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by dontparticipate 2mo ago
I completely agree. My first intervention with this person was to try to get them to set up a test driven development framework. Unfortunately, that's also when I learned he didn't know what that was. He also just copied "do
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by dontparticipate 2mo ago
We've already started firing people for being meat proxies at my company. Was reviewing a huge and awful slop code base that a vibe coder only had been working on getting started. I started giving my feedback to the developer, and it b
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by dontparticipate 1y ago
Today's bombing of Yemen is tomorrow's landing of Marines on Taiwan, or I guess these days marching into Montreal and landing in Greenland. All of these require complete OPSEC from the entire chain of command.
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by dontparticipate 2y ago
There's a body of government explicitly built to do exactly that and given exactly that power in the constitution. It's called Congress.
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by dontparticipate 2y ago
We need to use our skills to build platforms that have both high retention and diffuse ownership that uplifts its users. We need to build a media ecosystem that isn't just a toy. My generation treated social media like it was just an a
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by dontparticipate 2y ago
If only there was a group of people that were given the legal rights to make that decision... We could call them like... A Congress and we could like write those processes down. Maybe call that document a Constitution.
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by dontparticipate 2y ago
Being under 30 and already having this mindset is going to take you far. I would argue it makes you even better at work because you'll over time iterate towards things that you value weighed against all the other good things in life ra
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by dontparticipate 2y ago
So you're spending time with your families and communities instead of working during the day then. That thing you're calling "forced socialization" has another name. It's called work. Your ability to have conversati
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
Psychedelic assisted therapy is so good an powerful precisely because it exploits the best case scenario of set and setting with the way the drug has an impact on your mind. I'm far from against psychedelic and have done the therapy my
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
> Tech can't stand "bad thoughts". > it's like they've all taken obscene quantities of some new stimulant and can't even connect with reality anymore It's hallucinogens. That's the drug of choic
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
So the purpose of debate is to teach high schoolers things? If only there was some other institution they were a part of that could do that. Do HS students no longer take AP history and economics? You could just as easily have a research cl
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
Except it's not nihilism at all? There are all kinds of ways to increase your and the public's understanding and knowledge. Competitive debate is not it any more than a trial by combat is.
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
Because competive debates are dumb and a dumb way to make up your mind about anything. The objective of the competitive debate is not to find some kind of truth or meaning or understanding but to win the debate. No honor or pride or authent
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
When it happens, I'll have a hyperloop tunnel to sell you under Los Angeles.
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
It absolutely has become a new faith. A lot of the cryptocurrency faith healers moved into the space as that grift began to collapse and moved from copying the prosperity gospel to apocalyptic "the end is nigh, repent for the second co
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by dontparticipate 3y ago
Just at first glance, and maybe there's a better way to get this data (I guess not anymore with the API changes!), but if you just look at upvotes on popular posts it seems like nothing has changed in terms of how many people are engag
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by dontparticipate 4y ago
The net metering subsidy just didn't make sense anymore. Solar is "cheap" now and the next step of decarbonization is storage. From a carbon perspective, net metering was basically paying homeowners to provide useless power t
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by dontparticipate 4y ago
I was only able to convince family to use Signal because they didn't need two apps for messaging. It's pretty much a dead app for me now and the decision makes my conversations profoundly less private and safe.
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by dontparticipate 4y ago
My family members will basically all stop using Signal now because they didn't want two apps for messaging. This will make all my conversations less private rather than more. It was a really dumb decision. I was able to convince a lot
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by dontparticipate 4y ago
Since this whole blog is basically an ad for Kubesail and its self-hosting products, I do have to wonder if this was being hosted on one of their Pi products at a home on some cable internet connection, or if they realized, like everyone el
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by dontparticipate 5y ago
I think a more meaningful catchphrase that works on both sides of the things vs experiences spectrum is "buy quality, not quantity." My best vacations have also been some of my less expensive, because I spent a lot of time picking
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by dontparticipate 5y ago
As an economist, I would strongly object to the idea that data isn't needed to prove points. I've heard about the particular case of the Vancouver market being popular with overseas buyers, but that doesn't absolve anyone fro
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by dontparticipate 5y ago
Maybe I don't know enough about how this works in Canada in particular, but will this do anything? I thought a lot of the issue was from housing as an investment vehicle, and not specifically foreign investment. And are foreign investo
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by dontparticipate 5y ago
It's not new so that's how they are getting caught up. It's more like a new major version of Lumberyard which itself was a fork of Crytek, which was able to ship AAA games (as painful as it was to do). I know the devs say it&
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by dontparticipate 5y ago
There's not a single person that doesn't understand the "why" of this, especially on HN. There's just no "how" there. It's pretty clear so far that GDPR/CCPA have been complete failures. Companie
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by dontparticipate 6y ago
Messing with vents if you don't know what you're doing sounds like a sure fire way to kill yourself.
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by dontparticipate 7y ago
Never try to catch a falling knife.
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by dontparticipate 7y ago
Marijuana
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by dontparticipate 8y ago
I used to think the same way about native first and forcing devs to adopt Linux. The whole "No Tux, no bucks" thing (which has had pretty much zero impact since it's not enough bucks). But, over the years, and especially with
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by dontparticipate 8y ago
I can put a kilo of cocaine in my trunk and drive on the highway, that does't mean the roads are unregulated.

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