bbctol

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by bbctol 9y ago
What does conformity have to do with meritocracy? They seem orthogonal.
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by bbctol 9y ago
I think that song has increased my productivity 150%.
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by bbctol 9y ago
A couple more interesting projects at http://www.amandaghassaei.com/
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by bbctol 9y ago
Kind of feel like we already know that brains can do general purpose computation...
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by bbctol 9y ago
Why secret?
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by bbctol 9y ago
Any politics that claims to be on the side of rational discussion without ideological zealotry needs a clause "Manifesto-writers see yourselves out." Despite this particular new crop popping up online, no, it doesn't count if
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by bbctol 9y ago
To be fair, these aren't random people off the street; it's crowdsourcing from a pool of interesting people chosen by a fairly proven editor. (That, and a policy of answering questions by finding the single person who can grant ab
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by bbctol 9y ago
Yeah, bosses have never expected workers to work unreasonably hard.
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by bbctol 9y ago
Very weird to call that statement casual racism, even from a purely grammatical standpoint.
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by bbctol 9y ago
Do people visit the pyramids to appreciate their unexplored parts? You can think about the mysteries of the pyramids from anywhere in the world; people visit just to see something impressive in person.
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by bbctol 9y ago
What's interesting about that problem is that (for me, at least) knowing that that is enough information to solve it makes solving it a lot easier. If I was just told to make as much headway as I could, I'd get stuck on some trick
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by bbctol 9y ago
Spoiler alert: it's relationships, which you probably already knew, followed by a long ad for this guy's self-help material.
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by bbctol 9y ago
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
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by bbctol 9y ago
You should read Taleb until you understand the important part of his message is not to listen too much to people like Taleb.
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by bbctol 9y ago
Say they're "organizationally independent but philosophically aligned" with the Long Now foundation; I assume they at least have some formal arrangement with the original?
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by bbctol 9y ago
Curiosity: how much Mencken have you read? It's odd to say someone who thinks he was racist (he really, really was) has only read his Wikipedia page, and then post a wall of text from a different single source.
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by bbctol 9y ago
I appreciate how much the rich have helped other people along their way to, uh, being Sam Walton's kid.
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by bbctol 9y ago
I think this flowchart is addressing some commonly asked questions as well as providing a guide. There's more information in the links below; basically, even if you think you saw it fall from the sky, you actually didn't, and that
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by bbctol 9y ago
Co-signed, especially the idea that studying the humanities is useful even though (in fact because) the conclusion they give is often that these problems are hard and complicated. The most common reason I find myself wishing people approach
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by bbctol 9y ago
vast majority of poor people are not homeless, the world is complicated
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by bbctol 9y ago
There's nothing supernatural going on, except that the film is a very obvious and self-aware pastiche of, uh, pulp fiction plots. The Ezekiel quote is borrowed from an old martial arts movie, and the characters fully admit they just sa
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by bbctol 9y ago
The latter philosophy is called, uh, existentialism, so I'm not sure quite what happened here.
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by bbctol 9y ago
How are you defining "existentialism" here?
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by bbctol 9y ago
At the point where you think China's doing better on an issue than California, you're not talking about free speech anymore. People getting mad at you for saying things they don't like is not "shutting down speech,"
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by bbctol 9y ago
"Experts" and "the media" are not the same set.
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by bbctol 9y ago
I guess technically I'm one of those people whose been involved in bitcoin over the past 8 years, so the general take is that people who've been interested in bitcoin for a long time generally care about the idea of decentralizing
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by bbctol 9y ago
Last night in a restaurant I overheard the table next to us getting excited about Bitcoin, based on the rumors of friends of friends. At the point when one quizzically said "But you only use it on the Internet? You can't see a bro
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by bbctol 9y ago
I know this is for a casual audience, but claiming that because bears and dogs are both caniforms, "bears are, in essence, massive, really distantly related dogs," is just... frustrating. It's fine to simplify, but it's
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by bbctol 9y ago
I'm sorry, what?
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by bbctol 9y ago
Actually, after that sentence they do a completely straight explanation of an interesting research project, and don't mention the potential analogy until the end, where they again go out of their way to say that isn't the point.

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