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by igf 10y ago
Building in an interrupt "Hey, pay attention to the real world now" feature would seem important. On the other hand, it'd still be awkward when you had to climb over someone to go to the toilet or something. I'd be inter
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by igf 10y ago
If my lottery tickets had anything like the rate of return of YC's, then buying more would be an extremely sound investment strategy.
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by igf 10y ago
I'd also like to see estimates from the 1990s of how much sea level rise we can expect by 2016. I seem to remember reading a book back in the day that said New York City would be completely underwater by 2010.
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by igf 10y ago
Why? They don't have anything to destroy anyway.
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by igf 10y ago
Well, it's too damn crowded on this planet.
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by igf 10y ago
Even out there, it's a pretty rare use case. If you're somewhere so remote that you can't get there with any kind of land vehicle, then... what are you even doing there, that you need a semi-permanent solid structure?
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by igf 10y ago
There's no good solution to running a large organisation. Instead of complaining that large organisations are badly run, we should instead marvel that they run at all.
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by igf 10y ago
Unfortunately the indispensible employee generally isn't the one getting fed hard technical problems, he's the one responsible for maintaining the complex, mission-critical thingy that only he understands and which seems to brea
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by igf 10y ago
>The degree to which pre-modern Britain included people of African origin within its population continues to be a topic of considerable interest Why? Also, aren't all people of African origin?
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by igf 10y ago
Given the ongoing mess that was the onlineification of the 2016 census, I don't think anyone (the people or the government) would have any interest in this. The Australian election system is pretty damn good, and very trustworthy, beca
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by igf 10y ago
Well, I stick all that under the heading of eugenics anyway. I don't care how it's achieved, but we need better people.
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by igf 10y ago
The answer is eugenics. Good luck getting anyone to take that seriously though.
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by igf 10y ago
>Many people come to realize their mediocrity after spending enough time under the sun. Accepting this realization and learning to be happy with it takes time -- especially at the beginning. I don't know, I think it only bothers tho
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by igf 10y ago
>I think you're mistaking someone who's happy but ignorant of their mediocrity, and someone who's aware of their own mediocrity Not really, I don't think people are unaware of their mediocrity, it's just that i
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by igf 10y ago
The vast majority of people on the planet are mediocre, and many people seem happy about it; or rather, if they're unhappy then they're unhappy about other things rather than their own mediocrity. But then you've got the inte
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by igf 10y ago
Restricted to the publically-available data from one particular and rather odd site, but probably not crazy. At first it seems counterintuitive, shouldn't it be roughly 50% gaining and 50% losing? But I guess that people typically put
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by igf 10y ago
Which still has nothing to do with value, which is why I value more highly a Stradivarius violin than the pile of ashes which you could obtain by burning a Stradivarius violin.
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by igf 10y ago
> Even crazier, the physical size of your font can influence peoples’ understanding and feelings about it. Now, I wonder if I can make this work the other way around. If I'm making an offer on something, I wonder if it's more
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by igf 10y ago
I don't know if game theory is the branch of mathematics that can help you out here. Game theory usually rests on matters of "If I do X then my opponent(s) will do Y", but in this situation you don't even know how many o
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by igf 10y ago
> What's the argument that this is gambling? I suppose because you pay a small amount of money and you may or may not get something valuable out, which makes it effectively gambling from the bidder's point of view. > but I
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by igf 10y ago
I don't know whether they're typically introduced with malign intent, or with good intentions that inevitably go bad, but I don't really think it matters much -- open vacation policies are a terrible idea from the employee&#x
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by igf 10y ago
Okay, fine, but why am I in here experiencing it?
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by igf 10y ago
>I would be willing to code in a not-so-beautiful language for a summer Career advice: don't be a primadonna. Even actual literal primadonnas don't start out as primadonnas.
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by igf 10y ago
> The "trap" that is the Labor Theory of Value may not be the most profitable but maybe it's the most ethical The labour theory of value doesn't even logically hang together in any way, when you think about it. Okay,
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by igf 10y ago
This is why you should never rely on any government to take care of you in retirement. Save for your own damn retirement and retire on your own damn schedule.
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by igf 10y ago
Impostor syndrome isn't always a "syndrome". Some people really have lucked into positions which they don't deserve.
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by igf 10y ago
> Instead, I'll say that just as people walking need physically protected infrastructure on essentially all roadways - these are called sidewalks - so too people on bicycles need physically protected infrastructure on essentially al
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by igf 10y ago
Bicycles are a tool for turning ordinary people into selfish jerks, jealously guarding their precious forward momentum. A pedestrian doesn't mind if they have to stop for a moment, it's no big deal. A driver doesn't mind stop
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by igf 10y ago
I thought toothpaste was fine because it's a paste, not a liquid, gel or aerosol. Unless of course you buy the "gel" type.
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by igf 10y ago
Oh sure, I could do that. Or I could stay in a normal hotel, where they provide it. (Or if I'm roughing it in the wilderness or something then I probably don't care that much about clean hair.)

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