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Right, and stopping fraud doesn't mean you can't grandfather in a bunch of established free plans that don't have any problematic usage patterns.

YouTube Face helps explains the faces in this r/weirddalle post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/weirddalle/comments/vr622j/youtuber...

I guess ROT13 could also be a last resort if signing up is important enough.

This reminds me of a time when I was driving a familiar route home. I put on Google maps just in case and it showed a ridiculous route with a total trip time of 10-15 minutes longer than the typical 45 minutes I was expecting.

I decided to try my luck with the regular route, thinking it couldn't possibly be that bad. Every exit, the map tried to get me off the highway but I just kept on driving the normal route, nervously hoping that I wasn't dooming myself to a 20-minute traffic jam.

I made it home in the normal amount of time without encountering any unusual traffic and only then did I realize I had accidentally enabled "no highways."

> The actual hardest thing to go paperless is math.

Reminds me of Tips for Mathematical Handwriting:

https://johnkerl.org/doc/ortho/ortho.html

If you click the username, it links to the comment on HN.

The whole thread is an interesting read. I'm not used to hearing people talk about bitcoins plural!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942708

Looks like in this setup, people only join their office room when they're open to being interrupted:

"When you are online and able to be disturbed, you join your office, alone."

Whereas Bitcoin has been around for hundreds of years and is still going strong.

I've experienced this effect with jigsaw puzzles, Tetris, and the pedestrian paths in RC Tycoon.

The article is arguing against the myth that autistic people don’t admit when they’re wrong, hence the quotation marks in the title.

Yeah, blog posts take more effort than comments but they also tend to have more of a payoff for the writer. So there can be more ulterior motives at play in terms of trying to sell something or get attention.

The fact that someone has put more effort into a blog post doesn't necessarily translate into more value for me, the reader.

Good to know, thank you! I shouldn't have assumed.

That is a good point about the misappropriation of context. To often, the discussion consists of people misunderstanding each other or responding to minor points rather than the main point of the parent comment.

Plus any reply that's not the top reply is not shown adjacent to the comment it's replying to, which can make the discussion hard to follow. (Not sure there's a solution to this since we read linearly but a group discussion like this does not have a linear structure.)

I still read and enjoy the comments but it's a "choppy" experience in terms of context and that can leave me feeling dissatisfied when ideas don't have a chance to develop or really go somewhere.

> Moreover, HN does not notify users about replies to their comments, so it is your duty to always check your own comments to see if there is any activity there.

Public service announcement: you can sign up to HN Replies (created by dang) to get an email notifications whenever someone replies to one of your HN comments. I only found out about this recently and I really like it!

https://www.hnreplies.com/

Also addictive; it's more exciting to read through the comments because of that chance of striking gold.

Partway through an article, I tend to get bored and start skimming (or just stop reading) because I already have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to find in the rest of the piece.

With comments, I never know what I'm going to find next, so I keep reading just in case I hit something good. Even really bad comments way down at the bottom can have good responses.

I wish I didn't read in such an endorphin-seeking way, but functionally this is how it goes for me unless I put in a lot of deliberate effort to do otherwise.

I like reading HN more than Reddit because the low bar for content is a lot higher. I don't encounter as much noxious waste in my search for the gold.

This is not a good thing but I read HN comments as a way to outsource my critical thinking. The author of a blog post or article is speaking from a single perspective and set of biases. Reading through the comments gives me a sampling of thinking that comes from different perspectives and biases.

Reading through it again, it's interesting how it's relevant not only to the topic of money laundering but also to the question of whether and to what extent AI-generated output is "colored" by the copyright of the training data.

@patio11 mentioned this classic essay in his recent tweet thread on the Tornado Cash sanctions.

https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/155704450388988313...

I agree. Clearly there are costs and benefits on both sides, and different people will assign different weights to the costs and benefits depending on their values and circumstances. Ideally everyone would have the option to work in whichever way is most suitable for the situation they’re in, both personally and professionally.

Commuting costs money too. The article portrays paying for “focusing-as-a-service” as a negative, but it’s probably cheaper for a lot of people than paying the extra commuting costs to come in to the office. Seems like it could be a completely valid trade-off in a lot of circumstances.

> Not having any credit history is becoming a barrier to access more and more services that require an identity check.

Agreed. My husband and I are against debt on principle and it really irritates me that credit history is being used for identity checks. I accept the trade off that a lack of credit history would make it more difficult for me to get credit in the future, but it should not affect my access to non-debt-related services.

We’ve already encountered this problem once [0] and I’m concerned that it will become even more of an issue going forward.

[0] My husband was not able to create an online account with the social security administration because their identity system didn’t have enough info on him to even attempt to verify his identity. He couldn’t even go in person to set it up because the local office was closed due to COVID.

The version I like is “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.” Vacuuming the grossest parts of the floor is better than not vacuuming, even if I don’t bother to clean up all the toys and do a thorough job.

I was just in the hospital and the nurses all wore a neat voice-activated paging system so they could call each other totally hands-free.

I’m guessing it’s a failure of the author to proofread. The guy’s issuewire bio has a similar sentence without the repetition: “Besides being a successful YouTuber, he tried his luck in singing and music.” Seems like whoever wrote these blurbs is working from a template.

Maybe it was supposed to read “to get backstage” but someone left out the “get”.

What worked for me with Facebook is doing "Facebook Fridays" - as much Facebook as I wanted on Fridays and nothing the rest of the week. It didn't take long to realize I was not missing much.

With other sites like HN, I have short-term success with going cold turkey for a specific time-frame (e.g. a week). I can stick with that, and my use afterward is more moderate but eventually I come back to over-use.

Here’s another great ICE simulation that walks you through how everything works. It’s interactive!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991300

It's weird to me because so many of the commenters seem to take the author's point to be "no discipline ever" when she was actually talking about a very specific set of circumstances in which she considers discipline to be counter-productive. But almost nobody is engaging with that idea!

I have this mindset but the problem with it is that in my current life situation (working from home with 5 kids), the amount of work I have is unbounded. I am bad at taking time for high quality rest when I feel burdened by the chores I could be doing (which are endless and recurring) so I end up wasting time in ways that's not actually fun or restful.