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by cromd 5y ago
That is true, but that one secret is still at risk, and maybe that secret means the world to you. You don't know when the info will be discovered or change hands. "No need to change" could maybe be nitpicked even though I a
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by cromd 5y ago
Worth keeping in mind that passwords do actually leak. Companies have had incidents where they were inadvertently logging secrets passed to them. I've also typed/pasted secrets in the wrong field, which can get into some database
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by cromd 5y ago
This seems to be largely about your definition of war. No elections were overturned, but could you say he waged war on elections? He had his team out there saying that Hugo Chavez created the rigged voting machines and that it was statistic
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by cromd 5y ago
I don't think they're saying that Republicans are currently doing what Putin is currently doing. They said some people want to jail journalists, and you seem to be agreeing by saying those people "talk shit" about jailin
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by cromd 5y ago
It's something like what burrows is saying. I don't know if I'm implementing it as intended, but I first heard of "labeling" when reading The Mind Illuminated by John Yates. It seemed silly/trivial at first, bu
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by cromd 5y ago
That seems pretty valid. Not to make it overly analytical, but perhaps it's like meditation is a lab/training environment where you can press pause on the movie, look around in a 360 degree view, rewind a tad, press play again. Bu
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by cromd 5y ago
Yep, that's what I mean. And movie maybe implies too much action/drama/plot... Maybe it's more like a surveillance camera! I'd say it's just a general dampening of predictions, emotions, and explanations. Inste
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by cromd 5y ago
(It sounds like you're saying you largely also view life as happening to you, but maybe I'm wrong). There's maybe no point in even making a distinction between life-as-movie and life-as-commander, especially if people aren&#x
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by cromd 5y ago
(Note: I'm not sure if you're suggesting there is a "you" or not.) While I'm of course a mass of stuff that feels and thinks, I really do feel like I'm watching a pleasant movie filmed through my eyeballs. I fe
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by cromd 5y ago
That makes a good distinction. Is he taking one side or the other though? Seems to me like deterministic != free, and random also != free. So maybe nothing is free?
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by cromd 5y ago
Well, does someone who can't control their thoughts really control their own behavior? Is there any basis for thought/behavior that science knows of, that is not physiological? Scientists have never put out a press release sayin
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by cromd 5y ago
I do get these feelings of control, so I can't say I feel like a victim of my thoughts - "let them pass by", as you say, is mostly what I feel. But I think for some people, there's a question like: "I thought I was
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by cromd 5y ago
Yeah, and I think all of this brings us closer to the truth as you say - that ultimately we are responding to cellular/electrical activity. I'm inclined to believe truth-finding is good overall, but we also have to buckle up for s
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by cromd 5y ago
For me, meditation started a fundamental shift in how I think about free will, and oddly nobody I've mentioned it to in real life has felt this. I used to feel very in-control of my own mind, but after intentionally sitting and monitor
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by cromd 5y ago
A lot of this resonates with me. Programming takes on a more enjoyable form when you can remove ego a bit, and worry less about padding your resume and learning your 1000th tool. That said, it can be fundamentally hard to strike a balance o
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by cromd 5y ago
How hard is it for Russia to cripple the internet in Ukraine? Is it likely that these volunteers will still be able to contribute much, tech-wise, in a few weeks?
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by cromd 5y ago
Neat map. It's easy to think "NYC, DC, SF will get hit, stick to a smaller city to improve your odds", but there are tons of worthwhile targets. However, this map is also very US-centric, and if Putin loses his mind, might he
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by cromd 6y ago
Some discussion here, though these people also don't seem to have much info either: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/39862 One person seems to have narrowed the violation down to a zipfile ver
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by cromd 9y ago
You could maybe pick 20/30/40 random subjects to fake a prolonged interest in, and really focus on those, maybe swapping some out over time. In any case, I think one has to pump enough fake volume through to make fake interest lo
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by cromd 9y ago
I used a housekeeping service for a few months (Handy). The time saved definitely felt worth the money in general. On the other hand, and this is maybe partly my building's arrangement, it also felt like it complicated/constrain
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by cromd 9y ago
I assume they're saying it's hard to read, type, etc while driving.
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by cromd 9y ago
"Bathtub mortality" perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
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by cromd 9y ago
If it helps anyone, the FiveThirtyEight article describes a scenario where people take a survey about immigration status and voting. Most legal citizens will correctly identify themselves, but some will accidentally check the wrong box and
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by cromd 9y ago
I've been through a number of systems for this. I think where I've landed is that this is probably the ideal code-it-yourself opportunity. People often suggest todo lists as very easy, but I find those even more complicated than
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by cromd 9y ago
I really enjoyed "Software and Mind", which I first read about on HN, though the discussion was short and people didn't seem to like the author's angle much. It's largely about how "mechanistic theories of sof
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by cromd 9y ago
I think not having enough breadth in "one skull" is largely created by psychology and structure at companies and less by curriculum deficiencies. When I used to manage developers, most of them told me that they were pained by how
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by cromd 9y ago
Letters from a Stoic (a Seneca collection). A lot of the ideas were completely foreign to me, having grown up with a little too much television, politics, food, etc.