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by rfrey 3y ago
It's "rugged individualism" that is the bubble, both in time and in space. Community and duty exist everywhere and have at every time, despite what it is like in 2024 America.
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by rfrey 3y ago
This reads like a parody of American individualism that a Chinese government newspaper might write. The ultimate goal of my parenting is for my kids to realize they're part of a community that gave them tremendous advantages, and to wh
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by rfrey 3y ago
In the west we can't even seem to hold on to the lessons from 1930s-40s Europe, despite an incredible amount of documentation and retrospection. What hope is there when the history of the cultural revolution is being actively suppresse
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by rfrey 3y ago
> don't think I've ever seen a worse AI detector in my life. I hope that this is not a real demo of the product. "I tried it on anime images and it didn't work well on that class" would have been sufficient.
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by rfrey 3y ago
That's interesting. I wonder how the current population of HN splits between people who heard of HN because of YC (that describes me), and people who heard of YC because of HN.
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by rfrey 3y ago
>“Coke” is the generic word for all soda/pop, including Pepsi, in much of the US and world I don't think this is even true for most of the USA, much less the world. I've never heard anyone refer to anything except a cola a
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by rfrey 3y ago
Setting aside whether "easier to watch" is somehow beneath an HN reader, your parent said "more entertaining" not easier to watch. The primary goal of the movie industry is obviously to entertain. (Well, the primary goal
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by rfrey 3y ago
Sorry OP, for a bit of a diversion. I notice a lot of folks saying that "quick wit" or fast thinking or whatever, is just advance preparation (perhaps subconscious) or a memorized script, etc. It may be, but for those who think it
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by rfrey 3y ago
Do the people who signed the contracts bear responsibility and consequences for the actions taken by that pile of contracts?
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by rfrey 3y ago
People have different standards. I'm whining about the heat at 26 degrees, but it's not getting me out of mowing the lawn. And not working during a hot winter day is comedy sketch territory. That snow isn't going to shovel it
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by rfrey 3y ago
Of course "I think my opinions are correct" is a tautology. But what people mean when they say things like "I think I have good opinions" is that they think they were reasonably careful and thoughtful in forming their
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by rfrey 3y ago
Are you seriously suggesting somebody working a poverty-level wage in an Amazon dystopia in Poland just... quit and start a business?
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by rfrey 3y ago
3 or 4 years for full vesting, sure - but not to start vesting. A 6 month or 1 year "cliff" where you start vesting a portion of your shares is pretty standard.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Being correct or incorrect is orthogonal to arrogance.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Just a note that Alberta is not a poor province, and in fact has the highest GDP per capita of all the Canadian provinces. (Nunavut and the NWT have higher GDPs due to their large mining sector combined with tiny populations.) We also have
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by rfrey 3y ago
>I was offended that this 15 year old thought she could buy me, in large part because she was correct. I took the $500 and told the mom the tracking software was all set up. She nodded and told me she would check that it was working and
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by rfrey 3y ago
I don't recall the exact numbers, but I read that public opinion was even divided on the Kent State Massacre, with much hostility between the two sides.
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by rfrey 3y ago
If refactoring code doesn't lead to fewer defects down the road, or to faster feature implementation with less errors, or faster employee onboarding, or any other visible result, then maybe management doesn't want you to do it,
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by rfrey 3y ago
It's a human thing. Not all humans, but many. > Dying is a natural process. Sorry. Avoiding dying, as best one can, is also a natural behaviour.
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by rfrey 3y ago
The question is, what are the potential negative scenarios.
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by rfrey 3y ago
> Anyone who thinks that free speech is dangerous or harmful in any way obviously knows nothing about history and has fallen prey to propaganda. Anyone who thinks Elon Musk is a proponent of free speech has not been paying attention.
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by rfrey 3y ago
How is hosting your website using a Microsoft silo more "on the internet" than using this?
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by rfrey 3y ago
Like remedial math, those messages might not be targeted at your kids, or any kids who get meaningful support at home. There are a lot of kids who are constantly told they are useless and will never be good for anything.
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by rfrey 3y ago
I haven't read the paper, but James Hoffman and others regularly do blind tasting with 3 cups, testing things like extraction. In the case of extraction, for example, they'll measure extraction with precision scales, then have 2 c
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by rfrey 3y ago
An entirely predictable outcome of "death sentences" for non-malicious company events is that companies will pull out all the stops to cover them up.
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by rfrey 3y ago
"It's one of the core principles of web development and it means that you should Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose." That's one of the core principles of web development? Why? I'm prepa
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by rfrey 3y ago
Who did Venezuela steal the land from?
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by rfrey 3y ago
> What are you talking about? Statistical significance is directly calculated from effect size and standard deviation. But it's not about how big the effect is. It's how likely that the effect was or was not due to chance. A ve
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by rfrey 3y ago
Half a standard deviation means going from the 50th percentile of IQ to the 69th. I'm assuming you didn't mean statistical significance since size of movement has nothing to do with statistical significance, so you must have meant
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by rfrey 3y ago
You're not wrong, but in this case not enough time has emerged for the situation to change or for new facts to emerge. It's been a bit over a day. All that a flip-flop in that short timeframe does is indicate that the board did no

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