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He is looking at events from the inside, and writing how it is. You are looking at events from the outside, and writing that.
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I like Wikipedia 100x better than Hacker News. 50% of the chatter here is robots repeating: logical fallacy , citation needed , not science , anecdote detected! , over and over. Like broken clocks, they may be right sometimes; but that
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I'm as weary of motivational writing as the next person, but I thought this was unusually full of actual good ideas. As just one example, it offers a framework for understanding why I feel so frustrated: I'm only in year one.
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Loneliness is the bane of my entire existence. My biggest, life-long source of dissatisfaction with life itself.
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In 1985, you might have said the same about pocket computers, if I'd called them that. But in 2013, the stereotype of the human staring down at their smartphone is near universal.
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The Oculus itself will not change the world that much, but VR certainly will. The Oculus is simply a step towards real VR. Try to imagine a world in which you can actually lose track of, or be mistaken about exactly which level of simulatio
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I felt the same about school: mostly, I hated it, and it was torture to go. I did very well, mostly because my mother instilled a kind of fear of getting less than an A on anything, which my extreme personality ratcheted up to a fear of get
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I think the number of teachers is much more affected by demand than supply. You can't be a teacher unless people want to pay attention to you. I had an experience that blew those gates clear off their hinges, and into the nearest ocean
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If you're in the US, that money is always for keeping you off the street, at any age. It's funny you mention retirement homes. Those cost more than my current lifestyle does. Medicaid, you say? Ok, but first you need money for a l
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I'm glad there's at least one person who doesn't immediately get all profound over the oft-trotted theme of 'spend time with the loved ones'. I'm also glad it isn't everyone ; but I am glad there is one.
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I can understand saying a statistic might be partly confounded by additional factors. I can't understand calling it meaningless. Just that it might not mean exactly what's implied. The stat itself is pretty hard to miss.
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Even as a U.S. citizen, every time I've traveled to other countries in the past few years, it's always jarring going from the hospitable, friendly customs people in the other countries, to the literally rude awakening of getting p
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Every damn time with this stupid observation. It's like an unconquerable memetic disease. The term 'Software Engineer' is a single term with its own commonly understood meaning. Commonly understood, except when someone wants
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As I see it, the basic flaw in the materialist worldview is this: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/ It is also what leaves the door open for more transcendent views. Eastern religions, in part
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In all seriousness, I've long thought of what I do as moving electrons around, getting pits onto CDs in the right place, things like that. Whatever I do in, say, C++-land, is a means to those ends. An intermediate step. I arrived at th
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I have a hard time imagining that the decisions people would have made, if not for reading Gladwell, would have been of higher quality, generally.
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Once, I saved up and bought myself a long sabbatical. It was the most productive time of my life.
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According to the article, YouTube detects copyrighted songs and pays labels a cut of ad money. Every song ever recorded exists as at least one YouTube video. It doesn't seem like YouTube is playing whack-a-mole with all these songs any
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$95K. It wasn't enough. My time building my product was cut short by unexpected health problems, which not only accelerated my cash burn, but also made it more difficult than usual to find my next job when I needed it. I landed hard, o
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Spiderman 2 is a decent recreation of Manhattan, but it is not exact.
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I can definitely relate to the feeling. For a full 1.5 years after my ex and I broke up, it felt like my friends were being deliberately cruel, first by continuing to involve her in various events, then by continuously posting about stuff t
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Without access to some humane means of euthanasia, I think your statement is inaccurate.
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This may work to a limited extent as motivational talk, but it isn't true. The truth is more like: If 100 people truly care about writing their own software, etc., then some percentage of them will figure out a way to do it. The rest w
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Forbes published that interview with the Silk Road operator on August 14. Maybe a lot of people just learned how to buy drugs online. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-th...
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It was still an inflammatory thing to say, given that there's nothing stopping a person who does live as a hermit from learning to write working code. In the days before the Web, I created two good-sized adventure games without ever ha
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I agree with you. The problem with depression, though, is that it does not make idle threats. In my experience, you get a window in which to make those changes, after which depression can stomp you into a hole so deep you can only get out w
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The inability of human beings to agree on the causes of brain states, does not mean that there are not causes, or that they are unknowable.
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As far as adaptations go, the most sensible model of depression I've ever run across is the one proposed by Howard Bloom. First, it's imperative to acknowledge humans as primarily social creatures, always living in relation to a s
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This view, this dichotomy, is popular, insidious, infuriating to me as a sufferer, and very overgeneralized as far as I can tell. I guarantee you I have suffered very 'real' depression, even been diagnosed several times if you&#x2
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"It was that moment that I realized I was truly free to do whatever I wanted in this world" I've been there. One tends to have such 'realizations' after working at a job like hers and banking 100k or 2. This type

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