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by halfcat 6y ago
It works, but usually people have a wildly unrealistic expectation of “works”. When you meditate regularly, you’re building this tiny sliver of ability around awareness. In practice, it may be that you build a fraction of a second of awaren
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by halfcat 6y ago
> By definition trade in capitalism is done willing. The definition of capitalism, and the world in which capitalism operates, are different. The final transaction between buyer and seller is voluntary. But all of the backend infrastruct
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by halfcat 6y ago
I wish there were more interviews with Daniel Schmachtenberger. His interview on Eric Weinstein’s podcast [0] was also great. [0] https://youtu.be/_b4qKv1Ctv8
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by halfcat 6y ago
> There are company now that sell drives with special WORM firmware. Like what? I’d love to check this out.
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by halfcat 6y ago
> should > According to me. > I could probably go on, but that would be gratuitous This is a problem for your argument. You could go on indefinitely, but it would never move your argument forward by a non-zero value. Are you famili
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by halfcat 6y ago
I find most of this article to be “successful people can’t explain why they are successful so they say a bunch of arbitrary things they’ve noticed”. He found success pursuing relative advantages, infrastructure advantages, and building cust
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by halfcat 6y ago
> Then I got my cholesterol checked during a routine blood work and it was through the roof. WTF? Anyone know better than me about this? This is not necessarily a bad sign, but you should talk to your doctor about getting more advanced c
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by halfcat 6y ago
> People should really look at minimizing their intake of animal fats. Both for ethical and health reasons. I’m all for the ethical angle. Factory farming is horrific. But why health? I certainly haven’t read every study out there, but I
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by halfcat 6y ago
> I don't really have any clever advice beyond that, it just sucks. I found BJ Fogg’s behavior model [0] useful. His model let’s you plot a behavior on a graph. If you create two plots for two behaviors, the one closest to the top-r
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by halfcat 6y ago
Redesign police departments with separation of roles and responsibilities. In most any other organization, especially ones where there aren’t enough qualified workers, you don’t have one main role where the entry level people and under perf
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by halfcat 6y ago
The biggest problem with trading is unrealistic expectations. If people believed they could become a medical doctor by taking a weekend boot camp, you would see extremely high failure rates. But that high failure rate would not suggest that
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Ask HN: What are your book purchasing and sharing habits in the digital age?
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by halfcat 10y ago
You would usually not try to block Tor at the network level. You would lock down your computers so employees can't make changes, and only allow them to run executables from locations which they have no write access to.
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by halfcat 10y ago
A budget mindset is helpful here, often critical. You need a time budget: brain dump your tasks, estimate time required for each task, put tasks on a calendar, repeat daily/weekly. I have never found a perfect method or tool to triage
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by halfcat 11y ago
> there are well-documented health issues with standing all day It's almost as if we are all going to die eventually no matter what we do.
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by halfcat 12y ago
> What is a woman? This is a serious question. No, it's not. Thanks for the discussion.
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by halfcat 12y ago
As a Windows/VMWare/Exchange/Cisco admin, this is all completely foreign to me. Does this indirectly make a case for paying a vendor real money to manage their product properly? All vendors we work with provide installers tha
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by halfcat 12y ago
Yes, but it should be noted that to see this speed up you can only do read caching. You can do write buffering in RAM but you need to mirror it to another node or you risk data loss in a power outage situation. RAM-over-network is roughly e
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by halfcat 12y ago
> What does it mean to act like a woman? You think you know. Name a behavior, I guarantee I can name a woman who does not engage in said behavior. There is no set of "woman behaviors". If you want me to make a wild guess at a
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by halfcat 12y ago
There is a line from a post apocalyptic TV show: "Ain’t nothing sadder than an outdoor cat that thinks he’s an indoor cat" . Why is it considered "misbehaving" when men don't act like women? We have advanced to a r
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by halfcat 12y ago
What is "fun"? It's some state of neurons firing in our brains, or some chemical state. Why do you suggest that watching movies is "real" fun, while pressing a button is not? Don't kid yourself, we are not robo
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by halfcat 12y ago
If he chose a lower paying, more noble job, would the hedge fund leave his position unfilled?
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by halfcat 12y ago
> I believe a huge number of artists would not bother to make sense of monthly records which could reach 1800 pages I don't understand this argument at all, which suggests that reviewing a monthly report is an O(n) task. Spotify,
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by halfcat 12y ago
> I think you underestimate the complexity of a database that grows by 20 million records per month Why does it need to grow per month? Create a new database each month and archive. > So what, they should all hire data analysts? To
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by halfcat 12y ago
This is how it usually goes with my wife: Wife: (looking at me suspiciously) Me: "Are you confused?" Wife: (nods yes) Me: "Do you know who I am?" Wife: (shakes head no) Me: "I am your husband" Wife: (looks at m
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by halfcat 12y ago
>while it would be incredibly difficult to go through this, it would be harder if she woke up the next morning and didn't want to acknowledge or know about what had happened the night before It's not that bad. Once you go throu
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by halfcat 12y ago
Imagine if today, someone walked up to you and started telling you who you really were. They even have pictures to prove what they are saying is true. You have no memory of any of it. Are you going to believe them? My wife has these episo
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by halfcat 12y ago
>IMO, Stephen King has not written anything great In your opinion, who has? What should I read to see great writing? Genuinely interested.
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by halfcat 12y ago
>Dropbox is not a backup. Dropbox is a file sync service with some limited backup features Agreed. Dropbox is more of a consumer disaster recovery solution than a backup solution. If your computer hard drive dies, you lose zero data. O
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by halfcat 12y ago
>In general, avoid the kind of stuff that might be in a movie about running a startup—meeting with lawyers and accountants Where is the line that says you move from "project" to needing to have your legal ducks in a row? All

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