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Its not about low expectations. Its about no expectations. Buddhism, Daoism, etc... its the same idea. Don't have expectations, good or bad, simply be in the moment. [edited for sp…

You dont chose your emotions, you chose which emotions to react to. There is an entire philosophy built around that concept, buddhism.

I know hes not making the claim, but the article itself is based around the hypothetical negative claim.

Because being annoyed doesn't affect them, only you. Choosing to experience negative emotion because someone does something is self-harm. When you are entitled to something, you ex…

Nah, you're not. Entitlement only leads to disapointment. It's bad all around, from my perspective. You can't be entitled to something AND appreciate it at the same time. So, a lac…

Is it me, or is this whole article failed out of the gate by the fact that you can't prove a negative? "Prove that x didnt happen" is impossible. Now, if he said to prove that the …

There is a reason for that, though. There is no reason to import what you don't need. This is why wildcard imports are generally frowned upon in most development teams. (I say most…

"Maybe a nitpick, but given that most other programming languages don't distinguish named vs default, it's probably not necessary" Not sure that how other languages do things reall…

Keep in mind, the entitlement works both ways... This isnt just for you, more of a general thing. Ive seen it a lot in this thread alone. Creating an OSS project doesn't entitle yo…

Only on hacker news can "Thanks!" be interpreted negatively... jesus...

>>> 'Hi, can you implement ? Thanks!' >>> Usually from people who have never contributed anything. This is a very toxic attitude, honestly. How dare users request features they can…

Just because it was unclassified doesn't mean it was released... Im sure there are literally millions of documents that have been "unclassified" due to time, but have never seen th…

Double alliteration FTW?

Your empirical data is limited by our perception. Do you really think we know all of the forces at work, that we can perceive them or detect them with the tools we have? Its rather…

Religion is dying, but spirituality is growing. I think the interesting part comes from our (and i say our, as in, the HN demographic) tendencies to hold strict beliefs based only …

Thanks. I was confused as well... most articles would have started off with the term and then used the acronym... i knew the context of what it was, but not knowing what it actuall…

Whitepolar... You cannot prove something is harmless. Thats literally the opposite of science... you can not prove a negative.

Financially, yes... But... the second part is mostly just the dread of it. I've moved (with family) 6 times in the last 7 years... most of which do to bad luck of contracts falling…

I dont think the fear is sheltering... Most of those islands have shelter, its not like hurricanes are a rare event for them. However, its the destruction and risk that it could be…

More evidence supporting the claim that, as a society, we have completely lost the capability to have a conversation on anything. Everything is polarizing and everyone feels the ne…

Thats exactly the OPPOSITE of stop and frisk. 1) Stop and frisk is BIASED heavily on race becuase its a HUMAN making the choice... 2) Stop and Frisk is the GOVERNMENT, and therefor…

The point is, there will be false positives, there is no reason to get upset and hurt over them... There is no perfect system. If its automated, there will be false positives (and …

I dont think the problem is automation... It's people's expectation for it to be perfect, and the egoic drive to blame someone when something goes wrong. There was no reason for th…

"That doesn't seem quite right, because it was still the government that allowed the private sector to take over a duty of the government." You aren't talking about discussing it, …

My old Manager's last name is Blank. The sad thing, given blank isnt a reserved word at all, is he has the same problem. I think its EventBright or Ticketmaster, i forget, but one …