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Is Ringo Starr a Good Drummer?(quora.com)
4 points by gerbilly 7y ago|1 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
You are talking about 'dialectical statements' statements that contain an apparent contradiction. They are not true and false at the same time, they are only commonly understood to be a contradiction, and the point of the koan or
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by gerbilly 7y ago
No tracking, no dependence on power (I go writing at an off grid cottage), simplicity. Lots of reasons.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I get what is being referred to, but if you are implying that buddhism teaches everything is an illusion, the Buddha himself specifically warned his followers away from nihilism and solipsism. Your everyday conventional wisdom is not negate
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I haven't ever heard of the explanation you offer for why thoughts are helpful (having the appearance of control over an apparent illusion?). Thinking is required in buddhist practise, it's just not thinking about anything you ple
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dc: The RPN arbitrary precision calculator already on your Unix system(gnu.org)
2 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It runs the other way too. Developmental psychology demonstrates that you get very serious functional deficits if you deprive a young developing organism of its normal environment.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah man, enterprises optimize to make as much money as possible with as little expenses as possible. Why on earth is it that people aren't allowed to make the same optimization (greatest income with least effort) without being called
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> This means also those who are billionaires must have worked very very hard and so deserve their wealth. This is called the 'just world hypothesis' and is behind may of our victim blaming impulses. https://en.wikipe
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> deep focus work simply isn't something that is needed or even wanted in most orgs. I agree. To the company it's better if all work is done in small groups. Even though, research suggests that results are worse when working in
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by gerbilly 7y ago
My high school math teacher taught us a class where he followed this general outline, building up the number systems based on which equations we couldn't solve. Now I know where he must have gotten it from. I think it must have been ar
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> I think conservative didn't imply conserving nature as much as conserving social norms and policies. I think a conservative then and now is someone intent on preserving the structures that enable their revenue stream. Social issue
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Cry me a river for the poor optimization function.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
If you are a military force, there absolutely is a concept of entering your own territory, going back to the Rubicon. When a country deploys it's own troops internally, as opposed to the police, it's often a forerunner to martial
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Why Drinking Water All Day Long Is Not the Best Way to Stay Hydrated(time.com)
4 points by gerbilly 7y ago|1 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
No, and I didn't long to live in a race to the bottom dystopia either.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It's the difference between a difficult problem, and a complex one. I think most of us here would find complexity more interesting. Most difficult problems are difficult for uninteresting reasons (uncertainty about how some API wor
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Awesome. Who needs the hype of self driving cars if you can get rid of the cars entirely?
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The NBA's Addiction to Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches(espn.com)
3 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It was written in K&R style C (pre ANSI).
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NYTimes: 8÷2(2+2)=?(instagram.com)
2 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I recently found a really old floppy in a box. It contained the first client work I ever did for someone, around 1990 or so. It was an implementation of an algorithm for computing the inbreeding coefficient of a population. The program read
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by gerbilly 7y ago
That's the result of colonialism, which usually promotes forced assimilation into the colonizers culture. If you ask most natives in North America whey certain areas/things/animals are sacred, you might also get a 'vague
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The word 'da kine' in Hawaiian pidgin is similar. The thing with da kine is that it is never used to refer to something one is not sure about. When someone says to you: "Why didn't you come to Queens with us yesterday, t
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The Problem of Mindfulness(aeon.co)
226 points by gerbilly 7y ago|152 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I heard that people from new Orleans didn't say say "Nawlins," that it was a neologism used by people from outside the state. Is this true?
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The End of History and the Last Man (1992)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
>how do you keep yourself from become a "phone zombie"? I install only utility apps, a surf forecast app, a VPN token generator for work, and a few others. I specifically don't install any social media apps on it.¹ I also
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I'e been programming since the early eighties, and when I was zoned into it, my mom would have to call me 3 times for dinner. I would tell her I'd be there in two minutes, and to me what felt like two minutes, was really ten in re
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Group of biologists tries to bury the idea that plants are conscious(theguardian.com)
5 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments

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