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MorningInfidel··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
Same. Spins for a while then dreaded `ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT` chrome error page.
MorningInfidel··on What Is a Minimally Good Life?
Where did 'ruining things for everyone' come from? In the same vein, I could interpret the post as 'women drive more economic growth than men'.
MorningInfidel··on What Is a Minimally Good Life?
I must be confused. I didn't read his controversial opinion as a demand, I read it as an observation. It's as unreasonable to expect women to counter their nature as it would be to tell men to stop preferring youth and beauty.
MorningInfidel··on What Is a Minimally Good Life?
I think your controversial opinion is more correct than it is incorrect. I don't believe it's anything that an individual woman would notice consciously on a daily basis, but the idea that women are attracted to the ability of a man to provision for her and her children as a survival adaptation over time is clearly true. It's true of other mammals and primates, at least.
MorningInfidel··on What Is a Minimally Good Life?
If his point is so easy to refute logically, you would have done so. Your entire comment is an ad hominem.
MorningInfidel··on Is It OK for Employers to Seek Out ‘Digital Natives’?
You've just described my girlfriend and I with uncanny precision
MorningInfidel··on How many hours do you work a day (developers)?
3atik il 3afi :)
MorningInfidel··on Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper
My first night training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was a similar experience. In BJJ you spar at 100%, because it's relatively safe to do so. You tap your opponent's body or the mat to signify submission. Tapping basically means 'you could have killed me'. Rolling with someone who is only one belt higher than me feels like drowning, and the first time your opponent takes your back and is choking you is the time when a lot of people panic. Learning to control my breath and the feeling of panic in order to fight to get to a better position has made a lot of other problems in my life seem small and insignificant.
MorningInfidel··on Ask HN: Studies on success vs. hours of work and sleep?
I wish I had something to add, but definitely interested to see the data
MorningInfidel··on Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)
Thought this would be an interesting thought experiment for engineering the best solution to the problem. I guess since Colombia isn't that rich it would have to be feasible economically, too.
MorningInfidel··on The economics of political correctness
The thrust of the article had nothing to do with PC as a violation of free speech, but rather a discussion of the social currency that can be cheaply bought by holding the right opinions (at least outwardly).

The point about how not everyone can hold the high moral ground relative to everyone else is well made though, and the Nirvana analogy is perfect.

MorningInfidel··on I am a successful software dev but I have a serious drinking problem
I've found Martial Arts helpful to get myself out of my head and take the edge off the monkey energy that isn't being released through my sedentary, code -> video games -> sleep lifestyle through the working week.

In particular, pick one that's as close to actual combat as possible. MMA is great, but perhaps too intense. I've started training brazilian jiu jitsu and can't recommend it enough. Something about fighting for your life against someone who could easily put you to sleep/manhandle you that's therapeutic.

Sam Harris blogged about it here: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-pleasures-of-drowning

I wish you all the luck in the world in getting past this.

MorningInfidel··on Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech
I was all interested to read the article you linked until I saw the by-line. Read some of Shanley's posts on Medium - her opinion can be safely discounted. Not because she's a woman, but because she's a wacko.

Thankyou for putting into coherent thought what I was never able to - a lot of these arguments you hear from the 'leg up for women in tech' crowd are just that - unfalsifiable. They can never be wrong.

MorningInfidel··on Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans
Best of luck and god speed with this initiative. Were I a US citizen, I would be calling my representative.
MorningInfidel··on Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?
...aaaaand cloned :)