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by afpx 6y ago
People I know only use Signal for drugs. ymmv
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by afpx 6y ago
"Now 26, I moved back to L.A. to publish a magazine and go to grad school and write a book ..." I'm embarrassed to be a little jealous. I grew up in a similar place, albeit more like "Trailer park boys" and "Gu
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by afpx 6y ago
As an ignorant American, I feel like I pay enormous taxes to defend international trade that mostly seems to benefit non-Americans. For 30 years, I was told “trade causes democracy” and “democracies don’t fight each other”. But, that doesn’
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by afpx 6y ago
So, basically the rioters were a representative sample of Trump voters. As, you'd expect.
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by afpx 6y ago
To be fair, it requires a lot of mental and spiritual creativity to jump from non-belief to belief. And, one probably needs to have an instinct for it (like, I probably would have been a tribal shaman, had I lived 50,000 years ago) and so
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by afpx 6y ago
Ouch. That's cynical. But, sadly not too far from the truth. But, what's the alternative? Capitalism without human nature?
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by afpx 6y ago
Honestly, I had to read the New Testament (David Bentley Hart translation) a couple of times to come up with a cosmic scenario in which my beliefs made logical sense to me. And, what I did come up with did make sense, but it is complicated
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by afpx 6y ago
I was raised by a strict materialist. Then, after 40 years of atheism, I realized that some people have a natural instinct to believe. And, that I was one of them. Ignoring and not satisfying that instinct was creating anxiety for me. I fou
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by afpx 6y ago
If I remember the book correctly, Sapolsky goes further and claims that Testosterone regulates pro-social behavior. But, “pro-social” is culturally dependent. For example, in one culture, it may mean being more nurturing. In another, being
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by afpx 6y ago
Do enough look ups on Google Trends, and you'll see that the areas that surround the Mississippi river (and inflow rivers) are often correlated with all sorts of medical diseases searches. For example, here's one for testosterone:
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by afpx 6y ago
Christianity has been a great brain hack for me. I recently converted after reading through a modern, literal translation of the NT (Hart). I was previously an atheist my entire life. Distilled down, with all the noise and controversy cut o
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by afpx 6y ago
I would love to hear about your experiences. Do you have a blog?
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by afpx 6y ago
Plus, it has an exponential distribution (survivorship bias, compounding). The shape of the curve seems to be trending over time. We're being sorted on a global scale. This isn't a new phenomenon. Genes, social status, geography,
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by afpx 6y ago
What are their concerns? Income, opportunity?
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by afpx 6y ago
Is this saying that if you have high income and delay having children, then you'll probably achieve more academically? What's going on with the Schizophrenia line?
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by afpx 6y ago
Knowing a bunch of people who are part of this mob, I'd have to say that the "peaceful protest" is not at all what they want. They want violence. They want revolt. To be honest, even now, I'm not sure most of them know w
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by afpx 6y ago
It seems more common these days to use it on HN to express disagreement. That wasn't the case years ago. I suspect it has to do with the reddit / youtube generation becoming adults. Polite disagreement seems to be on the way out.
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by afpx 6y ago
Managers tend to be people who used to be not-quite-good-enough to be engineers.
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by afpx 6y ago
There's always going to be a demand for California. It's a unique country - the vibe, the culture, the creativity, the beauty. It's one of the best places in the world to start a creative business because of the raw talent th
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by afpx 6y ago
> "... I'm rather likeable, I get along fairly well with most people I meet. I'm friendly, agreeable, and try my best to positive." What would happen if you tried the opposite? I've been trying that lately. Not t
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by afpx 6y ago
Graeber was one of my favorite modern writers. RIP. I hope someone picks up his torch.
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by afpx 6y ago
Which organizations would you recommend?
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by afpx 6y ago
I just saw this today, but thanks for the comment. It's very interesting and enlightening.
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by afpx 6y ago
I love PG, but some of his essays lately seem to make me sad, like he's out of touch. I know plenty of earnest (and, frankly, quite talented) people. What they lack is capital and guidance (and maybe some discipline and motivation, to
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by afpx 6y ago
In the US, 40,000 deaths per year for typical flu. Currently, we have 275,0000 deaths from covid over 9 months even with social interventions. And, that’s not considering the under-reporting of deaths. And, before March 2021, we’ll see anot
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by afpx 6y ago
Are there governments or other organizations purposely spreading these conspiracies? Or, do they mostly appear from emergent collective behavior?
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by afpx 6y ago
This data is being used in all sorts of ways to 'rate' and 'sort' people, from credit worthiness to ... well, let your imagination wander. As far as I'm aware, the US government hasn't started rating people. Al
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by afpx 6y ago
Having worked in the creepy business of "location analytics", I'll say that American's should be more worried about corporations tracking them, than governments.
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by afpx 6y ago
These topics have been debated for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Hence, the US constitution was created. It’s been working pretty well so far. And, I don’t think it’ll be changing anytime soon.
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by afpx 6y ago
Are you suggesting that any government rules on the individual are authoritarian? I think most would disagree with that.

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