alexandercrohde

Yes. I'll take it a step further and ask, do adages actually contain any signal at all? If you have a saying "try try again" and another saying "don't bust your head against a…

For a while I wasn't sure if this was just some "talking point." Then one day, on a hiking meetup, I met a guy who was ranting about his job that was to write "oddly hyper-specific…

step 1. Psychologist identifies "defense mechanism" preventing people from accepting unpleasant truths. step 2. Psychologist being aware of defense mechanisms, declares with no apparent evid…

This is cherry-picked, emotional, and an anecdote. How about some happy stories of all the 20-year-olds who became millionaires from unregulated bitcoin trading to show the other side of the coin? I g…

shrug And people jump off bridges. Doesn't mean we stop building bridges. The market is rough, them's the rules, sorry not sorry.

Seems rather cut-throat. If this type of thing becomes the norm, then the market will just end up with a conservative or apolitical github. Progress?

>> All corporations are political Almost no corporations are overtly political in who they service.

Sounds like a non-story? I'm not sure what the value is in linking it here, other than to try to provoke a similarly controversial flare.

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I find this article insufficiently neutral to be read as objective news. Seeing the articles suggested at the bottom, my opinion is more than redoubled. Even if I happen to agree with a message, I sti…

I think a good parallel would be how would you feel as a manager if your employee jokes about quitting to go get more money somewhere else?

I've noticed this too. There are a number of common-phrases I'll hear like "everything is connected" or "everything is alive/sentient." However, not everything is co…

If a majority of people are rebelling, then the pentagon's scenario should be how to help that majority reassert control over a runaway executive branch. No harm in having a scenario where a min…

What a loaded article. Obviously "clear" and "direct" are both positive-spin words, indicating that the author thinks there's some value to this. As somebody who used to be in…

>> but the evidence isn't strong. I always feel compelled to point out that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. Or chemicals should be presumed unsafe until proven safe, ra…

So I guess my proposal is that any officer who carries a gun should be required to wear a "badge number" of some form, readable from 15-feet, on their back. The badge-number should be a ID t…

Moreover, imagine for just one second that github became the defacto way to interview candidates. Now every candidate starts hacking their github full of all kinds of code, or even paying people to, o…

I only see like 10 results? I imagine there are at least 50 non-professional blog posts submitted to HN a day

Well I just learned about a website today that gives the list of the police who have been sued and their names and records. [1] I think maybe a better use of the public outrage of cancel-culture might…

I really like this idea. I agree the average person responds to unusual behavior with the same innate revulsion we fee to a physical deformity (perhaps to a lesser degree). However I think both revuls…

No. Not even for a second. Suppose you have two engineers, one in America, one in India. PRs cannot be merged without an approval. Suppose the average PR requires 3 back-and-forth comments before it g…

So by that reasoning, if Guido said he'd never mentor females that wouldn't be sexist? Because if you think that I bet you're alone...

It's my understanding that, if commissions are free (e.g. Robinhood) then on average, any trading strategy is going to perform comparable to the market average. If you can find any reliably bad s…

>> Except the claim was that there are more than one strain and the author is responding to that. Doesn't matter, the author still made an unsubstantiated claim, and hence is unscientific. …

Right, and this article is titled "There is one, and only one strain" which is an affirmative statement, and calls for a burden of proof. What this piece should be titled is "We don…

Where would I find out if my S6 is going to be patched for this?

Sorry, I don't want to read that whole thing. Is there a linked journal article about IQs of nobel winners?