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by quacked 5y ago
Good lord, listen to yourself. > People who score highly in IQ tests are interested in puzzles and seeing patterns in things. This is not necessarily a useful skill in real life, and may even be detrimental sometimes. Have you been outsi
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See, this is what I assumed was going on, and also what that engineer from Google was saying.
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I'm not necessarily saying I don't believe you--obviously you'd know more about working there than I would. But can you explain to me why in 2010 if I googled "evidence the moon landing was faked" I got a huge list
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by quacked 5y ago
No, it's overt--I wish I could find this for you, but I saw a tweet from an apparently reputable source, it was a Google engineer saying "I'm so proud of the work our team has done to make it more difficult to find misinforma
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by quacked 5y ago
You said it better than I could. I am a US citizen, and most of my middle/upper-middle class colleagues simply cannot imagine that their society is the result of many hundreds of thousands of people following totally arbitrary rules, a
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by quacked 5y ago
I concur that there are places where this is true, but not at all to the level that it's true in Asian and African countries
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by quacked 5y ago
If the country you're in: - Prioritizes "face" or "reputation" above literal accuracy - Has lower-level officials that accept bribes - Has had airlines and planes for fewer than 5 decades Assume any complex high-ris
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by quacked 5y ago
You're right. I can barely identify a number on sight.
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Why didn't you like it?
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IQ is not rising; literacy rates are falling in the developed world. As an example, fewer people are literate in Massachusetts now than when it was founded.
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Totally agree. In addition, billions of dollars every year are spent on various propaganda wars through advertising firms, political campaigns, and policy groups to convince people that the current state of manufacturing and nationality in
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Daniels is a classic GOP leader, as are many of the people beneath him. Use vaguely patriotic rhetoric to take over an American institution, sell out all possible assets to foreign powers for personal profit, retire to country estate. It&#x
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Don't worry, you can make the argument that the exact opposite things happens vs. what I said. Make sure you're following a watch order than includes the movies instead of just watching straight through the last two episodes.
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The coloring, fonts, monsters, sets, and UIs of NGE are so pleasing to look at. I hold NGE in much higher regard than other similar IPs, and would continue to do so even without the excellent art direction. Like many other stories, NGE asks
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by quacked 5y ago
I also have some personal experience with psychosis, although I don't want to disclose it on HN. How do you personally know when you're done experiencing it and have "returned to normal"?
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The formal definition according to Google is "a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality", so I guess technically, a dream meets that definition. I think the c
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by quacked 5y ago
I've never understood where to stop a root cause analysis, and the "Five Whys" has never helped at all. What's the appropriate level of abstraction? Eventually you get down to: ... "Because the sales targets for the
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by quacked 5y ago
A one-room schoolhouse--what a concept. I leave this essay here, on a low-comment HN thread, a similar method by which I found it several years ago on another post about older schooling methods: https://www.cantrip.org/gatto
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by quacked 5y ago
I've thought about this for a while. Imagine a line of "dumb" dishwashers, toasters, ovens, stoves, microwaves, etc., all well-designed and made with sturdy materials. Unfortunately, I think they'd cost 6-10x going rate
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by quacked 5y ago
Related: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ That site gets tossed around like candy and I don't think every graph they throw up is perfectly explainable by their central point, but what the invention of the 401(k) and IRA,
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by quacked 5y ago
I hate the stock market almost as much as I respect it as an incredible tool. The further out you can guarantee future rewards in exchange for labor and materials, the more prosperous your society will be, and we've seen that in spades
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Portions of it are available on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJCOof2HJk&t=449s
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It's a great point, and one that could be rectified by their teams actually having standards. Threats can't be empty. "Deliver early, we'll give you a bonus. Deliver on-time, we'll pay. Deliver late, we'll hold
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Thanks for that article--bookmarked.
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Doing God's work here
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The classic cognitive trick--people, unless specifically trained not to, will always estimate the best possible scenario, even if past experience has told them that the best possible scenario never happens. I'm dealing with this at my
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by quacked 5y ago
Yeah. 1) Encourage whoever you're teaching to stop you immediately if they don't feel like they understand something you're saying, even if it's a single word that's throwing them off, and especially if they'
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The smartest thing I've ever heard someone say about "taste" was an elaboration on the phrase "taste is subjective", with 'subjective' meaning "based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or
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Here's a fantastic paper you might find interesting: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6974...
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by quacked 5y ago
I definitely have already decided what I'm going to believe, and I read this article as confirming my prior beliefs. But it's not just universities--government agencies and large corporations (both of which I've worked at and

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