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by djeastm 1y ago
As former enlisted myself, I don't understand why they need to be in the military to serve as advisors. No one's going to treat them like real LTCs anyway (outwardly they will, of course, but not with the same respect).
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by djeastm 1y ago
>you’re assembling prefab plywood homes while they’re building marble mansions Which one are there more of nowadays, hm?
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by djeastm 1y ago
I agree if your intention is to only make desktop applications. But if you have in mind a hybrid app or a team with web experience only who are ok with making compromises on performance and/or UI, it's a tradeoff that people are r
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by djeastm 1y ago
Well most know better than to put it that way, I'd think. If they don't then that's something they can work on.
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by djeastm 1y ago
I think they're going for the idea that it's an addictive mobile app engineered by a 23 billion dollar publicly-traded company ostensibly meant to help people learn but focused nowadays on extracting money as fast as possible. It&
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by djeastm 1y ago
In my own personal experience, the pen and paper is actually a very important tool of memory to which tapping on a phone doesn't compare.
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by djeastm 1y ago
I learned a foreign language as an adult, but the way I did it was by being an Army linguist who spent a year and a half in full-time training with native speakers, plus multiple re-trainings for the next five years. I have no idea how peop
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by djeastm 1y ago
And not a reference, footnote or bibliography in sight. Just another business journalist with an agenda. No thank you.
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by djeastm 1y ago
We know incredibly little about exactly what our brains are, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it
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by djeastm 1y ago
In my experience it depends on who the single person is in the pecking order.
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by djeastm 1y ago
>Painting didn't die from photography. Commercial portrait painters died out pretty fast.
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by djeastm 1y ago
>But somewhere over the years, I must have burned out of my dopamine reserves or something, because apps like Anki feel now actively off-putting, in the sense that I lose all energy just looking at them This resonated with me. I think th
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by djeastm 1y ago
Most coders would have code cleaning tools in their IDEs that would take care of that automatically.
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by djeastm 1y ago
Yeah this is the perspective to have. If we ever want to feel young again we can go visit with older relatives. What I fear is the day when I have no more older relatives. I hope I can be as serene about aging as my grandparents, who are in
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by djeastm 1y ago
>they even cite at their FAQ about the need of going outside the app if you want 'fluency Sure, they've got that fig leaf covering them.
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by djeastm 1y ago
Can you elaborate on how? Besides the obvious of seeking out a bereaved family member and purchasing their home/belongings on the cheap, of course
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by djeastm 1y ago
>mob rule Unless there's some kind of threat of physical force involved it's not. It's just a critical mass of people having opinions you don't like and voicing those opinions. If the market of ideas decides your idea
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by djeastm 2y ago
Maybe those groups are better at disguising themselves.
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by djeastm 2y ago
If I remember my teenage years, perception feels a lot like reality.
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by djeastm 2y ago
>No one "wants" to be addicted Not consciously, no. But our conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg, half-filled with post-hoc rationalizations for numerous unconscious urges. We don't have to call them "wants&q
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by djeastm 2y ago
I'd be interested to hear what she has to say about the experience
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by djeastm 2y ago
> I can play along to a song I like, play a song that is a certain memory, jam with friends at a whim You can do any of those things without learning to read music. Ask me how I know
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by djeastm 2y ago
>They no longer even have paper sets of encyclopedias. They don't publish many of them anymore as paper sets. I used to love them, but Wikipedia changed everything
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by djeastm 2y ago
Not if access to those things are limited while providing opportunities for other things that people enjoy. You don't replace enjoyable things with unenjoyable things and expect the child to become a well-adjusted adult. You give them
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by djeastm 2y ago
>Uninformed consent is not consent. True, but a Terms of Service document is the vehicle by which you are informed and consenting. If you're not willing to read the information you're choosing to remain uninformed.
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by djeastm 2y ago
Due diligence is a sliding scale. Work at a webdev agency is "get it done as fast as possible for this MVP we need". Work at NASA or a biomedical device company? Every line of code is triple-checked. It's entirely dependent o
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by djeastm 2y ago
https://pen.org/book-bans/pen-america-index-of-school-book-b...
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by djeastm 2y ago
He made the mistake of not already being wealthy before he manipulated the currencies. It's truly funny reading this when the US stock market is manipulated at will. I'm not trying to be political, just remarking on the absurdity
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by djeastm 2y ago
> a particular section of society has done very well from the status quo Name me a country where this is not the case. The only thing we've failed to do is educate enough of our people to prosper as a deindustrialized nation. That a
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by djeastm 2y ago
Wow you had these at-the-ready, didn't you. Thanks. *I've read through a few of these and it seems like perhaps Trump still thinks it's 2018/19, but China's position has only gotten stronger. It seems the attempt to

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