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by blockwriter 4y ago
To me, Kafka’s work is particularly axiomatic. It has an internal logic and tends toward involution. I could see how this would appeal to technically minded people, whereas Dickens, or Austen, authors whose work tends to be discursive, migh
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by blockwriter 4y ago
How many scandals caused by perverse incentives occur before the NFL starts wishing for the days before they took on gambling partners?
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I’m a fan of Substack, was never a fan of Medium, but I do worry that Substack will gradually get better and better for writers, and then gradually worse and worse until it becomes unusable.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
It’s only on sale for those that are liquid enough to buy. Presumably, being down 90% means stocks really aren’t on sale for the original poster.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Replace drug use with I’ll-fated literary projects, and I am much the same.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Red Dead Redemption 3 will follow a solitary Stadia fan as he roams from town to town in search of those that pulled the plug on Stadia.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
They’re enshrined in the constitution of my home state, Illinois, for the public sector, I believe.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Being opinionated is a fine quality, but only if a healthy dose of curiosity is maintained. Otherwise, an opinionated and incurious person, which tends to be an argumentative person, adopts a pattern of behaviors that satisfy their ego, but
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I've been doing an exhaustive review of my diaries from the last 6 odd years. I am amazed by how many sentences start with one idea, lapse in the middle, and conclude almost as if another person had taken over. Evidently, some thought
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Is the term "boost" in regards to unemployment a phrase that the Fed uses, or is it editorializing?
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Their style and affects converge, maybe, as the hardworking nerd models his idea of cool on the fraternity members at university, mostly because the nerds were too busy working hard to pause and think about their individual identity. The en
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I’ve been amazed at how much the desire to mutually communicate gets undermined by the anxious anticipation of both parties to reach a conclusion that was their desired outcome going into the conversation. I would take special pains to be a
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Is the first problem not the immediate implication of laying people off through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens? You have to assume that the lens selected not exclusively on merit, but also on factors like race, gender, orientation
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Acute loneliness awaits you on both extremes of attention. That is where I believe the real problem lies, but it is one that I find is grossly exacerbated by these systems. It never seems entirely feasible to opt in or to opt out.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
It's difficult because there is not a lot of news or pressing issues in fiction. Contemporary fiction is not robust enough for it to be the basis of an aspiring writer's study. Canonical works are. This is distinct from coding, wh
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by blockwriter 4y ago
The mob threatens, kills or maims people for failure to pay. They have no other enforcement mechanism. This negatively affects entire communities, or even major cities, regardless of whether or not you see it.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Why does this article describe the west coast of Michigan as “runs north of Chicago”? The west coast of Lake Michigan runs north of Chicago, but you’re going to have a hard time getting to Traverse City if you leave Chicago going north. The
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Wasn't the preexisting power structure the Soviet military? I thought that that Soviet generals stationed near large and valuable resources simply decided that these large and valuable resources had become their private property. Organ
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by blockwriter 4y ago
The project of your soul is more immense and more important than expertise.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
But the people that are actively misleading you are the same ones that are supposed to implement the solutions. How are we supposed to trust these people will effectuate incredibly difficult tradeoffs if they fail basic litmus tests of acco
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Reading the diaries and letters of great authors helps. Kafka's, in particular, gave me an idea as to why keeping a literary diary is useful and interesting.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Madison has a great small business community in general. I am always really impressed by the number of small, independent establishments of good quality when I go.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I don't know if I got lucky or not, but I went into a MicroCenter, because I burnt the RPi 4 I was using for a hobby project and they had the RPi 400 kit in stock. They somehow had one loose RPi 4 2GB. MicroCenter will only sell them i
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by blockwriter 4y ago
This is interesting. Of course, it all depends on the execution. I maintain a literary diary, which I flag at the time of writing if I find the writing merited, and that I subsequently brush up and post months, sometimes years later. For so
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Ask HN: How to scale up a hardware project for commercial application?
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Movies, TV, and forum posts are simply not old enough to enjoy the same legacy of robustly elucidated gnosis as do books. Books are objectively superior in that respect, although they are perhaps not absolutely superior, as other media coul
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by blockwriter 4y ago
Except that mountain biking, reddit, and tv are never up to the task of presenting secular solutions to the quandaries of the soul. Mountain biking, unlike reddit or tv, might provide a sense of purpose or fulfillment, but all of them are i
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by blockwriter 4y ago
The famous Munger, Buffet, Graham adage is to only invest in a quantity that you understand, with the implication being that you understand how its operations are going to make you money. Munger might also advise against investing in intern
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by blockwriter 4y ago
I do not find the game fun or interesting. All I got was a drum track that could have been pretty much anything for the first 4 attempts, and then the song was obvious the moment the singer started singing.
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by blockwriter 4y ago
In the sense of a piece of writing that was meant to be a book, Ulysses. Otherwise, the collected works of Shakespeare.

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