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by hsitz 7y ago
". . . die on our own terms rather than on nature’s." Have you fleshed out what that might possibly mean, or how that could ever happen? Unless our body/mind is "naturally" declining (i.e., because of nature), ther
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by hsitz 7y ago
Needing to live longer is not the main problem. I'm not sure it's even a problem at all. Whatever our expected life span is, we will adapt and think of it as "too short". The main problem is to figure out how to die (1)
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by hsitz 7y ago
"Jazz Theory" is a good book, but I think the average person wanting to "learn music theory" would find the excellent "Jazz Harmony Book" by the same publisher much more accessible, certainly not easy, but by n
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by hsitz 7y ago
I didn't see any mention of in a quick look through the linked website, but the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" is one of the best resources you'll find for making the most out of text-based tools. PP goes a little beyo
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by hsitz 7y ago
Well, I would say we'd also need a little more information about the 'dissatisfied' responses. It could be that none of them worsened the person's eyesight, they were just dissatisfied with the level of improvement, or
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by hsitz 7y ago
Yeah, same George Bush. George Bush's effort to privatize social security: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_debate_in_the_... RE: Medicare Part D, that's a pretty controversial topic. In the p
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by hsitz 7y ago
A little aside, but nobody can run 12 hours a day for more than a short period of time. Running involves a lot of pounding on the joints, and muscles fatigue. In fact, the best endurance runners in the world (i.e., people who train optima
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by hsitz 7y ago
I was one of the young kids (age 15) who saved up and bought a TRS-80 in 1979. Apple IIe was definitely better, but more expensive. PET was a bit of an odd bird, with chiclet square calculator keys and built in small monitor, no real keyb
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by hsitz 7y ago
It's amusing to note the short time frame the "books won't die" idea is working with. The original Kindle came out in 2007, just over ten years ago. That's a tiny blip in the passage of history. I don't know w
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by hsitz 7y ago
If you think single-payer health insurance "necessarily would require" abolishing private insurance, then you simply have no idea what you're talking about. E.g., Canada, the UK, and France are three examples of single-payer
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by hsitz 7y ago
I moved to Seattle in 1994 and it's not clear to me that it's worse now than then. Clearly many neighborhoods are not worse, there's been a huge amount of gentrification over the 25 years I've been here. Homelessness a
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by hsitz 7y ago
I'm 56 years old, run 2500-3000 miles per year, and have many friends who do the same. I don't know of anyone with a "chronic" injury from running, and to be honest I don't even know what that might be. "Overu
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by hsitz 7y ago
There are definitely winning strategies. The issue is whether they can be reliably identified beforehand (thus rewarding skill), or whether people who implement them are just lucky (regardless of whether they believe they were skilled or n
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by hsitz 7y ago
Yes, Harry Potter is especially good because although it's written for younger readers (i.e, not difficult reading) it's well written and enjoyable for all ages. Also, you can find audio for the book as well as text in both langu
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by hsitz 7y ago
It's not necessarily related to why living near trees improves well being, but I like the idea of Shinrin Yoku, or "forest bathing": https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20190611/forest-bathing-n.
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by hsitz 7y ago
I can sort of understand someone having that opinion, but if you know running there's powerful evidence that it didn't happen (more than comes through in the linked article) and all of the alternative explanations sound very fishy
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by hsitz 7y ago
How so? If you know anything about running, you know that it would be quite simple for the guy to go out and run another race to confirm the level of his fitness. He might be a few minutes off, but it's quite easy for a marathoner to
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by hsitz 7y ago
Six windows on the same screen? That's way too crowded; I rarely have more than three. Virtual desktops are natural to use, don't enjoy working without them. I use i3wm and often move between windows using the mouse.
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by hsitz 7y ago
Yuval Noah Harari has thought this through pretty well, it seems to me. At least about why it is a problem, not necessarily with the answer. He talks about this in all his books. For intro on his thinking on this issue, see this article:
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by hsitz 7y ago
Yes, this does seem like it's closely related to a habit you develop through meditation. However, the "self-distancing" seems worse to me than meditation, since it seems to advocate taking a distance from the "true self
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by hsitz 7y ago
Exactly, I think I was editing to add that as you wrote this. Also, my guesstimate of 10 tourist murders/year may be way off. I'm guessing it's lower, certainly if only by cartel members, but not sure.
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by hsitz 7y ago
Mexico has somewhere around 18 million tourists per year, about half of whom are Americans [1]. I can't remember any being murdered, but I suppose a handful have. U.S. media loves to publicize these kinds of things so I'm pretty
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by hsitz 7y ago
I don't think many people worry about the homicide rate in Chicago when planning a trip to Chicago . Similar thing to Mexico, the homicides are contained within a pretty specific subpopulation.
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by hsitz 7y ago
This is what is going on in these races, the best women can sometimes win races where none of the best men are participating. You can easily check this by looking at race results of the women mentioned in the article at ulrasignup.com . T
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by hsitz 7y ago
The people who purchase these products may also end up quite happy, experience increased enjoyment in listening to their music (or should it be "listening to their equipment"?), and feel like they got their money's worth. If
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by hsitz 7y ago
Sorry, I thought I'd read a review of it already, so just didn't look closely to see it wasn't available yet. It looks like you can get a DRM-free beta version of the ebook on their website, with free upgrades to published ve
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by hsitz 7y ago
A new version of "The Pragmatic Programmer" recently came out. [EDIT: not available yet, only preorder at amazon, beta version available at pragprog.com.] That book is all about tools and methods that a self-taught programmer sho
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by hsitz 7y ago
I'm not following. What good is it to have equivalent of "this.a=x.a this.b=x.b ..." in Excel, when what I need is to have this in code in my editor? Are you saying you use Excel to create the code, then copy/paste it
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by hsitz 7y ago
> But you'll spend the money on rent. Bingo! That's exactly what the linked article is about. How much extra are you paying in rent? How much are you saving on transportation? What are total costs of [rent + transportation]
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by hsitz 7y ago
>Housing doesn’t have to be a commodity at all. It can easily be an unconditional human right. I don't think you know what a commodity is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity In fact, I think it would make

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