solipsism

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by solipsism 5y ago
Ah, yes, purposefully waste people's time. Fuck them, right? I've seen this kind of attitude before, and it's usually justified with something about how the companies don't respect your time so why should you respect the
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by solipsism 5y ago
I would argue that you understand the relationship between an alligator and a water buffalo immediately... Now your brain is turning it into language to come up with words like "predator/prey" or "hidden danger" or
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by solipsism 5y ago
I'm multilingual. Growing up, friends asked me which language I think in. The answer is "neither". I can produce sentences in my brain in either language if I want, but it's strange to me that anyone would feel that tho
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by solipsism 5y ago
Is this your idea of a positive comment? "It's happening no matter what!"
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by solipsism 5y ago
Speak for yourself. My family is busy, and we don't like to plan -- we just decide to do something and do it. So a scheduled routine would feel like a horrible anchor to us.
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by solipsism 5y ago
I'd have thought that I'd have heard of this if there were legit evidence Changes to DNA would be the long term changes, not RNA. But yes, look up epigenetics, and especially DNA methylation.
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by solipsism 5y ago
The fallacy is the god-of-the-gaps "logic" of assuming there's some hand-wavey phenomenon that's qualitatively different from anything we currently understand, just because reality has so much complexity that we are far
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by solipsism 5y ago
Undoubtedly. But saying conflicts with France significantly affected the outcome of the American Revolution is a far cry from saying the Revolution was essentially part of the conflicts between Britain and France, as if the Revolution was
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by solipsism 5y ago
What's incorrect about the American "founding myth"? Please explain what role France played in the disagreement about taxes between the colonists and the crown?
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by solipsism 5y ago
I'm curious to see the curricula that are teaching this incorrect rubbish. What role did France play in the Boston Tea Party? I'm not aware of any at all. Certainly France jumped in once they saw the opportunity happening, but the
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by solipsism 5y ago
Also define "computational statistics". It'll be fun to try and fail to draw a clear line between the two.
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by solipsism 5y ago
I'm not the OP but I couldn't agree more with them. To answer your question... no they don't. Or perhaps very, very rarely. It doesn't make sense to spend hours at a time on any of those tasks, and you can't anyway
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by solipsism 5y ago
It's rather a non sequitur, as no one ever said immutability was enough. You also need design, rigor, error handling, common sense, some caffeine, testing, and fast builds. All together... that's enough!
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by solipsism 5y ago
You've missed my point. When you get your first yacht, you'll start to notice all the better yachts with mini yachts. It's never ending.
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by solipsism 5y ago
If you ever made it to Google, you'd immediately see the stratification within. The elites with their lake houses... the people operating at levels you never will be able to... the people bailing to start startups because Google got bo
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by solipsism 5y ago
The other problem here is that unit tests never break (since you've mocked everything that can break) and therefore aren't worth running; it might be more productive to write them for TDD and then just not commit them. That&#x27
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by solipsism 5y ago
Weirdly aggressive? What's aggressive about it? The thin skin around here is ridiculous.
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by solipsism 5y ago
Pretty sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are exchanging ideas in the same way Jefferson and Madison did. These people all have something in common, though, even across time -- they were all influential, successful, well known people. I don
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by solipsism 5y ago
That kind of ad hoc WFH is very common, but it's different from a policy that permits N days a week WFH.
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by solipsism 5y ago
That's what it is not why. For most people the response to this will be "why would I want to do that?" There may be good reasons. But they'll need to be explicitly spelled out for most users.
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by solipsism 5y ago
Money. The most common bottleneck is money and customers. Use whatever helps you get new customers faster. Don't be scared of having to make changes in the future. Do the small amount of work it takes today to make sure your transition
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by solipsism 5y ago
What am I missing? With your description, nothing ever sets expire to 0. Can't look at the code comfortably as I'm on mobile.
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by solipsism 5y ago
But if we always do what's easiest, then we will make a bunch of horrible choices. Other things that matter, often more than what's easiest: * Flexibility. If you aren't 100% sure what you'll need, but need something in
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by solipsism 5y ago
pg did not talk about riches in this essay, and especially in this paragraph. He talked about doing interesting work. Yeah it make sense to focus on interesting projects when you are already rich.
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by solipsism 5y ago
"was to remember" doesn't imply causality any more than "remembered" does. "could not help but remember" would've been a much better translation, and even has the similarity that the usage is less com
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by solipsism 5y ago
So.... by your definition literally everything is a cultural thing? If you aren't talking about this specific situation, wtf are you talking about?
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by solipsism 5y ago
I've worked across a lot of cultures too. If you believe it's normal part of "Hindu" culture to put your hand on co-worker's knees, to the point that they are avoiding you, then I'm afraid you don't know a
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by solipsism 5y ago
You're setting up a straw man. In this situation no one is talking about two close friends walking holding hands. We are talking about a man inappropriately touching his coworkers. Not coworkers who also happen to be good friends. Cowo
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by solipsism 5y ago
You are talking about things you know nothing about. How familiar are you with various Indian cultures? This thing about putting his hand on coworker's knees, to the point that they avoid him, is very much not a part of Indian culture
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by solipsism 5y ago
Why would I need more information? A guy was putting his hand on his co-workers' knees! Often enough that people scurried from him! It's clear the implication is made that this is just a "Hindu" thing. That's wrong.

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