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by eldude 10y ago
Procrastination is a lack of motivation, which itself is a combination of self-interest + self-efficacy (expected probability of success). I overcame procrastination / lack of motivation when I read this article[1], effectively summari
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by eldude 11y ago
Or buy a nitrogen or argon system[1] for about the same price ($200 v $300), but which instead is compatible with any bottle and lasts indefinitely after opening instead of 30 days. Or just buy the gas directly for $20[2], which in theory w
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by eldude 11y ago
Overall, an excellent and very balanced article, especially the care taken to address what neuroplasticity really means, and what it doesn't, as well as the current state of research. The conflation of "personal-transformation&quo
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by eldude 11y ago
Federalism and the 10th amendment exist for a reason. If you want to do anything about this, support a candidate in support of strong state's rights.
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by eldude 11y ago
What a ridiculously useless and distracting comment stemming from ignorance on the origins of morality. Even secular morality originates from some manner of cultural common good. In this case, I'm obviously alluding to the morality ass
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by eldude 11y ago
Hypothetically, when pollution removal becomes a logistical issue, how will it affect technological progress? Forget present biases, how does society change when waste pollution becomes merely a business cost? What technological achievement
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by eldude 11y ago
I believe the parent was calling you out on your BS. You claimed to care about the truth, but actually misunderstood and mischaracterized me. Then when the ignorance of your original statement became obvious, rather than acknowledge your ga
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by eldude 11y ago
> I doubt you could concisely articulate anything if your preceding contexts depended upon it. Umm.... My "preceding contexts depended upon it"? First, as stated, the preceding contexts were not mine. Second, concisely articula
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by eldude 11y ago
EDIT: I believe you are misunderstanding the meaning of my previous comment based on its use of indefinite pronouns and how it was physically structured relative to the quote block. Rather than rehash it here, please re-read it.[1] EDIT 2:
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by eldude 11y ago
You're mistaken. You might want to ignore race [...] I neither appreciate the defaming mischaracterization resulting from your mistake, nor do I appreciate the casual and irresponsible manner in which you do so: police m
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by eldude 11y ago
"my argument is based [...] on facts, [...] yours ... on nonsense, [they're] not comparable." I said your stance was based on presumptions, mine on facts, which are by definition incomparable since one is the basis
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by eldude 11y ago
You falsely conclude that I have a singular (implicitly subjective) "real issue", to which I "offer" "no other explanation." In fact, despite your projecting, by "real" / "original" iss
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by eldude 11y ago
You're misunderstanding, mischaracterizing, and conflating your own arguments. It's a rhetorical appeal to authority, so implicitly, in addition to anyone who shares my respect for and identifies with the values of the American le
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by eldude 11y ago
I'm not ignoring institutional racism, merely not assuming it, which is consistent with the American justice system tenet of never presuming guilt, even when you really want to and everyone around says you should. You're making a
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by eldude 11y ago
The only irony here is your complete failure to understand my original comment and your own failure to provide reasoning for your own false conclusion. Based on the facts in the OP and parent comment, I was disassembling the race-baiting rh
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by eldude 11y ago
So, you focus on attacking my point with insinuation and equivocation, yet ignore the exploitative anti-intellectual (fact-less) position of the TechCrunch author, whose sole contribution to the story was to inject race? Conveniently, you i
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by eldude 11y ago
You mean the non-specific 2nd-hand quote from the officer that makes up the entirety of the justification for the race baiting and exploitative behavior? "Yup. That’s who I thought it was." Like I said, it's an intel
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by eldude 11y ago
Exactly. Exploiting his race to further a political narrative as the author has done, is both intellectually feeble and misdirects away from the real issue: authoritarian government behavior targeted at school children.
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by eldude 11y ago
> In short, Ahmed was arrested for making while brown. This sort of demagoguery masquerading as journalism has got to stop. Upvoting exploitative personal political propaganda like this contributes to an atmosphere of narrow-mindedness o
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by eldude 11y ago
Procrastination is a rational emotional response that the outcome will probably not be worth the effort. Essentially, our body shuts down to conserve energy (resting) until we get to a point (waiting) where we feel a successful outcome is
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by eldude 11y ago
Yes. I'm aware. I was trying to be as terse as possible on the diverting topic. It's disputed whether past singular they was considered grammatically correct at the time, despite the source. Of course, then you have to define what
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by eldude 11y ago
Please don't stop looking for a cofounder. It's true that all it additionally takes to be a solo-founder is self-discipline, but as a human being you are psychologically and emotionally unequipped to deal with this. Let me explain
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by eldude 11y ago
You're continuing to controversialize and divert from the original conversation. That said... > I think I only get ten [downvotes] a day, so I save them for the really annoying comments. 10 downvotes a day? Please reconsider your be
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by eldude 11y ago
There are no gendered pronouns in her blog post.[1] At first, I was surprised to find I falsely assumed she was male in spite of evidence to the contrary, and was going to thank you for making me more aware of my own oversight. Upon review,
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by eldude 11y ago
This is a really entertaining writing style: technical enlightenment through demonstration via humorous examples. For the lazy (and additional humorous demonstration), I wish he'd provided an example gif showing it in action (i.e., Gi
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by eldude 11y ago
So Facebook rightly fears a backlash from implicit location collection because they are offering next to nothing in exchange. Do GoogleMaps, Runkeeper, etc...? No, of course not. Their value proposition is clear. Conclusions: Users aren&#x2
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by eldude 11y ago
I really like all the effort startups are putting into making employee equity more valuable, so awesome job here Coinbase! However, I was disappointed by the headline because I'm always hoping to see someone come up with a solution to
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by eldude 11y ago
I agree with the need/value of side-effect/pure annotations. From a debugging perspective though, there are 2 alternative solutions: Aspect Oriented Programming (i.e., mutation observations) and Immutable data types (e.g., Object
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by eldude 11y ago
So..... Could someone help me understand how we are simultaneously seeing a Seed Surge, a Series A Crunch, and a surge in $ filtering into "startups" from rich investors looking to increase ROI due to low interest rates? In other
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by eldude 11y ago
While well articulated, this post is bloated with alarming entitlement and a lot of misunderstandings. In short, he largely claims to know what's better for people than the market (i.e., themselves) while lamenting his loss of power an

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