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by retsibsi 8y ago
But surely the reason people value a 7 minute reduction so highly is because of what it represents -- a successful effort to get fitter and/or mentally tougher. If you're simply 'buying' that reduction, what is the point
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> where is the snake oil Doesn't the original post describe a CEO lying to potential investors about a product that doesn't exist? Maybe that doesn't map perfectly to the 'snake oil' analogy, but it's close
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> The founder needs to do what he has to fund the dream while it is still amorphous. Meaning, lie about the product? Maybe this is normal; I'm not part of that world, so I wouldn't know. But hiding it behind fuzzy phrasing seem
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I think the developer/publisher are just responding to market pressures. Quake Live (at least for its first few years) was relatively pure and old-school, including in the ways mentioned in this thread, but it was only moderately popul
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by retsibsi 8y ago
The indictment says he used the username 'Josh'.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
It would include drug crimes as well. I think you can take the words at face value (with an implied 'physically' modifying 'violent'), except that crimes involving only the threat of violence may count as violent crime
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> First... people with bad soft skills don't have the ability to self-reflect and admit it, as you have. Give yourself some credit. This is a nice sentiment but I don't think it's true. 'Soft skills' is a prett
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I think most people have no problem with science being used as a launching pad for speculation, or a source of metaphor and artistic inspiration, or a cultural product to playfully riff on. The reason some are frustrated by the quoted lines
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I thought 'scientism' described excessive faith in the scientific method, and/or dogmatic positivism. How does that apply to calling someone out for explicitly invoking scientific findings in a misleading or nonsensical way?
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I don't know how likely it is, but there's a risk that this could backfire: > Most people who decide to donate less than the default will probably feel slightly bad for doing so. If the default amount is too much for me, then m
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Come on man, 'idem' doesn't even have fewer characters than 'same' :) For other readers: 'idem' = 'the same'
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I looked at voat and agree that it's terrible -- but I'm not convinced that the big difference between reddit and voat is moderation. My understanding is that voat superficially presented itself as a bastion of free speech, but ma
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by retsibsi 8y ago
And the other side of that coin is possibly even more annoying: plenty of obviously dumb comments rise to the top, presumably because a lot of people agree with the sentiments they express. I think two-axis voting (see my other comment in t
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Have any major forums tried a two-axis voting system -- something like Agree/Disagree and Good post/Bad post? I know some people would abuse this and hammer both downvote buttons out of mere disagreement, but I think it would impr
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> We might not win, but if we do, you're boned! Isn't it worse than that -- more like 'we might not win, but you're probably boned either way'? I may be wrong but I have the impression that it's relatively r
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Belly fat sems like a very unreliable proxy too. You can definitely be skinny without being fit in any of the usual senses, and you can have a fair amount of fat while still having good cardio, strength, etc.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I was also shocked by the tameness of his most embarassing moment, but not because my own stories are cooler -- just much stupider and more awkward!
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by retsibsi 8y ago
What happens when you start at the far left, then move gradually rightwards? I find that my brain's interpretation is quite sticky -- I can hear Yanny quite far to the left, and Laurel quite far to the right, depending on where I begin
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> a lot of people are trying to use their vote to move the total vote towards what they think it should be, rather than purely expressing an up-or-down opinion independent of the existing vote I definitely do this on reddit, and probab
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Uranus smells like rotten eggs, scientists find(abc.net.au)
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by retsibsi 9y ago
'More than 10x the population of Florence, South Carolina!'
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by retsibsi 9y ago
That's how I feel about visual descriptions in many books. I have a weak visual imagination, so most of it goes straight through me without leaving an impression. I wonder if non-visual sensory description is especially valuable to peo
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by retsibsi 9y ago
The book Russian Roulette says that data was stolen from the DNC by two groups of Russian hackers, who seemed to be acting separately. It says that one group was linked to Russian military intelligence (presumably the GRU) and the other w
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by retsibsi 9y ago
I see this attitude a lot, but it seems strange to me. Of course any hard line will be somewhat arbitrary, but we need to draw hard lines if we want unambiguous, consistently enforceable laws. What's special about speed limits that mak
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by retsibsi 9y ago
Serious question: how are speed limits enforced (or not) in the USA? From what I read on the internet, it seems like they are 90% unenforced, 10% arbitrarily enforced by cops who choose who they want to pull over from the masses who are rou
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by retsibsi 9y ago
I don't see why it has to be pretension or conceit. Personally I am often frustrated by mainstream maths/science coverage, but that's not because I think I'm special or I'm pretending to be smart: in fact I'm v
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by retsibsi 9y ago
But this isn't the whole world, or the New Yorker for that matter -- it's the Hacker News comment section. jordigh's frustration is one that could easily be shared by many HN readers. (And in any case it was not presented as
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by retsibsi 9y ago
> A good share of Starbucks locations worldwide actually run at a loss. The mega-busy ones elsewhere make enough profit to cover the loss making stores. It's simple economics of scale. I'm probably missing something obvious, bu
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There is a big difference between feeding an addiction and spending money on things that make you happy.
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Her pioneering work on these processes led to an understanding of the mechanism responsible for auroras. She found this work wonderful, and her immediate reaction was to tell her brother, who’d first introduced her to these beautiful pheno

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