None actually. I have a high threshold for upvoting, so my upvote history tends to be it's own record of things I found insightful or useful (with some humorous things thrown in occasionally) :)
Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
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Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Money at best buys you peace of mind money is the #1 stress factor in relationships and also just in general. having enough money goes a long way to eliminating whole classes of stress, mood, and other mental health problems. you don't have to be rich to be happy, but generally you do need to have enough money to live a satisfying life that you're not constantly struggling against.
People who can improve their income in a way that doesn't cause them stress, mood, mental and physical health problems are part of a well-insulated minority.
I think the vast majority of people's mood, stress and physical health would improve if they had more money.
Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#103Regarding dealing with difficult problems: "Like almost all problems in life you have only 4 options: #1 Change you (accept what you are unable to change) #2 Change the other (convince them to follow your vision) #3 Fly (divorce, quit) #4 Stay and suffer (include drinking, doing drugs, whining) It is amazing how many people chose number 4." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126082
I'd file "doing drugs" under #1, at least if you choose the right ones.
Experiencing enough of #1 or #4 eventually makes them indistinguishable.
Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really is amazing, I've been here nearly 12 years now and the quality of discussion hasn't devolved. If anything, it was a bit more cynical/negative ten years ago than it is now.
I feel like there are more brief and superfluous comments than there are used to be, but just as many or more lengthy and substantial comments.
Your comment gave me an interesting idea. What would happen if we imposed a minimum char-limit for say, hacker news comments? On one hand I'd expect more descriptive responses, fewer comments that are a short "Your wrong but I won't tell you why", etc. Comments just spamming letters would be fairly easy to detect.
On the other hand what would this minimum char/word length be? Even your comment is fairly short, but it's descriptive and fully communicates your point...
Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#105You can favourite comments on HN and the lists are public so you can browse others favourites. This is a little known feature but I like it. For an example here are my favourite comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=weinzierl&comments... I didn't put a lot of thought in it, I just favourite stuff I might want to reconsider later. One example I still like is: >You can hide from your your boss, your wife,…
Just to expand on favourites: Favouriting a comment is a public bookmark, without boost Liking / upvoting a comment is a private bookmark with boost.
Favouriting a comment auto upvotes the comment so it does give it a boost.
Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes but the only known tried alternative, communism didn't work out very well.
That's really an oversimplification. There are orthogonal spectrums that any culture exists on --it's a lot more nuanced than a communism capitalism dichotomy.
Yeah, forget it. Above comment was more of a fart.
Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#107I have quite a few. The most recent favorite is this one, which actually features verbatim quotes - and highlites the level of editorialisation in the (us) news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19405173 " js2 37 days ago | parent | un-favorite | on: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hac... Fox News: "Young Beto O'Rourke wrote 'murder fantasy' about running over children, was part of famed hacking gr…
I would love a website that contrasted editorializing of the day's news and rated them. Is this something machine learning could accomplish? Sentiment analysis, perhaps?
Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a similar mindset, I hate money games.. it voids my soul. Money at best buys you peace of mind and I don't understand how societies ended up creating noise to justify this.
> Money at best buys you peace of mind money is the #1 stress factor in relationships and also just in general. having enough money goes a long way to eliminating whole classes of stress, mood, and other mental health problems. you don't have to be rich to be happy, but generally you do need to have enough money to live a satisfying life that you're not constantly struggling against.
Pardon the joke, but just make more money so you can buy temporary wives.
When I said peace of mind, I meant having to avoid with stressful relationship. I wasn't thinking about intimate ones of course but it's not entirely different.
Re: Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
#109This is the only comment I have bookmarked in my years of lurking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18964418 > The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior (in whose honor I had a day off of work today) never once called for 'tolerance', the boycotts and sit-ins were not a demand for tolerance - they were a demand for integration. To tolerate is to "otherise" - you are _allowed_ to continue being as your are, bu…
I heard Zizek say basically that exact same thing, it’s a common point he makes in certain talks. https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.com/good-thinking-is-g...
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I remember correctly, that was suggested half-jokingly by the author to demonstrate that any metric where the numerator is proportional to the stock market will tend to predict future returns (because of mean-reversion). Edit - here you go: http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/valuation-and-...
Yup, I should have included the link you posted for a complete picture. The value of the stock allocation metric is in that it seems to be the strongest mean that the stock reverts to, in the sense that it has strongest predictive power. It is not that surprising because it uses to the raw supply/demand dynamics.
But the author’s point is it’s only predictive in hindsight, due to reversion to the mean of the past data (since investment allocation is basically just measuring price over the short run), not to some objective mean that also applies to the future.