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by cirgue 5y ago
My trick is to find athletic activities that are things I would do for entertainment even if they didn’t confer any training benefit. Soccer, tennis, ultimate, and climbing are my current go-tos. It’s really easy to do 7 workouts a week whe
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by cirgue 5y ago
Just a reminder that this is the equivalent of spray painting a poster put up somewhere by the FSB, and doesn’t constitute any kind of incursion into any system the FSB relies on or cares about.
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by cirgue 5y ago
Note: this is about civil/commercial aviation, not military aviation.
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by cirgue 5y ago
For me, it wasn’t getting better at taking rejection, but quitting putting emotional investment into job applications (or whatever else) on the front end. Quit fantasizing about how great the work/your coworkers/the comp will be a
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by cirgue 5y ago
I feel like that doesn’t quite count as a secret, if the aim is explicitly to show people a fully expressed idea as opposed to something theoretical/conceptual.
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by cirgue 5y ago
Hot take: conference calls are superior to zoom meetings in every way, because they don’t give you the false sense of presence. Everyone else is a disembodied voice, and you don’t have any option of pretending otherwise so you have to fig
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by cirgue 5y ago
“Robinhood investors” is a synecdoche here. Substitute “etrade” if you prefer.
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by cirgue 5y ago
WSB started as a canard to get more drunk tourists to the small stakes poker tables, in this analogy the poker table is low volume options where you can get a handful of robinhood investors to move the price and make a quick thousand bucks.
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by cirgue 5y ago
> All that said, I'm starting to look for new opportunities in the larger-than-startup space. Shoot me an email at carl@flax.ie and let's chat. Damn, you’re good.
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by cirgue 5y ago
Off. My firm was mostly remote pre pandemic and everything was done by conference call most of the time. I actually like it a lot more because it places more focus on content.
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by cirgue 5y ago
My hot take: No Code, from a non dev perspective, is just a really user hostile config interface.
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by cirgue 5y ago
There are intelligent, well educated people that I personally hold in high esteem that take Twitter seriously and it weirds me out because they ostensibly to know better. I do not know anyone that takes Reddit seriously. I’m guessing that
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by cirgue 5y ago
How are they relevant?
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by cirgue 5y ago
And they were right, no?
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by cirgue 5y ago
> Say, you come to Hackernews/Reddit and usually see people on these sites as knowledgeable people. This may be part of the rub: there are a bunch of bullshitters on the internet.
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by cirgue 5y ago
> But the day I saw the first CoC being used in a community I was interacting with, I started to feel uneasy. I cant really say why, but I feel I dont want to interact with groups which need rules like these. It’s like being in a school
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by cirgue 5y ago
> Yes which supports all kinds of functionality that people like. Just because you have a processor on or mic listening for wake words doesn’t mean everything is always being transmitted or evil is being done. No, but it means that I’m l
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by cirgue 5y ago
This means one eighth of humanity uses tik tok once a month. Only about 3.8 billion people worldwide have a smartphone. We’re saying that about one in 4 smartphone users registers a hit on tik tok every month. That seems really high.
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by cirgue 5y ago
Facebook is an ad company that monetizes social interaction and manipulates the social sharing of information for profit. It isn’t just about people interacting negatively, it’s that negative interactions are directly profitable to facebook
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by cirgue 5y ago
I also feel like a huge piece of art being fun and interesting is the human to human communication aspect of it. Dali, without knowing he’s Dali and what he and the rest of his generation saw, talked about, wrote about, and valued is just a
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by cirgue 5y ago
To put a finer point on it: in order to believe that state actors are not major players in online discourse, you would have to assume that governments looked at Occupy, the Arab spring, BLM, Hong Kong, etc and consciously decided that opini
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by cirgue 5y ago
Somewhat related from today’s front page: https://simplifaster.com/articles/how-trainable-is-vo2-max/
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by cirgue 5y ago
They’re not assuming that the natural world is stupid. They’re doing what good scientists do, which is to not take for granted that human interpretations of the world are universal/true/even make any kind of sense from the social
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by cirgue 5y ago
From 1993: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_know...
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by cirgue 5y ago
> Every company is screwed up. Also, if they had the foresight to a) hire someone who could fix it and b) give them the run room to get it done, they’re ahead of the curve.
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by cirgue 5y ago
How much of a role did these groups play in anyone’s decision making here? I’ve never gotten the impression that either of these groups to be especially influential outside of getting congressional reps to occasionally sponsor symbolic legi
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by cirgue 5y ago
> I'm no fan of Facebook but if they didn't stop the research they could be found guilty again for the exact same reason The people that run Facebook are vain, greedy, and utterly uninterested in the public good, but they are
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by cirgue 5y ago
> Pot, kettle, etc. Most defense and intelligence agencies have been, for the past two decades, calling the internet the most important conflict space of the 21st century. Why no one took them seriously is beyond me. What this didn’t tou
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by cirgue 5y ago
I would also be interested in seeing what this number was over the previous 5 decades. My guess is that it’s not changed much. This doesn’t say anything meaningful other than that it’s a bad metric, but it has a whiff of plato complaining a
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by cirgue 5y ago
We are also (and I say this with a lot of love) massive prima donnas and love the opportunity to complain about someone else's bad UI decisions.

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