club_tropical

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by club_tropical 4y ago
I didn't know you could do rain dances in Antarctica.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
This is criminally underinvested.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Yes, this is what the quitting is about. There would be no reason to quit if someone more valuable than you also earns more; that just makes sense.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Malmo is barely Sweden, anyway :P
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I have mentioned before - I hate Goodhart's law. It makes no sense. There is no example that is a good measure but a bad target. The canonical example I have heard is hospital emergency rooms that started to be measured by wait times
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I am toying with the idea of going to grad school, especially law, but with zero careerist ambitions, so nothing can be lorded over me.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
China?
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I feel like maybe there are a few other reasons why it was a traumatic experience.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
1) It sounds from what you write that you agree, even if reluctantly so, because "there is no diff". For completeness sake, I want to clarify that I believe in something far stronger than your reluctant resignation: that the whol
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Behold, one of the most dangerous and toxic forms of stupid: the LABCOAT-FLASHER. Do not fall for the verbal trickeries and hypotheticals - they are the syntactic sugar masking various POISONS: 1) There is no “you” that is meaningfully apar
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> The important thing is that I wouldn't attach a negative value-judgment to complexity, like saying complexity is always evil or bad or serves nefarious purposes. I would and I do. > It is precisely the unwillingness to engage w
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> The world is made up of phenomena that mostly are pretty complex The word “made up” is doing a lot of work there. Do you mean like a butterfly wing makes up the world around you or central banking? One of these is not so much “complex”
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Not speaking for OG, but: associated with his real name, while (as a PhD in econ) deeply dependent on reputation-contingent job prospects. People can have careers ruined by a tweet; self-published article under your own name is in no way fr
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by club_tropical 4y ago
And you should. If the opposite could not have been published, or would have had enormous donwsides, you should discount its objectivity, same like if I pull out a knife and demand your wallet, one should discount your voluntariness.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Longest few days of your life, I bet.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Amen- I am generally like “I hope they are not sending their best... because that would be depressing”
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Yes. Truth is manifest, instinctive, and potent. Complex arguments are desperate labyrinth constructed to hide a big lie in the middle of the maze, attempting to ensnare and exhaust the interlocutor.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> It would be in poor taste to build a new building on that block in the 16th century style, even if the new building is objectively beautiful. True, just like it would be in poor taste to stick a beautiful ornate green column in a build
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Thank you, your comment helps me sharpen my thought. 1) Yes, you definitely need to know Latin to appreciate the Aeneid, I agree with this. 2) It is a comparatively low bar though. Ability to write Hamlet is quite a step up from ability t
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Oh actually that's a good point. Anodyne generic response might be positive.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
If the seller/owner responds to a negative review, this is a red flag for me. Indicates a sort of hypersensitive, pressuring attitude. I empathize that they might wanna "tell their side" but in the end it betrays a clingy mon
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by club_tropical 4y ago
A skilled civil engineer can build you a building that an 80 year old illiterate grandma can recognize accurately as "hideous".
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by club_tropical 4y ago
>a quadriplegic is going to finish a 40 yard dash behind a non-quadraplegic SOURCE? :D This is not bashing on the OP who may be innocent of this, but I swear there is a type of person who demands DATA! with the fervor of faith in acade
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by club_tropical 4y ago
There is no "data" that would satisfy you if your intuition is so completely erased that you need some sociologist to tell you this. Taste is a manifestation of beauty and beauty in all forms is universal and hypnotic and skill-in
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Hope you can make this happen.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Insanely cool.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I love this, thank you for sharing.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Were they girls though? :P
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by club_tropical 4y ago
The unironic use of Shakespearean "erstwhile" tripped me up for a minute, was that royal English part of your MMORPG chat game?
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Dating apps enormously improve discoverability - find like-minded people in roughly the same area, but whom you'd never meet. It's not like the day before dating apps you had this rich network and you lost it. It's a net plus

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