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by snet0 5y ago
I'm sure you don't actually think this, if you think about it for a second longer. "What's wrong with drunk drivers? They're only harming themselves?"
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by snet0 5y ago
"Humans didn't see #4F3368 until it was used on this one web page in the 00s"
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Is the vaccine meant to prevent all-cause mortality? I wasn't aware we had discovered the elixir of life.. If you aren't going to compare this statistic to anything , what even is the point? The article is full of unfunny humour,
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by snet0 5y ago
I'd broadly say the same thing to friends, but I don't think it really survives scrutiny. It's a useful tool for sure, in that it might inspire "smart" people to try use their "smartness" to solve their pe
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by snet0 5y ago
Reminds me of the infamous "Say McDonald's to end commercial" patent from Sony. You will engage with the advertisement, or content will be withheld.
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I don't even think it is unintuitive. There are very few things here (if any) that make no sense, and a few are literally just basic understanding of floating point spec. And then of course a few questions are basically obfuscated-C
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by snet0 5y ago
This is a symptom of caring too much about what you're focused on, though. While I appreciate that sometimes it's easy to forget important things, I think if you need inorganic means to remember to call your mother, you need to ta
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by snet0 5y ago
Ah yes but, with the threat of being shocked and causing an accident, you will be less likely to text while driving, because you don't want to do things that might get you into an accident oh hold on a second.. "I wanted to stop s
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by snet0 5y ago
Definitely. I struggle to say this is "peak HN", since HN doesn't like social media in general, but it's definitely something that evolved out of the particular kind of software engineer "optimisation" for prod
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I came to this thread earlier and thought I'd taken crazy pills, so I'd check back later. Not a single non-positive comment. People who use this or think this is a good thing have fundamentally misunderstood social interaction. Yo
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I think a problem with my line of reasoning is that, as a society, we don't really want to care about the objective measures. I don't pick sides in this argument, but there is an ongoing argument about things like "women ha
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by snet0 5y ago
It's not a strawman, it's a hypothetical. Depending on your culture, you might struggle to imagine a manager firing a black employee for their skin colour. We still have legal protections for this, though, and I'm doubtful th
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In my experience, people who are fine with IQ jokes are also fine with disability jokes.
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>In survey after survey, beautiful people are described as trustworthy, competent, friendly, likable and intelligent, while ugly people get the opposite labels. Does this actually provide value without being contrasted to "objective
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by snet0 5y ago
It's interesting that people are willing to provide the "we shouldn't make conclusions without facts" argument for hydroxychloroquine, but insist that they were "right" about the lab leak way back in March 2020
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by snet0 5y ago
You should probably phrase your comment in that tone, instead of being needlessly antagonistic.
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The problem is that you simply cannot "get the facts right" when the facts do not exist. We did not, and still do not, know where the virus came from. It's very easy to look back and say "yes well of course this thing wa
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by snet0 5y ago
I believe the term is "non-alcoholic fatty liver disease". My mother hasn't had alcohol in 40 years, but apparently her liver tells a different story. She does love chocolate, however.
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by snet0 5y ago
I think this is a popular narrative, but I don't think it's true. Especially in HN, some of the best articles I can remember aren't angry people being obnoxious, but can even be highly-technical and entirely dispassionate. Al
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by snet0 5y ago
That is not the argument, though. I firmly believe that an overwhelming majority of people who read HN would be able to practically remove meat from their diet. It's not about everyone, it's about individuals, and individuals shou
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by snet0 5y ago
So it's not practical and you don't want to do it anyway?
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by snet0 5y ago
I am not sure that the lens of what you label "evolutionary success" is useful in any way. Would you rather a billion humans in Elysium or a trillion humans in Hades?
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by snet0 5y ago
I'm not sure about the specific context here, but benchmark warm-ups are often used to make sure that the program's run time is nothing but that, and doesn't include things like setting up an environment or compiling to a cac
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by snet0 5y ago
If I criticise a portrait, am I not criticising the painter?
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I think it's frequently the case that you determine what you're going to type in a block-wise fashion. You know roughly what the next paragraph/sentence should look like, and then "speak" through your typing. If you
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I was with my previous girlfriend for ~5 years, and have basically been using Gboard the entire time. We communicated via various messaging services literally every single day. If I was to try swipe-type her name right now, there is a 50% c
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This could be truthful if there is a biased data source.
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I politely recommend you do more research into the subject. It won't change your conclusions, but the state of affairs is very much not settled. Also, here's your falsifiability: when it can be shown that the virus is zoonotic in
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This is what I think the best course looks like. I know there are issues with Spotify's model (at least, I have heard people make this claim), but given that music had to transition to a streaming-based model (and considering that writ
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Yes, I absolutely agree. When you buy something you imagine yourself reselling, you can factor the resale price into the total cost. I don't think this is a counter to my argument, though. I'm not saying it is wrong to be able to

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