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by rriepe 6y ago
Mine got nuked somewhere along the way too.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Love the name.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Team pace is determined entirely by the manager's sense of urgency, which from what I can tell is directly proportional to how often they check their e-mail.
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by rriepe 6y ago
It does highlight a perverse incentive that's everywhere within the system. It was useful to me.
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by rriepe 6y ago
> Scientific studies aren't gospel. I've found this depends on the person.
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by rriepe 6y ago
The food pyramid is an enduring icon of institutional incompetence. What they should have done instead is mandate the use of the term "lipids" instead of "fat" on nutrition labels. Vocabulary could do so much to solve ou
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by rriepe 6y ago
Yeah I regret the snark. Stay safe/employed.
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by rriepe 6y ago
They have icons for both. I think they're treating the SNES as an NES. Just, a super one.
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by rriepe 6y ago
PR is a weird topic to discuss on HN. It's basically two groups: one that's been around long enough to have read Paul Graham's Submarine article and one that thinks of PR as a conspiracy theory. To these people, when you talk
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by rriepe 6y ago
I'm one of these people. The other skill is endlessly breaking a problem down into steps small enough to stumble through with this approach. And the other other thing to know is when not to do it, like for the core business logic, or
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by rriepe 6y ago
You could see this in action during that "Cheetah follows hiker" story a few months back. Here's the video queued to the moment where he throws a rock at it: https://youtu.be/p25MgRZ9rJc?t=333
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by rriepe 6y ago
What a great comment! The approach is very Musk top-to-bottom. You win by being the lightning rod.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Just to be clear, the secular side is the one with the child prophet, right?
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by rriepe 6y ago
It's the same if you talk about it today.
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by rriepe 6y ago
News is a business. All news is fake news, fueled by PR. You're a centrist with a throwaway account. I don't know what to say to that.
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by rriepe 6y ago
The standards are for the opposition only.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Are you allowed to disagree?
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by rriepe 6y ago
Maybe second after "Build your own Twitter"
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by rriepe 6y ago
I'm a heretic and you can e-mail me about it if you want
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by rriepe 6y ago
1. You're comparing death to death here but the correct comparison is room-temperature death to Hell. Dead-but-cryopreserved is the pre-afterlife state equivalent to death in traditional religions. 2. How do you revive the frozen heads
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by rriepe 6y ago
Here you have to choose a single company to freeze your head. If you choose the right company you get an afterlife, so you might as well choose one, even if they all seem like total bullshit. It is exactly Pascal's wager.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Pascal's wager for the irreligious
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by rriepe 6y ago
They might just be using very high prime numbers.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Tribes are how humans survive. What we think of as "survivalism"-- a single person getting by alone in the woods-- wouldn't work in any era with any technology.
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by rriepe 6y ago
One that seems obvious to me (but others cheer for) is curing aging.
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by rriepe 6y ago
I'll knock it off. But that includes when they actually do come for Signal and Bitcoin.
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by rriepe 6y ago
I think they're both true. Despising without noticing is a good description, since it fits the homeless and so many of them are SPD.
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by rriepe 6y ago
"But we have to protect this place" makes a great epitaph for rhetoric on the internet.
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by rriepe 6y ago
You're telling me that Parler's 8M nowhere-to-go users have nothing to do with Signal's recent influx of 40M users? Here's a hint: The entire 8M from Parler are using Signal. They're still plotting all the same vi
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by rriepe 6y ago
The unsettling truth is that society really, really despises people with schizoid personality disorder. (EDIT: People with SPD are averse to violence and prone to all kinds of abuse. The he-said/she-said stuff is particularly useless

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