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by borroka 5y ago
CoC grip trainers, a trip down the memory lane. I got certified for the #3 almost 20 year ago. I could do probably 8-10 complete reps at the time. The #4 felt like squeezing a brick, I am wondering whether with a couple of years of training
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by borroka 5y ago
The assumption in "don't change for other people" is not that the person needs a nudge in a certain direction, but that they don't want to change
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by borroka 5y ago
1) Start a lucrative career much earlier. Money solves a lot of problems and makes life of much broader horizons. 2) Go out, date men/women as preferred, have as much exciting time and adventures as possible. 3) Move on from relationsh
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by borroka 5y ago
I read the comments on my comment and I don't understand why there is so much overreaction. The author is unlikeable in the context of her article about friendship, not outside of it (at least, I have no idea). Like, she says she&#x27
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by borroka 5y ago
It is not dismissive at all. I enjoyed the article, it was well written, engaging, and touches very important points. My points are not negative for the article, are negative for the people involved, and one may agree or disagree. The &quot
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by borroka 5y ago
The mistake made by the two obnoxious semi-toxic characters from whose friendship the article draws inspiration is that they want too much and too many things for their friendship. They are needy, one is looking for a daughter and the other
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by borroka 5y ago
"they made the best possible decision with the resources they had, their mental model and their risk tolerance and belief in the world" Can this not be said for any action, any thought, including, if we are talking about parenting
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by borroka 5y ago
It's a matter of probability like everything in life. A good parent can lead to good outcomes, say, 60% of the time. A bad parent, 20% of the time. The numbers are random, but that's the idea. In retrospect, the vast majority of
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by borroka 5y ago
When you talk about "soft science" paper, maybe (because the content does not stand on its own), but no "hard science" paper has been remembered or noticed for the creative and original writing. I am not speaking from a
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by borroka 5y ago
"Using the same word repeatedly is boring, technical writing or not." -- A technical or scientific paper does not need to be entertaining. I mean, it can be, but it adds zero to the value of the discovery made or methods developed
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by borroka 5y ago
At the very least is a workable hypothesis. To be active on Twitter one needs the right personality, which means being very upset when other people reply/engage or being indifferent and playing one of the games adults are playing. In t
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by borroka 5y ago
"So if it takes them to have a job experience to know they don't like Data Science, then that's what is needed to happen to them for them to make a different choice." Or maybe, if they had people taking them seriously in
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by borroka 5y ago
I understand that the "the work you did was not for nothing" angle of reading is comforting, but I have to disagree. Sometimes, and this may or may not be the case with the OP, but we are missing the details, we work for nothing o
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by borroka 5y ago
I find the fetishization of weakness and failure, the "syndromes" like the impostor's, difficult to relate to because I grew up (the contemporary times are overall better than the olden times, to be clear) when the examples o
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by borroka 5y ago
"Talent of the first kind is mostly not a thing (but eg some people may be predisposed to certain kinds of athleticism)." - Statements like this work reasonably well on HN and stupendously on the very receptive New York Times audi
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by borroka 5y ago
Even at the semi-professional soccer level, coaches are making use of analytics. For example, they get information about where other teams are - or who is - losing the ball. Then, the game was pushed toward extreme (and boring) control of b
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by borroka 5y ago
All behavioral and "personality" traits are partly heritable and most (all?) of them are due to many genes of small effects. This is a very general and solid result of behavioral genetics, <<the modern idea that "you ca
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by borroka 5y ago
I may be making a mundane observation here, but I've tried living with less money and more money, and more money makes me much happier. People who aren't happy with more money (and assuming there are no trade-offs with time spent
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by borroka 5y ago
Standard ML applications will be commoditized in the same way that creating a website has been commoditized. But for anything that isn't standard, and that's the vast majority of what businesses need, ML isn't going to become
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by borroka 5y ago
Warmth is the second (and fifth) of the six steps of "basic" AT: heaviness of limbs, warmth all over thee body, heart beating strong and regularly, breathing (many formulas), warm solar plexus (or irradiating heat), cool forehead,
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by borroka 5y ago
I translated a few parts and a full translation has been on my mind for some time. It will take using modern tools (Google lens + DeepL + manual "adjustments" of the translated text) I'd say 20-30 hours for this book. Other b
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by borroka 5y ago
This is what Tullio Kezich wrote in his book "Federico" to describe Federico Fellini's attitude towards life. "He lived deep inside things with indomitable curiosity and perpetual openness, surrendering himself to what D
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by borroka 5y ago
From the fascinating book "Autohypnosis and Autogenic Training" by Dr. Klaus Thomas (not available in English, I translated it) Temperature adaptation It has long been known, especially thanks to WEIZSÄCKER's experiments of o
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by borroka 5y ago
I am a scientist (biology field) and I have been exercising and playing competitive sports for more than 35 years at this point. I used to be a hard-nosed calorie counter and I got fantastic results by counting calories, which means I had v
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by borroka 5y ago
"Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting" -- I would say that with no time for fussing and fighting, life, professional or not, can be even shorter.
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by borroka 5y ago
I have a very clear idea of what security guards do and I don't know where you got that I believe they "sit in front of the entrance all night" (which they do very often in South America, by the way, among other locations). A
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by borroka 5y ago
"On your doctor take, you do know that the other author of this post is a licensed and practicing Physician, right?" -- Your observation is indeed much more interesting than the whole article, since it shows a reasonable (and not
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by borroka 5y ago
The author is very popular among the tech/rationalist crowds (they are not the same crowd, to be clear), the topic is of interest for the same crowd, but the examples get a C-. It is challenging to write interesting and accurate pieces
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by borroka 5y ago
I read them as sloppy caricatures that provide little value to the conversation. Let's take the security guard: "The only problem is: he now provides literally no value. He’s excluded by fiat the possibility of ever being useful i
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by borroka 5y ago
"If you had asked me to dictate a response on this topic, it would have been entirely different." There is a risk very few of the supporters of "writing as a way of thinking" talk about, and that is you write what during

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