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by Dove 5y ago
Hard training is not the only ingredient to excellence. Po had an abundance of the secret ingredient: a spirit of authentic love and enthusiasm, leading to a practice dominated by play. It's a theme you can encounter in a lot of marti
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We have parallel problems in science and in software. My faith in science was never in the moral character of scientists and their organizations - individuals and organizations are always vulnerable to corruption. My faith was in the princ
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I always bring a sleep mask and ear plugs with me to the hospital. It confuses me that they don't hand them out! Sleep is essential for healing. I have often had nurses in hospitals tell me to sleep, but I've never had a nurse o
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by Dove 5y ago
The thing to google is "therapeutic ketogenic diet". It's the super extreme form of keto, used in medical settings to treat things like epilepsy, rather than in casual settings in attempts to lose weight. It's been a w
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by Dove 5y ago
Powerpoint doesn't communicate badly. People communicate badly.
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by Dove 5y ago
Test: Is torture always morally wrong? Me: Of course not. Test: Would you torture someone to stop a nuke from exploding in a city? Me: No. Test: That's not necessarily inconsistent, but it is very strange. Are you sure you meant your f
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I can recommend The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams, as a great way to dip a toe into the world of design. It won't make you a designer, but it will help you fake it a bit when you don't have one. I found the
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> If the only way you can rebut an argument is by silencing it, then you lose the debate. This cannot be underscored enough. If you censor criticism of a viewpoint, people won't decide it's right. They will decide it's
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by Dove 5y ago
Sometimes you cannot help everyone and have to make hard choices, but be wary: atrocities don't happen in a vacuum. Behind every historical Red Terror or Holocaust is a narrative, and it almost always goes along these lines: they&#x27
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This line of reasoning goes to a dark place. You can't know what makes sense in someone else's life. A heroin addict self-medicating unbearable pain is, to me, a tragic figure deserving help. A morbidly obese person may be suff
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My favorite theme of the referenced book is that the best way to get people to like you is to act like you care about them, and the best way to act like you care about them is to actually care about them . Tactics are worth knowing, but n
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by Dove 5y ago
You know, I've clicked on so many things that just popped up while trying to do something else that I'd welcome some sort of global UI setting that made newly-presented clickable UI elements insensitive for 300ms or so.
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The easiest transition is to learn a new skill applicable to what you're already doing. Tell your employer that your Cobol project is ultimately unmaintainable and they will have difficulty hiring Cobol engineers in the future. This
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Both ancient Greece generally and Judaism and early Christianity specifically had strong practices of oral tradition. People memorized long works word for word and often primarily passed them on in this way. Hilariously (to the modern min
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It's true with software, too. Unless you are a programmer, it's impossible to tell if your programmers are doing a good job. Information asymmetry is a real problem, particularly when people are selling information.
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by Dove 5y ago
Mental illness is really difficult and complicated, and I don't think there's a strategy that works well for everyone. My experience was the opposite of yours: I experienced horrible depression for years on end, and therapy alway
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All of human history has been much more dangerous in general than the current time, and dangerous food has always been one of the risks, at levels we would currently find shocking and unacceptable. The tradeoff is that starvation and malnu
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And Java was supposed to run on toasters. Which I suppose it sort of does, but that seems like much less of a good thing to me now than it did in the 90's.
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Looking at things through a consequentialist soda straw like that is a terrible way to make decisions -- it is like trying to decide if I will drive or walk solely based on the number of birds I might kill. Decisions are much larger than t
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People are not morally monolithic -- having been awful in one moment doesn't mean they can't be helpful or insightful in the next. I wouldn't listen in to someone harassing grieving parents, but I might listen to someone w
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He's honest, curious, talks to interesting people, and uncensored. He's a great window into perspectives on life I don't have, and doesn't feel coercive or pushy when I disagree. I've learned a lot from him, and do
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For the guy I knew who was into flat earth, the signal was that the scientific establishment sometimes lied to him and he didn't have the resources to know when it was and wasn't telling the truth. He didn't seem that intere
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by Dove 5y ago
I'm old enough to remember that in 2001, Microsoft got in trouble just for shipping Windows with IE preinstalled. Which seems like an awfully quaint concern by 2021 standards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite
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by Dove 5y ago
Political neutrality is a charitable assumption, made because even in this (best) case, the problem is obviously so horrific and difficult that we will need everyone's help and cooperation (especially including Facebook's) to navi
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I don't think Facebook literally thinks they're a web site -- I think they know something extraordinary is going on. Probably much better than I do. But I do know that what they set out to do, and what they found themselves doin
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It's a much bigger problem than than merely content promotion and aggregation. There are countries where Facebook is the entire internet. Maybe they tried to make it happen and maybe they didn't - but however it happened, they
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I agree. I don't think our government is qualified to make these sorts of decisions. I don't know who is. I am not advocating for nationalization of these services. I am only saying that these people never signed up to have to
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Facebook is removing content because they wanted to make money with a website, and the job of statecraft fell in their laps in the process. They didn't volunteer, they aren't qualified, nobody told them they were signing up to ru
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It is a culture problem, and worse than that -- it's a talent problem. Everyone knows that the world wants and needs ten times as many talented coders as are available, and the vast majority of the time, it just has to get by with unt
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It's the wrong "diet and lifestyle" recommendation - the standard suggestions of eating less and exercising more don't work. What does work specifically is a low carb diet and intermittent fasting lifestyle, together

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