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by vjk800 3y ago
I've been puzzled by how much more entertaining exploring cities, forests, or whatever is in games compared to the real life. I play games like GTA or Skyrim and, after being awestruck by their vast, beautiful open worlds, go outside
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Also, the system doesn't really penalize this philosophy. Try to do everything by the book and you find that you can't really get anything done. Cut some corners, you get shit done and, in the worst case, you get a mild slap on th
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It's not about understanding, it's about seeing these sort of rules bent dozens of times first and then finally doing it yourself. Rules are only as strong as their enforcement and in many cases it turns out that no-one has neithe
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There's the saying that "we are free to do what we want, but not to want what we want". I'd guess that at the moment of a lapse, the drug/alcohol is all an addict wants. Changing that want into something else is the
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Yet this is all I ask for as a user.
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HN front page isn't filled with garbage and loaded with a million lines of pointless javascript like all other sites you mentioned. HN front page is 27 kb in size while, for example, reddit is 943 kb. Performance issues with websites a
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The problem with competition is, what happens after someone wins it? This is essentially what has happened in many markets; lots of small companies have been killed by or conglomerated into giant ones that rule the market. Sometimes antitru
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I've always been a sort of lazy high achiever and very puzzled about this. I was always a near-top (but not top) student in schools, got a PhD and am now working in a high paying job in a bank. Besides one or two years during my univer
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by vjk800 3y ago
Human communities DO NOT SCALE, which is counter to the usual tech startup ethos. If you take a human community of 100 people and grow it to 1000 people, it's not the same community anymore. I sometimes think about this also when peopl
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> Like: "We tamed ourselves by weeding out bullies and domineering males throughout our evolutionary history. Humans organized egalitarian societies, and any male that violated this too much was subsequently the victim of a targeted
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With an almost infinite number of doors though, and with all of them containing something that might or might not be the prize depending on your point of view. And your opinion of what counts as a prize changing after every opening of a d
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It's the classic network effect. People use it because other people use it.
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That's what I was also thinking. The cats have been there for some time now (I assume there were lots of feral cats even before the pandemic) and the local ecosystem has somehow adapted to/with them. Getting rid of them is probabl
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In jurisdictions with weak/non-existing copyright laws or copyright law enforcement, there is not much difference between "the source code can be found somewhere on the internet" and "open source". Quite a large par
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This would make a lot of sense actually. It would also remove the confusion new people often have over what does it mean for changes to be staged
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As I wrote in my other comment, typical person's mental model is centralized . They expect there to be only one, centralized source of truth for everything
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I've been trying to get people I work with to use git for years (technical, lots of light coding but not really software development) and this really resonates. I guess part of the problem is that we are very used to everything being
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How would one go about purchasing massive statues from one's favourite video game franchise? Asking for a friend...
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The same for me. I still sometimes find games that I can really get into, but it's much harder than it was 10-20 years ago. I think part of that is because I've played so many games that many new games just feel like the same ol
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> All of this to say, if you are at all similar to me, it might be worth considering the lack of ability to find flow a big red flag worth actively investigating. I don’t know if I could’ve avoided burnout, but I’m sufficiently convinced
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Ask HN: Are there any Hacker News meetup groups?
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Hey, 30s is the new 20s, and so on. I'm in the same boat and I definitely still feel young. I mean, I'm fundamentally unchanged from when I was 16, and still like the same stuff like video games, computers, and so on. I have als
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I used to love the long periods of focus in my 20s, but ever since more life started happening, I can't do those anymore. It turns out my stress tolerance is incredibly low and when the life outside my work is not completely in order (
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Has this been tried in any courts? It could be argued that this is the case.
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Saying that only people with ADHD should get ADHD medication sounds similar to me as saying that people who are shit at sports should be allowed to use exogenous testosterone so that they are able to compete. As far as I've understood,
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I suppose you have to play with it enough to get a feeling of what kind of stuff you can trust it with. For most tasks it's pretty bad, and this is why, if you just try it for something you just thought about without any kind of filter
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On the other hand, engineers are ultimately the people who implement whatever the management wants to do, so if they absolutely refuse to do some shady shit, they can't be overruled. It's sort of the same as the question of whet
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Just look at the anti-consumer tactics used in the software industry and you have your answer.
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What other models?
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I don't know if I found them useful, but the program my parents put me in forced me to learn them. Overall, I was pretty indifferent about my music education, it was just something my parents sort of made me do and I had to spend a few

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