thrwy_918

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by thrwy_918 4y ago
When you have tens of millions of Twitter followers and are an international celebrity, it's reasonable expect a modicum of care when making public statements about a private individual. I don't really care how that phrase would b
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>Part of the deal with being an executive is no job security. I would say that in the US labor market having no job security is the norm rather than the exception, so it seems peculiar to couch it as "part of the trade you make for
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
What I find impressive is that despite online IQ tests being notoriously unreliable, my score on the ~8 or so I've completed as an adult over the years (including this one) has been remarkable stable, to within + or - a couple of point
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>it seems there is nothing that will truly limit fossil fuel consumption Nothing will work while companies and consumers are free to ignore the externalities of their own actions. Tax carbon.
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
I agree that joking, and laughing at certain jokes, are by their nature divisive. It's feasible to get a room full of people to agree on a feature spec, but it's not really feasible to get a room full of people to agree that a par
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
As many as 15% of Americans may hold QAnon beliefs [1]. Where is the evidence that "the opportunity of exchanging error for truth" is actually being seized? It's all very well making an argument from principle, but if the rea
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
I think even crypto-skeptics can see the utility of crypto in situations where people do not have access to functioning banking system. But I think the most useful type of crypto in such a situation would be something like a decentralized
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
>Don't they presumably have a US alien ID (Green Card or otherwise) and/or a foreign passport There are millions of visa-holders who live in the US but don't have green cards. Carrying around a foreign passport for everyda
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
>State non-motorist IDs should really cease to exist State non-motorist IDs are some of the only IDs available to non-citizens who live in the US and don't drive
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
>I can't even picture a 4000 calorie meal There isn't one particular ingredient, it's just large amounts of high-fat meat with large amounts of high-fat, high-carb side dishes. Say, skin-on chicken thighs with mashed potat
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
As someone who can easily eat 4000 calories of real food in a single meal before feeling satiated, I have found that the fix for me is psychological and behavioral. I have an internalized belief that unless I carry on eating until I feel sa
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
> Your manager really, really wants to hear what you really honestly think I mean, yes, this is almost always true, but that does not mean that it's always in your best interests to tell your manager what you honestly think.
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
> Similarly for technical papers. Read the intro, the summary, skip to the end, read the conclusion. This isn't an appropriate comparison. The purpose of the conclusion is to present the findings of the paper, whereas the purpose
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
>“We know historically that places where minorities live are undervalued or lower priced,” Redfin’s Sheharyar Bokhari said. That, he said, makes them more attractive to investors, driving up prices for residents. This is undoubtedly true
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
>Is factoring a quadratic equation supposed to be some example of some obscure math principle that is useless? I've been a successful software engineer for over ten years, yet without looking it up, I don't even know what &quot
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
> More simply, it allows you to buy and sell the ownership of digital art I simply do not agree with this characterization. At a minimum, the vast majority of NFT transactions do not allow people to buy and sell ownership of digital art.
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
>In those early days where it was pretty much just irc and bbs's it was pretty hard to see any kind of value for most people. I don't agree that it was hard to understand the value of services like electronic mail, forums or te
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
Made a tool to help suggest domain names Learning - no one really needs help doing this :) https://domainemu.com/
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
thank you!
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
Something I often want to do is write a custom hook with internal state that will be used by two or three components - and what I really want to do is have consistent internal state for that hook, regardless of which component its being i
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
"We are a free-market economy" is simply not a defense of congress members being able to trade individual stocks with no restrictions. Free-market economies still take measures against insider trading, still place limits on how an
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
I honestly don't understand how people use reddit using the new UI, or even using the old UI with custom subreddit styles enabled.
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
Can you provide sources for either of these claims? Neither of them match my understanding of the current data on omicron
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by thrwy_918 5y ago
>Why shouldn’t an adult have the freedom to smoke and put themselves at high risk of lung cancer? More than 2/3 of smokers say they want to quit [1]. What kind of freedom is it to be addicted to a deadly product, to want to stop usi