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If I understand correctly, the parent is talking about the original author of the library, not the person who forked it.

>> there's a massive personal value to having a library used by large numbers of people. I have no experience with this - would you kindly explain that value? I am guessing that it…

Sure, but I was interested about that "soul-crushing" aspect.

Are you speaking from personal experience? Care to share some details?

I wish I could somehow steer attention from this guy and this topic to how great album it was.

What compelling evidence?

I would guess it is because there was no evolutionary pressure to have joints that can sustain 80 years if there are other parts of body that only sustain 18. Maybe I am missing so…

>> I'd happily trade a 10x higher death rate (to a high of 0.014%, mostly among people who weren't far off from dying anyways) in exchange for everyone having 2 years of having a n…

I don't think it is contradictory - that is the point of adaptation that you expose yourself to something that is not optimal and your body learns to handle it. Think of it as arti…

>> in an increasingly zero-sum world I don't understand this part - what do you mean by that? Why would the world be increasingly zero-sum?

>> the indignity of being forced to prove I'm human Indignity, that's it! I was never able to explain to myself the visceral hate I feel when I encounter captcha. I knew it could n…

>> does not necessarily mean that mixedCase has problems with emotional intelligence Don't you think they do, though? I mean... not even recognizing the dry humor and hyperbole wit…

I believe that part of the problem might be that people have lost "traffic reflexes" and situational awareness during lockdowns. Anecdotal evidence: as a cyclist I now encounter a …

It seems incorrect to use US homicide rate as an argument when talking about being "as safe as any Western Country". US is an outlier in that regard [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.o…

I think that the majority considers the system where a few billionaires can outvote everyone else to be the bad thing we are trying to avoid.

One anecdata point: I cannot easily suppress sneezing, at least not always. Delaying it for a second, for example when I am holding a cup of hot coffee and I want to put in on a ta…

> It happens in Europe too. Does it really? I am from Europe and I have lived and worked in 3 EU countries, many of my friends have experience from other countries and I have never…

Could you please explain to someone who is not from the US what is the justification behind this? It seems that it is not uncommon in the US that the employer has some rights to st…

> I get your irritation about Freud. I think it is still useful to read Freud, assuming you don't take it as gospel and consider when he wrote it and how little was known at the ti…

I have not read the book yet - would you please explain what about that priming section you did not like? Is it something specific that Kahneman says or the whole concept of primin…

I just want to point out that quality of life is subjective and depends on what you value. For example I, subjectively, do not want some of the things you mention, like big home wi…

I was also surprised that you are worried about sports - that is one of the last things I would worry about. I worry that our reward systems are being hijacked. We are more and mor…

After reading the closing thoughts, it seems to me that the author equates addictiveness with "world-class" product that people "love". That type of thinking scares me - hey HN cro…

To provide one anecdotal data counterpoint: I decided to try cold showers a few years ago (not Wim Hof method, just showers) and although I generaly get ill very rarely, that year …

Are card numbers from privacy.com not recognizable as prepaid cards? Why I am asking - recently I was trying to use my Revolut card to register MS Azure account but it threw an err…