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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Yeah dating novice therapists is bad because they are still trying on the tools and they’ve got a neophytes zeal, dating experienced therapists is bad because they’ve integrated the tools so much that it’s hard recognize when they’re pullin
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Therapists do indeed experience “vicarious traumatization”, which is exactly what it sounds like. But this comes more from descriptions of traumatic experience than difficult existential questions. As others have said, existential questions
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
It’s a tech site; there’s a whole tech industry devoted to what is basically securities fraud, and it’s annoying. I work in smart contracts trying to build an ambitious global network, so I’m not exactly some Luddite afraid of the future. I
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Dated a therapist who was adamant she could only see 15-20 people a week and still give quality care; built her schedule around making sure she had adequate breaks because it felt irresponsible to her, otherwise. Anything past that it was a
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Per my understanding it isn’t strictly illegal to bribe people in foreign countries, just that it’s _often_ illegal, under circumstances I’m pretty vague about - no clue about your example. Also NAL
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Check the Foreign Corrupt Practices act
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I’d suggest looking into rationalist/effective altruism meetups. As far as professional interests and demographics, its hard to imagine another niche group with more overlap - naturally both seem born out of SF
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
That’s the joke, pretty sure
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
fully agree, think what you're saying is a misread of my comment. GP said "literally everyone says this thing is bad." My comment was "Well, clearly there were people not telling them [or else they'd probably have s
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Clearly there was someone making part of that $500,000,000 that wasn't telling them this.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Once you get a certain level of karma you get the ability to downvote comments - lighter font means people downvoted it
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Super misleading. You can block websites manually, but you can’t add an adblocker to Chrome - so if you want an ad free experience, then you’re forced to use safari, a historically subpar browser - but worse, it’s vendor lock in. If this ar
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I can't read the article, but this headline is the worst. Pretty sure melting 4x faster than Arizona is still zero melting.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I like where you’re coming from, it’s just this specific example - should we rewrite stuff in react - really strikes me as something an engineering manager shouldn’t be asking. “I heard about this implementation detail and wonder if we shou
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I really think pinning this on autism is misplaced. Willingness to engage in exploratory conversation is a combination of intelligence and learned habits of mind. If your boss (anyone, really!) comes to you with an idea and he misunderstand
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I think you get so accustomed to people making bullshit, hyperbolic claims that honest people reflexively are put off by things that _could_ be bullshit, hyperbolic claims. Not saying it’s totally rational, but when I first saw the “10 perc
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
oh, totally - my post also said I thought the initial lockdowns were fully justified and correct, and that only after the discovery of the ACE-2 mechanism did the calculus for children having schools open change (for me)
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I'm definitely not lying about this. See: https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1550856205706338305 Also see sibling comment. You can _also_ find people saying the lack of response is because of homophobia, and
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I mean, I think my real complaint is that 1. humans are fuckin' terrible at thinking through second order effects, and 2. often they are simply unknowable a-priori so to the extent that I am doing the thing I'm unhappy with, it&#
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I don't view them as unalloyed goods, for sure - it's just that most of the hostility came pre-anyone having great arguments against them and struck me as fundamentally tribal - went into an ice cream shop with my girlfriend in Oc
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I find myself despairing that almost no lessons were learned, no clear institutional improvements came from these systems. The response to monkey pox is bearing that out. A subset of the left (my team) saying “asking gay men to stop having
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
This is also "sins of the father" style reasoning. The fact that other people did a thing in the past doesn't mean I agree or support it. I have ancestors who fought with the confederacy; does this mean I shouldn't be op
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Product that would be really useful here is a sit stand desk that you can schedule: there’s just no way I’m realistically gonna context switch every 20 and 10 minutes to adjust my desk height; if it just happened and I had to intervene to s
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Maps does let you download areas for offline use. I'd agree that it's non-ideal for long trips, though in practice this has never been a huge problem for me.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
For the contract language, I’d recommend checking out Daml! It’s a Haskell-based smart contracts language with some pretty neat behaviors
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
I think the issue is: are tomatoes fungible for onions? What about garlic, or leeks? Or shallots? Just some pretty fuzzy categories.
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
This is the entire ethical basis of animal testing, except in this case, they’re at risk of actually helping the animals they’re testing. Compare that to e.g. malaria trials where they buy mice, infect them with malaria, and then see if the
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
LDS is huge and contains very smart people and, despite some questionable historical beliefs, they’re not AFAIK anti-science in any way. HN is huge. Definitely gonna be some overlap
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed response! My own sense here is that detective work is a deep part of being a software developer, because fundamentally we can’t escape the particulars of the problems we work on, but I guess that really depends on th
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by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Where have you worked where there were enough resources to effectively document all of your backend code? My job is currently mostly detective work, and it’s neither a function of incompetence nor laziness, it’s just a function of needing t

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