belenos46

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by belenos46 11y ago
Well, we can agree that the results are good, but the problem against broad use of individually-defined words is that they are individually defined . So okay, you call your friend a whore, and she knows it's a joke because people at l
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by belenos46 11y ago
>Previous generations of college students did not require counseling for nearly every single aspect of college life Well, actually they probably did. That's why we have all these statistics telling us how many kids in college kill t
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by belenos46 11y ago
Are you part of the team building Underworld Ascendant? Because that sounds very much their speed.
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by belenos46 11y ago
I...just...Where I am, a root canal runs to 2k USD, and a crown to 1k USD, out of pocket because dental is often not covered by medical insurance. Can you feel my jealousy?
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by belenos46 11y ago
So sticking needles places --which is what acupuncture does-- works fine, but the names used to describe it --which is what that chi/meridians stuff is-- mean that it's bunk? Why --because you saw a bunch of films attributing magi
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by belenos46 11y ago
Depends how hard Tech Company A can push, basically.
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by belenos46 11y ago
For the employee it's not. For the employer, it obviously is. If you can't get hired somewhere else, you're not going to bail. As someone dealing with basically this situation, it sucks, but if I was also getting handed one-o
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by belenos46 11y ago
Yeah, says everyone except every reputable psychologist ever, and any parent who hasn't raised an out of control little monster of a child. Negative reinforcement works better than any other form of reinforcement, except when paired wi
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by belenos46 11y ago
We went from basically being mathematicians ("That solution is best, and here's my proof") to engineers ("This solution works, and it works with the parts you give me, and don't ask why there's cake") to &
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by belenos46 11y ago
I feel like this is just the scientist/engineer debate, where the former is trying to discover objective truth, and the other just wants to build stuff. It's an elemental disagreement, where the scientist is saying "You don&#
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by belenos46 11y ago
If we get real, robust automation, we're not going to see wealth inequality head that way. Or, at least, it's not going to matter as much. When anyone can get automation to do all the things they care about, what's the incent
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by belenos46 11y ago
But then how will you get motivated? Passion? That sounds like it takes time and effort to develop, when I need to be startup-ing!
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Hey, someone else who remembers that First Portland exists and is pretty great!
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As opposed to this one, where only strong, violent, aggressive cops triumph over the vulnerable? Your point is taken, but I feel like it's fundamentally flawed.
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by belenos46 11y ago
Well, that's when you try to use skimming as a foundation for actually learning the next concept. If I'm just trying to get an outline, all I really have to understand is that -for example- the Jungian and Freudian models of the m