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by borroka 1y ago
Although seemingly enlightened, this is a terrible way to treat other people who don't respect your right to a normal existence. When people say, “If it won't bother you in five years, why should it bother you now?”, what comes to
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by borroka 1y ago
It is wrong to assume that it was a man. Second, yes, in the vast majority of cases, it is a voluntary action that should be frowned upon when performed in public. At least that is the case for me and the people I am familiar with and respe
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by borroka 1y ago
I am all for interpreting other people's behavior charitably, but I would consider the terminally ill passenger to be the exception rather than the rule. A few months ago, I was in a bar with a date and heard a noise, as if someone had
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by borroka 1y ago
The seats are also too small, at least for Western men (and increasingly for women too). I am quite tall and find flying an experience to be endured by gritting my teeth, but for taller and heavier people it is almost torture. I recently sa
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by borroka 1y ago
It might sound funny in a juvenile way, but it just takes the uncontrolled flatulence of one impolite passenger to make the flight experience miserable for all the others. I was recently on a long-ish flight of a few hours and there was a p
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by borroka 1y ago
This is an important sign when someone who is not Italian speaks Italian. The double consonant, for example in the word bello/a, indicates a longer “l” sound, but English speakers in particular do not hear the longer sound and therefor
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by borroka 1y ago
It also assumes that the sequence is random and that there is no a priori information about the quality of the candidates. A similar problem occurs in dating today, when people tend to dismiss the current option in the hope or expectation o
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There is "Memento audere semper" coined by D'Annunzio, for that. Remember to always dare.
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by borroka 1y ago
That's a defeatist attitude, though. There is always somebody with worse chances than you. Would you prefer being born in a third-world country with a high IQ or in a first-world country with a cognitive deficit? In a third-world count
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"cycling isn't a huge money maker for financial investors like football, rather it's a money pit for sponsors. do sponsors love a podium placement more than being forever associated with dirty cheaters? they'd risk it al
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Of course it happens. At the highest levels and at the amateur levels. People want to win. It's like telling people they shouldn't commit crimes because they might end up in prison or worse. But people continue to commit crimes an
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This is a naive view of doping, sport, and physiology. Of course, they use doping nowadays, just as they did yesterday. I would go so far as to say that all top professional athletes in individual sports use banned substances. They use meth
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by borroka 1y ago
Unfortunately, most proverbs, sayings, etc. have no quantifiable value, which makes all the difference when evaluating opportunities. I like to say that I probably worked harder than many of the best soccer players in the world today when I
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by borroka 1y ago
In the end, apart from the nerdiest among us, we don't watch sports because we want to see technical perfection or tactical precision. We watch them to be moved by a narrative, by the "hero" that is about to be defeated but f
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by borroka 1y ago
As someone who has practiced and followed sports before, during, and after the revolution in analytics and optimization, I can say that “back in the day,” sports were definitely more fun, interesting, and creative, whereas now they are more
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by borroka 1y ago
I am baffled that every time the Airbnb issues come up, there is a plethora of "just book hotels" comments. The use cases are, or can be, wildly different. I am not a particular fan of Airbnb--nobody is a fan of real estate agents
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by borroka 1y ago
We all know what you should do, be doing, and not do. Of course, we should do our job earnestly and enthusiastically, love our families to death, and protect the weak and help the poor. All in this ethereal world in which there are no trade
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by borroka 2y ago
A few months ago, the 60-year-old CEO of the previous company I worked for, employing 100,000 people, showed up at our satellite office with other senior executives and EVPs for an official visit. He was wearing some sort of jeans and polo
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by borroka 2y ago
Which is funny, because weren't we in tech the people who aspired to “think different”? But then it didn't become think-different for the individual but for the tech in-group against the "square", boring, formality-drive
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by borroka 2y ago
In human dynamics, very little is based on “first principles”. Some words are considered vulgar and others are not. Why? Aren't they just a sequence of letters? They certainly are, but those sequences have been assigned a meaning that
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by borroka 2y ago
I have stopped following professional sports for at least a couple of decades, despite being a sportsman of the real variety--of practice and not attendance as a spectator. A friend sometimes invites me to see G League basketball games—he h
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by borroka 2y ago
I think the “of course” (involuntarily) assumes that you have to choose a good goal, which, looking at the world, is by no means a given. Many people show tenacity, persistence, and even obsession, but they choose wrong or mediocre goals, a
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by borroka 2y ago
Academia is cultish (strict hierarchy, a sense of calling for the profession, long hours and minimal pay for "juniors", non-academic careers, even when well compensated, considered inferior, etc.). I spent ~15 years in academia be
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by borroka 2y ago
How is this not true? Apart from specific disciplines with a permeable barrier between university and industry (for example, computer science, finance), the median age at which a tenured position is obtained should be between 30 and 35 year
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by borroka 2y ago
Plenty. Anybody who has been in academia sees the institution as cultish. Nobody wants a tenure track job because their kids will go to college for free and give up other work opportunities for that carrot. The last problem academia will ha
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by borroka 2y ago
It is true, but I was referring to suitable candidates. I had what I believe was a very good CV (prestigious fellowships, a meaty publication list in some top 10% disciplinary journals), and I had exactly zero invitations to interview over
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by borroka 2y ago
Unlikely, given the 10/50 to 1 demand/supply ratio. The very top people are workaholics and true believers, so it is unlikely that the absence of the institution of tenure would affect their choices. For mid-quality people, there
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by borroka 2y ago
The interesting part about this quote is not the quote itself, which is blatantly false but feels good (how would it sound: "I cannot remember the tiktoks/tv series/comic books I have watched/read...: even so, they have
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But this whole conversation could be much more interesting if, instead of presenting a critical analysis of the language used by pro- or anti-immigration groups, some policies were discussed. For example, one might say that undocumented peo
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This comment would be perfect in the mouth of an ordinary politician, there is this, there is this other, we are ruining lives, etc. Now, this is a comment on a forum, but I was asking, what is the policy/vision, and I can never get a

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