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by bloqs 5y ago
Lifetime happiness is a poor goal, but it seems that over a wide variety of of sources that a stable and successful family brings far greater meaning and fulfilment than any career can offer, which should be a priority.
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by bloqs 5y ago
I should add that industriousness is loosely conversely correlated with IQ (which is strongly correlated with Openness, effectively a measure of creativity). In this sense - people with good IQ, but off the charts Industriousness occupy all
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by bloqs 5y ago
This is a fallacy that is mostly driven by difference in personality. People are roughly divided into people who are driven and interested by "things" (nearly the entirety of this website) and people who are interested and driven
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by bloqs 5y ago
While that may be true, it doesnt change how art is valued today, and its cultural position today. It's no secret also that the rough pareto distribution of art is as alive as it is elsewhere. Most art or music isnt even consumed by an
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by bloqs 5y ago
This not a helpful approach. Art maintains it's value as it expresses the depth of human creativity. If someone imitates it, it's an entirely different (and vastly more common) skillset and thus considerably less valuable. Further
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by bloqs 5y ago
This is a startlingly out of touch comment. Desktop PC gaming, along with self builds are one of lockdowns hottest trends.
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by bloqs 5y ago
A psychology professor who doesn't seem to know the literature on psychometrics? This is undergrad level stuff.. see Conscienciousness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
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by bloqs 5y ago
Land of the free and the home of the brave
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by bloqs 5y ago
I'm completely open to being wrong or corrected, I will watch the video now. It's likely poor understanding on my part. However, I would reinforce my claim by adding that there is good psychological evidence for verbal vs spacial
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by bloqs 5y ago
As a visual learner this is a holy grail of sorts
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by bloqs 5y ago
At risk of sounding corny, could the sole contrubution of Murchochs dynasty be cited accurately as a cause?
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by bloqs 5y ago
Ah yes the 1960s. Where politics and economics were also utopian and dishonest. When your average American job could impossibly support a family of 4. 16 year olds drove dodge chargers and the economy was so strong from all of the various n
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by bloqs 5y ago
Great analogy!
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Ask HN: Building PCs, Why Do Motherboards Suck?
2 points by bloqs 5y ago|3 comments
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by bloqs 5y ago
From an Encyclopedic perspective, this is wrong
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by bloqs 5y ago
I havent read the full article, but why is this the number 2 story on HN? Have I sorted incorrectly?
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by bloqs 5y ago
"The common idea that unless you are building your own dream, you are building someone else's ignores the fact you can do both." - me now
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by bloqs 5y ago
Keystrokes carry far less fine motor control so are "easier" and less cognitively demanding and feel faster as a result.
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by bloqs 5y ago
This commenter is bang on. Echoes my own experiences.
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by bloqs 5y ago
I guess you could be right. As a relatively new admin i find it so odd how software that improves administration for windows isnt more common
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by bloqs 5y ago
Inalienable human rights and the rights of a citizen are distinctly different things.
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by bloqs 5y ago
School is not a place for kids low in trait conscienciousness. This can often mean smart, as it has a correlation with IQ, but mostly it's conscienciousness.
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by bloqs 5y ago
Problem with this is mechanically in terms of schooling. You need general education that has to somehow be given, and how do you arrange teaching for the wishes and whims of hundreds of children? Even in classical one to one mentoring, an e
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by bloqs 5y ago
I identify with this issue extensively. Having faced it for years, being hugely in love with technology but being of a mostly creative, verbal personality so many of the concepts would never get past the first stages or "stick" wh
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by bloqs 5y ago
Competitiveness is never going away its as human as breathing. The way to defeat cheating is giving users exaustive options to watch and monitor other players and report them effectively. Half the damn games dont even have this sorted out.
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by bloqs 5y ago
Extro*
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by bloqs 5y ago
As someone younger... how did a teenager in that time period possibly get that level of technical introduction to things at that level?
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by bloqs 5y ago
Many in the same boat as you - its probably why you ended up a programmer as well, as conscienciousness has less impact the more complex the job.
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by bloqs 5y ago
Plenty of people, particularly people employed by large institutional bodies like the the worlds mililitaries, many participating in long term studies, people being assessed for schools and colleges for learning difficulties, people joining
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by bloqs 5y ago
In case anyone is wondering, there is no way to boost IQ. Whatsoever. You can obviously remove things harming cognitive ability, but that's the extent of it.

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