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by hrh 5y ago
Upvoting and downvoting especially incentivizes echo chambers. I take it you've never had people follow you around threads and downvote everything you posted? Happens bizarrely often. HN disappoints me more than the average Reddit or T
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by hrh 5y ago
Whoever makes that decision for each platform.
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by hrh 5y ago
I think the number of discussions that are off-limits should be very small and platforms should be much much more transparent. However, if allowing certain discussions means also allowing other discussions, I'm not broken up if sites l
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by hrh 5y ago
He didn't do it productively, he made it into a rant about political parties; you can't get useful discussion on such a loaded topic like that. That's another part of this...you can't just say whatever you want and expec
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by hrh 5y ago
You seem to be projecting onto me what you think I'm projecting. ;) I didn't call it a stronghold. There are certain subreddits that were aligned. The donald before it moved, conspiracy, conservative, etc. You ever see the greataw
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by hrh 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Jersey_City_shooting Every day? No. But when it's 2021 and you gotta worry about getting gunned
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by hrh 5y ago
I think that's the real issue in all of this discussion: there is simply no will. It's too hard, it's too impossible, we've decided big tech has already won, we've ceded decades of open progress in tech to moguls wh
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by hrh 5y ago
>I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting/breaks is obvious. This is not something I've solved but
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by hrh 5y ago
I don't mean to ask the obvious question, but have you taken them to the doctor? It's very well possible that they literally can't "shut the hell up". You are frustrated, but they need your empathy. If you have not
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by hrh 5y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0465023282 Solid author, genuine attempt objective history, the causes, the justifications, the sins, the benefits.
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by hrh 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy
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by hrh 5y ago
We can with a shift towards the Switzerland model, but practically, that's very difficult to do.
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by hrh 5y ago
See Fareed Zakaria's work on the importance of responsible elites. Or Plato, if you're feeling frisky.
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by hrh 5y ago
How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the
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by hrh 5y ago
Think through your last two paragraphs. Yeah, people that feel good are probably going to be more productive than those feeling bad (assuming you're not feeling too good). I can't do the stuff you're talking about when I&#x27
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by hrh 5y ago
Ha. I say that because we're going full on reefer madness with stuff like: "uninhibited abuse of THC and other dangerous mind altering drugs"
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by hrh 5y ago
Jobs always said acid was critical to his success. He dropped a good amount of acid, so that probably really would make you think differently. People can mock it all they want, but I really do get very creative on weed. There's a reaso
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by hrh 5y ago
It really is dependent on the person. I figured out at some point during the last decade that the only stimulant that works for me is THC. Caffeine won't do it. It doesn't matter what I do, if I eat healthy get 8 hours of sleep, e
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by hrh 5y ago
I was being obtuse: what I was trying to say is there are a lot of GIs and people at home that were damaged. Their kids got the worst of it.
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by hrh 5y ago
Had friends that had to have 4-6 beers to chill out every night and had been doing that for 20 years. I feel fucking terrible the day after drinking a six-pack; I can't imagine what that does to the body (a lot of the same stuff as sug
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by hrh 5y ago
What libraries/frameworks are state of the art?
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by hrh 5y ago
Thanks for that reply, that's very cool. It seemed like a marketing gimmick, I'm surprised to see it was the real deal.
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by hrh 5y ago
I think a fair benchmark is https://haskellbook.com/ . It's $60 and the absolute most I'll consider and have spent on a book of this nature, outside of botique ancient stuff....and is really well written as well as
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by hrh 5y ago
It's definitely this. I'm an old millenial which is why I still like TV but you're running into content making fun of this stuff if youre watching HBO, etc. Though, both Hulu and YouTube TV carry these channels and shows I&#x
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by hrh 5y ago
I'd imagine a lot of people are like this, and I'd imagine HN is overrepresented by this, but I just really feel emotions. When I'm on and am really into something I get hyperfocus and feel like the world is my oyster, but
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by hrh 5y ago
Totally. There's plenty of people that will argue that Go's historical baggage is in the form of being primitive, and Rust already is a large language. That's the fun thing about these design discussions.
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by hrh 5y ago
You know we're all bullshitting here apparently but my guess is that happened relatively little. The PS3 was too exotic of hardware to get useful compute out of it during the length of time that option was arounnd. I'm sure intern
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by hrh 5y ago
There are probably dozens of us that really appreciate his clarity and writing and even his overall design goals for C++, but the language is so inherently loaded with historical baggage, that it is only pragmatic to use newer languages tha
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by hrh 5y ago
Welcome to the future.
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by hrh 5y ago
There logically have to be lots of Tonies like this. I think people can move across whatever that spectrum of introversion and extroversion is, but for people who are truly introverted and prefer solitude but also really like people, it can

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