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by camelNotation 8y ago
I believe it's possible to achieve the same level of life satisfaction by translating your experience of the world through a lens of gratitude and purpose. I've had opportunities to meet and get to know people with high net worth
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by camelNotation 8y ago
They were part of the literature discussion group The Inklings, which met mostly on Tuesdays at The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. Tolkien is the one that convinced Lewis to leave atheism behind and become a Christian. Tolkien's poem &
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by camelNotation 8y ago
0ms is ALMOST better than Apple Pencil? Almost? Apple Pencil has a 20ms response time. Try not to fanboy so hard, you might hurt yourself.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Didn't mean to offend, sorry for that.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I find it ironic that China, the only major country left that is nominally communist, is the site of what seems to be the most alienated, abusive form of capitalism on earth.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
You're 100% correct, but I'm posting this to the audience of Hacker News. I highly doubt we have too many representatives from the true lower classes here. And to be clear, I don't mean "own a home" when I say &quot
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I'm glad! Don't give up. Stick with it. Make smart choices, and don't be afraid to commit to things like family, home, and children. You gain the most meaning from the things that demand the most of you.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I would point out the other component to this, which is that the ideal structure should be what rewards the group, not the individual. So some people might be most suited as an individual to mate with many partners, but that would need to f
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I'm not sure what you think religion is if not an evolved social construct. Do you actually think religion, with all its ritual and structure and beauty exists because cave men tried to explain away the things that scared them? It is t
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by camelNotation 8y ago
It sounds terrible to me too. That's the weird thing about doing what you are most suited to do - even if you dislike the idea of it, it still works.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
The work you do is unlikely to provide you with that much meaning. The position I have does a lot of actual, tangible good in the world. After a while, even that carries diminishing returns. The truth is that even though I am doing good, if
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by camelNotation 8y ago
It is very true that many people can't and won't be able to pair up, but they can group together other ways. You can build a family many different ways. One of the major problems with modern society is that the only reliable compa
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I said life is better, not happy. I am not happy all the time, but my life is extremely meaningful. I'm leaning in to what evolution expects from me because that is the only thing that makes any sense at all. What real, meaningful purp
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by camelNotation 8y ago
You evolved to contribute to the resource needs of your social group and establish a safe location to live and raise your young. If selling vacuum cleaners door to door paid the most and I was good at it, I would have done that instead of c
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Contributing to the resource needs of your social group and establishing a safe location to live and raise your young is exactly what you evolved to do. You aren't an amoeba, you're the most advanced mammal species on the planet.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Sounds like your perspective involves an omniscient ideal that does not and can not exist. Tradition exists for this very reason. We pass on what works, we do what works, and we don't presume to know what is better. That is what makes
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I married very young. My wife and I had very little, both were working jobs for close to minimum wage with no marketable skills between us. So we sat down and decided what we wanted. We both wanted kids, she wanted to stay home with them wh
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by camelNotation 8y ago
That is completely untrue. No one got rid of the floppy drive just because new technology existed. They got rid of the floppy drive because it took dozens of floppies to do what one CD could do. It was a genuinely inferior product with rega
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by camelNotation 8y ago
The options that replaces each of those items were superior to the older design. A wireless headset requires charging, requires pairing, is more expensive, is more likely to break. It's not a superior technology, it's an alternati
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Removing the headphone jack doesn't push wireless into the mass market. It was already in the mass market and it was going to be in the mass market regardless of how Apple designed their phones. If you want to use a wireless headset, y
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by camelNotation 8y ago
It was intended as a joke, but good point.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
We'd go nearly extinct via pandemic long before we had time to find out.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
In a world where most people can do almost all of their computing activity on a tablet or ultrabook, not too many people are worried about that.
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I want a laptop with a hole where the mouse pad should be. I want to be able to put my phone into that slot, dock it, and use the screen of my phone as the mouse pad for the laptop. I want my phone to do all the processing and work. I want
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Culture, with all its variations in values, art, and identity, develops over very long periods of time. To look at modern, irreligious countries in Europe and say they have culture without religion ignores the fact that they only lost their
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by camelNotation 8y ago
>But why does it have to be something based on a two thousand year book that pretends to be perfect in every way by definition. It doesn't have to be anything. You don't have to have five fingers on your right hand. you could h
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Religion does provide meaning and purpose, but that is hardly all it is "about." Religion also provides inclusion for those that would otherwise feel outcast. It provides social structure and identity. It provides a framework for
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I like you. There's been a total over-correction away from religion and we've lost sight of why it evolved in the first place. Social scientists have long known that there is nothing rational about the decisions we make, and certa
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by camelNotation 8y ago
If you want your children to be educated well in most regions of the United States, you either need to do it yourself or through private schools. There are a small handful of public schools that have the funding and leadership to do it well
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by camelNotation 8y ago
By using something like indulgences as an example, you're making a false equivalency. It's certainly possible to call it progress if you are RECOVERING from a fall. You start high, dip down, progress back up to where you were. Ind

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