Phileosopher

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by Phileosopher 3y ago
What I have concerns over, honestly, is the climate science driving these thoughts. Nobody has explained to me sufficiently in plain language how carbon dioxide is bad for the environment. I've heard plenty of good explanations for wat
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
I agree, but in many ways it's a product of syndication. When you get out of that influence (e.g., independently published podcasters) the scope of quality becomes _much_ broader. I'm old enough to remember finding good-quality co
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I can testify to this, but would also like to add something that OP's ACT idea somewhat skirts that I think is a bit understated: the importance of knowing when to NOT THINK. When I was an accountant, my teacher once said "How do
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I sincerely appreciate the personal input. I'm mostly recovered from 2021, and I don't intend to do anything dramatic if I do decide to go partly off-grid. Purely from logistics alone, I'd need to transition to a remote-only
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
For me, it's a conflation of goals: 1. I'm a formerly reckless guy in my mid-30's, and I've wanted to try it for about a decade or so, so it seems like a challenging adventure. 2. My hobbies and interests seem to constan
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Ask HN: Have You Tried Homesteading?
42 points by Phileosopher 4y ago|39 comments
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
Not necessarily. I'm a major fan of the "value for value" approach (i.e., you pay how much you think they're worth). It's been proven to work in some places already (e.g., Bandcamp, The Chosen), and we haven't
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I have a working theory that mass appeal ruin the original content. To your credit, as a non-Punisher patron of geek arts, you're probably right. The spirit of the original comics is likely expressing a deeper message than most people
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Ask HN: How do you use computers faster?
6 points by Phileosopher 4y ago|5 comments
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
Open-mindedness
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
In some ways, I have to disagree partly. Each person is responsible to solve their own problems, but I see intelligence as a type of "strength". A 30-year-old is far stronger than a 75-year-old, so it's nearly a moral duty
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I'm not scientific about it (n=1, after all), but I've realized from my own diagnosis and coming out of it that depression is a complex abstraction: 1. Reactionary primary emotion (e.g., shock, surprise, confusion) 2. Add the perc
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I've noticed this phenomenon anecdotally. It seems like my impulse to NOT eat junk food goes down significantly on the days I drive home after working on a hard mental problem. On easy days, I'm craving celery.
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
Yep, I definitely did that last night: broke it out into smaller goals than I had done. Nothing quite demotivates like working very hard all day to get 90% through a task!
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I'm starting to think, for lack of a better way of visualizing the three ideas together, that true success requires a "slow, quiet masochism": build quietly, enjoy the pain from what it'll become, and pace it out to neve
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
The "why" most certainly comes first, but we have a funny tendency to move the "why" around. Someone may choose to become a welder because he wants to get paid, then to move out of his parents' house, then to get ma
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I may be leaning into my rationalist philosophy here, but I like to believe that everything is driven by values first: intangible, hard/impossible-to-measure aspects of existence that create the spark that eventually provokes the bod
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Ask HN: How do you keep marching?
54 points by Phileosopher 4y ago|52 comments
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
It may give a means to triangulate _what_ you're doing while on the couch or at the dining room table. "Nothing to hide" may be true, until someone passes an immoral law.
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I think I have the same problem. It's a known interface issue, haven't found a fix for it, but apparently the bug can be implemented as a feature.
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I've noticed that the heavily influential people are so busy with what they do that they don't pay attention to their fame. They let other people (who, to put bluntly, often aren't as clever or intelligent) praise them later,
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I live in Iowa. Moved out here because I wanted to see what sorts of uninhabited-but-habitable places I could move to. The US Midwest has a lot of them if you're willing to poke around LandWatch.
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
From a population perspective, all groups of people will have a disproportionate fringe of memorable behaviors. I've always found it odd that people group an entire community together like that, which may be the fact that I'm on t
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
>Privacy is important precisely because after your data has been collected and stored, there is no telling where it will end up and what it will be used for. This can't be overstated. It's like a hole in the wall that can'
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
Users. Not necessarily engaged. Anecdotally, nobody I've ever known uses LinkedIn unless they're job-hunting.
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I think it's a specific cultural idiosyncrasy that comes from (I'm guessing) modern USA. There's this strange "work-life balance" ethos, where the two have some sort of invisible barrier that holds them at diametric
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
This was meant as a catharsis, not anything to legitimately "cure" boredom. In retrospect, I should have dropped the "permanent" portion of the post. I can't say I reflect well with meditation and prayer, but I&#x27
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
This project wasn't meant to be a serious endeavor, so I made the most godawful-but-usable UX possible for fun.
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Show HN: My Permanent Cure for Boredom(entertaining.space)
43 points by Phileosopher 4y ago|17 comments
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by Phileosopher 4y ago
I'm fairly certain HN has almost enough people that they could make it a viable venue (geography-contextually, naturally). Add some meme marketing to it with some vague overtones about making the world love something they didn't l

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