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Hah interesting to hear I'm part of a trend. I drink occasionally, but I honestly have never liked the taste of alcohol and I pretty often will go out to bars/clubs and just not drink at all. The effects of alcohol are fun, but I'm also increasingly feeling like I don't need them to have fun chatting and dancing. And yeah for sure aside from the taste I'm definitely not into the health downsides.

Unemployment specifically refers to people who are looking for work - people who aren't seeking work don't count as unemployed in statistics.

It's very fun to troll other players with, especially that middle bar piece is easy to hide. I've also seen someone play keep-away with the last piece. Just overall very funny how much you can goof off with a simple puzzle!

There's a visual bug where you can hide pieces of the 'e' behind the completed portions of the 'e' - it doesn't work for other letters because they still show the outline.

This would be a really good (and much more accessible than the linked pdf) explanation without the condescending tone. This is some pretty advanced math, and pretending otherwise isn't constructive. If someone says "I'm having trouble understanding this", it's not their fault, and it's generally not laziness - it just means that the explanation isn't suited to them.

Hmmmm just given the recent Unity news, maybe this headline is a bit misleading as it seems to be focused on VFX users, and not game developers? Maybe "Unreal... be free for animators"?

Extremely impressive, and VERY well explained. I can't overemphasize how much I wish there were way more stuff like this online. I also really like something about having the English and Japanese text right next to each other... maybe it's just the visual reminder that there's so much more internet outside of the English-speaking bubble.

Or a consequentialist could respond that they accept that the specific hypothetical isn't wrong, but it's so divorced from practical reality that it isn't useful as a thought experiment.

I've also seen people argue that perpetrators of harm like this are also harmed.

Aside from all that, I know the instinct is to draw up thought experiments that provoke emotion, but using such a charged example is potentially alienating. I'm not saying we shouldn't be able to talk about hard topics, but that maybe bringing up rape (and such a specifically gendered one) as your thought experiment example in such a trivial discussion is a bit extreme.

Ooooh more info please! Which phone? And what's the experience like? Are you using it for development at all or is it more things like word? I wanna know all about this setup, since I'm definitely going to need to upgrade my phone soon.

This is so relatable. I was looking forward to working on projects that I cared about more, but then when I got there I realized how much energy actually caring takes.

Especially in terms of emotional investment - I've decided to save my passion more for personal projects instead of spending it all where it won't necessarily go anywhere.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is higher today than it has been in millennia, and carbon dioxide causes heating through the greenhouse effect. What scientific evidence do you have that supports your skepticism?

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

Actually, archeological evidence shows that even in extremely harsh environments, many early humans took care of people who were unable to work.

From the article linked below:

"...an idea of what it must have taken to keep Burial 9 alive. Paralyzed from the waist down and with severely limited arm and neck movement, he depended on others to provide food and water, clean him and move him to prevent pressure sores. 'From the bones alone, we can say this person lived with a disease that required help from others to survive,'...

The people who took care of Burial 9, for example, scratched out a precarious existence using stone tools to fish and raise pigs in prehistoric Vietnam. Signs of malnutrition in the bones of people buried nearby suggested famine was a constant threat. 'In a small society which was very stressed, that means somebody who couldn't contribute or go out hunting or undertake a lot of tasks was supported, accommodated, and adjusted to,'"

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/8788963...

Maybe I'm oblivious to them, but I don't think I've seen meters in Soho/Chinatown/LES and I definitely don't remember them in the East Village. Are they more in the Tribeca/Fidi area?

For those unfamiliar with NYC, street parking is free basically everywhere so the space cars take up is already heavily subsidized.

I have a feeling that bans are not the most effective approach long term. Maybe there's a solution where we educate young people on responsible phone use and work with them to design practices that work for everyone. After all, outside of high school people have to actually self regulate their phone use. Whether they do so effectively varies, but maybe it's a skill we need to think about teaching and developing. Just a direction I've been thinking in, I don't have any concrete recommendations.

Of course schools are already way overburdened, but maybe a solution here has large enough positive externalities to be worth it.

HSV (Herpes simplex virus) vaccine? Do you mean HPV (Human papillomavirus)? I've only ever heard of the HPV vaccine, as well as its relationship to cervical cancer.

