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by eshvk 13y ago
> some kids find them too irresistible to let go of. It undermines real education in the end. Teaching is not my cup of tea but isn't an important life lesson teaching kids how to smell bullshit? If they can do that, surely they wil
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Soul Crushing Job with Better Pay This is not really true all the time, you know. You should probably pick up and try it out for a while.
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by eshvk 13y ago
It is pretty damn well grounded in reality. Another familiar talking point: working at our startup will be a massive learning opportunity; your twenties and thirties should really be spent learning as much as possible. You can start earning
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by eshvk 13y ago
My whole statement was meant to point out that Europeans are also to blame for not taking responsibility for their own affairs; there are no free lunches anywhere. Taking all that money and using America's army has definitely contribut
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Hopefully, you don't think the latter is OK no matter what. I never said that; just because I don't think a system is wrong doesn't mean that I think it is right. I am saying that the system is broken. It however is a co
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Exactly to avoid that charge, Allied policymakers and judges went to great lengths to ground their accusations on solid and universalistic reasoning, that could be "reused" later. I am not denying that happened. My point was
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am not sure what your point is; your statement doesn't inherently invalidate mine. There can be multiple reasons why one does something. In fact, from the same wikipedia paragraph, that you quoted, here is a chunk that you skipped ov
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by eshvk 13y ago
> At present people are harassed or turned away at the border for their published views, that policy could get worse in time, and information online lives forever (esp. if it is intercepted and stored). So it might be prudent to limit yo
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by eshvk 13y ago
Why is this surprising? America poured in money during the Marshall plan to build up Europe; NATO is essentially another arm of the American armed forces. It is you, the voting European citizen who is responsible for both closer integration
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by eshvk 13y ago
Interesting; the way non westerners thought about this was the Nuremberg trials as victors' justice. From that perspective, nothing America has been doing since then has been contradictory.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Philosophy of the Mind (which does make me cry a little inside when they don't keep up with neuroscience or even know anything about Complex Systems Theory) Can you explain more on this? I understand more neuroscience/comple
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by eshvk 13y ago
> That sort of thing can lead to looking back twenty years, thinking, "Why on Earth did I waste all that time? "waste" is subjective. Twenty years of your life working 100 hours a week in startups? Twenty years of your lif
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by eshvk 13y ago
Interesting. I see two types of assumptions (in the comments): 1. MSR does cool research projects, any one joins has a chance of working on those. A large percentage of the people who work there are research PhDs. Similarly working at Googl
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by eshvk 13y ago
> But I don't want to see the frontpage filled with articles about suicide, depression, and celebrity gossip -- that's not what I'm looking to read when I get on HN! And I assumed that others felt as I did, so seeing this
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I expressed a contrarian view (basically questioning why this article is HN material). It was contrarian; not interesting. (I think the article being on HN makes it HN material.) I find people around here not trigger happy with the in
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by eshvk 13y ago
In essence, there maybe meaning or maybe not; you probably won't find out till you are dead. By then, you are dead. This is a rabbit hole; a last question: Your goals, your aims, the time you spend deciding who to love, what to do? Why
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Personally, I'm more of an Absurdist or Nihlist, and I don't really see much of a point to life. I continue because I'm seeking some kind of meaningful death. In that journey, I've picked up many people as acquainta
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Sure, you can make mistakes attaining that goal - but the biggest mistake of all is to go through life aimlessly. Why? I am not antagonistic; I am merely curious.
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by eshvk 13y ago
I will take another go at explaining what OP said. Things you do have consequences; if you beat your wife every day, it is likely that your son will solve his problems by beating people. You will be dead soon, he will live on to inflict thi
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by eshvk 13y ago
Life is difficult. People feel their problems are insurmountable; "make an effort" feels like an American cheerleading thing. Sometimes, it is not really about the effort; if it was, you could get rid of therapists and SSRIs and
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I want to speak to an important question, though: why DO we continue? The problem with your hypothesis is that you are making an assumption that what you do is good or even valuable to the human race or whether that is a valid reason t
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Go to America. Live there for a while. Move to a red state and actually talk to people. This presumption won't seem so arrogant when you meet so many people for which there is no other logical conclusion to make. I lived in a red
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by eshvk 13y ago
You are missing the point; I don't dislike or like any of the reasons. I am merely pointing out that a simplistic model is crude.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Since I never clarified what I meant and you came up with such a specific notion, it would appear you're projecting some defensiveness here. Correct, I was taking up an example, which is why I used the phrase "one might say
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by eshvk 13y ago
Yeah, I have heard of that narrative; Steinbeck did say “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”. I still find it patronizing; it is
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I can't understand the general hostility toward getting (financial) help from your parents or living with them until you are financially independent, even after 18/25/30. Personally, I never had that support structure an
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by eshvk 13y ago
> While this hadn't occurred to me until she suggested it, I suppose it could be partially the case, but I suspect the perceived easiness (as well as the actual relative easiness) of the average liberal arts degree does a lot to inf
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by eshvk 13y ago
The problem with a flowery eastern concept misinterpreted and adopted in the west is that the original meaning gets distorted. Karma is merely a way of understanding "cause and effect". > This kind of belief is what causes so m
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by eshvk 13y ago
You are lucky the west is a guilt based culture; this glorification of sacrifice goes even further in shame based cultures.
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by eshvk 13y ago
shrugs Everyone has advantages. You being born in the U.S. or having the ability to work in the U.S. is an advantage. Hell, whatever shit that happened to you in your life that made you who you are today, that makes you wake up everyday a

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