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by ForrestN 14y ago
Small thing: "If you cancel & there is more than 7 days of the month left you won’t be charged at all. However if there is less than 7 days of the month left, you will be charged for the entire month." should be "...there ARE..." in bot
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by ForrestN 14y ago
It's opportunistic because the only reason anyone is interested in this article is because he is framing it in terms of his personal life and, unfortunately, writing about being gay is still eye-catching. Had he used another analogy, the ar
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I'm gay and this analogy is strained and opportunistic. The charged moment when you're buying flowers for a same-sex partner is charged psychologically, not because of external fears. I live in a very liberal city, and there's almost zero c
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This article, subtle culture-war subtext aside, traffics in the most vapid and disingenuous kind of generalizations. No craning of my neck will find an angle from which this adds value. Flagged.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I'm not trying to say he has a "bad" life or is doing a "bad job" at something. But he seems to be saying that these things are meaningful as a representation of a year in his life. It's not bad to text or drink coffee or ride the bus, but
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Beautiful design, but a little depressing as a picture of a life: work, transit, texts, coffee, neutral facial expressions.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
They have lots of products that aren't branded as Basecamp. I think the likelier implication is that we're going to start seeing more bite-sized Basecamp apps like this. The pricing model for this one is very app store.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Right. It's targeted to people for whom the complexity of something like Google Groups, which can be made public and indexable I think, is a barrier. They don't want to worry about something they don't understand releasing everything to the
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by ForrestN 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_volition Not a great entry but you get the idea.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I'm not telling anyone "Do what you want!" per se, and many people don't have a clear picture of what they want (of course most people just want simple things: they want to be loved most of all, to feel good about themselves, to feel safe,
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by ForrestN 14y ago
A fairly normal person might decide on New Year's Eve that, this year, everything is going to change. "I'm going to stop watching TV, I'm going to eat only healthy foods, get plenty of exercise, and spend 8 hours a day working towards my go
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by ForrestN 14y ago
For me, the overwhelmingly best answer is therapy.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Most people, myself included, don't actually do the things they want to do most of the time. Put another way, first order desires almost never really govern anyone's behavior, and second order desires are dictated almost exclusively by psyc
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by ForrestN 14y ago
You're over-thinking this, and projecting motives onto an organization of pediatricians that you can't possibly prove. Their audience here is a general one, especially parents. They are not using "only" to make some kind of absolute claim a
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by ForrestN 14y ago
See the quote from AAP I posted elsewhere. Corporal punishment has been shown to be less effective than alternatives, and probably harmful to children. Corporal punishment is more common in less affluent/educated societies than it is in we
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Wow! You're doing exactly what you seem to know on some level is bad: you're giving him lots of very specific advice without having any basis for doing so. Apologies for any harshness but I want to answer you strongly. 1. It's very possible
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I'm not saying that beating your children will necessarily ruin their lives, or that children who are beaten can't grow up to be functional adults. But two things are true, to the best of my knowledge: - Beating does a worse job of correcti
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by ForrestN 14y ago
"Outcome: The problem was fixed. He became more subdued and never threatened to run away." What other goal would there be? The idea of corporal punishment is that child fears getting hit enough that they will stop acting on the motives they
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I never suggested medication, or telling a child that they are mentally ill. "I wonder if a nice beating would have done you any good." This was a response to a description of severe acting out by a child. A child threatening to kill hersel
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Physical abuse does not solve mental health issues. Ever. Submission is a terrible goal in raising children.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Advice from strangers is not going to fix the underlying mental health issues here. 10 pills every day implies a pretty grave situation, one that certainly will not be addressed by exercising or daily inspiration websites. Have you talked t
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by ForrestN 14y ago
Make sure he is getting professional treatment. It is a bad idea to try to take on the burden of a loved one's serious mental illness on your own.
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This isn't about anyone's mistakes, it's about the emotional scenery surrounding some generic failure. What is there to learn? That completely devoting one's self to a single project requires sacrifice? That betting your emotional life on t
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I'm sorry for being negative but I must say this is pretty hard to take. This narrative is cliche in both in form and content. It's painfully melodramatic and offers almost no insight whatsoever. Yes, major losses in any sphere of life can
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I think it's healthy and productive for a user base to complain about behavior of a company that affects them negatively. I don't hear anyone saying "screw Twitter for trying to earn money." Rather they are saying "Twitter is making itself
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I guess I was making the observation personally that my priorities are very out of sync with wishing for Jobs' life. I don't think anyone else should have the same priorities as I do. I'm terrified of dying and would like to life as long as
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I probably wasn't clear enough. I was saying the opposite, arguing that an appeal to contribute to humanity is not viable in the face of death. And further that most people who think that is what is driving them are really being driven by s
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by ForrestN 14y ago
I love that you made a contemporary art reference (my field) even if Goldsworthy isn't such a good artist. It is worth cooking a meal if you want to. It's worth making a line of rocks. It's worth programming a cute tumblr theme. Just don't
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by ForrestN 14y ago
My point isn't that everything is meaningless necessarily. I would say that the more one thinks about death the harder it is to make arguments for meaningfulness. I wouldn't make an argument for meaninglessness, I would just say that you
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This, as any would be, is certainly a valid way to respond to a brush with death. But implying that this is somehow a lesson to be learned by everyone, suggesting that others should live their life this way, seems misguided to me in context

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