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Post by aidenn0 »

addaon wrote: post #445
twalla wrote: post #319

"If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1. Become the best at one specific thing. 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things." I'm certain at least some small part of my own success can be attributed to my exposure to this idea, and for that I…

> 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things. Is this idea that top 25% is "very good" at something innumeracy, or a subtle insight I'm missing? There's got to be a million skills that you could assess rank at -- writing embedded C code, playing basketball, identifying flora, PacMan, archery, bouldering… I can't imagine ever being able to not continue this list -- and you should expect to be in the top 25% o…

It depends on the population you are taking from. Being the top quartile embedded C developer in the world is perhaps unimpressive (there are up to 2 billion people better than you at embedded C programming), but being the top quartile embedded C developer within the population of professional embedded C developers is much more impressive.

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Post by [deleted] »

emil-lp wrote: post #488
stevoski wrote: post #403

A fine time to acknowledge Scott Adams’ remarkably simple and clear financial advice: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ I think it is pretty good. You can, of course, debate it - and HN being HN people probably will.

Here it is, unabridged Make a will. Pay off your credit card balance. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support. Fund your company 401K to the maximum. Fund your IRA to the maximum. Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it. Put six months’ expenses in a money market account. Take whatever is left over and invest it 70 percent in a stock index fund and 30 percent in a bond fund throug…

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Re: Scott Adams has died

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Post by mystraline »

Maybe his corpse can identify as 'living'?

If you think that's repugnant, then I refer you to his comic where he parodies a black engineer as white.

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/uh21my/scott_adams_...

The guy had a point about 1990s business culture, but lost that narrative down extremism and conspiracy theories. Guy was pure trash for the last 10 years.

Re: Scott Adams has died

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Post by trashface »

commandlinefan wrote: post #367
alehlopeh wrote: post #178

Prostate cancer loves to metastasize into bones. Same thing happened to my father.

Take this as your reminder to get it checked. Takes a morning, lasts for 10 years.

If you already had a relative with it (like a father) you need to check PSA more than every 10 years, and I personally think its not wise for any middle-aged man to wait that long between tests, considering PSA is just a blood test.

My Dad had PC at 65. My older brother got a PSA test at age 41, was a bit over 1.0. Waited 10 years before getting another PSA (his doc was telling him to get one but he didn't), then it was 14. Had surgery, but its now metastatic.

There are also forms of PC that don't raise PSA, though they mostly affect non-caucasians. A Urologist can do a physical test for it. Primary docs can do that test too, but since they do it it less often they can miss it.

Re: Scott Adams has died

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Post by culi »

cosmicgadget wrote: post #645
lisper wrote: post #625

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The racism and the provocations were always there Were they? Can you cite an example? Because I also grew up with Dilbert, and I was never aware of it.

Dilbert May 2, 2022 is provocative.

Didn't he get dropped a year after that? The quote "the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people, just get the f*k away... because there is no fixing this" happened in 2023.

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Post by SoftTalker »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #162
pjc50 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> just absolutely bathe yourself in a political media echo chamber. It seems to me that social media belongs in the same "vice" category as drinking, drugs, and gambling: lots of people can "enjoy responsibly", some make a mess but pull back when they see it, and some completely ruin their lives by doubling down.

Absolutely. Social media is designed to elicit a constant stream of dopamine hits, prey on our need for social validation, keep the amygdala engaged, stoke conflict, and bolster whatever beliefs we carry (no matter how deranged). It’s the ultimate distortion machine and is wildly dangerous, particularly for individuals who struggle to keep it at arm’s distance and fail to equip mental PPE prior to usage.

I don't think it's by design. I think it is by its nature.

Most people crave social interaction, and when others engage with them it triggers that dopamine hit. As you say, we all have need for social validation. Even HN has that effect, and it's not engineered to elicit it as far as I know.

Even USENET had that pull, and people would waste hours on it, engage in flamewars, etc.

Now platforms like TikTok and Instagram might optimize for it but even if they didn't, they would have that addictive quality.

I don't think there's any way to do social media that would avoid this.

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Post by someothherguyy »

vidarh wrote: post #18
kenrose wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At 10:25am ET, HN is more up-to-date than Wikipedia (article hasn't been updated yet to reflect his passing).

Which is at it should be. Wikipedia isn't a news source, and especially for something like this should be careful about allowing edits to stand until they can cite sources.

However, it is a decent news aggregator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

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Post by nailer »

spankalee wrote: post #290

I don't get "avoiding the ugliness" when someone dies. We need to acknowledge the ugliness and try to do better. Acting like "oh, he was trolling", or "it was just a small amount of hating Black people and women" is exactly how you get Steven Miller in the fucking White House. We need to make it shameful to be bigoted again, and that means calling out the bigotry even in death.

Did you support Scott Adams when he called out bigotry? Why / why not?

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

dennis_jeeves2 wrote: post #565
pembrook wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who actively avoided cancel culture hysteria in the 2010s, can we have some context here? What did the guy say that has everyone stumbling over themselves to vaguely allude to it?

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Wow, what a coincidence! Everyone who doesn't agree with me is uninformed and has poor judgement too!
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