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by gerbilly 7y ago
Neurasthenia is the old word for burnout syndrome. They seems very closely related. Compare, these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurasthenia#Contemporary_opin... https://www.mind-body-health.net/index
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by gerbilly 7y ago
They are native to New York yes, the eastern grey squirrel is a north american species.¹ However, the squirrels in Central Park, were deliberately introduced. It's unclear whether they were absent from Manhattan naturally, or whether t
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> several days without sleep In my experience, lack of sleep is not required to induce burnout. The progression can be very gradual.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Google maps simply does not know what it's talking about. I never rely on it or any GPS. One time in Martinique, it sent me down a road that had been closed for five years. I bought a Michelin printed roadmap after that, it showed that
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Liked to Death: Is Instagram and Social Media Ruining Travel?(expertvagabond.com)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Earlier than that there was a list of ftp sites giving a summary of what was available on each.
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Thinking Like a Mountain [pdf](uky.edu)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I know what you mean. However we might not be awash in deer if we hadn't first 'culled' all the predators. Wolves for example.¹ 1: http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/AppalFor/Readings/leopold.pdf
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At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor(theatlantic.com)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> It's not folksy. Almost every architect I've talked to would love to build a mid/high rise with it. I didn't mean 'folksy' as an insult. I was just surprised that google would propose a material outside t
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The wood and timer building are surprisingly folksy, I agree. However the awnings will do nothing to prevent windblown snow from accumulating. I mean if they did, then you'd see Torontonians install all kinds of non IOT awnings for thi
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> I appreciate the level of innovation and forward thinking that Google is doing here. I don't really see much innovation in their plan beyond solutions in search of a problem. What they really want is the data about citizens, I don
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Ok, so we know the framework does not contain all these supposedly bad things¹, but what does the framework do exactly? 1: Reminds me of Golang, which likes to define itself as a set of 'negative liberties' (No exceptions, no in
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by gerbilly 7y ago
My advice is to start from where you are right now. Are you stressed out? Then try and calm yourself a bit. What good could you do right now for someone else of for the world? Now go do it. How did it turn out? Reflect, and make note of wh
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Libra Coin Explained on CoinTalk Podcast(player.fm)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Because everything in nature is eaten by or eats something else, and that the whole system tends towards equilibrium over time.
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Jamaica's central bank is using reggae to promote inflation target(cbc.ca)
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Is Kubernetes Too Complicated?(medium.com)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> This is a non-peer-reviewed paper with zero credibility... All right, all right, perhaps we can we have some respect for other professions around here? You know the human world isn't the robot world, it's not built on 'd
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> when you pull a fish up from a hundred-plus yards underwater quickly, they tend to not survive if you do toss them back I see, so you're doing them a favour. The only thing that still seems a bit off is, who gets to define them as
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> the mate on the boat just smashes it against the rail and tosses it overboard Do you endorse this behaviour then, killing an animal for no good reason?
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by gerbilly 7y ago
You don't necessarily need class diversity, though that would be nice, you need psychological diversity.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The fact that these kind of shock videos are even a thing, kind of disproves your point.¹ There are also people who are habituated with cutting into living bodies (surgeons) but the difference is they are highly paid. It's a bit unfair
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Very few people want to see real videos of animals being tortured. In fact it's their very realness that makes them especially horrifying.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
This might be an opportunity for facebook to do a lot of real good for the world. They should have an investigative unit that tracks down the source of this material and partners with law enforcement so we can catch the bastards doing and p
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I like Java and Spring, but I don't use Spring boot. Note that just because the recent tutorials out there mention Spring Boot, doesn't mean you can't wire together a Spring app either through config files or programatically.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Spring and Java aren't junk. I like Go for some things, but when using it I miss many things from Java: * I can connect to the running JVM and change log levels, and other parameters live. * I can debug a Java file that has compilation
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by gerbilly 7y ago
These are all theoretical benefits, if you can't afford a decent place to live and feel like you have to delay having kids till 38.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The money has slowly been taken out of everything. It's a deliberate program. When a new market opens up, like say the internet in the 90s, then the investors and the people in charge will allow some of us to be overpaid for a while. I
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah that's me quoted above, and yes arguing against smartphones. I believe smartphones are a net loss to people's happiness. All of these liberating technologies are fun for the early adopters, but then become oppressive once you

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