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I think there's two factors. One is the nonlinear utility of money, and the other is the cost/value of losing/winning. In general money has a diminishing utility, your first dollar…

One reason is that comments get stale. People need to maintain them but probably won't. Second reason is that they think the code should be self-documenting. If it's not then you j…

Regarding masks I don't think you can really compare what is happening in Japan to America. People screaming and getting kicked out of stores and airplanes. The reasoning is differ…

I think it's the difference between an individualist and collectivist culture. I'd guess that especially the kind of people that would come to hackernews will have a hard time seei…

When a variable can be reassigned it adds the complexity of time dependence. Meaning that if you don't keep track of the order of values that variable was assigned then you probabl…

> but if the claim is indeed true that racists/sexists think the blog is great... that needs to be addressed as to why they are attracted there I'll try to put this as objectively …

This thread is a really good example of why people like SSC. Personally I have no problem believing biases against minorities exist in this industry. And to whatever extent it does…

From the same author as OP: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html

> Even if you want to learn a language, if you can't learn it by using it, do you even need it? I'm not really into flashcards, but I'm seeing a lot of comments like this, that fla…

I think probably the main issue is that a lot of people just don't enjoy studying with flashcards. You could tell them it will literally make them 2x more efficient, and even if th…

> "...it's basically a psychological coping mechanism." I think this isn't quite right. Religion is a social mechanism. It creates the right incentives for its members to buy into …

This is fair if you think freedom is the most important thing. Having more money has real objective benefits and most people are fine with giving up some freedom to have those bene…

Coming at it from a different perspective, I did something similar to this by saving money on a US salary and then moving to a low cost of living country. I spent years at a time n…

No one has mentioned so far that there are many variety of durian, which has different smells. Another factor is how ripe the durian is. For example, probably anyone could eat a mo…

Yes and no. I’m someone who took krashen to heart and learned almost exclusively though reading. What I’ve found is that it’s possible to understand everything as long as it’s writ…

I always wonder what is the reason that they ask for US-based. One possible reason I've heard is that it makes taxes and certain laws easier for them to follow, in which case it so…

I'm not sure about that. I've seen multiple threads on reddit about cases where someone was overtipped or accidentally transferred money and there's usually a lot of comments argui…

Knowing CS allows you to build unique solutions from first principles. In cases where you're tied to applying solutions that have already been decided there will be less opportunit…

I think this points to the idea that there’s a blurry line between talent and just a really early head start. Lots of the things we call skills are composed of more basic, lower le…

It's remarkable to me that people think this is a bad thing. I feel like everyone agreed freedom of speech is a good thing until one day I woke up and they didn't. I don't mean whe…

There was an interesting event recently that happened to another live-streamer named Arab Andy. Arab Andy streams himself walking around with a speaker strapped on that plays text-…