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by helmholtz 6y ago
It's funny that that reminded me of James Damore. After his memo, there was I think an NYT article interviewing some women at Google's campus about their thoughts. One of them said something to the effect of "I just like to c
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by helmholtz 6y ago
Eh, in hindsight, maybe I should have left out that part since it detracts from my other point. It's just an aesthetic thing. For instance, I really don't like the word 'purposely'. I never saw it used before the interne
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by helmholtz 6y ago
Haha, fair enough, you mentioned it twice now, so I concede that I might be kinder, but I'm still not kind per se! I suppose I was burnt by a youth spent yearning to escape and hence the reactions. I promise I'm pretty harmless in
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by helmholtz 6y ago
And from the other side, there are remote mountain towns in the Himalayas full of some of the kindest, most hospitable people ever. So perhaps being packed like sardines isn't an optimal human state.
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by helmholtz 6y ago
> Europeans will be upset. To an extent, they are. But most of the conversation here seems to be about refugees and asylum seekers rather than legal immigrants. It helps that I'm more than willing to adopt the European way of life:
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by helmholtz 6y ago
I did arrive here a bit before 30, but I've been pretty lucky with it. In fairness, most of my friends are from work, so I got lucky. I've also been able to find love here. I firmly believe that if you go to a country eager to imp
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by helmholtz 6y ago
I'm an Indian abroad. Do it. Come here to Europe. The baseline level of self-awareness in people here is off the scale when you compare it to the typical Indian. People actually queue, instead of creating a melee at every counter. You&
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by helmholtz 6y ago
Why companies won't name their products after the launch years I will never understand. Car companies seem to do just fine with it. Xbox 2001, Xbox 2005 etc.
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by helmholtz 6y ago
Yup. Already using it with anyone who will bother with it. I deleted Facebook way back when, on the basis that anyone who couldn't be bothered to find me via another route probably didn't care that much for me to begin with. Will
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by helmholtz 6y ago
Might I ask what password manager you use? And what do you do when you need to access websites from a machine that isn't yours? Also, did you consider the single-point-of-failure argument? I would like to know your opinion on that.
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by helmholtz 6y ago
It heartens me to know that this sentiment is spreading. I have some black and white rules set up for myself. The day Whatsapp stops encrypting chats is the day I jump ship. The day Youtube blocks access to those using uBlock, I'll sto
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by helmholtz 6y ago
You don't mean to be mean, but then follow it up with such a tasteless and repugnant comment. God help those in your life if this really is your attitude towards living, breathing humans.
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by helmholtz 6y ago
Wait, why thermodynamics? The first law of thermodynamics is about conservation of energy not of information.
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by helmholtz 6y ago
I also respect people more when they succeed at their full time job and then talk about how they did it, rather than full-time hucksters. My problem with Cal, I guess, is how he writes. He's not an author, but a 'blog writer&#x2
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by helmholtz 6y ago
Indeed. Cal Newport is a classic example of modern "authors" who take 20 of their most popular blogposts and combine them into a barely-coherent rambling mess and publish it. Then they appear on Joe Rogan, Rich Roll, Tim Ferriss a