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by borroka 2y ago
This glimpse into the past, for some reason, always ends at the most favorable time for the speaker/writer. For Native Americans, the idyllic time was when there were no Westerners. Pro-immigration people like the days of Ellis Island.
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by borroka 2y ago
This is an unfalsifiable statement that is far from translating into a sensible policy. There are many (millions?) illegal immigrants from China, for example. How is the United States responsible for a kind of “humanitarian” crisis in China
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by borroka 2y ago
While I understand the logic behind deportations, and may or may not appreciate the policy itself, I do not understand the logic behind maintaining the status quo. What is the policy and vision of those who oppose any deportation of illegal
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by borroka 2y ago
"It's not fate, it is expression of variance within a known or unknown distribution, and we can do more to understand it" -- In the end, you have fate within a certain variance. Generally speaking, it is better to know that y
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by borroka 2y ago
Or, more simply, many eat like there is no tomorrow because food is easily available, cheap, and the calories very palatable.
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by borroka 2y ago
Back in the day, (almost) everybody was not fat, from the academically inclined to the construction worker. Today, many are overweight, from the professor to the agricultural worker. There used to be more walking, which increased caloric ex
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by borroka 2y ago
By looking at the size and bellies of construction workers, farmers, and people doing all sorts of jobs with significant physical activity, one cannot find much support for this hypothesis.
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by borroka 2y ago
That's what I'm saying. It's not that people were stronger then, it's that, as many times throughout life, traits are revealed by circumstances, there's nothing particularly physiological about feeling the need to e
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by borroka 2y ago
Given that a few decades ago obesity and overweight rates were nowhere near what they are today, this shows that a large part of the population is weak, fragile, and not very interested in their well-being. I want to emphasize that a few de
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by borroka 2y ago
I did not say or believe that the prosecutor lied or they should renege on their word, far from it. I said that if she got two years, it means that the agreement Ellison-DA was not for no prison time in exchange for cooperation. Thus I aske
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by borroka 2y ago
You suspect well, I do not. Let me ask you another question for which you and I do not know the answer. Since she got 2 years in prison, she was not promised (i.e. she did not sign any binding agreement with the prosecutor, beyond "we
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by borroka 2y ago
According to the article I read (CNBC), "The prison term was significantly stiffer than the recommendation by the federal Probation Department that Judge Lewis Kaplan sentence Ellison, who had run the hedge fund Alameda Research, to t
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by borroka 2y ago
But a lighter sentence could, for example, range from no jail time to rates of less than 100 percent of the expected sentence in the case of non-cooperation. The prosecutor's recommendation of no jail time is frankly disappointing. She
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by borroka 2y ago
I wrote that someone has to pick up that fork to eat those nachos. However, processed food makes it easier to eat more calories than you need. Ice cream used to be a once-a-week treat. Now, you can buy a pint of a caloric bomb for 2.99 USD.
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by borroka 2y ago
Some alleles give people a tendency to gain weight via a higher appetite, slower metabolism, addiction to substances (in this case food). But no matter your alleles, you still have to pick up your fork and start attacking those triple porti
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by borroka 2y ago
Our lives are made up of and guided by narratives that sound good and just on paper, but are empirically proven wrong time and time again. Yet they persist. Some come from the zeitgeist, others are eternal, biblical, and worse, unfalsifiabl
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by borroka 2y ago
Reducing regulations and generally “opening up” can be done largely without substantial cost outside of political will, which is costly for political parties because lobbies exist and represent single-issue voters. Just as an example, Uber
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by borroka 2y ago
I will say one thing that may not sound good on paper, but makes a lot of sense in practice. I do the bare minimum at work, and I do it neither badly nor to the best of my ability: I do it barely well enough. Doing it to the best of my abil
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by borroka 2y ago
" in all fields including knowledge work I’d speculate the top performers are more likely to enjoy the activity for its own sake than the median performer"-- In soccer, a sport I am very familiar with on the playing side at a reas
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by borroka 2y ago
"Naming is the origin of all particular things, but the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao"-- It is mostly nonsense built on top of nonsense, I believe. To be honest, the miracles of Jesus, as described in the Gospels, s
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by borroka 2y ago
It is funny that we take such nonsense seriously when the inventor of radio and the brilliant people who built the telecommunications system on top of it said: "try this thing, you can call your mother who lives in Australia from the U
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by borroka 2y ago
Doesn't it sound like the most self-absorbed footnote in the history of footnotes? "Attention, sailors. I just defined a new concept (--which is as new as the wheel, by the way--), which fundamentally changes how we see organizati
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by borroka 2y ago
"What I'm disappointed by is that in the hundreds of years of capitalism, there has been little or no scientific research that looks at what structures create companies that have the desirable attributes we want." -- It may w
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by borroka 2y ago
There is an inherent pleasure in becoming competent, and if you become competent in a profitable skill, practice, or discipline, you can make a lot of money and use it to have additional fun and pleasure. This is an important point, but it
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by borroka 2y ago
There is a disconnect between academic researchers and practitioners. In this case, researchers observe and organize/categorize what already exists. High-level practitioners and coaches have been using “deliberate practice” forever. Th
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by borroka 2y ago
I don't think it's just coping, but it depends on the level of mastery you want to achieve in the specific discipline. For any skill, including weightlifting, the more you practice, the better the quality of the skill. And becomin
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by borroka 2y ago
I don't want to get into semantics because it usually leads nowhere. But maintaining a normal weight does not mean suffering hell on earth because you cannot gorge on Oreos. The vast majority of overweight people are not fond of delica
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by borroka 2y ago
"What's your quibble here? The use of the word unfortunately?" Yes, that's the quibble. 'Unfortunately, you need to do resistance exercises if you want to grow substantial muscles'; 'Unfortunately, you nee
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by borroka 2y ago
"It’s a lifestyle change, unfortunately" I would say that this is one of the wrong ways of approaching the problem, which makes it more difficult to lose weight. People who are (severely) overweight who gorge on food have an unhap
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by borroka 2y ago
I think this is the attitude that makes it difficult to lose weight. Dieting is not a personal journey or a spiritual endeavor; you have to eat less and serve smaller portions. It should not be restrictive beyond what is reasonable (I assur

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