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New comment by ycombinete in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

ycombinete — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:14:13 +0000

If you enjoyed TRM, his other book The Happiness Hypothesis surprisingly covers this and other concepts in much better detail relative to the OP.

New comment by ycombinete in "On cigarettes"

ycombinete — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:27:46 +0000

Old enough!? I'm old enough to remember that and I'm only... nearly 40, damn.

New comment by ycombinete in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

ycombinete — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:43:48 +0000

Haha. Thats very well put!

My favourite episode (The Bear with a Comet on his Belly): https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/414/

New comment by ycombinete in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

ycombinete — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:46:52 +0000

The Sleep With Me Podcast is very good. It helped my wife when she had a period of insomnia.

He has a number of tricks he uses from a monoto delivery, to meandering stories where the narrative constantly interrupts itself with. So you can’t really “follow along”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_with_Me_(podcast)

The Illuminated Gospel of Matthew

ycombinete — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:47:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/bibles/all-titles/illuminated-gospel-matthew

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699737

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Org Novelist

ycombinete — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:02:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sympodius/org-novelist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699391

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ycombinete in "India's surprise baby bust"

ycombinete — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:26:01 +0000

What are we doing where looking after children is seen as a con for “the labor supply of senior workers”, and “the labor supply of young mothers”.

Won’t someone think of the labour supply!

Childcare is labour. It is work. It’s the most important work in a society.

New comment by ycombinete in "The Cypherpunk Library"

ycombinete — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:52:37 +0000

What is this very mild cyberpunk motif doing in my cyberpunk library website?

New comment by ycombinete in "India's surprise baby bust"

ycombinete — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:04:23 +0000

Grandparents, young cousins, older siblings, family friends, aunts and uncles, and extended family beyond. Simply being around frequently, and also easily available when needed. Very little of this has to do with female labour force participation.

New comment by ycombinete in "India's surprise baby bust"

ycombinete — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:07:53 +0000

Yes, my wife and I live away from family. On the weekends, when there is no nanny, we are at work 100% of the time with him. One's only downtime is when he naps, or when your partner is looking after him.

Once we add a second child to that mix it'll be 100% of each of our time the entire time.

It's pretty extreme.

We both work full time (like most millennial families), so if we couldn't afford a nanny we literally could not have a child.

New comment by ycombinete in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ycombinete — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:18:16 +0000

Indeed. And because of it’s age and outlook its view is very far back and very far forward.

The casual reference to a 135 year old encyclical that dealt with the seismic shift of industrialisation took me quite aback for a number of reasons.

New comment by ycombinete in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

ycombinete — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:37:25 +0000

For some reason writerdecks almost all insist on having tiny little screens.

New comment by ycombinete in "FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive"

ycombinete — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:33:29 +0000

Archive.org mostly ignores robots.txt

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

New comment by ycombinete in "Claude for Small Business"

ycombinete — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:23:19 +0000

Any business greater than Dunbar's Number should not be considered small.

New comment by ycombinete in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

ycombinete — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:02:16 +0000

Funnily enough I work in the security industry and the term is ubiquitous there, so I didn’t even notice it.

New comment by ycombinete in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

ycombinete — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:29:39 +0000

I am above average (by a small margin) on Lichess, and it sounds trite but to be average at chess you have to not make blunders.

Things like not leaving a piece hanging undefended, not falling into one move tactical traps (forks/pins etc.), and learning how to check mate.

You can achieve all of that by playing slower games, and doing some puzzles.

New comment by ycombinete in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"

ycombinete — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:56:45 +0000

Business school writing frequently smells like Post hoc rationalisation to me (with some confirmation bias mixed in).

New comment by ycombinete in "Leviathan (1651)"

ycombinete — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:29:53 +0000

While I always wanted to like Locke's arguments more, they always felt the weaker of the two, and frequently seemed to need to plug god into the gaps.

New comment by ycombinete in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

ycombinete — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:07:41 +0000

Unifi (which the OP uses) even has dedicated devices for this type of failover: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/29887153953559-UniFi-5...

New comment by ycombinete in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

ycombinete — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:46:07 +0000

To be pedantic he actually gave 613 commandments.