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by abnry 7y ago
Around 2011 I switched from Firefox on my macbook pro to Chrome because Firefox was unusable because it was too slow.
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by abnry 7y ago
It depends on how the word trivial is used. In mathematics, it is typically meant that the logical inference is a relatively straightforward application of the axioms. I would suppose for academics in other fields they could be using the wo
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by abnry 8y ago
I believe they are hand drawn. Check out more posts on the blog, they are similarly wonderfully presented!
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by abnry 8y ago
Yes. People bristling at the suggestion to have more gratitude justifies my assessment that more people should show gratitude. It really is unpopular these days to be thankful for what we have. I mean, is promoting gratitude really somethin
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by abnry 8y ago
I live with a chronic illness where I can't work. My life sucks more than most people. I never said problems don't exist but it is undeniable that it could be so much worse if I lived in a different country or in a different time.
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by abnry 8y ago
I wish Americans showed more gratitude for what they have. Right now, you gain friends and influence by complaining. I'm not saying problems don't exist, but man, we are the 1% in human history. EDIT: Downvotes on this comment jus
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by abnry 8y ago
People die in developing countries because they don't have access to clean water. That a completely different problem than not being able to afford healthcare or own a home.
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by abnry 8y ago
People disagree about what is damaging to their country. Some people think it's a national emergency that there's no border wall. Otherwise think we live in a third world country because we don't have a single payer healthcar
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by abnry 8y ago
The problem is that it is easy for one side, in partisan politics, to label the other side as stupid, regardless of whether or not they actually are stupid. If you hold a minority opinion, you're likely to be called stupid. But consens
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by abnry 8y ago
The guy appears to come to the realization that he causes more conflict than necessary. The purpose of code reviews is to get quality code. Quality code makes the project work. But why do we work on projects to begin with? To benefit people
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by abnry 8y ago
This was me in grad school. I did do stuff on the weekends, but most of it was vegging. It didn't work out for me healthwise. I would recommend trying to transition into a more slow-burn, less intense lifestyle. If work is that intense
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by abnry 8y ago
Twitter is public. There is the expectation (and intent) that anything you tweet can be replied to by someone else. In a coffee shop, there is no such expectation or intent.
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by abnry 8y ago
It isn't toxic but neither is it compromise. Compromising is when two parties meet in the middle. Amazon left, that's not compromise.
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by abnry 8y ago
To go on about sports, hasn't there been some research done about slow twitch and fast twitch muscles and their importance for being a fast sprinter? I think Usain Bolt has a much higher number of fast-twitch muscle cells than normal.
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by abnry 8y ago
The problem is that the usual way of solving the supply and demand problem in the free market has consequences that many people dislike.It doesn't seem fair for only rich people to attend baseball games. It doesn't seem fair for o
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by abnry 8y ago
The problem of college admissions seems similar to the problem of selling tickets to a hot event. The free market solution to selling tickets to, say, a Red Sox game is to charge as much as you possible can until people stop buying tickets.
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by abnry 8y ago
There is value in understanding our biases. Yes, I think it is fair to call them biases but not necessarily irrational--in the longterm. People are complex psychological creatures and this whole issues of irrational or rational behavior is
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by abnry 8y ago
I think Twitter's CEO is trying find ways to break "echo chambers" on twitter. I suspect this is part of the reason we are seeing what other people have liked. I get the reasoning, and maybe it would work, except that the lik
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by abnry 8y ago
You're right about the rage machine. I don't mind the threads. When you follow the right people, it is pretty fun to see how their brain thinks in real time. I love thinking out loud in front of my audience too.
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by abnry 8y ago
On this topic: It's always bugged me when behavioral economists start going on about "irrational human behavior." Many times they are simply not accounting for cognitive or longterm costs. Using your precious energy on too ma
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by abnry 8y ago
This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to
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by abnry 8y ago
Well, I'm more interested in design than I used to be. For instance, my interest in flags is greater. I've entertained the idea of designing my own flag. A lot of the books Grey recommends I like to look into as well.
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by abnry 8y ago
This is a hard question to answer because there are two possible interpretations to this question. The first is that is asking only for podcasts that have made a significant impact on your life. The second is to simply go through your podca
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by abnry 8y ago
Hello Internet is fantastic. I don't know if it has impacted me in a deep dense. I'm flirting with a minimalist lifestyle now, similar to Grey's approach. I've been more open to new interests and hobbies because of the p
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by abnry 8y ago
I'd never advocate showing anything but the upmost respect to the police. But as a matter of policy, who is really the one being threatening here? The man bristling at the government collecting personal data or the police officer with
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by abnry 8y ago
Voluntary pain is quite different from involuntary pain. The former is quite manageable because one can stop at any time. The latter is agony. I suspect people like the feeling of accomplishment in handling voluntary pain and that keeps the
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by abnry 8y ago
So I think this is true, but it is not necessarily a terrible thing. It is one thing to memorize a summary of a book. It is another to engage with and apply the ideas in the summary. The goal of a book is to hopefully give you enough time a
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by abnry 8y ago
Two good questions from the article that are great to ask: --What is something in your life right now that you think is very essential and important, but is something you are not giving very much time or attention to? --What is something in
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by abnry 8y ago
It's related to what we already know about Facebook: They are willing to bend the rules and engage in questionable behavior. They were happy to violate the terms of Apple's enterprise development program. Yet another display of di
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by abnry 8y ago
It's best to google the theorem mentioned if you want to get more than the gist of what is being discussed.

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