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I have this suspicion that we can’t see the forest through the trees on the US inflation discussion. Does anyone know any good articles which investigate this issue across countries? It seems like a lot of the things that are “blamed” should manifest across the developed world.

> Initially, Packard thought he was inside a great white shark, but he couldn’t feel any teeth and he hadn’t suffered any obvious wounds.

Is a great white shark actually big enough that you could end up inside it’s mouth whole?

This is more reflective of the media bubble you are living in; it’s not nearly as bad as you think. Especially if you’re into tech (say you read hacker news) any problem that exists in California (where a lot of tech people live) is a hot discussion topic.

I’m kind of surprised HN could take them down

Imagine if thirty years ago we declared the yellow pages a public utility.

I wonder if this is more a subtle criticism of psychology research. Perhaps a walk in the park should be more of a baseline

I think the author just has a complaint about the scientific process (and believe me, all scientists do…) and is trying to fit this topic to that complaint. I doubt that it’s helpful. If we think there aren’t enough safeguards about this kind of research, I think the solution is to restrict funding, not to assume that changing the research incentive structure would stop it.

> "We don't know exactly why or how it works, we just know that it does work," says Michael Kinch, an associate vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis who has written a book on vaccination. Kinch and others suspect this form of inoculation may have worked because it introduced the smallpox virus through the skin, rather than the lungs.

This is really interesting, I wonder if we have any evidence of similar behavior of other viruses?

At least this is what I told the students when I was a TA for a class teaching prolog!

My pessimistic fear is that when countries can no longer compete in tax rates, they’ll compete on subsidies. You can go much lower than zero!

There is always some selection bias in this regard when reading the hacker news comments. If you spend time talking to people online, you’re probably a lot less interested in the social aspect of work.

I’m not super picky myself, but coffee is an incredibly fun hobby. There is a ton of equipment to try and endless varieties of beans. A lot of it is easy entry too, you can even roast your own beans with fairly simple equipment.

I’m Scott Aaronson’s book he calls it Computing with the Anthropic Principle. It’s a fun exercise, though obviously quite dangerous. I believe he also mentions that following this reasoning would lead us to expect that the end of the world is near due to us expecting to live at a time of maximum human population!

This seems like good news for a country like Bahrain. It’s unfortunate that the Chinese vaccine isn’t as effective as the competition (such that the current ~50% deployment isn’t enough), but getting to 75% is a realistic goal still.

Indeed, that’s why we need to build decentralized services. Like Usenet /s

Captain the best

The credit card company is the one that holds the power I guess. I wonder if someday visa will start threatening merchants who retaliate via bans as an extra card feature.

I’ve started making Caesar dressing from scratch when I want it, and the anchovies can really shine when you do it yourself.

I can’t read the comments without an account, but it seems that from the main post:

1. This company will fail

2. YC invested a lot of money in it (a room full of employees)

3. The author admits that his company lied about their sales to get investment

That seems like a bad position to be in…

I did the same five years ago (different locations). The one thing I miss was the blankets I had before moving, I just have never found great replacements. Is there anything you realized was harder to replace than you thought?

No definitely a big, but I expect that they will announce the swarm of nanobots they plan to release to fix all the affected chips.

Also I wish they could nuke from orbit all the tutorials and stack exchange answers that are completely wrong about how to use it!

> Another pattern is listing the range as 40-250k so the disclosure is effectively nothing.

This feels like a losing strategy as other employers will be posting tighter ranges which will get more applications. Especially if the lower bounds is too low. Hopefully this sorts itself out.

I guess the problem with the overdose theory he mentioned is it would be quite odd that all of the excess suicides would manifest in one way. But maybe if you break down suicides by method you could see something.

Regardless, I think it’s interesting how we all just assumed they had to go up during lock down. It’s a reminder that depression is very complex, and our intuitions about how to fix it can be wildly off.

Sublime can be downloaded for free though. It just bugs you every few days asking if you would mind paying. That’s my situation now. I’d love to through some cash their way since it’s a great product, but it’s just a bit too steep.

I just wish it was a little cheaper. Every time I think about buying a license I realize it’s like 30-40 USD more than I expect and I chicken out

> Search quality at Google has been decaying over the past decade.

Is there any empirical evidence to back this up? If we’re talking anecdote, I swear as soon as google started labeling ads more clearly people complained more about ads. And if google really is getting worse, I would expect that I would get frustrated with DuckDuckGo bit getting the job done less often.

I do share your concerns though. Just look at YouTube as an example. You search for something, and half way down the page are completely unrelated videos that you watched before. This is because YouTube just wants you to click, they don’t care about you finding what you were after.

Ok but… why? Does anyone have enough knowledge to speculate why that bit would prevent you from reading the code?

Facebook seems to really have become the whipping boy, despite their falling relevance. Imagine what these depression studies would look like if you did Reddit or 4chan. They get it no matter what they do too. Fail to stop the spread of misinformation in 2016? Come before Congress. Do too much censoring in 2020? Time to break up big tech.

> However, you can't expect another machine to have fish.

I can, because whenever I get access to a new machine I download and compile it!