Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
It's a part time hobby about things he has an interest in. There is no employer employee relationship and no alienation of labor. Given all that, 60K is pretty damn great.
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by Bakary 4y ago
According to the author, they censor various topics
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I can understand being frustrated but isn't this somewhat of a very strong reaction to literally just a static element on a webpage? The more likely explanation is that you do care about that ideology in some way
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by Bakary 4y ago
Chess and FIDE are already the source of massive amounts of drama. This story got some mainstream traction but this is not going to impact the sport. On the contrary there are probably future champions who just turned to the game because of
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by Bakary 4y ago
This sort of pseudo-centrist argumentation that is fixated on signaling that everyone is hypocritical and/or flawed isn't helpful either other than as an attempt to demonstrate the speaker's intelligence to the audience. Ther
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by Bakary 4y ago
Indeed. It stands for Extra-acronymic Language Object.
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A car can go faster than Usain Bolt yet I'm still going to watch him. If you were familiar with chess culture, you would already be aware of the appeal of human chess champions. If anything, the sport has grown enormously in the last f
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I was about to say that the word is counsel but, come to think of it, Carlsen can well afford an entire council of lawyers.
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Stroke order sounds like a burden to Westerners but it actually helps with memorizing characters, and makes your handwriting less awful.
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To learn a word or character, you need to be able to understand it immediately and be able to form a sentence with it without delay (at least not more than the occasional "uh..."). Remembering the meaning after some fiddling is no
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by Bakary 4y ago
In my own experience, confidence and charisma are more useful. Of all the men I've met who were preternaturally talented at attracting women, they all had that in common but only one of them had the looks and height to match what you&#
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by Bakary 4y ago
By definition he is not dressing well. There is a ceiling to what you can do with certain body types but frumpiness and untucked shirts is not that.
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This is definitely true. The snowball effect and the networking of information helps a lot. I'm trying to look at the problem with a wider lens, however. For example, if learning that language is actually something we want to do in opp
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by Bakary 4y ago
That would open up a Pandora's box, honestly. Even if the goal were 20% consistency, short or ugly people would definitely not make the cut compared to helping people in the third world or other potential targets of redistributive just
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by Bakary 4y ago
The good news is that memory techniques have never been as accessible as they are now. I am fully in agreement with the conclusions drawn in the article, but the bad news is that even with those techniques it can be a slog. Any Anki user wi
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by Bakary 4y ago
Since when is Vincent in the same league as Anastasius or Manfred? (No it's not my own name… just curious)
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by Bakary 4y ago
Is it hard to illegally procure casu marzu in Lithuania?
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Even taking this into account, it's still possible to determine or sense the attractiveness of most attractive competitors. At least to the point where sexual attraction cannot be the sole criteria
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by Bakary 4y ago
You can understand that someone is physically attractive without being sexually attracted to them.
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There's a limited amount of energy and time available, and fixing problems is difficult and uncertain. If we wanted something more consistent, we would probably have to pull a Peter Singer and donate the bulk of our resources to the mo
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Some languages or accents within languages make this problem worse or ameliorate it. It's better to be high-pitched and British than high-pitched and American.
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That's not a sufficient criteria because people can tell if their competitors are attractive ar not
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When you look at pictures of models/actors juxtaposed with average people you honestly do not see a trend? What about someone who is disfigured and someone who is not?
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Well either you overcome it or you don't. Focusing on how hard it is doesn't move the needle. Even getting people to acknowledge your struggle does nothing.
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Ok but we have to be more precise than that. In what way are they different? And how does this evopsych account for something as unnatural to hunter gatherers as STEM education? And if policies and incentives don't work, why did the So
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by Bakary 4y ago
How would you define nature? Anatomically modern humans are 300K years old. Recorded history is 6K years old. Computer-science degrees have been around for less than a person's average lifetime. What is natural about what we are discus
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by Bakary 4y ago
No blog post can teach you concrete strategies because they are dependent on your own life and its precise parameters. But even the simple idea of examining the building blocks of your life that you don't usually think about is a good
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by Bakary 4y ago
It depends on what you define as useful. 90's style personal websites/Usenet/BBS forums can be useful. People certainly gathered there to make significant things happen and to create useful resources. That said they're s
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For other types of existential risks we are either in just in along for the ride (wide availability of nuclear weapons) lack data or concrete means of tackling the problem (AI, solar flares and whatnot) or it's something already linked
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Here's a possible way to reframe the problem. There is a range of smart persons with different personality types, and there is a range of careers for them to pick from. To grossly simplify, let's say you have the following factors

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