Pat Myron

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Pat Myron 14 Mar 2023 6:49 UTC
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in reply to: AndrewDoris’s comment on: Snakebites kill 100,000 people every year, here’s what you should know
@Peter S. Park @MathiasKB @AndrewDoris
rather than armoring where you’re bit, less costly / inconvenient preventing bites in the first place by emitting odor / noise / light to ward off predators. Odor seems most promising for snakes according to https://www.callnorthwest.com/2019/04/home-remedies-to-keep-snakes-away/

Maybe more than superstition to carry around smelly garlic / onions :)

Pat Myron 14 Mar 2023 4:26 UTC
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on: Free Cloud Automation for your EA Org
Happy to help with AWS CloudFormation / Terraform work

Pat Myron 19 Feb 2023 6:55 UTC
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
Surprised how concentrated shortform authorship is. So far in 2023:

EA Forum:
²⁵⁄₁₂₅ (20%) @Nathan Young
⁹⁄₁₂₅ (7%) @Evan_Gaensbauer

Lesswrong:
²⁶⁄₂₅₂ (10%) @DragonGod
¹⁰⁄₂₅₂ (4%) @lc

assuming my code’s accurate enough:
grep -Eo 'CommentUserName-author">.+?<' shortform.div | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Pat Myron 19 Feb 2023 6:24 UTC
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
Reminder AmazonSmile shuts down tomorrow if anyone else wants to shop more today and/or less going forward:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact

Manifold Markets Charity program ending March 1st

Pat Myron18 Feb 2023 2:12 UTC

28 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(manifoldmarkets.notion.site)

Pat Myron 15 Feb 2023 19:04 UTC
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in reply to: Austin’s comment on: How to optimize your taxes as a donor in the US: donate appreciated securities, make a donor-advised fund, and bunch your donations
Note the IRS currently limits capital loss deductions to $3,000 (individuals and married filing jointly) or $1,500 (married filing separately)

Pat Myron 5 Feb 2023 21:20 UTC
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on: What policy ideas do you think are both tractable and high impact?
No strong opinion on re-posting the same question, but would rather previous versions not be deleted to re-post them if they got answers:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230103122818/https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/85EmFxDmcQBhnrABt/what-are-some-high-impact-policy-ideas-that-you-consider-to

Pat Myron 5 Feb 2023 5:08 UTC
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
+1 to be able to check notifications, messages, and specific posts here without seeing newsfeeds:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

Pat Myron 29 Jan 2023 22:21 UTC
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
+1 for these forum logos to be added to FontAwesome:
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/19536

Pat Myron 28 Jan 2023 21:22 UTC
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in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Jason’s Shortform
Interesting if it was possible to quickly pick between common reasons, but don’t agree it should be required

Pat Myron 25 Jan 2023 18:34 UTC
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in reply to: jimrandomh’s comment on: Forum + LW relationship: What is the effect?
While I think some threshold barrier is a good idea, I don’t think the UX makes it clear that’s happening. I’ve never been able to successfully crosspost, and just realized this is probably why..

Pat Myron 24 Jan 2023 5:43 UTC
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
Is it possible to re-collapse a shortform after expanding it on /allPosts? If so, how? If not, feature request :)

Pat Myron 24 Jan 2023 5:36 UTC
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in reply to: jimrandomh’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform
Is there a link to vote to show interest?

Pat Myron 23 Jan 2023 20:23 UTC
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in reply to: Nathan Young’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform
I know you can figure them out, but I don’t see them presented separately on users pages. Am I missing something? Is it shown on the website somewhere?

Pat Myron 23 Jan 2023 18:25 UTC
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in reply to: Nathan Young’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform
simplest first step would be just showing both separately like Reddit

America’s 100 Charities receiving most donations

Pat Myron22 Jan 2023 18:13 UTC

28 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.forbes.com)

Pat Myron 19 Jan 2023 2:14 UTC
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on: Amazon closing AmazonSmile to focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact
Larger discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338

[Question] Any state / local politicians in this community? (state legislators / city council members / etc)

Pat Myron18 Jan 2023 6:27 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Pat Myron 11 Jan 2023 3:39 UTC
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on: Mental Health Providers and Resources Listed on the Mental Health Navigator Website
Especially as the list grows, it will be helpful to standardize formats for columns like availability, pricing, etc

Pat Myron 3 Jan 2023 23:25 UTC
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in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Jason’s Shortform
https://www.every.org/ is another free platform I’ve found through this forum