adamsea

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by adamsea 6y ago
Highly recommend the BBC 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' miniseries with Alec Guinness. I always liked Alec Guinness (Obi-wan!) but seeing this made me understand just what an incredible actor he was. BBC just knocks it out of the par
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by adamsea 6y ago
TFA: "On Friday, December 18, the secretary of the Army and the Army chief of staff formally disavowed any intention of participating in a military coup: 'There is no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of an Ame
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Army Secretary and Chief of Staff disavow intention to participation in a coup(theatlantic.com)
3 points by adamsea 6y ago|2 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
Word. And I appreciate your thoughtful response. Emotions aren't easy - they're work. Like with many things though, the work pays off over time. The most surprising part of therapy to me was just how rational, analytical, and logi
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Emotions are a drawback imo, the fact that they're so deeply intertwined with the logical parts is a drawback. Homie I hope you eventually wake up and smell the coffee :). Take away emotions, lol, and you literally are no longer a
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by adamsea 6y ago
Observing other people’s behavior and feelings can be a positive activity for prosocial behavior and when used in constructive ways feels good to do. Not unlike say, mindfulness. Of oneself, of others. Says the person commenting on HN at mi
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by adamsea 6y ago
> where your boundaries lie along the spectrum from self-serving to doormat ... Healthy boundaries are more consistent and universal than you think, with the massive caveat being different cultures handling boundaries differently. But it
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by adamsea 6y ago
> just that math stuff has a certain cavernous quality that is more common in that area than most ... Hahahaha you clearly don’t know how much you don’t know about art, music, philosophy, ummm psychology . Sorry to be a bit mean but com
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Go and talk to someone who isn't on the mathy side of nerdness. It is as if an entire world is missing, and not just missing. That’s not really fair. Someone who doesn’t like to dance? Entire world missing. Only speaks a single la
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed. Want to gently critique: > sadly we're tied to these primitive bodies Our bodies (and the sensations and emotions produced by them) are not primitive. They’re super sophisticated and we are nowhere near being able to replica
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by adamsea 6y ago
Our bodies are composed of information too. LOL basically you have to accept that our current scientific understanding is that our minds are embodied constructs (your mind doesn’t exist in any meaningful way without your brain, which is a
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by adamsea 6y ago
> This is accurate. More often than not, trying to do something good for others will end up making you feel like an idiot. For the person on the receiving end, you are a jackpot. Instead of being shown gratitude, you're likely to be
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Being helpful and kind to others also requires that you be kind to yourself. You can only give when it is healthy to do so. Agreed. We all deserve the same fundamental measure of respect. It’s equally important to be kind to myself and
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New York Vaccinated 6M People in Less Than a Month(nytimes.com)
2 points by adamsea 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
good point!
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by adamsea 6y ago
Excellent article.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> but this has gone too far. Honest question - which part has gone too far? Feel like there are currently a lot of parts.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> She sounds like too much of a headache to deal with. Yeah and your average software engineer is roses. Difference is engineers positively impact the bottom line and society is less tolerant (empirically researched fact) of pushback fro
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by adamsea 6y ago
Do you really mean that?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Art? Gain?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thank you for your response - much appreciated! And for pointing out the Carnegie Mellon program. What is the academic job market like this days for CS Phd's, if I may ask?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Fair enough. I appreciate your response. I had gotten a very different impression from your previous comment, FYI. Maybe I was too angry when I was writing myself. While some journalists in Portland may be actively engaged as you describe,
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by adamsea 6y ago
"... the predominant liberal party" ??? Who talks like that? I feel like you're not saying what you really mean. IMHO you are making noise to distract from what actually matters. From the Black Lives Matter website: https:&#
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by adamsea 6y ago
Are you saying all the people in question were simultaneously committing crimes? Because otherwise your analogy makes no sense. Since, you know, you said you would be committing a crime. The real question is, is this an honest question -
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by adamsea 6y ago
Does it actually matter? If you believe it does, why?
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I am not saying that they are better or worse than traditional press, which I have a strong aversion to, I am just saying ... So you’re saying you just don’t like the press, basically. Except maybe the press that says what you like? Be
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by adamsea 6y ago
Reading history is the honest answer. You read enough good books and articles about current events and history and then are able to make reasonable inferences. Suppressing, or evening worse distorting historical knowledge is always a t
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed. Plus why name the thing / use the icon of a lance, anyway? So confusing.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good point. And I just want to throw on to that (not saying folks are disagreeing w/this) that IMHO some amount of technical expertise is necessary but not sufficient for the kind of socially responsible decision-making we are talking
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by adamsea 6y ago
Do you think there is room for various kinds philosophical thought within Computer Science itself? Honest question. As an undergrad studying Comp Sci and also taking philosophy/literature classes it struck me just how rich the Computer

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