tw1010

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   by tw1010 9y ago

   Once technology starts to touch the entire globe, and we start nudging farther and farther out in the long tail, we can't keep assuming that a single type of interface will be a good fit for each and every person. The interface is goin
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   Finding projects like this make me feel so so so happy for living in this century.
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   You're sort of implying that "free riders" were less of a problem earlier in our history because aggressive coalitions of lower ranked members were able to force the hierarchy more in favour of egalitarianism. But that is har
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   Is there any way to express this advice in a more fundamental, perhaps more abstract, framework? I often find more enlightening than off-hand advice without any clear underlying structure.
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   > Once you're laid off or fired once its really hard to be the super confident hacker you were at 25. This is the point of all those self-help books about grit and things like that. Their point isn't really to accelerate your p
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   I think this phenomenon is hugely dependent on location.
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   I love this model, but I'm confused by this article since it keeps saying "the media’s preferred policies" as if there is one singular policy that the entire media is in favour of, which I'm not sure I can buy into.
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   For some reason HN has been mimetically pulled into the seneca philosophy. Just so you guys know, there are many many many other philosophies and really great books about ways to look at life and how to live it than just stoicism. Don&#x2
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   by tw1010 9y ago

   Let me guess, getting your entire career salary in a lump sum before you're 30 and having the impulsive personality of an athlete doesn't mix well?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    There are always tradeoffs. Do we favour free speech or are we ok with triggering an event that correlate with a temporary increase in suicides?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Well if you're fine with ocular whitelisting then you could just try to not let the comments you find offensive affect you.
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Do you really think it's that bad? Can't you just ignore them?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    The fact that they are rare might only mean that few people know and search for it. The probability of getting it conditioned on the fact that you're searching might be a lot higher.
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Don't you need a visa to work remotely for a SV company from Europe?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    I agree with you. But I also think you're sacrificing clarity over brevity yourself by not expanding "pre-optimization" into "premature optimization" ;)
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    That's what I thought most people would think this would be about, based on the news cycle around this stuff (like leftpad). It's more a reflection on what the collective unconscious thinks about it, than an objective measure of t
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    I think you're doing yourself a disservice by defaulting to assuming "meme" means the biological definition. The "correct" definition of a word is however most people use it, not whatever internal definition you you
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Are we going to go around dependency-shaming packages now?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Nothing in my original post should suggest I think our time is the age of creativity. I'm kind of ambivalent on the subject actually.
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Did you mean "psychology"?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    If you read a headline and the body of the article is something totally different than what you expected, your attitude towards the piece starts in a really negative direction. Why would they mislead the reader into thinking it is about how
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    I think we've had enough ads about how books make you smart and tv makes you stupid to know that whatever is cool and enjoyable is more likely to win in that crowd, no matter what well meaning parents and teachers and PSAs try to tell
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Are non-enforceable non-competes a recent thing?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Some contracts even give ownership of what you create on your free time to the company.
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Their hearts are probably in the right place, but I wonder if there's a more effective strategy than what they're suggesting; trying to teach teens about the dangers of tech via ads. That hasn't been a very effective strategy
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Any good links to get us started?
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    I think it's too much to ask to expect every little scientific niche, every subculture, to have to adapt their local personalized context-aware terminology to the global culture, just because a random person coming from outside the nic
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    Maybe natural scientists are more accustomed to using the strict, cold, definitions of biological concepts without being emotionally influenced by any cultural value judgement attached to them.
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    When something "should" be true, but isn't, a better course of action than to wish things were not the way they are, is to take it upon ourselves to fix the thing, to educate those we're in touch with who don't get
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    by tw1010 9y ago

    I think we're actually in agreement. You seem to be doing something about it, with your podcast, and that's great! My point was mostly aimed towards the first poster, whose stance seemed to be to mostly complain and wish that peop