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From the end of the article: > To come so close to death does not provide a shortcut to wisdom or contentment. It doesn’t answer all your questions or eliminate your weaknesses. I’…

Tangential: as somebody with congenital hearing loss who's worn hearing aids since I was a little kid, the pivot to mostly digital communications has been a serious benefit for me …

Is it pithy? The summary given is "academia sucks, be an entrepreneur". IMO the actual point of the post is "I didn't pursue an academic career, here are the various things I did i…

I got a lot out of some posts made by a user named arkades about why the nature of medical reimbursement in the US contributes to physician burnout: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

We can compare the stated philosophies of RBG against those of the two most recent nominees and the shortlisted candidates put forth in the past week and see that they're very diff…

Ah yes, wishing for a successor that does not undo your life's work is definitely what I would call "playing politics up until the end".

Paying people to vote is pretty out there. I think we should at least put election day on a weekend. Spread it over both days, even. This feels to me like a relatively easy small s…

Googling "ossification of American policy for a generation" returns one result, this thread.

> You can't put in the sky an object visible from everywhere and then ask people to pay (or even just ask permission) to use pictures that include it. This would be a great super-v…

I'm confused, what part of her story involves "spoon feed[ing]"?

These low-CO2 countries are effectively exporting CO2 production (e.g. manufacturing) to China, no?

I wish this comment had a NSFL tag at the beginning. I did not want to read that, and it comes out of nowhere relative to its parent comment. More generally, I think there's a diff…

I'm not one of "the people who disapprove of this but who endorse the top down language policing as endorsed by Twitter ", but as far as I can tell, few of those people advocate ba…

It's a little strange to me to use history as the representative for the humanities, because history seems like the most "scientific" one -- there's some truth of what happened, an…

The web of corporate intrigue that powers watchdog groups is remarkable. The people who caught the professors are from the Campaign For Accountability, a "watchdog group" [1]. They…

There seem to be two conflicting lines of thought about the future of advertising. 1) Companies are learning that non-online advertising is not very worthwhile and so are reducing …

Where does this 8s number come from? This article claims there's no clear evidence for it: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790

> supposedly our circumstances only account for 10% of our happiness with 50% being genetics and 40% behavior Do you have a reference for these figures? 50% genetics seems high.

If this story interests you, here is an engrossing article that ties together modern sumo, Mishima's attempted coup, and a surprising bit of investigative journalism: https://grant…

The featured article has these "numbers showing opposite".

Wait, where did this become a referendum on libertarianism? Nothing in the parent comment suggests this.

In slight fairness to Aaronson, he doesn't present this as a "universally held opinion of people in tech", as the rest of that excerpt goes to say: > . . . but not (I don’t think) …

May as well ask here, I pretty much only read the weekly Economist to get my news at this point. I think I have their slight biases dialed in at this point. Anyone want to make a c…

It depends on how the money gets allotted. The people to whom $5 is most useful are also the people that most advertisers are not interested in targeting in the first place. So if …

> The passage you shared is beautiful, but it's not quite registering how the essay evoked it for you. Can you say more? One thing I take away from the excerpt is that the person w…