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by cultus 6y ago
Absolutely agree with this. I started meditating a year ago and it has worked wonders for my generalized anxiety disorder. Definitely more than drugs or therapy alone. To me, it's conscious acceptance of the present moment, including e
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by cultus 6y ago
"Callout culture" is a term that has originated as a reaction to changing society norms around bigotry. Please critically examine your biases on whether you think combating bigotry or shielding people from social consequences of t
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by cultus 6y ago
I am a gay technical professional, and I see homophobic or otherwise dehumanizing language tolerated, with moderation efforts instead against those calling out bigoted comments. I can tell you this makes me feel unwelcome, and makes me disa
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by cultus 6y ago
Identity politics is just a way to co-opt and divide left-wing politics by ignoring how oppression of women, immigrants, LGBT, etc., is always inextricably tied to economics. It's a way that corporations, the Democratic Party, and othe
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by cultus 6y ago
It's amazing how dense old cities are, despite having buildings usually less than 5 stories. Far less resource-intensive and human-scale than 50-story buildings. The density is essentially free, they just don't have room for every
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by cultus 6y ago
It's just an excuse to complain about how bigotry is becoming less socially acceptable.
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by cultus 6y ago
Not only that, but they have gotten wealthier due to government intervention in the stock market. If these resources were put into the real economy, they could have helped ordinary people far more, and had a positive greater effect on the e
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by cultus 6y ago
To be fair, from the outside at least, a lot of string theory looks like adding epicycles as well.
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by cultus 6y ago
The EU needs to get either more federal or break up.
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by cultus 6y ago
School starting is going to be such an unmitigated disaster. With the utterly inept handling of this pandemic (not just Trump, but our entire rotting neoliberal government) it just won't be feasible. Even if they do open, many teachers
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by cultus 6y ago
When I write JS, I think I'm at peak usage trying to figure out what the hell is going on with the code I've written.
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by cultus 6y ago
Wow! Very cool!
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by cultus 6y ago
I've been really enamored of bidirectional type systems [0] lately, which seem to really give the best of all worlds. They explicitly separate inference from type checking, with the type checker switching between both modes during chec
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by cultus 6y ago
I'm a former competitive cyclist, but even back then I was against any rigorous quantification of my training. Exercise should be fun. That's what really gets you to stick with it. If Strava makes it more fun for some people, then
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by cultus 6y ago
It upsets people because of the association with slavery, and it's trivial to use different terminology.
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by cultus 6y ago
So the government should manipulate the housing market to benefit a small class of people who can afford single family homes in a place, even if it is detrimental the to vast majority? If you want to live in a SFH, perhaps a dense urban cor
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by cultus 6y ago
That's easy to say when your local politics isn't controlled by homeowners who have financial incentive to oppose density.
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by cultus 6y ago
It will be a moot point soon enough when the ad market crashes.
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by cultus 6y ago
It really shouldn't need any type annotations. A Hindley-Milner type system would have been more flexible and require no type annotations (as well as far less interface {} and unsafe casts), and still support everything Go has. The lan
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by cultus 6y ago
"Mostly straight" is the operative phrase.
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by cultus 6y ago
Road and track races are all about closely packed pelotons going around tight turns very fast. Recumbents have very poor cornering compared to standard bicycles, and would not be safe. The performance advantage of most recumbents is often o
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by cultus 6y ago
On longer straight sections in descents, one can also very narrowly grip the bars near the stem. This lets you tuck your arms in front of your torso. Pedaling when you're doing ~70 kph or more can be counterproductive too. It's a
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by cultus 6y ago
I really don't think the life of the average working lawyer is like this, but analyzing legal arguments can be really fascinating. If you like logic puzzles, you're sure to like legal opinions. I had a bit of exposure to this as a
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by cultus 6y ago
Stores do a/b testing all the time, just by varying the products they carry.
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by cultus 6y ago
Although it's generally considered bad form to alter headlines in HN, and the Lancet is a medical journal.
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by cultus 6y ago
Wheel rims are aluminum, and spokes are stainless. They don't rust. Low spoke-count wheels are weaker and will go out of true faster, especially on potholed roads and with panniers.
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by cultus 6y ago
This doesn't get enough attention in cycling promotion. One of the absolute biggest reasons that people aren't on their bikes is maintenance. Wheels go out of true, shifting gets wonky, and it starts to look like an unreliable for
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by cultus 6y ago
It's a statistical fact. It's not racist to acknowledge that racial minorities in the US are disadvantaged.
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The examples given were cars that failed to yield way when legally required. Operators of heavy, high-velocity machinery should do so responsibly or not at all.
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by cultus 6y ago
Sure, I find mathematical finance absolutely fascinating. I just don't think it's worth putting a lot of research energy into. It's usually the boring stuff that matters.

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