It's high level comedy, he's just on a level of irony you can't attain. You have to be one of the 30 under 30's to get it /s

The word for this figure of speech is metonymy - specifically a type of whole to part synecdoche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totum_pro_parte

Is there any info on what happened to them? Their twitter last said "Rumors of my death are almost as exaggerated as my writing style. Sorry for the delay; I'm catching up." a little bit after their last post. I would definitely throw a few bucks a month their way for some infrequent posts.

Adding new detailed thoughts in a reply:

The article leans heavily on traditionalist phrasings - "no one was lifting the most centrally important functional objects in our lives into the domain of beauty. The practice of these long-gone artisans had disappeared." And then tracing some etymology back to PIE and referring to that etymology as imparting "thousands of years of wisdom from the most successful cultures in history." onto a phrase is a statement that couldn't possibly be more Euro-centric (and linguistically ill-informed - almost every word has thousands of years of history).

"The process of 'men of strength, skill, and virtue using their hands to enforce their will on materials' should not be forgotten." feels really gross in a modern context - it's not too far off from complaining about "what happened to real men." as if the past was some glorious golden age (and has kind of imperialist vibes - why must men "enforce" their will on materials? What structure does "enforce" imply that "work with" does not?)

And then ending with a quote from The Aeneid is just... I don't know what the word is, pretentious? I'm a massive classics fan, and I've read/translated portions of the Aeneid (for school, not fun), but it seems like that work was only chosen because it's famous and old - not because this has anything to do with that myth.

Yeah I'll be honest the work is nice but the author comes off as extremely insufferable. The writing gives off the impression that the author wants us to see him as this highly educated renaissance man, but it feels like that impression is being forced. Which is unfortunate because I seem to have quite a bit in common with him. Gentle reminder to myself to try and NOT talk like this.

I feel this would also be suited by connecting the topic to trends in minimalism and maximalism. Also maybe a better comparison to the guns and swords (which were essentially accessories) would be to smartphones and the cases people use - it's a more similar comparison, although not relevant to the "building a computer" part.

This was almost word for word my decision process when picking where to live. "I'm not going to buy a car, so I want to live somewhere designed for that, and I want to live somewhere with local tech jobs." I also don't like the heat too much, so that gives me a couple of cities in America, or I could move to another country.

It is questionable that a story about priests using a gay dating app for adults reminds you of... a pedo English teacher you had who hung out with priests? There's a long history of people equating being LGBTQ+ with being groomers, pedophiles and sex offenders, and those stereotypes and false beliefs about one being related to the other are part of what leads to the homophobia that forces priests to be closeted. Perhaps the teacher was around the priests for sex offender reasons? It just seems odd to me to being up pedo stuff on stories about gay people facing discrimination.

It's reductive to say that the Catholic Church merely condemns gay sex. They also do not allow gay people to get married - which is the difference between their stance on pre-marital sex. There is no way within the framework of Catholicism that one can live as a gay couple, completely equal in rights to heterosexuals. It is Catholic Church doctrine to discriminate between heterosexual and homosexual couples - and if that discrimination doesn't read as condemnation to you, the church also literally condemns people to hell who disagree.

I found this article's perspective really thought-provoking, and overall the piece has a lot of interesting philosophy wrapped in the narrative of Harriet McBryde Johnson's encounter with Peter Singer.

Post title edited from "Unspeakable Conversations" to be more clear. Let me know if the original was better - I just thought it was too vague for the guidelines.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230216153704/https://www.nytim...

> Even on HN, most people believe many things about how the Internet works, at the networking layer, at the application layer, and socioculturally, that are not true, and provably not true, but widely believed.

Could you debunk some of the most common/biggest false beliefs you encounter? I'm curious to see which traps I fall into.

Here is a more journalistic piece on the incident:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-student-reported-for-...

and the school's newspaper's reporting on it (which is linked in both articles)

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/22/protected-identity-harm...

Read it as like underdog state pride, in the sense of "the one and only" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20one%20and%2.... It's certainly not the only state university - Ohio University is only about an hour away.

The author also "absolutely loathed Star Wars: The Last Jedi" which to me feels like an overreaction to a movie.

From the article they specify "with Klinefelter syndrome" which is the XXY version of trisomy 23. This fits the word limit: "Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome"