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by dorchadas 4y ago
For a lot of these places there are enough houses for the people who want to live there. Or it's a whole hell of a lot closer. The issue is there's not enough houses for the people who want to live there and all the tourists
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Why should a tourist get a house? Especially if it takes away from the locals being able to actually live somewhere.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
100% true in Ireland. In 2020 the number of long-term lets doubled due to AirBnB people fleeing into long-term when tourism was basically non-existent. Sadly, they've all moved back to AirBnB by now, and Ireland is now facing the wor
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I taught high school math, there's many who rely on calculators for even the most basic calculations because they can't do them and have no concept of what it means to, say, multiply two numbers or how to even go about doing it.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Ah - I forgot he had passed. I meant the sexual misconduct issues.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Goes to show the importance of Right View with these practices as well. They don't suddenly make you a great person on their own, etc.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> Why would you ever take sleep advice from a person who celebrates being sleep deprived and admits being addicted to video games? Because he confirms what people want to hear about how they don't need as much sleep as is recommende
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Honestly, I've gotten that vibe from all of his writing I've read. Set ideas that he constantly tries to justify and then says others should follow. I'm glad he's doing a review, but even in that it doesn't seem the
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> but techbros here and elsewhere don't care about you or me or people in general and they'll think up an infinite amount of ridiculous false equivalencies before admitting the risks and real harms. I came to this realisation a
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I've been having this argument over the past few days with some friends/acquaintances in a discord server. I just keep getting told that it's all just 'sensationalist' reactions to new tech. Some of them are quite g
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by dorchadas 4y ago
This is something I've had a desire to do for a while now (either summer or winter), thanks for sharing your writings. Going to read into that, and maybe see about planning it in the future before I'm too old to reasonably do it.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
It's worse in minority languages, where the whole movement has been co-opted by well-meaning learners, who happen to share the nationality of the group who speaks the language natively and has kept it alive, calling native speakers big
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> I'm betting my reality is very common for people who grew on small towns and had to move, or for people who live in large countries where you often move around for jobs (like the USA). Yes, 100%. I met with my (high school) friend
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Absolutely loved this book. Had a class on it in my applied maths and theoretical physics masters and it was hands-down my favourite.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> * Geometric Algebra for Physicists, by Doran and Lasenby. I found the power and elegance of geometric algebra mesmerizing, and even if this book is also about physics and there may be more appropriate math-only books about geometric al
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by dorchadas 4y ago
This is my issue. I wish I had a dumber phone. Like, one that allowed only certain things by default - messaging apps, gps trackers, Spotify being the big ones. If there was one like that, I'd buy it almost immediately.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
There's also bias in the data itself . That's the difficult thing to avoid. Even down to how we phrase a question, who we collect the data from, it all introduces a bias unless we're literally harvesting all data from e
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I've found this too, even at 30. Walking on a treadmill (or using a stationary bike) while reading makes it so much easier, though I am starting to find it easy enough to read in bed without moving again. It took some time to build bac
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I want to say I completely agree with this. I think, even more, we've lost sight of what is real . People think that the internet is real, and we're losing sight that life is something in the physical world. Heads are being stuck
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I hope so, as I prefer what Pathfinder is doing a lot more. I first started getting interested in TTRPGs with 3.5e, and, to me, 5e has completely lost the feel of customisation that it had. They have finally released new races, but for the
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I don't think they're confident at all. The opposite, in fact. They're trying to kill off Pathfinder because, anecdotally, it seems like they're hemorrhaging players to 2e. They're trying to stop that, then I can gu
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Yep. The only big takeaway I've had about Guezy, from various things posted on here, is that the person feels he doesn't need to sleep as much as Walker claims and sets out to prove every little tidbit wrong that Walker ever said.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> If they leave this world today, I will be devastated, but happy that my present self is doing the best it can to be with them. Yeah, this is what's bothering me, just turning 30. Even moreso in that if something were to happen whe
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> -Spend different seasons in different places. I'm moving to Tokyo for 3 months next year as a breather. As I was a teacher, this is what I did before I moved countries. I'd spend a month or two of the summer holiday in a diff
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by dorchadas 4y ago
This is actually something that's been weighing on my mind heavily this holiday season, as I'm home in the first time for a year. It's...difficult for me. I love seeing my good friends and family, but there's also nothin
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I think you're right, but it goes a step father. They then associate that with reading in general, and liking books. Then they start to believe that self-insert dystopian YA is just as literary as, say, actual dense literature that e
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by dorchadas 4y ago
From my experience as a secondary school teacher, it's the latter which then leads to the former. Kids can't read. I'd say in my last year teaching I probably only had three kids who I would consider literate , able to read
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> There’s something about having to pour over paper bibliographies to identify first editions by spelling mistakes and print errors that really separates the wheat from the chaff. It truly is fun. In my case, it's trolling through o
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I'm in pretty much this exact situation right now (we actually all left then returned in early/mid 20s after university), and, well, it's still lonely. WhatsApp (or, in our case, Discord) is no substitution for physically bei
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Can I ask what prompted this? I've tried to change my life to fit this in the past few years, since reading Carl Honore's In Praise of Slow (released in 2005! I can only imagine what he thinks now), even down to shifting away fr

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