ryeights

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   by ryeights 5y ago

   Eventual consistency.
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   by ryeights 5y ago

   “Social media” in the traditional sense? Maybe not. But social website? Absolutely!
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   by ryeights 5y ago

   >shouting Fire! in a crowded theater Please stop using this quote… https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/shouting-f... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive&#x2
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   Everest mystery: Was there an international cover-up of a dead climber's ascent?(salon.com)

   3 points by ryeights 5y ago|0 comments
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   by ryeights 5y ago

   We caught a time traveler!
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   by ryeights 5y ago

   > These are all ways to ignore the real problem. > I suggest you stop looking for policies […] you’d spend your whole life renting and paying off someone else’s mortgage anyway. > Now ask yourself if that’s the future you want, and
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   by ryeights 5y ago

   It sounds like GP is wearing a mask voluntarily.
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   by ryeights 5y ago

   That is exactly the theory. As an individual it honestly doesn’t matter that much to me if my cell line continues on. I will still be dead.
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   by ryeights 5y ago

   Under the traditional view, the most evolutionarily advantageous individual is one that lives forever and continues to spread their genes indefinitely, producing hundreds of offspring. Why is this not what we see in practice?
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    I don’t think it is at all necessarily true that there would be one mechanism for programmed aging that could be disabled by modern medicine. Rather, evolutionary pressures might cause many mechanisms to develop simultaneously to prevent ag
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    I think it is obvious at this point that the human body is designed to self-destruct, causing death at old age, once a certain biological threshold is reached. Resistance to this idea comes not from a rational perspective, but a semi-religi
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    What the Anti-Work Discourse Gets Wrong(theatlantic.com)

    1 points by ryeights 5y ago|1 comments
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Without tech and its “ecosystem,” if you will, the system of Uber could not have existed at all. - Advanced tech allowed Uber to reach its pervasive global scale - Insane venture capital valuation allowed Uber to artificially deflate the pr
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    This is the future tech workers are helping to build. I question my career choice more and more every day
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Caveat: HTTPS Everywhere relies on a manual whitelist of HTTPS-enabled sites. If the website you’re visiting isn’t popular enough to be on their list, you’re out of luck.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Wow, that's not great. I take it these are meant to be used as a stopgap before an actual transplant?
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Does PredictIt make markets on the outcomes of military conflicts? That would pose some interesting ethical dilemmas...
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    First step: stop watching the news! It’s designed to make you stressed and angry and unhappy.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Well, sure. But in one case you have a chance of winning (although vanishingly small), and in the other you don’t. So it’s much less entertaining.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Under market??? This sounds incredibly disconnected from reality.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    If you listen to interviews with Honnold, he’s very clear about the fact that he still feels fear. If you watch the clip of his first free solo of Half Dome, you can even see him have a little freakout moment standing on one of the ledges d
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    I don’t understand why this is downvoted. This is exactly my perception as well: techno-optimism is dangerous, and there really is no excuse for the amount of pointless conspicuous consumption that occurs in modern life.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    “Broiling” would refer to using the broiler on one’s oven, I’ve never heard that term used to describe pan-frying. Terms I have heard are sautéed and seared
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    IMO, although it is not used in this codebase, the “goto error” pattern for error handling is far more elegant and readable than any non-goto-using alternatives. Goto can have its place sometimes.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    This would be funny if it weren’t frightening.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Yep. <search_term> site:reddit.com OR forum OR thread
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    What exactly is web3? The current web with NFT profile pictures and crypto microtransactions? Something more?
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    People go to college because that is what they are told they should do. Everything else is secondary.
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. Everything involving people
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    by ryeights 5y ago

    Not OP, but IMO WSB used to be interesting because it represented a small contrarian movement within the highly structured world of finance; a ‘secret club,’ if you will. I always browsed WSB primarily because it was fun, not because I expe