Arkanin

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by Arkanin 17y ago
I just want to say you're right. For some reason the up arrow is gone and I can't upvote you. But you're right. If I am reasonably bright, I am capable of learning if I work hard. I don't have an excuse to fail. Period. There are reasons
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by Arkanin 17y ago
Thanks for the advice. I'm going to try that. 6-10 books. OK. I can do that in 4 months. First topic: learning, memory & reading comprehension techniques. Then change habits. I have a couple books already.
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HN: The distress of a young padawan. (rant)
7 points by Arkanin 17y ago|13 comments
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by Arkanin 17y ago
But what, other than intelligent beings, can ponder the concept of beauty? When we say something is beautiful, we mean it is aesthetically pleasing, and without a perceiver of an object, there is nothing to be aesthetically pleased. If you
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by Arkanin 17y ago
What? No. Maybe you should read this article. Perhaps you can interchange "Luck" with "Fortune", but it contains a few principles that could benefit you in the future.
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by Arkanin 17y ago
"Beauty" is an aesthetic concept of the mind that varies between each person, not a property that you can give to an object. The object is beautiful because its perceiver finds it to be so; without the perceiver, there is no beauty. Therefo
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by Arkanin 17y ago
I think he is getting at the epistemological problem of first premises. If the only fact of epistemology that I accept is "I exist", the statement "Objective reality exists" cannot be proved. I'm sure there's better formal language for this
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Ask HN: Good ways to become a professional data miner?
2 points by Arkanin 17y ago|1 comments
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by Arkanin 17y ago
Disclaimer -- IANAL, so maybe we can all get some elaboration from an attorney and learn something? Let's make a distinction between intent and awareness of the law. For example's sake, let's say you've been trading stock off a tip a compan