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by dawg- 6y ago
>I'm a believer that the cure for misinformation is more information. The idealist in me agrees with this wholeheartedly. I think it's true for people with a certain discipline in their thinking(i.e. scientists, academics and t
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by dawg- 6y ago
>So he read a Thiel book recently and it now pervades his every answer to this interview? Yeah that was kind of annoying. Amazing how even a certifiable genius can fall so completely for such meaningless self-help bullshit
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by dawg- 6y ago
I have discovered that Facebook can be manageable only if you are extremely diligent about unfollowing people whose posts you don't care about. You can unfollow while still remaining "friends". I have been really good about i
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by dawg- 6y ago
I think it's changing quickly. Not sure if you remember the movie 22 Jump Street? The old guys show up at a high school to be "undercover" high school students and it turns out that the "cool" kids are who used to b
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by dawg- 7y ago
I think maybe we don't need a controlled experiment. Maybe we need to embrace a situation where we are forced to adapt and come up with solutions on the fly.
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by dawg- 7y ago
What you call a "smooth-talker" is what someone else would call an articulate, socially well-adjusted person who can communicate their values and opinions in an intelligent way and who is comfortable making connections with others
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Buddhist Economics – E.F. Schumacher(centerforneweconomics.org)
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by dawg- 7y ago
>Built into this is the assumption that social media is doing more damage than or is more susceptible to malevolent influence than state-run news organizations or the monopolistic broadcast and print publications of the 20th century and
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by dawg- 7y ago
>Once you have experience with capitalism in the real world This is an incredibly snide, condescending thing to say to someone you don't know anything about. So your experience is the "real world", and anyone who thinks di
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by dawg- 7y ago
This is one way to read On The Road, I guess. I was infatuated with the book when I was 18 but later came to some similar conclusions about the whole premise of the book. But this review kind of assumes that Kerouac was stupid and incapable
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by dawg- 7y ago
From the article mentioned in your quote: >A hundred community members’ lived-experience recounted through anecdotes and other qualitative methods is often dismissed as poor data, whereas a “white paper” is accepted as valid. That's
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by dawg- 7y ago
How so?
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by dawg- 7y ago
Between this: >Governments are the largest, most inefficient and wasteful monopolies in the world. There's zero incentive for them to provide cost effective or reliable solutions to problems. Private sector alternatives are better t
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by dawg- 7y ago
>If you went to a physical therapist and he told you to move your tongue/lips/lungs in certain specific motions, which happened to produce noises, you wouldn't judge the exercise by the semantic content of those noises. So
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by dawg- 7y ago
They are generally more well-known so you might have heard of them already, but you might be interested in reading up on the tradition of the Griots in west Africa. Similarly to this example, it's oral tradition as a "family busin
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by dawg- 7y ago
Eh, I would doubt it seeing as how pot was the drug of choice for all the hippies during the biggest anti-war movement in our country's history
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by dawg- 7y ago
Your issue with the esset I think is a little pedantic as it's really just a typography issue. However the point about knowing noun articles is extremely important, and the more you stick with it from the beginning the easier it is whe
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by dawg- 7y ago
I don't think Google cares about this relative handful of people. They will keep moving on and 90% of society will go with them. I often wonder what will happen to the few individuals who are willing to push tech/privacy issues so
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by dawg- 7y ago
I was a (young) teenager when MySpace was at its peak and was still an (older) teenager when Facebook got big. The thing about things like myspace and facebook is that users are encouraged to make their profile a representation of themselve
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by dawg- 7y ago
I am a nerd about cheap travel, and this is awesome. I could spend hours on Google Flights, read Scott's Cheap Flights religiously. I appreciate that you have an easy option to search for "anytime" flights. That's someth
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by dawg- 7y ago
I think they are probably betting that for $10 a month, people who already have a playstation or xbox would check it out and subscribe from pure curiosity. When the next generation of consoles come out in a couple years, here's the cho
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by dawg- 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the $10 a month gives you a service similar to Xbox Game Pass. You can play the games in their catalog, just like Netflix. You also have the option to purchase a game and own if even if it's rotated out of the cata
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by dawg- 7y ago
>The American system pushes forward individual freedom, humanism, liberalism, capitalism I agree with you, but a lot of people seem to think these values are automatically parts of America - a "system" as you described it - ins
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by dawg- 7y ago
>Mere "thousands" doesn't seem like enough to get critical mass on a social network. It's kind of like running for president of the United States and bragging that you got "hundreds" of votes.
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by dawg- 7y ago
Some Marvel movies have more meat to them than others. It's important to remember that there are a lot of different writers working on these movies, they are not a monolith. Some of them are good at fitting important, thought-provoking
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by dawg- 7y ago
Keep in mind that this is just a blog post. I don't usually follow Cal Newport's blog but in general, academic blogs are meant to be more informal and just exploring different ideas without the rigor of a peer reviewed journal. If
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by dawg- 7y ago
I'm not sure what you are talking about as I didn't dispute that parasites exist. The article is about people who irrationally believe that their bodies are full of parasites, posting pictures of their poop on facebook groups. And
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by dawg- 7y ago
The best book I had to read in college was called "Madumo: A Man Bewitched". It's by an anthropologist who befriended a man in South Africa named Madumo. Madumo was a young man from a very poor family living in Suweto and he
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by dawg- 7y ago
Fascinating. I admit I only read the intro section but bookmarked for later. The page "on being interdisciplinary" with a kind of taxonomy of interdisciplinary work is really interesting. I wonder what the author would have to say
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by dawg- 7y ago
Either way, you are gonna be paying someone to fill in gaps in their knowledge. Anyone with a laptop and an internet connection can learn to "program their way out of a paper bag" in a weekend.

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