Afton

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by Afton 2y ago
To be fair, it is less about "keeping top kids down" and more about "let's use our very scarce resources helping the bottom kids". Put that way it seems less malicious, and more like probably the right thing to do o
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by Afton 2y ago
The upside is that I was a total basket case in my 20s, completely incompetent to be able to raise a child. I'll leave it to my children on how it turned out in my 30s. Generally I'd expect older adults to have done a lot more mat
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by Afton 2y ago
Whipping Star has some amazing alien vs human discourse (at least, that's my memory from ~20 years ago!). It was the first time I found alien dialog that didn't sound like repackaged English.
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by Afton 3y ago
The really fun thing is to realize that juggling is a meta-hobby. I started out with juggling balls, a short time on rings, spent a long time on clubs, and now spend my time trying to apply some of that to juggling hoops. Plus there's
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by Afton 3y ago
There are several philosophical approaches to the purpose of prison. 1. Revenge 2. to keep society safe from dangerous/anti-social people 3. to provide a safe space for rehabilitating people for re-integration. I tend to view (1) as t
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by Afton 3y ago
I know American management isn't a monolith, but over the course of my career, I have gotten extremely good play by educating people about blameless RCAs both for myself and my chain below, and across chains. Once I make it clear that
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by Afton 4y ago
I know this is off topic, but having spent a significant amount of time convincing people around me to use signal, once they remove this feature, literally 100% of the non-tech folks I've gotten onto signal will drop it and move back
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by Afton 4y ago
I'm certainly unconvinced that the first part of that statement is true. We've seen self-driving cars run into static obstacles. We still need to deal with emergent behaviour of groups of self-driving cars. There are still unpredi
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by Afton 4y ago
Stupid question(s) for a non-medical person who doesn't even know enough to be wrong. I really thought "inflammation" is/was a generic term for a myriad of different causes and symptoms. Did something change and now we &
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by Afton 4y ago
I can't read the study directly (and it's not my field, which makes reading it directly challenging), but this is the abstract conclusion: ` Higher fasting insulin and higher c-reactive protein confound the association between BMI
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by Afton 4y ago
Bashing on lottery tickets due to EV also really feels like it's really missing the point. Lottery tickets are a mechanism for enjoying a fantasy. Sure you could technically just pretend that you won $10^9, but there is a hard cliff fr
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by Afton 4y ago
In general, you won't have enough information to accurately model this yourself, IMO. You might increase your edge, but you're still basically getting lottery tickets.
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by Afton 4y ago
None, unless you think that people are somehow able to side-step this problem in a way that a computer can't mimic.
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by Afton 4y ago
I am assuming that. In most countries it's required that you can return non-consumable items in a sensible time-frame. Restocking fees vary in legality, but typically need to be disclosed before purchase.
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by Afton 4y ago
I mean, you could have bought them. Tried them out while in the store, then returned them if they weren't to your liking. But I'll admit that might be more overhead than you were hoping for. But it would also be a great way to com
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by Afton 4y ago
Having grown up poor, I was going to challenge the statement that 'most Canadians own property', but it looks like it's ~70%. I mean, I think hanging 30% of your population out to dry is a bad idea, but I can't argue tha
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by Afton 5y ago
I found that earplugs + headphones with brown/grey noise absolutely made the universe go away. I don't use it now because my work has changed and I work in a single-person office, but I found this super effective at reducing distr
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by Afton 5y ago
Can you provide some substantial ideas about what you would like to see different and what makes the current model "garbage"? Otherwise it's not clear what you're advocating for.
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by Afton 5y ago
It's easy to spot the badly astroturfed accounts. How would establish your baseline truth? I'm not claiming it's impossible, but it's very easy to fool yourself in this territory. A good mark is the one who thinks they k
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by Afton 5y ago
Yeah, this is like "people who are overweight: lose weight". Well gee I never thought of that before, I guess I'll go right out and do it. I certainly won't continue lying awake between 3-5am 2-4 times a week now that I
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by Afton 5y ago
You could posit that this woman is in no danger whatsoever and it would still meet my budget for outrage. I guess we have different budgets.
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by Afton 5y ago
> __on the ground__ in a 1g
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by Afton 5y ago
It's about tradeoffs. On one end you have precision, speed, reliability, diagnosability. At the other end you have "realness". Unit tests fall on the far left, workload tests/E2E tests/testing-in-production fall on
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by Afton 5y ago
In order to make the drug more affordable? I mean... all of them? Maybe I'm not understanding your point?
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by Afton 5y ago
Ah revenge, the noblest of reasons for doing shitty things to people
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by Afton 5y ago
TBF, there's not really a notification mechanism for comment replies in HN, so if you're like me, and you just occasionally check in on your comments, it's easy to miss responses until ridiculously too late. I know I have don
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by Afton 5y ago
That's a ridiculously broad brush to paint unions with, and your last sentence shows lack of good faith in the discussion. Good day.
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by Afton 5y ago
Why would you be miserable? Union dues? occasional union communication? I'm just trying to understand what hypothetical issue you feel would be super arduous.
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by Afton 5y ago
https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1274809417653866496?l...
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by Afton 5y ago
Or tests. I prefer my tests DAMPer.

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