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by jdtang13 8y ago
Damn. That's a very powerful article. Horrible exploitation that happens because of rich thrill-seekers. The "readers pick" comments are also very good on this article.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
This app is nice, but it encourages quantity and noise. Most literate people don't need to write more. They need to learn how to express themselves concisely and meaningfully: http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays&#x
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by jdtang13 8y ago
That's not true.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
You're missing the point. The purpose of the statement is to show that the speaker who says "science has superseded philosophy" can't possibly really believe in what he's saying, because he's using philosophy t
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by jdtang13 8y ago
This is such an awesome system. It completely makes sense that your mindfulness will increase when you integrate your full body with a task, using your eyesight, gestures, and voice. It's quite similar to jotting down notes using pen-a
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Wow, surprised I get to see this on the front page of Hacker News. Gnostic sects are quite interesting. I've seen a good handful jaded ex-religious people who turned to Gnostic beliefs because of their dissatisfaction with modern relig
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by jdtang13 8y ago
This is pretty much the same heuristic I use. I use Wikipedia a lot for obscure medievalist history topics, and those articles are usually very high-quality. But if you wander into a modern-day controversial topic, like "Palestine&quot
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Nice gatekeeping, friend. I've also personally never heard my math graduate student friends talk like this.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
> Admittedly, I became irrationally angry about this. It felt like an invasion of my mental space. Here I was pumping gas, already paying money to the business, why are they continuing to invade my mental space, which is the last bastion
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by jdtang13 8y ago
I hate this app. It's extremely unresponsive, doesn't know how to dismiss notifications properly, and is laggy on mobile. Some pages that are accessible from the web view don't work at all on the iOS version. And I'm 99%
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by jdtang13 8y ago
The worst ideologues are the ones who claim to be immune from ideology. It's absolutely impossible.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Spoken like a true dogmatist!
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by jdtang13 8y ago
This smells exactly like the sort of stuff you'd read in a nationalist-revised history textbook. Hindu Arabic is a fine way to describe it, since, as others have mentioned, it's exactly the Arabic-writing Persians who transmitted
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by jdtang13 8y ago
It's not like those viewers are stupid. People just see what they want to see. It's very hard to focus on an external stimulus in a way that really lifts you out of your own private world.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Good point. The commenter is (fairly) looking down on the specific category of get-rich-quick clowns, but there is an equally large number of "big idea" startup-bozos in the tech world. It's a similar delusion but articulated
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by jdtang13 8y ago
This is a really great share! Truly mindblowing.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
I think part of what explains this attitude in people is "lack of imagination". In the sense that sometimes, especially when an existing project or organization or bureaucracy has become huge and daunting, people cannot imagine ex
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by jdtang13 8y ago
It's not really about tech companies, although the tech companies don't help. Contemporary conversation about Bay Area housing always makes it sound like some impossible dream that is hampered by hordes of techies. It seems to me
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by jdtang13 8y ago
If you're a white-collar worker who is making a decent paycheck, you should definitely be accountable for the action of taking clearly-labeled food that doesn't belong to you. We should be merciful and try to help them, but that p
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by jdtang13 8y ago
I generally agree with what you're saying. It's kind of hilarious to me that so many people here don't know what "stealing" means. Have they not read the article at all? News flash: the act of stealing requires inte
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by jdtang13 8y ago
That's not stealing. That's just an unintentional mistake. Pedantic, yeah, but quite different morally.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Wow, this is actually pretty strange. It feels as if the ability to query your own food stamp information should be free and publicly accessible. But the food stamp information is hosted on Conduent private servers that are getting a huge i
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Yes, these are all good points and completely true. Westerners have been exporting their own morals onto other countries since the dawn of the Age of Exploration. I don't think this tendency is necessarily bad in and of itself, since i
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by jdtang13 9y ago
It seems pretty strange to give credit to the modern state that is now called "Bulgaria". Yogurt is also an important aspect of Indian cuisine, and it seems much more likely that Bulgarian and Indian yogurt share a common ancestor
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by jdtang13 9y ago
This article makes it seem like it's almost inevitable for video game movies to be bad, almost as if there's some objective formula which dooms video game movies to failure. For example, the author mentions something like: "s
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I agree with this. Senator Graham went into this with the totally wrong mentality. Graham tried to determine the answer before the question was even asked. Non-tech conglomerates like PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch, and Johnson & Johnson offer
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I like this article a lot. Productivity articles are usually pretty redundant, long-winded, and pretentious. I'm glad Sam Altman was able to write down some surprisingly counter-intuitive advice in a concise and unpretentious way.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I really like articles like this because it allows you to get a great glimpse of a different mode of living. And it makes you realize that a comfortable life is still very possible even without extremely advanced technology. A while ago in
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by jdtang13 9y ago
This is some really good context, so you could basically treat receiving letters like getting a very slow text message. Do you have an article or source regarding the post frequency?
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Yes, that's true. I suppose for me, the deception starts at the very beginning from Messenger's UI, which makes it look like any other texting app which uses local storage.

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