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by borroka 5y ago
"Her big push was that it's all life. Work is a big portion of your time, so if you ignore it you're missing a huge portion of what finite time you have. Hearing it that way made a huge impact on me." I disagree. It is n
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by borroka 5y ago
People can change, but in the end it's all probabilities and statistical distributions: it's much easier to be constantly exercising all our lives or working hard all our lives than to have a Damascus moment and radically change o
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by borroka 5y ago
But it's not just PG, who at this point I doubt cares much about ROI, the work/balance debate has been going on since the dawn of time. Every time after one of the surgeries I had, my main concern was not how long it would take to
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by borroka 5y ago
"This is why it is a mistake to insist dogmatically on the 'work/life balance'. In fact, the phrase 'work/life' alone embodies an error: it assumes that work and life are distinct." A beaten horse if
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by borroka 5y ago
There is little in common between language acquisition in kids and adults. And I have been reading the literature, and you have one research group that says it is the same, another saying it is different. Find me one kid (maybe there is on
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by borroka 5y ago
Businesses to operate at scale generally require more reliable pipelines. And who is going to check the crowd-sourced translations then? What about a TikTok-like trolling exercise like the one who was done for Trump's rally?
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by borroka 5y ago
It is for the parents and for the company, not for the kids. And, as it happened to a colleague of mine, it can be a sad day for those who cannot bring their kids to work on that day (e.g., disabilities, death). I would get rid of those day
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by borroka 5y ago
For non-major-languages subtitles, they use (mostly) machine translation. For major languages, they use people.
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by borroka 5y ago
Since we are talking about Chinese ships, it is useful to remember the words of those who have led the party for a long time: "strike one to educate a hundred." Although, when you are as dependent as Argentina is on other countrie
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by borroka 5y ago
First, take a deep breath. This knee-jerk reactions do not help the conversation. I wrote "Extremes and provocative-examples aside". People do not leave abusive situations for a variety of reasons, some of which I cite in my comm
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by borroka 5y ago
Smiling and being entertaining are not correlated (personal experience after a few decades of being alive). There are few everyday situations worse than being welcomed by a smile which looks fake one mile out. A genuine smile is not an ever
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by borroka 5y ago
https://bamfstyle.com/ Engaging, surprising, highly readable writing that connects cinema and style.
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by borroka 5y ago
Also violence happens all over the place, but it does not make it ok. Extremes and provocative-examples aside, the problem I see is not with exchanging life-obliterating work for money, but with signing for normal-ish work and getting bruta
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by borroka 5y ago
This is quite a complex explanation of a process that I see as pretty basic and linear and as old as homo sapiens: new people are exciting, old tenure-wise people are usually not exciting because they are not new people, and their importanc
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by borroka 5y ago
FS: "It sounds good, but it does not work."
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by borroka 5y ago
This sentiment is quite popular among those who would like to have the same popularity that data scientists currently (well, more a few years ago, since there are many more critical voices now) have, but they don't. Data science is a g
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by borroka 5y ago
It is a bit like playing tennis. Playing against your 75 years old limping neighbor is easy, playing against competent people is hard, playing on the tour is for the very talented only.
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by borroka 6y ago
Silly generalization, please avoid.
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by borroka 6y ago
Minor characters on the European football stage with a good local following. Schalke04 in Germany, Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina (when in B, Lazio and Fiorentina were making 30k+ each Sunday) in Italy, ManCity in England. Before the oil money, at
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by borroka 6y ago
It happens once every 30 years and it is one of those improbable events that somewhat, someway happen, and after the event we get back to normal real quick (top teams aka those with more money in the Premier League winning, Milan, Juve, Int
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by borroka 6y ago
That's a scam if there is one, I hope someone with a straight spine will look into it. A similar investigation would be warranted for LEOs making similar money in Northern California.
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by borroka 6y ago
Read Sandro Donati's books (not available in English afaik, but Google Translate now works pretty well).
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by borroka 6y ago
The first 30 minutes yes, then it is poor comedy.
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by borroka 6y ago
"Failure is often a better teacher than success, you can succeed all your life by dumb luck and never learn a thing or misattribute the success to the wrong elements." - It certainly sounds reasonable in at least some situations (
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by borroka 6y ago
To me, Radio Garden has been the app delight of 2020. I found it tremendously fascinating to listen to people living in faraway countries talking on radio, both the hosts and the callers. Often, normal, but nonetheless less interesting, peo
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by borroka 6y ago
I can recognize Italian accents and words that are distinct between towns that are < 20 km apart.
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by borroka 6y ago
"The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best is now." - I have many problems with this often-repeated sentence. The best time was 10 years and maybe right now is a terrible time to do it and the good times passe
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by borroka 6y ago
It misses an important qualifier: 95% among who and for which activity? It is relatively easy to get to 95% for a skill/activity few care about. But try to become 95%ile in like baseball among the Texas 13-17 years old cohort and the m
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by borroka 6y ago
"I don't believe innate talent exists" - This, in light of 100 years of (mathematized quantitative genetics) and thousands of years of empirical observation, is a profoundly wrong observation. There is variation in, broadly s
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by borroka 6y ago
I hate to contradict you, but I am being told I am quite a positive person who's helped many people on their journey to become more accomplished people. I did and I am doing quite well academically, professionally, and athletically. An

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