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by gitrog 6y ago
I had exactly the same feeling. I didn't sympathise with the guy's situation either. South Africa has massive inequality problems and this guy is living the life in one of the most expensive places you can live (easily rivaling Eu
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by gitrog 6y ago
I would say it's more like driving a race car but - provided you use one of the many configurations or frameworks ala Spacemacs/Doom out there - having the gears automated by the car's system. An experienced racer would be mu
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by gitrog 6y ago
A published study doesn't make the theory mainstream. This study is heavily criticised in the field, for p-hacking amongst other things. Also their conclusion is about IQ, which itself isn't seen in the mainstream as an indication
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by gitrog 6y ago
I appreciate that, hope I didn't come across too harsh. Have a nice evening.
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by gitrog 6y ago
I guess Germany itself is kind of exceptional, given its past, but maybe I'm just moving the goalposts now, so let me try to substantiate. I don't think positive discrimination laws in the US has as much to do with an embrace of L
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by gitrog 6y ago
You would lose nothing by omitting terms like "the Left" and "the Right" and gain not immediately baiting people into partisan flame wars. I find it baffling that so many Americans have an inability to discuss politics
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by gitrog 6y ago
> Ethnicity and IQ relationship is mainstream psychology. Care to substantiate that claim?
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by gitrog 6y ago
Why is /that/ the most likely explanation? Peterson has said many controversial things on topics that aren't his area of expertise.
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by gitrog 6y ago
Peterson does have a way of trying to tie all of his beliefs into a larger world view, and selling that, though. It's the same thing with the Mesopotamian gods and his beliefs about gender.
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by gitrog 6y ago
Definitely, but I guess I'm implying many people don't think it's subjective. Should have probably put "common sense" and "blatantly obvious" in quotations.
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by gitrog 6y ago
I think "pseudoscientific mysticism" is just in response to the fact that many people don't see it as being subjective, but rather objectively measurable/common sense/blatantly obvious.
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by gitrog 6y ago
> In the story, they gave him no warning that the password was prohibited, or why, and then permanently deleted the account with no recourse. /She/ is also a well known journalist who could easily have had her account being mon
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by gitrog 6y ago
Okay, let me just say then that your tone is very, very confusing. What with the "Obviously, everyone here is a sexist. Wake up people!" It sounds like you were being sarcastic? Were you being sincere?
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by gitrog 6y ago
I read Slaughterhouse 5 first, so that might be why I prefer it, even though I really enjoyed Cat's Cradle. But beyond that, I felt that Slaughterhouse 5 tied into reality more for me. It just felt more relevant, if that makes sense,
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by gitrog 6y ago
I've been deliberating over where to start with Le Guin. What would you suggest?
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by gitrog 6y ago
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut was probably the most recent one for me. I guess the book in its entirety is probably fairly mild by modern sci-fi comparisons, but without wanting to spoil anything there is a certain species in the book
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by gitrog 6y ago
Ubik had my head swimming for weeks afterwards, I'm still not sure that my mind has ever recovered.
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by gitrog 6y ago
In the throes of your rant at someone making a perfectly accurate observation you seemed to have made a false dichotomy. The options aren't just that everyone on HN is sexist nor that women aren't interested in writing books on mi
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by gitrog 6y ago
I honestly believe your thinking here is one of the biggest misunderstandings of our time. Is it really so hard for you to believe that the majority of constituents in these groups want equality rather than them being envious of others&#x2
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by gitrog 6y ago
Really? Facebook started censoring completely of their own volition? Not because Western governments started to apply pressure on them? Facebook's handling of filtered out messages is honestly not an improvement over WeChat worth cel
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by gitrog 6y ago
> There's not a single social network that has begun to require phone verification because of the risk of "toxicity or hate speech". It's all to fight spam and to better track user activity (and, if we're being c
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by gitrog 6y ago
What are the benefits of FeatherJS and Firebase over using the backends that I'm already familiar with?
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by gitrog 6y ago
I'd like to get the prototype out quickly, and then there will probably be quite a bit of time before the final product is launched. Things like this worry me about getting up and running with GraphQL though, especially "Common Gr
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by gitrog 6y ago
I'm keen to try out Flutter as I've heard good things, but I'm weary of delving into an entirely new language for this project if the languages I know already offer a viable (and popular) mobile app dev stack. Unless it real
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by gitrog 6y ago
GraphQL and Apollo looked attractive to me for all the reasons you stated, but I was just worried that the learning curve and making it play nicely with the rest of the stack (that I know quite well already) would be too steep to justify us
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by gitrog 6y ago
Something crucial I should have mentioned is that many of the users will likely have poor internet quality. Not sure if this will end up affecting my need for state management.
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Ask HN: What stack should I use for my mobile app?
26 points by gitrog 6y ago|15 comments
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by gitrog 6y ago
You're making it sound as if the economy in the abstract sense is the thing that is employing people. Those people would still definitely be employed in a "different" economy, since an economy is simply a space in which peop
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by gitrog 6y ago
If you're going to downvote save_ferris, at least have the decency to give a rebuttal?
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by gitrog 6y ago
A lot will have to happen _during_ lockdown, you can't just sit idly by. Basically it will buy time. Of course the virus will still spread once lockdown is lifted, but for countries like the US (not even to mention Italy and Spain) wh

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