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by financltravsty 2y ago
Defeatist mindset, no?
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The problem is non-profits are not optimal vehicles for societal change. And indiscriminately throwing a large lump sum at organizations that haven't grown to be accustomed to managing themselves in that sort of environment can have de
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Correlation or causation: sensory issues leading to food preferences and therefore different biome?
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Or I could lobby for patent reform so one person doesn't hold up the progress of everyone else via selfishness.
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Why would you artificially encumber a significant invention from benefitting the world just because you don't have the wherewithal to sell it? Seems awfully self-centered.
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Don't know why this -- or a bunch of your other posts -- are dead. But the reason is the rest of the countries that don't have this problem take care of their people (positively and negatively, e.g. social services or prison). For
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Burnout, Mental Health, and Not Being Okay(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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Ah, Joey! That's the one. Yes, I think a big factor was his early life and then further drug "adventures" (was put on adderall at 5 y.o. -- by his admission -- become dependent on it and then fell into meth and the rest). If
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Depends on compression ;)
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When will Mikey boy get help for his virulent anti-authoritarian/anti-establishment/anti-social/anti-everything-but-the-Church attitude? I'm a big fan of his insights -- the same way I am of Marx -- but that doesn't
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by financltravsty 2y ago
There was a Microsoft employee a while ago that had a psychotic break and stabbed some of his employees at the Redmond campus; I know another one from Intel that got sick of it all and went to start a brewing company in Columbia with a wife
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by financltravsty 2y ago
I'm converting 525g to 0.525kg. Is that false precision? (I ask seriously, only remembering about precision in astrophysics)
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Introversion and extroversion is not a static spectrum, it slides depending on circumstances. If I'm in a work environment, or somewhere action-oriented, or discussing something practical or intelligent, I am the biggest extrovert on t
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by financltravsty 2y ago
#2 is basic practical conversation -- i.e. put your damn ego aside and actually interact with the person in front of you. Granted this can become exhausting with people who socialize without any care for those around them; but this is basic
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by financltravsty 2y ago
Debra Harrel made the terrible mistake of being: black, lower income, and living in the South while black and lower income. Meanwhile you have gangs of roving kids in Philadelphia robbing and beating people up. And you have elementary schoo
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by financltravsty 2y ago
Yes, I don't think third places would be a fix -- only a band-aid. The problem is much deeper. Most likely the atomization and disintegration of human relationships; of which, I think globalism is a prime cause.
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by financltravsty 2y ago
What's the point in using a specific, local example to discredit a generalized, global statement? N.B. These drive-by quips go against the ethos of HN.
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Lockdowns have completely stunted the emotional and social growth of the young -- making worse the effects of constant connectivity to the internet. Children have always been rowdy, and some would say lacking in manners, but they were alway
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by financltravsty 2y ago
One of many factors. Another is the dissolution of community and intimate time spent with other people (especially outside one's demographic) leading to what is basically insanity: thoughts and behaviors with no external "sanity c
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Parent isn't saying he doesn't believe in it; he's saying: put your money where your mouth is if you're going to be causing such a fuss about things, and actually put energy into efforts that move the needle -- rather th
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by financltravsty 2y ago
The plausible mechanism is placebo which is mediated by the autonomous nervous system. The same mechanism at play with back pain via either chiropractic (placebo) and the majority of spinal surgeries (placebo). Engineers and logical types t
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by financltravsty 2y ago
Perhaps your version of bigots, but I can handle the ones I interact with much better personally with a different approach than -- paraphrasing -- "fuck all bigots." I think the absolutionist path is wrong. I don't care about
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by financltravsty 2y ago
These are not trans people like you see in the anglosphere. The same way Alexander the Great or Telemachus or Sappho or any other ancient Mediterranean were not gay in the modern sense. Western culture's version of trans/gay&#
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by financltravsty 2y ago
Philosophy is mostly wordcellery. Hard sciences are shape rotation. One is basically stochastic parottism, and the other is dealing with reality. Philosophy has no end-game or practical applications. You can make anything up, and so long as
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Love the blurb in your bio.
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Name and shame -- they don't need any investment from the community.
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Search engines are dying. Information retrieval and recommendation engines are still mostly living in the dark ages from all the work that's been done in the last 50 years. Figure that problem out first (something novel and useful), th
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Damage to the brain causes damage to the HPTA. HPTA damage leads to out of "whack" hormones, leading to knock off problems. Hormone replacement would remedy some of these issues. The same can be seen in people under chronic stress
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An interesting thought popped off in my head: what if it does, and the crowd that leans heavily into enthusiast firearm usage is giving themselves micro-TBIs -- could that over the years create certain changes in personality and psychologic
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"It's hard to describe the difference"

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