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There's a more generic term for what you're experiencing, which is "lack of motivation." On some level you don't care much about what you're doing; if you did, I guarantee you woul…

Thanks for the explanation. One thing that's confusing me: if the company gets a Series A round, convertible debt is worse than the equity you would've gotten because you've essent…

This is like saying that the entire universe can be simulated by using a fundamental theory of physics as source code. It's (to some extent) true , and potentially interesting phil…

The flaw in the argument for switching comes in its second line: "1. I denote by A the amount in my selected envelope. 2. The probability that A is the smaller amount is 1/2, and t…

Taking your hands off of home row to get out of insert is also easily soluble -- you can map literally any key combo to esc. I use command-i (on a Mac), which is effortless to type…

This is a bad idea. Even if we accept that no individual can reasonably spend more than $200 million non-charitably (which is false), super-rich people tend to care deeply about mo…

This is a popular argument in support of mind-enhancing drugs in the "real world," and it's completely wrong. You could make almost exactly the same argument in favor of nootropics…

Meditation is learned skill in a way that "running" in your example doesn't seem to be. Ten days of practice is more than just "ten more days of meditation in my life"; it's a hund…

But... HN has nuanced discussions pretty frequently. Right now the top comments in this thread primarily serve to point out the blinkered view taken by the article. HNers love prov…

I thought Jobs sold most of his shares in the 90s.

I'd be careful about messing with points on comments (and with karma more generally). You might enjoy imagining a forum where smart people anonymously engage in civilized discussio…

This is great but (unfortunately) it's not quite right. The author seems to have forgotten the difference between a program without specified inputs -- which can't be said to "halt…

Even assuming that this "screwed factor" is something meaningful, you miscalculated it. I think you're trying to find (percentage increase in work over normal hours/percentage incr…

The terminology is secondary; the important point is that it seems like smart people are unpopular, but it's not clear whether that's true and if it is true it's not clear why.

What? I mean, of course, if you define "nerds" to be "people without social intelligence" you're gonna see that nerds are unpopular. The premise beneath PG's essay (and this one, I…

I'm in favor of sweeping decriminalization (and legalization), but the data in this article -- hand-picked, no doubt, by the Cato Institute -- barely suggest correlation between de…

This is pretty close to not having any regulation at all. The problem is that investors don't get "consistently burned" by companies with bad practices, they get inconsistently bur…

Apple's trying to use its near-monopoly of the handheld software delivery channel to perpetuate its near-monopoly of the handheld software delivery channel. I doubt this is illegal…

You've refuted a strawman, but you haven't given an actual justification for the original wording. Using the phrase "poor people" instead of "poor black people" is equally effectiv…

How so? If a mathematician is good enough to win the fields medal, he (she) can probably have the career he wants. I haven't done research myself, but I've spent a fair amount of t…

That isn't the Poincare Conjecture at all... you're asking, essentially, whether a smooth, connected, finite surface has a single local minimum that's also an absolute minimum. Tha…

Worst comment I've ever seen at +7 on HN.

> If my company paid me, they are poorer by $1. Yes. But presumably when you earned that dollar you somehow contributed to making something that somebody wants. Now that thing is s…

Based on the stereotypes I've heard, I'd say that investment bankers are also outside the "social mainstream" of workers. EDIT: Okay, I sort of see your point. My feeling is that i…