LiquidSky

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by LiquidSky 1mo ago
Is your community experiencing an epidemic of theft that needs dissuading? So much that you feel unsafe taking trips away from your home?
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by LiquidSky 1mo ago
If you watch Jackie Chan's "Rumble in the Bronx" (shot in Vancouver) you can sometimes see the majestic Bronx Mountains in background shots.
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by LiquidSky 1mo ago
>My experience has been that this isn't limited to engineers. To some extent, but the most severe form does seem fairly unique to engineers, specifically programmers. That is, I've met many arrogant lawyers and doctors, but nev
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by LiquidSky 1mo ago
>RationalWiki calls the third one 'Ultracrepidarianism' LOL because RationalWiki was written by engineers. I've often seen it referred to as "Engineer's Disease" for how it's commonly encountered.
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by LiquidSky 2mo ago
This is going to be framed in the usual "weird Japan" way but it's not at all limited to Japan. I don't know if similar studies have been conducted in the US or other other countries (and, as another comment note, the su
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by LiquidSky 3mo ago
>You don't know how to build a home. >I do. Do you? Sound like the people you hired built the home. Do you know how to do what they did? Did you do it? What did you do to earn that $50k?
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by LiquidSky 3mo ago
Today a Hacker News user discovers the concept of qualia.
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by LiquidSky 3mo ago
I feel like in the US if you punched a cop the cop and his colleagues are much more likely to just shoot you, or at least unleash brutal violence on you and the rest of the crowd. I guess the idea is to provoke these kind of battles in hope
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by LiquidSky 4mo ago
Seems like that'd just discourage people from going above and beyond at work. Why do more than the bare minimum to avoid being fired if nothing else you do counts?
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by LiquidSky 4mo ago
>the well is now poisoned for companies that do care Because there's no such thing. Or rather, there are until it's unprofitable enough that caring seriously threatens the bottom line, or the nice owners sell off to someone les
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by LiquidSky 5mo ago
You need to be careful here, you're falling into the inverse "Elon is a visionary genius" trap: "Elon is an evil genius". For example: >buying an election through Twitter It's weirdly forgotten now, but Musk
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by LiquidSky 5mo ago
Yet!
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by LiquidSky 5mo ago
That reminds me of an interview I heard with comicbook artist Chip Zdarsky. He was talking about how we all love to draw as kids, but eventually around 10 years old or so we start to become aware that what we see in our heads isn't any
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
But who cares about the long term when you could make a killing this year or even just this quarter and walk away with a fortune.
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
>Do we think that's impossible? Yes. Even if it weren't, it doesn't even seem to matter anymore. Making better products doesn't seem to lead to more money than churning out shit and financializing it, so why would any
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
>I associate the concept of pronatalism with also wanting to be involved in your kids' lives Then don't because it's just wrong. Very few, if any, of the "more babies, bigger families" types have any interest in
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
Sure, WFH has some downsides as does anything, but it's always funny to me that we have 150+ years of basically everyone who's ever worked in an office despising it as a place where productivity goes to die mired in pointless meet
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
I know that this is Hacker News and so all rich and important people must be geniuses making only rational moves, but consider the slim possibility that most aren't very good leaders and make poor decisions. Maybe there's some 19D
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
>I don't think Musk and Andreesseen are who most people would associate with the concept of pronatalism. Musk is for sure. Doesn't he have like 100 kids because he's constantly trying to get women to become pregnant by his
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
The second one is mostly accurate, yes. There aren't really many good rational arguments for requiring full-time in-office attendance.
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
Well, there was the previous whistleblower complaint that members of DOGE accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, which the government denied...until this January when they were forced t
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by LiquidSky 6mo ago
>Everyone adapted. I like the phrasing of this because it tells us nothing of whether your family liked the change (or felt better off with it) or not. You can adapt to a lot.
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by LiquidSky 7mo ago
Does it even actually matter what you do? How many lawsuits/investigations have there been in the last decade revealing that some company or another that swore up and down was following privacy laws, protecting your data, and not selli
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by LiquidSky 7mo ago
No, it's very much yours and the way you phrased it. Perhaps you didn't mean it this way, but you sound like some kind of "pickup artist" type giving advice on "negging" women.
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by LiquidSky 7mo ago
> I feel like I'm missing something here to properly understand why people ended up working for these companies in the first place Money.
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by LiquidSky 7mo ago
I'll take "begging the question" for $500.
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by LiquidSky 8mo ago
We're talking about environmental regulations. It is no more good for a small business to pollute than a large one, and it's precisely the poor who are most harmed by environmental pollution.
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by LiquidSky 8mo ago
You're noting how they describe themselves, but my experience has been the same as the parent comment, that "independent" always means conservative/Republican but not wanting to call themselves that.
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by LiquidSky 8mo ago
>When skiing in the US, people see it as an opportunity to use a hobby to gain an advantage, to network, to talk business, to flaunt, to compare, to use an escape as a entrance. I'd like to see any evidence of this because this has
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by LiquidSky 8mo ago
That's true, but he thought of himself as Dogbert, a superintelligent being superior to everyone around him.

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