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I appreciate the point being made---that we're too reductive in how we view a healthy human body---but calling Patrick Mahomes "one of the greatest athletes on planet earth" is lau…

Fun fact: Finland is typically not considered part of Scandinavia. I was told this flatly by a Finn.

Are you sure? Compare before/after for the main affected regions (Holland Tunnel, Queensboro) versus the unaffected regions. We definitely need more data, but I think there's an im…

> $19 million for 50 staff. That's $338k/head on average. How did you compute this? 19/5 is 3.8

"Before" and "after" are generic terms. A car might stop before the crosswalk (space). You might eat dinner after work (time). But "ex ante" and "ex post" specify a relationship to…

I worked from the top of this page [1] downwards and ended after algebra 2. [1] https://www.khanacademy.org/math

I don't think so. My problem was that I had a weak grasp of many basics concepts, and more critically I did not know in which areas I was weak. So while it's easy ex post to say "I…

Maybe 5 years ago, I was in a similar place. I had a particularly embarrassing moment at work when it clicked that I just... didn't know the basics. I was, to use an overused term,…

My favorite quote on the meaning of life, from Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning": > For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour.…

Can I make a suggestion? Most people in this thread will think you are wrong about the Cayman Islands. In this context, your comment, "Caymans is just a better jurisdiction," is pr…

From the guidelines [1]: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Isn’t this analogy wrong? The question implied is: if shoplifting were legal and if some people shoplifted to feed hungry babies, should we make shoplifting illegal?

Well, I have lots of friends and interactions outside of work, but I still prefer going into the office. Personally, I think what makes people happy is a multidimensional surface w…

> I figured people were going to take issue with the opening anecdote about art, but that was simply the author trying to frame the story in an interesting way. The rest of the art…

Do you have a TLDR for that article? It's pretty long and wordy.

That's quite the either/or.

In case it's also not clear to others: "high", "moderate", and "low" refer to utility in learning.

What? 30 * 4 * 3 = 360. So someone could buy a coffee every weekday for 10-20 months before equaling this one capital expense, and that’s your argument for why wage workers shouldn…

I asked ChatGPT to improve your comment by making it "more thoughtful and less insulting": > It's understandable that some people might not fully appreciate the complexity of ChatG…