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by Pamar 8y ago
I must admit I was counting on someone to do this, but I am happy this is actually igniting some interesting discussion, I will update my piece later and link to this thread.
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by Pamar 8y ago
This I agree with, but it was not in the book (I might add a bit about it in my own comments). Thanks for suggesting this: the author says that lonely people have unrealistic expectations about human relationships but he does not mention th
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by Pamar 8y ago
About: "more holistic human interactions especially over meals". This my own personal opinion and I am not offering any advice or passing judgement: "If you feel like checking out HN's over lunch more compelling than tal
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by Pamar 8y ago
"alone in a crowd": the book's author argues that actually this is the most natural human experience - we are "always alone", even with loved ones, even while having passionate sex, because our own concept of self i
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by Pamar 8y ago
Author here - I had submitted this a couple months ago and HN's asked me to resubmit to see if it fared a bit better. "Ask me anything..."
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On Loneliness and Solitude(pa-mar.net)
136 points by Pamar 8y ago|36 comments
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The online magazine you cannot read online(m.nautil.us)
1 points by Pamar 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 8y ago
Yes, even just the "10K steps a day" idea is vastly better than nothing...
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by Pamar 8y ago
"Do well" is always a function of two things: natural talent and time devoted to a specific activity. This is why I suggested looking for stuff you enjoy doing no matter how good you are at it (at least at first). If you pick
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by Pamar 8y ago
Do you have any hobby which you find rewarding in itself? (Note that I am not saying "find something outside your job where you can excel" - I mean "try to find something you like doing for the pleasure of it an see if it hel
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by Pamar 8y ago
Maybe he is "alluding" at dismantling the Euro?
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by Pamar 8y ago
Maybe you should qualify this as "planned restraint" o "deliberate restraint". In most animals "restraint" is a largely automated mechanism. E.g.: if the food is scarce, fertility decreases (and/or post-bi
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by Pamar 8y ago
I still find improbable that in 50 years there will be a single hegemonic “coalition” in Europe. So even if we will not be friends anymore US will have to deal with maybe 2-3 regional powers, not a single global one.
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by Pamar 8y ago
EU citizen here: I sincerely doubt you (or anyone else) should worry about EU military supremacy now and for the foreseeable future.
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by Pamar 8y ago
Far from an expert but I was just discussing this with a former colleague about a specific problem he is considering and I found this: https://www.r-bloggers.com/natural-language-processing-for-n...
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by Pamar 8y ago
Thanks, I have installed Arc a few hours ago (based on your message) and suggested friends that used Moves to do the same.
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by Pamar 8y ago
Sorry, point taken - and thanks for changing the title for me.
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On Loneliness and Solitude(pa-mar.net)
2 points by Pamar 8y ago|2 comments
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by Pamar 8y ago
Extremely recommended!!!
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by Pamar 8y ago
I believe it inspired much more than the videogames: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
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by Pamar 8y ago
"Long John Silver" by Larsson ( https://www.amazon.com/Long-John-Silver-Bjorn-Larsson/dp/186... ). I have read some other books by Larsson, but this is definitely the one I liked more. It is sort of a ret
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by Pamar 8y ago
"a character is basically a 2x2 grid"... Do you have any reference for this type of classification/composition? N.B.: I am not implying that it is incorrect - I am a dabbler in Japanese Brush Calligraphy (without any fluency
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by Pamar 8y ago
One question (for you or anyone else with relevant experience, really): the more negative reviews on Amazon say that the book is mostly a collection of anecdotal evidence about how great checklists are. Assuming this is true, and that one i
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by Pamar 8y ago
What’s good for learning is almost never good for reference Maybe. But stuff like The Perl Cookbook helped me a lot in the past.
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by Pamar 8y ago
Have you considered making it (or part of it) publicly available?
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by Pamar 8y ago
Agreed on the middle ground. Specifically, I would really be happy if people that launch themselves into this kind of little projects could (maybe with help from IT) decide "ok, we have reached a point of complexity where this stuff ha
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by Pamar 8y ago
What lots of people fail to understand is this: little work-saving apps seems to work magically (for the users) because a lot of the logic, especially how to handle thorny edge cases which nobody considered before, is left in the brain of t
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by Pamar 8y ago
You are wrong: the project I described is real but was most assuredly not for the company you worked with (for a start, it was for a big Utilities company... in Italy). I just wanted to explain what happens to all the effort-saving nice lit
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by Pamar 8y ago
In my experience speed vs. reliability soon transmogrifies in inertia vs. rational (and usually inertia wins). I'd like people that create "quick prototypes" and "just a throwaway excel with a few macros" realized t
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by Pamar 8y ago
I'll gladly take your word for this. My company was contracted to do the stuff I described, but the decision came from the customer's IT staff. Maybe it was political to milk more budget for the project. The point I wanted to rai

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