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811.
by smeej 3y ago
Does the only value of something come from what it "translates to in material terms"? What material terms are you trying to measure? Knowing that when something goes awry in your life, or you want some advice from someone who&#x27
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by smeej 3y ago
I don't know what roads you drive on, but when my problem is someone's going slow, the problem is already that I can't easily pass them. Slowing them down and making them smaller ain't gonna fix it.
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by smeej 3y ago
Making someone slow down in front of me is the very last thing I want to do in traffic!
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by smeej 3y ago
One amusing way I've found to diffuse a little bit of the useless anger, a la > yelling profanities at the guy who cut us off in traffic A friend of mine says he just pulls an index finger and mutters under his breath "red turt
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by smeej 3y ago
Hmm. When it comes to "a terrible waste," I seem to have ended up at exactly the opposite conclusion for myself, that I would feel like it had been so much more of a waste to die having only done the work and built the relationshi
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by smeej 3y ago
Notion, specifically in situations that actually call for Jira. I am apparently extremely weird for this, but I despise Notion, and I'm deeply concerned about anyone whose mind finds it intuitive.
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by smeej 3y ago
I think it works. Once. Especially if you're young. I think almost everyone could stand to strip away all the should in their life, everything everybody's always told them they should be, should want, etc. Radically question it, o
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by smeej 3y ago
Do you ever wonder if you're now trying to solve new problems with an old solution, and that's why it doesn't work anymore? I did this a couple times too before realizing the problem was that I was afraid of the hard work of
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by smeej 3y ago
Maybe not the solution you're looking for but...pick something else? If you're below average after 7 years and unemployed for the last 3, it makes one wonder why you keep trying to do this? You're a decade in and it isn'
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by smeej 3y ago
I know it says these outcomes are independent of other adverse childhood experiences, but I wonder if it really is as much worse as it feels when the parent responsible for your other ACEs is your childhood bully.
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by smeej 3y ago
Yes. I do not want the Global Social Computer in the Cloud to exist. I think it makes humans worse at being human.
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by smeej 3y ago
> A kind of selfish free-riding/tragedy of the commons: not learning to handle your share of the increased attention-management load required to keep the Global Social Computer in the Cloud (GSCITC) running effectively. It's mu
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by smeej 3y ago
I think you're right, but "blow a casket" does sound more dire!
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by smeej 3y ago
I think this article does a good job of trying to bring in the voices of some of those parents. Like, it's one thing for an autistic teenager who is otherwise getting by in a main stream high school to say, "I don't want your
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by smeej 3y ago
It's especially hard in both cases because the proposed treatments are most effective well before the age of consent, and in many cases, before an age where someone could even express an opinion of any kind. The overwhelming majority o
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by smeej 3y ago
I don't know if this helps at all, but I think allistic people are able to pick up on each other's body language, social cues, and subtext because they instinctively use the same ones. If an allistic person is tapping their foot w
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by smeej 3y ago
I chose the word "characteristic" pretty intentionally. I did not mean that difficulty appreciating nuance is exclusive to autism, nor that it is the only characteristic of autism.
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by smeej 3y ago
I can't help but wonder if there's something about the tendency to black-and-white thinking characteristic of autism that makes it hard for people on one end of the autism spectrum to appreciate that the experiences of people on t
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Ask HN: When did 302 redirects start corrupting Wayback Machine archives?
5 points by smeej 3y ago|1 comments
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by smeej 3y ago
I need the version of this guide that's written for those of us who never hit that challenge in school, but got absolutely clobbered in real life by the fact that most success depends on incremental effort over time, not immediate or l
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by smeej 3y ago
There's a reason NH is called "The Granite State." Planning to put things underground in at least that part of New England is not likely to go very well. It can be done (plenty of places have septic tanks, for example), but i
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by smeej 3y ago
Maybe, but unless your house is very well insulated, this would probably require making the home so warm as to be very uncomfortable. I live in New England in a small house (<700 sqft), and it easily drops 5 degrees an hour when it'
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by smeej 3y ago
To add to that, for the huge numbers of people who wouldn't be able to ride out a $1,000 emergency without going into debt, who feel like they're not even the primary causal agents in their own lives, the prospect of being able to
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by smeej 3y ago
But your own life is going to worsen in the future. To whatever extent you continue to have a future (stay alive), your mind and body will deteriorate. Your relationships will slowly end as the other people die. If you're lucky, you&
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by smeej 3y ago
It just seems like there are probably enough of us who do thrive in the early-stage startup atmosphere that someone could make good money targeting that niche with advice. We're different enough to be a subculture, but we're sti
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by smeej 3y ago
I don't want this to sound dismissive, but aren't we all "doomed" in the end anyway? How long does anything we do have an impact anyway? A generation? Two? Five? How many individual people have had an impact on the world
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by smeej 3y ago
This is well-timed reading for me! I recently started a breathing training program recommended to me by my insurance company as a way to reduce chronic anxiety and frequent anxiety attack symptoms. I figured it was free to me, and in the wo
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Ask HN: How do you speak to AI assistants? Does it affect how you treat people?
1 points by smeej 3y ago|0 comments
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by smeej 3y ago
Maybe a counter-anecdote? I live in a studio layout house. The only interior door/doorway is to the bathroom. Yet I regularly forget things between my kitchen counter and my desk, or sometimes even between my stove and the counter acro
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by smeej 3y ago
An awful lot of websites do have their revenue affected. Cryptocurrency exchanges, for example, need to know if an account belonging to some random innocent person is being linked to their account by someone impersonating that person, becau

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