achenet

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   by achenet 5y ago

   or just assassinate him. If you're really clever, get all Sun Tzu on him and feed his fears until he chokes on them. Most bullies are cowards. Threats and ultimatums like that come from a place of weakness. Did you hear America saying
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   by achenet 5y ago

   so the Russian people aren't entirely enthusiastic about this. Maybe they'll have another revolution.
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   by achenet 5y ago

   I think you mean hydrocarbons, carbohydrates are sugars ;)
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   by achenet 5y ago

   someone should dose him with some acid, see if that won't make him chill out. I kinda feel bad for him, he must live a rather unhappy life.
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   by achenet 5y ago

   I disagree with that analogy. Modern Russia is not an unstoppable army of nomadic warriors with a strong martial culture arising from their making their living as herders. It's a badly run kleptocracy trying desperately to remain relev
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   by achenet 5y ago

   You may want to experiment with your diet. I have a thing where I get weird anxiety ~18hr after I eat pasta, maybe you get something similar. If your anxeity has a biological cause (ie excess cortisol or something), then modulating what you
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   by achenet 5y ago

   Roughly 10 years ago I would walk home from university dreaming about making clothes like this. This could be one of the futures of high fashion. (If you think that’s silly, look at a few runway shows)
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   by achenet 5y ago

   That’s not the full story. The book « The Sports Gene » discusses that the West African heritage of Jamacians actually gives them a genetic advantage. I forget the details but basically, to resist malaria they have sickle cell anemia which
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   by achenet 5y ago

   you're an inspiration man, thanks for posting that. :)
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Uh, ad revenues? As far as I can tell, the NYT and Facebook have the same ‘share content, sell ads’ business model.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Really? I’d have thought they would be out there inventing the world of tomorrow. The entire clothing industry is applied biochemistry. Electronics is applied physics and chemistry. How can there not be a demand for that?
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Uh... you mean N=1, unless P=0... :p
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    by achenet 5y ago

    disagree with the climate change thing. We need to be working on finding better solutions. My current goal is to make enough money in the software industry to go back to school so I can learn biochemistry in order to devise bio-technologies
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    by achenet 5y ago

    there is no reason to believe that a service worker can't have a good career. This may not be the case now, but that can change. I'm always wary of paraphrasing Graeber, but it's possible that living in a world where a small
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Occam's razor. The parent comment is very likely right, it's probably just angry people posting on the internet.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    s/The world/The educated, english speaking westerners who post on reddit, generally found in Western Europe and North America/ I'm not sure Asia, Africa, and the Middle East are hugely fond of progressive politics.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Yes, I miss the good old days, when you could just pay the one upfront cost for your slave and use them as long as you wanted. ;)
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Or might this mono-culture simply be a side effect of the internet? Much like how the Roman empire led to a linguistic "mono-culture", and how railways (and later airplanes) increased global homogeneity, it seems more likely to me
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    by achenet 5y ago

    From my recollection of his biography, Jobs quit weed after his teenage years. He did do a bunch of acid whilst in college, but LSD doesn't really have any detrimental cognitive effects.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    anecdotally, I feel like I know many more regular smokers than regular drinkers. That said, this could also be selection bias. I am currently living clean, but have had multiple periods of being stoned basically 24/7 beforehand, whilst
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    by achenet 5y ago

    > How can you even have the concept of a society of people if the societal group claims ownership rights over the bodies of the people that supersede those of the people themselves? Uh... how can you have the concept of a body of cells
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Agree that judo/jiu-jitsu have far less risk of head trauma/concussion, but as far as sports go they are still relatively dangerous - I quit after having one too many injuries. I would say probably the safest sport, and my current
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    by achenet 5y ago

    It's a reference to a Radiohead song. :)
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Yeah, this is like the Hemingway quote - "Write drunk, proofread sober."
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Spliffs are the norm most of Europe. An entire continent is hardly atypical.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    uh... caffeine? That's mind-altering.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Avoid social media. Get lots of sleep, meditate, and eat well, as this helps. See also the Huberman lab podcast on dopamine for more ideas.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5991502/ >After mindfulness-oriented meditation training, participants in this group (n = 15) showed an increase in character traits reflecting the matur
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    by achenet 5y ago

    Professional athletes? Artists? Researchers? I have a hard time imagining Steven King doesn't enjoy writing. Same for people like Ken Thompson.
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    by achenet 5y ago

    I aim for 4 hours of focused work per day, 5 days/week. Now that I've read this, I may tone that down to 3 on some days. :)