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lukasbon Show HN: Social network that looks and works more like a forum

Have you considered showing the add comment UI for non-logged in users, and then sending them to the register flow if they comment?

lukasbon Meditation and the Unconscious

I think he did address it:

"True meditation, however, is not just taking a break. It is not simply closing one’s eyes to the problem for a while. Meditation goes to the root of the problem. You need to become aware of the destructive aspect of compulsive attachment and all of the conflictive mental states that you mentioned. "

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lukasbon Hegel Today

"vulgar" is a much classier insult than I'm used to here

lukasbon Is college worth it? A return-on-investment analysis

Heaven forbid someone should study something for any reason other than money. I'm pretty sure humanities majors realize they're not maximizing their expected salary.

lukasbon Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower

My guess is they're using the same strategy as the Snowden leaks - drop a new bombshell at regular intervals through the media, then eventually open source the whole thing. The idea is the maximize the impact of the leaks, not to hide anything (of course, you can disagree about whether it actually does maximize the impact.)

lukasbon The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

"In fact, i often struggle to find words to express ideas that I can perfectly think about."

Same. I'm curious about what's happening here - sometimes visual thinking, sometimes kinesthetic, maybe a mix?

lukasbon My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown

It's free.

lukasbon Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap

Disagree, I loved the larger text.

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

Is there any evidence that would convince you that actual rapes are a more prevalent and more important problem than false claims of rape?

If so, what form would that evidence take?

If not, you're really arguing based on faith, not evidence, right?

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

That's not what the study (linked from the article) says. It estimates that 2-8% of complaints are false, and that the remaining 92-98% are true.

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

jfengel's comment was all about how the very high bar the criminal justice system sets for arrests/prosecutions/convictions for sexual assault is not the appropriate bar for the community to use to keep itself safe. So the low conviction rate is not helping you here.

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

Okay, can you give an example of evidence that you would accept in this specific case?

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

"only 4% of cases are provable one way or the other, and that those which are have a 50/50 chance of being true or false complaints."

Not prosecuted != not provable. Not provable != false.

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

Aren't you more worried about the 99% of rape victims who receive no justice of any kind?

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

What proof would satisfy you? How is a victim of rape supposed to be able to supply that proof? Should women wear body cams at all times?

lukasbon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

Less than 1% of rapes lead to felony convictions: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/06/less-than...

Same article notes that between 2-8% of rape complaints are false. Worries about false rape claims are wildly overblown.

lukasbon Why has no one made a better Goodreads

Allow me to hijack - I'm working on something to make the experience of reading the text-only version of books on OpenLibrary better (if they decide to integrate it when it's done.) Email's in the profile if you want to help out.

(Hi Mek! Thanks for the help so far)

lukasbon Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation

Start here: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

lukasbon Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation

What you say about metta etc being less likely to induce psychosis than vipassana makes sense, Goenka retreats especially are super-intense bootcamps. Do you have a citation for the 5-10x figure? I can't find it in the Britton paper.

lukasbon Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation

I have mixed feelings about the article - a lot of that has to do with the fact that over the ~10 retreats I've been on, with dozens of people that I interacted with after the retreat was over, I haven't really observed the negative affects they're talking about.

However, I do agree that if you meditate for an hour a day or more (or sure, 40 minutes) having a good teacher is important.

Dr. Britton put together something called a "Meditation Safety Toolbox" that looks really interesting, looking forward to diving into it: https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/britton/meditation-safet...

lukasbon Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about?

Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering can be applied to social problems. (Spoiler: it can't.)

lukasbon WordPerfect for DOS Updated

"I also think its existence put less pressure on WP to fix bugs."

IMO this is not a good reason to deny users an escape hatch to make fixing problems at least possible. To be fair it depends on what kind of users you care about - if you're building a tool for professionals, I think this should be considered table stakes.

lukasbon Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now

AIUI this is slander. The reason they sound "bad" is because their time resolution is so good it exposes flaws in mixing.

lukasbon Tired of note-taking apps

Yeah. It solves the "I forgot I already have a note on this" problem too, by making search and creation the same UI.

lukasbon ActivityPub Could Be the Future

Filter bubbles are a feature, not a bug. Having an online presence is too unsafe for too many people. If you have a better idea of how to solve that problem, I'm all ears.

lukasbon Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View

Okay, but surely out of every major tech company, Apple is the closest to waterfall-style? Given what a bad name waterfall has now, that's surely notable.

It seems to me that the reason Apple succeeds with a (relatively close to) waterfall style approach is the long term planning / strong point of view the author describes. The more the goalposts move, the more agile you have to be.

lukasbon Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View

This isn’t scrum or agile or… — most would call it waterfall BUT IT IS NOT. It is planning, iterating, prioritizing, discarding, restarting, and more.

I don't understand why this isn't waterfall. Because ... sometimes Apple changes their plans?