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by coder-3 4y ago
Interesting. Do you have a good source for this? Googling it is just the same (Chinese source) line repeated over and over: > National Health and Family Planning Commission spokesman Mao Qunan said the agency’s work had reduced the numbe
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by coder-3 4y ago
Snowden has shown us that governments encourage and benefit from this surveillance thus are unlikely to put an end to it
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by coder-3 4y ago
Easy to game the system and offer credible bribes to yourself to collect the bonus. Just giving it some brief thought and it doesn't seem hard to make the chances of getting caught really low.
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by coder-3 5y ago
> powersnail "start with something smaller" > iratewizard "Learn to be bored" Spot on! And the final ingredient: build habits! Atomic Habits (I know, I know) has some great techniques. The two I have used successfu
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by coder-3 5y ago
One thing to remember when interpreting those stats is the popularity of a profession in general. Elementary and middle school teachers come up a lot because either there's a huge number of them or they disproportionately responded to
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by coder-3 5y ago
TIL UX designers are behavioural economists
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by coder-3 5y ago
The orgs with unecessarily complex and unecessary setups does not make sense though. Aren't the more experienced devs responsible for that? If so, shouldn't they have the wisdom to avoid those newbie pitfalls?
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by coder-3 5y ago
I do agree that writing is not _necessary_ to improve your thinking. However, I think that writing about a topic will often if not always improve your understanding of that topic as well as your ability to communicate it. I think that'
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by coder-3 5y ago
It means doing things that you can do when you have 0 to a few users but that would not work beyond that. For example, Doordash validated their idea with posters and manually taking orders and delivering them themselves, no app, no drivers.
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by coder-3 5y ago
> inequality is primarily an urban phenomenon, arising from underlying social dynamics I'd love for West to provide some corroborating evidence for that claim...
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by coder-3 5y ago
> obviously there are internal problems Exactly. If 150 employees are not productive I hesitate to conclude that that's entirely the fault of the employees. Maybe it's not that those people are wholly unproductive, rather that
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by coder-3 5y ago
It is so interesting to see the CCP try to navigate the dichotomy between state planning and free markets. Trying to make diametrically opposed systems play together. I would even be rooting for them if it wasn't for the complete disre
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by coder-3 5y ago
There definitely is. However, we must remember that we are enjoying a standard of living unimaginable only a few hundred years ago. I think the system has some inherent flaws, but it has still served us extremely well.
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by coder-3 5y ago
> Does anyone know why this happens? I think it's because of incentives. For-profit companies are incentivised to maximise profits. There might be resistance against doing so in unethical ways at the start but as the company grows i
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by coder-3 5y ago
My current method of learning new languages/frameworks is to read the theory (documentation/book) and write questions as I read. Then, I would try to apply the concept (exercise/project). The next day, I would start by readin
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by coder-3 5y ago
I'm no fan of the Chinese government but from what I'm gleaning online, they seem to be leading the charge with adoption of green technologies and are taking climate change relatively seriously.
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by coder-3 5y ago
Yeah, probably. But we need to be careful about higher order effects of those interventions. Climates and ecosystems are complex systems, thus, perturbations/linear solutions usually cause unexpected behaviour. Things like desalination
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by coder-3 5y ago
I was going to recommend the Zettelkasten method then realised you asked for something simple. But for others who are curious or don't mind a more involved system then I would recommend it. Works digitally as well.
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by coder-3 5y ago
Well, I'm rooting for you and hope that you get what you need from it!
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by coder-3 5y ago
Your more general enquiry seems to be around how to be more grateful and less neurotic and I think that mindfulness meditation should help improve those areas. Being more mindful helps you become more self-aware. Thus, when you feel frustra
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by coder-3 5y ago
>Stop being disingenuous just so you can feed your persecution complex with strangers on the internet. Hey mate, please remember the guidelines[0] when you comment. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html But
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by coder-3 5y ago
The lack of openness is transparency is precisely what causes "the masses" to distrust experts about these issues. In my opinion, just saying that 'this is the effect that we found, the current consensus is that the effect is
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by coder-3 5y ago
Obsidian is just too great. They really focused on what matters deeply to the PKM crowd and found an elegant way to serve that need
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by coder-3 5y ago
I don't understand why the desire to make money from one's work is correlated with how bullshit the work is. It's not. Desire to make money is only sometimes associated with with bullshit (but we tend to remember it more beca
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by coder-3 5y ago
I would slighly change it to relationships, health and purpose and I think this is a list that could apply to almost everyone.
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by coder-3 5y ago
The way I see the universe is that all this complexity is just the interplay of a finite few axioms (the fundamental laws of physics). Given enough time and scale, the seemingly unique complexity converges back into a few (relatively speaki
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by coder-3 5y ago
This reminds me of the attempt to control sparrow populations during China's Great Leap Forward. Chinese scientists had determined that sparrows were eating too much of farmers crops and decided to launch a nation-wide campaign where e
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by coder-3 5y ago
This poorly designed AI you speak of is the premise of I, Robot by Asimov. In fact, this is one of the fears surrounding AGI - the AGI would be correctly configured to act only for the benefit of humanity, however, in typical AI fashion, th