I think your heuristics fo
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I think I won't convince you about my capacity for empathy in this context, but I guess I'll just say that my opinion here isn't a lack of empathy for the guy or his family. I'm not confused that reading such things coul
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I am not offended by that obit. I can see she was going for a "speaker for dead" thing. I know that sort of direct honesty is out of fashion, but that's the kind of obit I want.
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I mean, memetic evolution is faster than genetic evolution because generations take longer and are most constrained. So the genetic trend is always lagging. I expect the trade off between these things to be cyclical and that we're in t
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I believe landmines (of the type used in wars of the past) are not allowed by international law anymore, precisely because of the problems that come with them going off on whoever happens to be there, including far into the future.
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I wrote about this years ago, I think on HN. I guess I wasn't cynical enough at the time because even as an outsider what you're saying seemed obvious to me, and I assumed the founders knew that. I thought maybe this pitch was use
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    They aren't literally encoded by genes, but they do follow evolutionary patterns. That's what a meme is. Just going the by the birth numbers, the tide will likely turn: conservative Christians have the adaptive "mutation&quot
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I agree with Kragen here. I see what you're saying, but from my perspective as a person who can build both software and stairs, they aren't in the same ballpark. Sure a CPU is still executing instructions somewhere deep down the s
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I think it sort of depends on what you count as different, but I think you're basically right. Power tools alone have made a big difference. Still, I think stairs are conceptually almost identical, including in the internal details, in
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    Yes, and we're reaping the rewards. I mean that in both the sincere and the cynical sense.
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    The suggested alternative I got from the essay was "try to cause a real, specific outcome in the world. If the action you took caused the outcome, you passed the test."
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I think a lot of the time the idea of funding is: From the startup's side: We don't actually know the business yet, so we need resources to fund our runway while we figure it out (ie. interact with the market enough to make smart
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I only do hobby gamedev, so I don't know what I'm talking about, but when I think of a tool that's "too complex" to release, I imagine not just a conceptually difficult thing, but a dangerous thing. For example, the
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I guess I wasn't clear, but I didn't mean the woman who invented the term is missing the point. I meant the introduction to the article, written by the author/interviewer, framed the misuse of the word in a way that hides the
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    The article says that the term "emotional labor" is used incorrectly to refer to things like doing chores. What people actually use the term incorrectly for is the internal tracking necessary to manage the process of maintaining a
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I think this article misses the point. It's not about doing the chores. It's about being the one who has taken ownership of the chores being done, by whom, when, etc. When people say it about chores, they mean they are in an unack
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    Are people in prominent positions not allowed to have opinions or interests outside of their job? That is basically correct.
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I didn't pay the $27.95 to read this, but the abstract is alarmingly wrong. The analogous thinking is that software bugs, in particular data storage errors[1], are best understood as hardware malfunctions, and that precise intervention
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I actually like this idea a lot. So the application to get information gets a reply in the form of "no" or the information that was requested, and the requesters can't unilaterally get the info even if they want to. It's
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I have found this is basically always the case. In weight lifting you have this concept of "hard gainers," who are generally men who want to gain muscle mass / weight, but can't seem to, "no matter how much they eat
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    by pmichaud 7y ago

    I get the desire for answers to be evaluated on their own merits, but here is an argument for the system staying the same as it currently is: 1. If you're asking for help on a topic, then--by definition-- you are in an information asym