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You do not understand the distinction between insulting someone and offending someone.

I didn't need to look it up to know what it meant. Although I can easily see the author didn't mean to insult, it's offensive.

I'll let you make my case: Do you make a decision before or after you gather and interpret information?

"Motivated reasoning" is the product of confirmation bias. That's where the distinction ends.

Simple explanation for why we think we're right even when we're wrong: we perceive what we believe. Not the other way around. Even when we're dead wrong.

In psych they call this confirmation bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Scott Adams wrote a fantastic book on the subject, in the context of Trump's election to the Presidency. https://www.amazon.com/Win-Bigly-Persuasion-World-Matter/dp/...

Not for long (fingers crossed)

https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/12/depression-drug-related-...

"e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!"

I worked for a former healthcare project manager in a completely unrelated industry and I would say 80% of her time was spend worrying about our industry's version of HIPAA. She viewed all new tech projects and software releases through the lens of "How does this violate our industry security standard?". The results were stagnated project releases and high developer turnover.

Wow, the patronization just drips off this comment.

Consider that most, if not all, of these developed nations can afford the services you listed because America has vowed to protect them with it's military power.

We spend on military force so they don't have to. The money they save is used for the services you listed.

We could renegotiate, which is what President Trump is doing, yet Id guess Americans want to have the worlds largest and most advanced military. "He with the biggest stick" mentality.

Would you have travelled to Portland for the "country's best burger" if the price tag was $15 instead of $10? How about $20? How about $25?

Unpopular opinion: Good at cooking, bad at business.

People with severe autoimmune conditions have had success treating them with a carnivore diet. I'm not recommending it, just introducing information. Jordan Peterson's daughter suffered severe juvenile arthritis (replacements of ankle/hip before 18th birthday) and is a proponent. Her story is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXPqIDx3_DM

+1 from personal experience using such forums/support groups

VICE's "Raised in the System" feature on juvenile prisioners shows how detrimental sending kids away to juvenile detention centers is. They are 30 times more likely to be sent to prisons as adults, completely unequipped to integrate back into society when they return from detention and the crimes they're sent away for can mostly be explained by adolescent tendencies that most people grow out of.

2012: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536340/

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

I was not prepared to read this book when I did, and its ideas have haunted me since. They have kept me awake many a night.

He reframes religion (specifically Christianity and the Bible) as a symbolic guide to living as opposed to a historical text that should be taken at face value. i.e. God is a symbol for the greatest good. Christ is a symbol for the human ideal of that greatest good.

In his view, the value of the Bible is not as a pre-scientific historical account of the world. Instead, it's a survival guide for generations of people (who had no concept of science anyway) told in story form.

When I look at his religious metaphors in that light, they seem relevant and meaningful in the context of his 12 Rules.

did anyone else notice this blog post is on site that sells hot sauce?

The book is entirely first person. The more I read from Patrick Bateman's point of view the more I related to him in a deep and horrifying way. I've heard the unthinkable gore in the book described as 'language as violence', which puts it in a new perspective. It represents the pain and hatred within him more than it's literal content. I agree with that. To me, the book is about a man lost in a world he doesn't understand. As a young person, I related to that deeply.

Amazing book that seems more relevant as time passes. It's absurdly hilarious and profound. The movie captures the former, but not the latter.

Elementary math skills, which many of us reading and writing on Hacker News know, would change the lives of many millions of people in ways we take for granted.