ytoawwhra92

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by ytoawwhra92 8d ago
The risks of nuclear weapons aren't theoretical. Nuclear weapons have killed people, destroyed infrastructure, and contaminated the environment. The Limited Test Ban Treaty was put in place after radioactive fallout from repeated nucle
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by ytoawwhra92 9d ago
Well, except then the person who volunteered to "own website issues" clarified that they meant one specific issue (download links) among the five or so that Gates identified.
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by ytoawwhra92 13d ago
The point of the study is that they should be using calculators to answer their questions rather than spending an inordinate amount of time on manual calculations that don't further their education and cause them to lose interest in
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by ytoawwhra92 14d ago
> there's a reason calculators are banned from math classes until a certain point Yeah, a bad reason. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-10/are-calculators-affec... > In a 1997 review of the extent to
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by ytoawwhra92 15d ago
> Being driven and high IQ are much more predictive of success than having rich parents or connected family members. Are they? What are you basing that on? > But the idea that desirable leadership roles or entrepreneurial success is a
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by ytoawwhra92 16d ago
> With what? With stuff that you're be free to do as an adult with minimal to no restrictions. Teens should have opportunities to experiment with these activities in safe spaces so that they have direct life experience to reflect on
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by ytoawwhra92 17d ago
Yeah, it's profoundly unfair in many ways. Most people in their early career have very little influence over what they work on, but that work goes on to profoundly shape their subsequent opportunities. Knowing this, though, you can red
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by ytoawwhra92 17d ago
Governments require age verification to drive a car, purchase alcohol and other dangerous products, enter adult venues, and in various other scenarios. Why not for accessing Internet properties that are just as harmful?
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by ytoawwhra92 17d ago
> Phones have had parental controls already built in forever. Most of them don't work as advertised. > Parental monitoring and controlling usage on sites like Youtube and Facebook is a long solved problem, if the parent put any b
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by ytoawwhra92 17d ago
Make it up, exaggerate, claim credit for organisational achievements. Sometimes it's just a matter of rephrasing your CV items and removing all the words that hedge or otherwise water down your contributions. But in all it's a bit
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by ytoawwhra92 21d ago
Yeah, I'm agreeing. You don't need the carrot of a green card or the stick of deportation to make a software engineer on an H1B accept a depressed wage, because it's not depressed relative to their alternatives.
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by ytoawwhra92 21d ago
The prevailing wage for H1B software engineers is a very good salary for most software engineers in the world. It's common for the prevailing wage to be double what that person could earn in their country of origin.
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by ytoawwhra92 22d ago
> being paid by a [...] company > parted ways > Someone cottoned on to the value Steve was providing This pattern predates the LLM obsession.
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by ytoawwhra92 23d ago
I'm saying the presence of the boot marks make me less likely to clean up any mess I make in there.
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by ytoawwhra92 23d ago
You don't have to look at sci-fi, go look at the history of the Republic of Venice. It was ruled by a tiny group of ultra-wealthy people while the vast majority of the population owned nothing and had zero influence.
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by ytoawwhra92 23d ago
What you're describing requires a level of literacy possessed by less than 10% of the adult population.
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by ytoawwhra92 23d ago
I assume you're talking about software engineers, because in every office I've worked in the toilets have been absolutely filthy by mid-morning. At my current place there are boot marks on top of the toilet seat that have been the
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by ytoawwhra92 27d ago
> See? Those are logical arguments. They are based on measurable input/outputs. You could argue with similar arguments as to why having a kid is such a grand achievement, but yet, no parents did that. They all come back to hormones
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by ytoawwhra92 27d ago
> without the hormones and feelings I'm saying that's impossible, we're all emotional creatures. That parents have higher levels of certain hormones than non-parents doesn't mean non-parents are rational, objective cr
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by ytoawwhra92 28d ago
Generally the desire for equal effort applies to the things neither person wants to do.
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by ytoawwhra92 28d ago
My wife and I have a very simple rule, which is that both of us do tasks at the same time. No need to track time, no need to assign cards, and no resentment about one of us doing more or less than the other.
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by ytoawwhra92 28d ago
I mean the obvious retort to this is that until you become a parent all of your behaviour is probably driven by some deep evolutionary desire to demonstrate your suitability as a mate. So we can dismiss opinions of non-parents as well.
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by ytoawwhra92 28d ago
There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.
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by ytoawwhra92 1mo ago
> - based on liberal principles of voluntary participation rather than on totalitarian principles like most other proposals Well, except for children, who under this proposal don't get to participate in anything online that hasn&#x2
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by ytoawwhra92 1mo ago
> You are talking about leaving "everything" to the parents. > Those are extreme positions. It's a very extreme position, and yet on every HN thread about digital ID there are multiple, upvoted, top-level comments sugge
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by ytoawwhra92 1mo ago
You are saying something quite different to the comment I responded to: > The right people to protect children are those responsible for them - their parents and guardians. My position is that there is a social responsibility to protect
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by ytoawwhra92 1mo ago
No ID checks at clubs, bars, or other adults-only venues. No school zone speed limits, or protected crossings on streets near schools. No requirements for railings on public balconies, fencing around public pools, protective covers over dra
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by ytoawwhra92 1mo ago
> The large upfront cost is lower than it would be because its subsidized by buying the games for it! This isn't true anymore.
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by ytoawwhra92 1mo ago
UBI is inherently inflationary and as far as I can tell there's no solution to that problem.
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by ytoawwhra92 1mo ago
How would you even form convictions in such a world?

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