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by avindroth 5y ago
So no part of buddhism is about healthy re-integration into society? That seems troubling.
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by avindroth 5y ago
It’s not bad, but if you feel strongly against it, you’re not missing out on much. Overcoming the psychological resistance to meditate is probably not worth it.
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by avindroth 5y ago
It’s a common enough effect that it should be noted. Many spiritual people end up being detached from the world, for better or worse.
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by avindroth 5y ago
I like open source, but I think society wanting things for free (and thinking they deserve things for free) can have adverse side effects.
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by avindroth 5y ago
I highly doubt this is just about quality of his advice. Look at all these comments, and the salt. Remove a zero from his salaries, and the response would have been very different.
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by avindroth 5y ago
This is why people don’t want to talk about money
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by avindroth 5y ago
Separate career from what you love. Spare time to do what you love, and what you love need not be grand. Create a block of time and see what you do: netflix, social media, video games, whatever. That is what you need to do, imho (for a whil
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by avindroth 5y ago
TeXMacs is also a great WYSIWYG alternative[1]. My current setup tho is org-mode + cdlatexmode + mathpix.el [2-4]. Then writing latex isn’t that bad. [1] https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html [2] htt
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by avindroth 5y ago
The main reason I switched to emacs was inline rendering of latex, which just isn’t possible in vim.
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by avindroth 5y ago
Everyone is introverted in a different way, and actually the best thing is let yourself be introverted for a while and let your mind figure out what’s going on. Note by my estimation this can take 12-24 months, which may be time you do not
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by avindroth 5y ago
It works well with lisps at the very least
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by avindroth 5y ago
Documentation improved a lot in the recent versions. It’s still a WIP, but I had a ton of fun enjoying emacs-like philosophy natively supported in a browser.
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by avindroth 5y ago
I wonder how much this principle holds with respect to real life stories, which is filled with irrelevant details. Of course you can render true stories to have a dramatic version.
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by avindroth 5y ago
Just to add some nuance: simplicity might be a boon for someone/company/industry working with multiple languages, but if you live in the, say, Java world, complexity may pay off for the native residents. For instance, natural lang
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by avindroth 5y ago
It’s because people demonise “wasting time”. People take themselves too seriously.
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by avindroth 5y ago
On a similar note, zsh-history-substring-search has become something I look for everywhere. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
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by avindroth 5y ago
If I wanted to try out examples in the book, can I try in the Pharo environment?
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Ask HN: Best way to learn Smalltalk?
14 points by avindroth 5y ago|13 comments
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by avindroth 5y ago
Systematically changing your beliefs takes a lot more work than just stepping through a door. I know people like to say this stuff to give hope, but the illusion does more harm than good imho.
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by avindroth 5y ago
But if you can't choose your beliefs and your beliefs affected your choice of clothes, then ultimately you can't really choose your clothes.
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by avindroth 5y ago
A more generalized version is that beliefs can be used by other beliefs as a resource. Thus beliefs, especially persistent ones, are often minimally about their truth value, and more about their role in the mind's structured web of bel
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by avindroth 5y ago
Here! I never used Korean in it though.
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by avindroth 5y ago
You came here for novelty and interesting tidbits, you are getting them.
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by avindroth 5y ago
Sounds like category theory.
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by avindroth 5y ago
Also the social benefit of staying in stage 2 is strong. Stage 3 folks don’t mingle together easily, not just because there are less of them, but also because they have in some ways become themselves. It’s much easier for people to stick to
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by avindroth 5y ago
Crypto sounds way cooler and can be prepended to things much more easily. It’s a social market out there.
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by avindroth 5y ago
I think this is more hope selling. Here is what I know: You are always late for something. But you are always early for something else. Times, all things being equal, always breeds opportunities and risks.
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by avindroth 6y ago
Isn’t the title misleading? They are not removing dislikes; they are testing UI without them. Huge difference.
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by avindroth 6y ago
Yeah people nowadays are unnecessarily obsessed with expressing a "correct" opinion from their perspective. Sometimes you just can't comment on someone else's life work like that, especially if they have put their heart
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by avindroth 6y ago
Interesting how judgment is assumed in this question. A question like “why aren’t you living in Istanbul” feels very neutral, whereas OP’s question can feel like a moral suggestion. Seems unfair to presuppose such things, though especially

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