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by papeda 6y ago
From the end of the article: > To come so close to death does not provide a shortcut to wisdom or contentment. It doesn’t answer all your questions or eliminate your weaknesses. I’m fundamentally the same person I was before, but with on
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by papeda 6y ago
Tangential: as somebody with congenital hearing loss who's worn hearing aids since I was a little kid, the pivot to mostly digital communications has been a serious benefit for me -- even with modern hearing aids, there are many acoust
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by papeda 6y ago
Is it pithy? The summary given is "academia sucks, be an entrepreneur". IMO the actual point of the post is "I didn't pursue an academic career, here are the various things I did instead and why I think they are meanin
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by papeda 6y ago
I got a lot out of some posts made by a user named arkades about why the nature of medical reimbursement in the US contributes to physician burnout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22057249
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by papeda 6y ago
We can compare the stated philosophies of RBG against those of the two most recent nominees and the shortlisted candidates put forth in the past week and see that they're very different. It seems very plausible to guess that, given a l
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by papeda 6y ago
Ah yes, wishing for a successor that does not undo your life's work is definitely what I would call "playing politics up until the end".
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by papeda 6y ago
Paying people to vote is pretty out there. I think we should at least put election day on a weekend. Spread it over both days, even. This feels to me like a relatively easy small step that would really help make voting easier in a way that
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by papeda 6y ago
Googling "ossification of American policy for a generation" returns one result, this thread.
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by papeda 6y ago
> You can't put in the sky an object visible from everywhere and then ask people to pay (or even just ask permission) to use pictures that include it. This would be a great super-villain idea for a fun/dumb movie.
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by papeda 6y ago
I'm confused, what part of her story involves "spoon feed[ing]"?
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by papeda 6y ago
These low-CO2 countries are effectively exporting CO2 production (e.g. manufacturing) to China, no?
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by papeda 6y ago
I wish this comment had a NSFL tag at the beginning. I did not want to read that, and it comes out of nowhere relative to its parent comment. More generally, I think there's a difference between "meditation on brutality" and
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by papeda 6y ago
I'm not one of "the people who disapprove of this but who endorse the top down language policing as endorsed by Twitter ", but as far as I can tell, few of those people advocate banning books. I think "banning books&quot
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by papeda 6y ago
It's a little strange to me to use history as the representative for the humanities, because history seems like the most "scientific" one -- there's some truth of what happened, and historians are trying to navigate towa
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by papeda 6y ago
The web of corporate intrigue that powers watchdog groups is remarkable. The people who caught the professors are from the Campaign For Accountability, a "watchdog group" [1]. They pursue this role for a variety of issues. Their w
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by papeda 6y ago
There seem to be two conflicting lines of thought about the future of advertising. 1) Companies are learning that non-online advertising is not very worthwhile and so are reducing the resources allocated to, say, network TV ads. This has al
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by papeda 6y ago
Where does this 8s number come from? This article claims there's no clear evidence for it: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790
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by papeda 6y ago
> supposedly our circumstances only account for 10% of our happiness with 50% being genetics and 40% behavior Do you have a reference for these figures? 50% genetics seems high.
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by papeda 6y ago
If this story interests you, here is an engrossing article that ties together modern sumo, Mishima's attempted coup, and a surprising bit of investigative journalism: https://grantland.com/features/sumo-wrestling-t
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by papeda 6y ago
The featured article has these "numbers showing opposite".
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by papeda 6y ago
Wait, where did this become a referendum on libertarianism? Nothing in the parent comment suggests this.
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by papeda 6y ago
In slight fairness to Aaronson, he doesn't present this as a "universally held opinion of people in tech", as the rest of that excerpt goes to say: > . . . but not (I don’t think) to the tens of thousands who read Scott’s
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by papeda 6y ago
May as well ask here, I pretty much only read the weekly Economist to get my news at this point. I think I have their slight biases dialed in at this point. Anyone want to make a case for a different primary news source/argue that The
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by papeda 6y ago
It depends on how the money gets allotted. The people to whom $5 is most useful are also the people that most advertisers are not interested in targeting in the first place. So if people are compensated according to their value as advertisi
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by papeda 6y ago
> The passage you shared is beautiful, but it's not quite registering how the essay evoked it for you. Can you say more? One thing I take away from the excerpt is that the person we present and feel ourselves as during interactions
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by papeda 6y ago
This might be described as "a blog post about mindfulness". That description would lead me to expect something trite and bad, but fortunately I enjoyed reading it. It reminds me of the following snippet from Within A Budding Grov
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by papeda 6y ago
Not a pomodoro person, but I really like the idea of a cute mascot helping people get closer to their goals. Good job!
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by papeda 6y ago
I have heard about "competitive meta" before. What I don't understand is how it's any different than "responding to changes in how a game works"? All of the examples in the link are like this (Magic has new car
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by papeda 6y ago
> Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently private, and all the followers to a private profile get queued up, you can queue them up in the thousands or hundreds of thousands. I'm confused, why
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by papeda 6y ago
> Turns out that a cop on their own is more conservative. They are? It's plausible to me that a cop on their own is more scared and more likely to take drastic action if they feel threatened.

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