Instantly ctrl-f'd to see if anyone would mention transporters. I believe in some circles this has been dubbed "The Transporter Problem". It's a thought experiment that already exists.
Invincible also tackled this problem, with someone cloning a new body, and copying his brain to a new body. For a brief moment both bodies perceive the same thing before their experiences split into the two bodies. The copy wakes up, says goodbye to the original, who is dying, and says "I'm sorry it wasn't you."
This is also IMO related to the ship of theseus problem. Are you the same person you were 20 years ago? Are you the same person in the morning as the person who went to sleep? Are you the same person as a minute ago? What if you add in concussions/memory loss/degenerative disease?
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but isn't every vote total extremely unlikely if you make it precise to the exact number of votes? Like the chances of getting n+1, n+2... votes is roughly the same probability.
For example the probability of getting [1,2,3,4,5,6] as the winning numbers in the lottery is the same as any random set of numbers.
I'm not so sure that renting out housing is a bad thing, unless there is somehow too much rental property. Dense rental housing, which is an inherently corporate thing, is key to affordable housing for people without a lot of wealth.
My intuitive sense is that the proportion of rented housing probably has a seesaw effect on the price of owned housing vs the price of rented housing. If you want them both to go down it's necessary to build a lot more housing.
The F-35 comment seems especially relevant as (for some reason) negative F-35 posts show up on hacker news all. of. the. time[0]. I don't get why negativity on this plane is such a hot topic here, it's like the lab leak theory of military planes.
On at that note why is this post here? Is there a theme to hacker news anymore?
I don't use my twitch account ever anymore but I don't think there is really the same concept in twitch. I think most people probably watch 1-2 of their favorite streamers since watching streams is already such an incredibly time intensive activity. The most active someone can get is probably clipping short videos and curating clips.
I don't think you lose access to any of this when you unsubscribe, I think you just start seeing ads again when watching the live stream.
Sundar has made the case before which I think is pretty good point: The open web is basically an ads driven model. Without ads the open web would be very different.
(Opinions are my own.)
The alternative is paywalls everywhere, or existing on donations. Try reading the Atlantic/NYT today and see you like the ad free model. Or try lemmy if you want to see the donation model.
Hacker news is based around tech and entrepreneurship still yes? What is the current audience that drives the upvote consensus that everything needs to be free AND ad-free?
You're refusing to pay for a product today based on what they might do in the future? Does the future possibility degrade today's product? Can't you just cancel your subscription if ads start showing up?
I always hear job interviews are useless but do people really stand by that? If you had an interviewee with a bad interview and one with a good interview, you would feel confident hiring the one with the bad interview? If someone refused to interview, would you hire them because of their refusal like the article recommends? I don't know a single real life person that would consider this a good idea. This seems like a strange virtue signaling if people are going on the internet saying things and then doing the opposite.
We were funding them before, but now we are not, and I believe the op of this thread was commenting on how we are not funding then right now.
By the time the election season is over and we have another chance at funding
Ukraine, it will have been a year of blocked funding. Personally I find it fundamentally unserious that a participant in a war leaves for a year or more, let alone the world's top superpower.
If you go to https://www.douyin.com/discover it looks like the same mindless entertainment we see but Chinese people. Maybe they're trying to promote more virtuous content but I'm not seeing it on Chinese TikTok's front page. I scrolled through a few pages and I didn't see anything that would be similar to helping the elderly or job skills. It's certainly not "all" virtuous content like originally claimed.
I hear this a lot but I'm pretty sure China has mindless social media apps like we do. I think it's called Douyin or something, if you go to https://www.douyin.com/discover you'll even see the tiktok logo. I'm pretty sure you can only watch people help the elderly cross the street so many times before you start looking for something more entertaining.
For example do an internet search for Chinese people live streaming under a bridge. I'm pretty sure these people are not all demonstrating job skills.
The links for the bus method, interstitial journaling, and rubber ducking all point to the same link for interstitial journaling. Also, the later "e.g. the BUS method" link points to interstitial journaling as well.
It has always been this way. Actually most of my teachers through elementary and middle school have asked that I be evaluated for ADD (before the H was added), although we didn't really see a point to it since I would just be going back to the same doctor who had already ruled out ADD.
I can play video games for 12 hours straight and forget to eat, so I guess I don't have problems focusing on things I enjoy, at the same time I feel like I hear about depressed people playing video games 12 hours a day.
I also start learning a new programming language or framework every month it seems, without retaining anything about the previous month's language/framework, but for the first couple of weeks it really holds my attention.
Seeing a therapist has been on my todo list for a while (but have been having trouble actually getting to it). I'll try to get that in soon.
As in I sit down in the morning ready to work, I write down everything I've accomplished each day, and many times at the end of the day I find that I've only written down one or two minor things that I've finished for that day. I know things are important, I want to get them done, and it gives me terrible anxiety as the clock ticks down to the end of the day and my list of finished tasks is so short.
I have terrible task initiation, for example after any meeting, no matter what it is, I can't get started on anything for 20-30 minutes. Once I get started, sometimes I will be productive but sometimes I will suddenly realize I've been on my phone for another 30 minutes. At the same time, someone else's homework is great fun and I have in the past used other people's homework to procrastinate on my own work.
On the executive function skills listed in Smart but Scattered Guide to Success, I think I'm probably worst at Task Initiation and Sustained Attention.
I have a tangential question: How can I know which of these self help things are helpful and which are just snake oil? I can't get disciplined and I'm desperate. It's hurting my job, it's hurting my home life. When I decide to take a shower on the weekend it takes me 30 minutes to an hour to actually get up and walk to the bathroom. Then it might be another 30 minutes of scrolling before I actually hop in the shower.
I'm desperate for something that works. I'll pay any amount of money for something that will make me sit down and do things. I've sat down and listened to literally every single Huberman Labs content I could find. I'm trying out brain.fm's free playlists on youtube. I downloaded EndeavorOTC just recently and it's wildly expensive but at this point nothing else is working. I know the problem is I'm just lazy and I don't want to make lifestyle changes. Great. Now with that agreed upon, what the hell do I do? I saw a doctor when I was young and he said I definitely don't have ADHD. Should I be seeking a Vyvanse prescription anyways?
I've read all of the books I could find looking for the one that will fix me. Will this one work? Do people find any of these actually helpful?
Invincible also tackled this problem, with someone cloning a new body, and copying his brain to a new body. For a brief moment both bodies perceive the same thing before their experiences split into the two bodies. The copy wakes up, says goodbye to the original, who is dying, and says "I'm sorry it wasn't you."
This is also IMO related to the ship of theseus problem. Are you the same person you were 20 years ago? Are you the same person in the morning as the person who went to sleep? Are you the same person as a minute ago? What if you add in concussions/memory loss/degenerative disease?