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by blastbeat 8y ago
I can somehow relate to that. I'm suffering from an anxiety disorder since I was 15, was diagnosed with 18 and started some (unhelpful) therapies in that year. Later, during my masters, at some point I finally had a mental breakdown a
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> So no, I’m not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan’s pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I agree. The idea, that Germany leans to privacy is as misleading as the idea, that German health care is superior compared internationally.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
It would not be the first time, that such a law finally passes the parliament. And it would not be the first time, that such a law is invalidated by the Federal Constitutional Court after that.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
That's the problem. The draft is vaguely formulated. They seem to concentrate and take down Tor websites and "darknet admins", but the difference is nowhere mentioned, let alone acknowledged in the draft.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I skimmed through that law draft. Translation: They want you to face jail, if you provide an "internet based service", which "accessibility is restricted due to specific, technical precautionary measures", and which &quo
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Stopping to engage beyond a minimum of respect and politeness, that is, controlling their (emotional) reactions towards the client, is a standard tool of psychologists. I remember being all in tears during a session, and my therapist appear
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by blastbeat 8y ago
It's one thing to have property, and another to have control over it. Also, there are enough examples for people, whose bodies are literally owned by somebody else (and enough examples for societies/structures, which tolerate, let
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> Afterall, our bodies ..and lives..are our properties, yes? Is it? I'm not so sure about that. But I totally agree, a liberal society should make suicide legally accessible.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Seems to be a great opportunity to learn some Git and Python at the same time. I like those kind of approaches very much. Thanks!
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I like the idea. But speaking as a research mathematician, I cannot imagine that such a system will can be adopted in the math communities. You have quite a lot challenges to solve in this domain: 1. Only very few people actually read a cer
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> But the fact is, the risks will be worth it, and you can always ask for forgiveness. Except when it's not worth it or you cannot ask for forgiveness. > Next time you’re faced with a difficult situation, exercise the freedom of
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Fully agree. Also the rest of the article has questionable advice. I doubt the helpfulness of later lists and anti todo lists. Not answering the phone or pretending to be incompetent sounds like an idiotic idea too.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> Decarbonizing the economy will be difficult, but it must be done. Nothing like that is going to happen, as it didn't in the past. To this day we are on straightaway on the "business as usual" trajectory, which ends in co
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by blastbeat 8y ago
No, never had mentioned problems. I'm using Debian GNU/Linux exclusively since 10 years on various computers, and most of the time it just worked seamlessly. But usually I run older hardware. If I buy something new, I first assure
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by blastbeat 8y ago
It is true that our current system is basically build around growth. But I find the resource leak bug metaphor of the article gravely lacking. The problem isn't solely, that resources are allocated and not released afterwards. The prob
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Finding a mentor. Learning the craft from somebody, who started developing with Fortran and served 40 years in the trenches since then, is weight in gold for me.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
One of the vaccines you want to get first, is against tetanus. It's a horrible disease. Also, speaking as a German, who is going to pay the bill? Is there any health insurance in the US, which is covering such a case?
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Indeed, propositions are a bit vague. I've read many papers, which didn't use propositions at all. Then again there are papers, where propositions are heavily used, or randomly distributed. In my own work I try to avoid it. I rath
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I don't know where you come from and what your background is, but where I live, contact to the (average) people is not that bad. It turns out that my inner emotional state has the most impact on my ability on interacting with people. I
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> That is what I mean by a false dichotomy. It's not just that life involves both randomness and selection, but that they are not opposed things. Ok but I don't see why the just world fallacy is a false dichotomy. It is precise
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> People who stand against meritocracy are the people who have never even reached average talent. Or just people, who experience(d) a highly competitive environment, where excellent performance doesn't imply advancement, and advance
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Can you explain this any more?
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Or just quit your job as a surgeon, when you realize that you're making much less then some bullshit-jobber.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I had to use R in previous times, to analyze time series. It was a huge pain in the ass. It is more fun to write a GNU makefile, then trying to learn the arcane logic behind R's interface. Kudos for anybody, who tries to soothe that pa
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Belief in meritocracy is yet another version of the just-world fallacy. If you belief in a just world, you need to fight off any counter evidence. This leads automatically to discrimination. Same thing with merits and success. To not acknow
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Speaking as a mathematician, for me it is: It boils down to choosing a proper probability space. After that, you have the full force of probability theory on hand. Of course it's not always simple or obvious, how to choose your model.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
This doesn't surprise me. PhD students remain in a vulnerable position. They are not only intelligent and sensible, but also often exploited by the hierarchy and underpaid. The cynic in me sees the whole procedure of academic ordinatio
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I agree, but population growth continued, technology advance continued, wealth accumulated. There was no necessity to doubt on the superiority of mankind (those doubts increased after WW2, facing nuclear annihilation). Now, in the worst ca
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Acceptance criteria in the CS department of my alma mater is on a scale of 3-4 peer peer-reviewed papers, accepted in some journals. I would also be careful about what the point of research might be. The most important purpose of a PhD stu

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