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by borroka 4y ago
Now I do full-body workouts, and all the workouts are very similar to each other. Monday, Wednesday (Friday, optional): run 5 miles at noon, jiu jitsu at night (I have a black belt, so my attendance is a bit less structured than in the past
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by borroka 4y ago
I have been weight training for almost 30 years. I've tried just about every program, split and variation under the sun, and I've seen and practiced for a time fads that have come and gone. In the last six months, I have changed t
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by borroka 4y ago
Most (all?) of these topics need to be approached in terms of probabilities, not absolutes. More money makes it more likely to be happier, enjoy life more, or have fewer insurmountable problems. It is a truism. Now, after how much money we
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by borroka 4y ago
This is a misleading article that, with its mundane look at the world, tries to provide a "gotcha" that does not seem to exist except in the minds of someone who tries to find "gotchas" everywhere, as the author does. Do
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by borroka 4y ago
Let's make a simple, boring clothing analogy: "Why use a broken suit with an elegant combination of fabrics and colors when a simple, ill-fitting T-shirt and a pair of chinos would allow you to cover your body?" Let's ma
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Strangely, "corporatism", a distinctive feature of Fascism, is not stated in that definition of Fascism.
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That's what I wrote in my first comment: "The Manifesto della cucina Futurista was written in 1931, but it was, overall, forgettable: much more relevant for art and politics were the pre-WWI manifestos." So, yes, Manifesti
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In the article, it is written: "many fascist-leaning Futurist manifestos published in the early 20th century that called for the destruction of the old in favor of the new in fields such as poetry, painting, and cinema" These M
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by borroka 4y ago
I find this to be an expression of lazy thinking far more than a contribution to the discussion. On Futurism and Marinetti (and Boccioni, Depero, Sant'Elia) I am probably better informed than others--an interest that began many years a
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What about Filoppo instead of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti? I am puzzled by the lack of rigor commonly observed in English writing when it comes to non-English names or non-English words more generally. I am reading the book "Michelan
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There is an obvious mistake in the article that could be misleading for readers not well versed in 20th century Italian culture and politics. In the article, it is written :"The essay [Manifesto della cucina futurista] was one of many
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When I was a researcher in academia, I worked practically all day, every day, including at least one of the two weekend days. It became normal to think about research all the time--"it is so much fun", academics tell themselves an
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I think that "messages need to be coarse-grained and contain little nuance," as stated in the comment, is a comforting thought, but it has little truth to it. I just have observations, many of them anyway, and not any proper exper
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by borroka 4y ago
This is empirically verifiable and, dare I say it, quite visible. It is also a virtuous circle: you come in early, you are promoted because there is virtually no one else around, or you are chosen as the best among a group of fairly mediocr
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by borroka 4y ago
To paraphrase, it is not that most leadership/high management is poorer than expected, it appears poorer even when it is expected to be poorer than expected. At some point between the ages of 20 and 30, you begin to believe that, altho
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I read the essay and found it reasonably entertaining, but not exactly in a good way. What exactly is the writer trying to accomplish? I didn't get it, but maybe it's about having an "unbiased" look at the world, probabl
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by borroka 4y ago
The problem with using percentages in these contexts is that they refer to something seemingly intuitive, but not quantifiable, and therefore ambiguous at best and useless at worst. What does 5%-95% refer to? Time? Effort/energy? We do
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by borroka 4y ago
I live alone, in my 40s. I work for a tech company. I wake up around 6:30 am, twitter, some reading, there is always something to do around the house. Coffee and podcast or South-American radios on Radio Garden (great app) for 30 minutes. W
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by borroka 4y ago
I have been living in the US for years, but I am not from the US. Over the past two years, I have greatly reduced the purchase of coffee and the like in coffee shops and the times when I eat outside because I am turned off by the tipping an
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by borroka 4y ago
The goal of therapy should be to get you to a point where you can quit. The therapist's goal may or may not be (I prefer the "may not be") to get you to a point where you can quit. I am not saying that it is in the interest
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Increased calorie consumption is the offender, there is little doubt about that. By carefully measuring food, one loses and gains weight accordingly (taking into account age, physical activity, etc.). The social acceptability of being fat l
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> I think that's probably a natural tendency for any type of people... I agree about the natural tendency, the call of the "tribe" (ethnic group, common language, etc.) is there for all kinds of people, more or less. But t
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> They're not "Veeps", they're people who have an identity and existence without reference to their roles at Verily The words used by HR from this and other companies clearly show that for the company, they are not pe
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We are talking about different things. We know about speculative research (which I referred to in my first comments), which gets discovered later on because of new methods, technologies, changes of paradigm. It rarely happens, and it makes
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You are referring to the publication of "negative results", which are of course informative, although rarely published due to a bias shown by journal editors and scientists themselves towards "positive results", that is
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There are also incentives for others to include him as a co-author despite the fact that, presumably, he has come nowhere near the minimum work that would be expected to allow him to be included as such. The question "Did you publish a
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The fact that most research, dare I say by definition, has little value is true. The fact that most published papers have no value is also true. It is also true that some (published) research may go unnoticed and be discovered or rediscover
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by borroka 4y ago
The statistical/genetic view of obesity and observed weight gain in general, which is useful in its descriptiveness, fails to explain, behaviorally, why people 30-40-50 years ago-I was young in one of those decades-were much less likel
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I used to work at a FAANG and worked from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no work weekends. Occasionally there was a longer work day, but also a shorter day. I think that was a fairly common day for many of my technical colleagues, whereas non-techn
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In my non-U.S. hometown (people in the U.S. are, on average, much more shy in this context, oddly enough), this would have been considered extremely rude and awkward, and the boss would have been made fun of forever. And not because he was

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