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by jlos 4y ago
Forgiveness is about your commitment to move on from the wrong independent on the other person's action. It is more often an ongoing personal effort, and one you should always aim for after allowing space for appropriate anger. Reconci
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by jlos 4y ago
It is just as difficult to learn how communicate technical material to peers and lay audiences as it is to learn the technical material itself. Before becoming a dev I spent almost a decade training and involved in Christian ministry, a sur
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by jlos 4y ago
Anything that helps you identify your values so you can align your habits and routines with them: - Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl (existential psychologist and holocaust survivor - some principles of finding meaning in life
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by jlos 5y ago
Healthy lifestyle you enjoy is the true path to sustainably healthy weight and it requires only 2 things: 1. Physical activities that are fun with people you enjoy being around. - There is at least 1 sport you enjoy (try racket sports or c
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by jlos 5y ago
I think this is just one example of the continued erosion of private space. We see innocuous examples in social media platforms where day to day life becomes performance, pornography where the intimate becomes a public display, twitter wher
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by jlos 5y ago
Agree work is important; A bad job can really suck the life out of you like nothing else, totally true. I'm definitely not advocating staying in jobs you hate! >> A well-balanced life can only be achieved with a satisfactory job
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by jlos 5y ago
A meaningful job is only a part of building a meaningful life. The questions your asking may be a sign your placing too much existential weight on a job instead of actively working to have a meaningful life in every aspect. Are you active
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by jlos 5y ago
I think you misunderstood. A Random acceptance above an achievable standard (e.g average marks of 80%) would reduce racial disparities. It doesn't matter what races are the top performers, it just matters how many people can achieve th
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by jlos 5y ago
One of the best ideas I've heard for college admissions is the following: - Small percentage (10-20%) based purely on performance (either academic or athletic) - All other admitted applications drawn randomly from a pool who achieve a
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by jlos 5y ago
My working theory for the growth in the religiously unaffiliated is that they demographic of people who would have been nominal religious attendees a few decades ago. The number of people who attend church weekly (i.e. those with strong rel
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by jlos 5y ago
So after a couple years of the money gun from federal governments to keep companies afloat, a record number of them are cashing out at what they must think is the top? Am I wrong in being completely cynical in thinking that our governments
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by jlos 5y ago
I think Typora has far and away the best document editing experience of all the note software out there, but I wonder if they have released a paid 1.0 too late. Document editing is only a part of maintaining a system of notes and there ar
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by jlos 5y ago
Good luck retiring in most major Canadian cities if you don't already own real estate there.
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by jlos 5y ago
I'm not familiar with Kriss or Tao Lin, but First Things, while predominantly Catholic, is ecumenical. They have regular columns from protestants, Jews, Muslims, and even Peter Thiel. I've found they will print some authors from o
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by jlos 5y ago
Ah that's correct. Thanks for the clarification.
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by jlos 5y ago
I met one of the individuals responsible for introducing the heavy tax on cigarettes in the province of Alberta. He said it was fairly simple, The province needed more money and from the data they found that cigarette prices were inelastic.
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by jlos 5y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned Lea Verou's "CSS Secrets" [0]. Most books I've read will give some depth at how aspects of CSS work, or recommend a best practice, but Verou's work is the only one I've seen
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by jlos 5y ago
Just watched an interesting presentation by Shanna Swan, who has a book out on this exact topic[0]. I haven't looked into the veracity of her claims but basically her argument is as follows: TL;DR - its chemicals in the environment, pa
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by jlos 5y ago
While there are obviously genuine environmental concerns, Calgary's decline seems to me a combination of two major forces. First and foremost is economic opposition from the US, who went from the largest consumer of Canadian oil to its
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Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data(cbc.ca)
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by jlos 5y ago
Within healthy communities the need for meaningful human interaction is spread out among the community and not placed solely on your spouse. Therefore, I suggest a large driver of marital loneliness arises because marriage is not capable, o
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by jlos 5y ago
So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I actually enjoy YouTube's recommendation algorithm, though I do make an effort to point it in the right direction. One example is guitar players: I'm an active guitarist, I'
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by jlos 5y ago
FYI its "hoi polloi": - Hos is the Greek definitive article (i.e. "the") - Pollos is a Greek word, most generally, meaning "many' - They are used with the nominative plural ('oi' ending) - In Greek, t
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by jlos 5y ago
Chiastic structures are one of the most common forms of Hebrew Poetry. In fact, a chiasm is really a subset of a parallelism, which is what Hebrew poetry is primarily based on(English poetry, by contrast, is primarily based on meter). The s
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by jlos 5y ago
Should've gotten some Canadian lawyers involved in GPL. Due to the combined heritage of English and French (Quebec) Canada has both Civil law (French) and Common Law (English).
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by jlos 5y ago
Low intensity, high volume works so well in so many arenas. As a former guitar teacher this is what I would recommend to students, especially the younger kids: - pick the same time everyday. - just start by playing for 5-10 minutes. Don&#x2
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by jlos 5y ago
It's not just the sugar, it's the sugar in combination with other ingredients. Even the example you gave the fat is 10x as high and obviously has no fibre. The nutrient density of fruits is magnitudes higher than sweets. And water
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by jlos 5y ago
Revenue neutral is a campaign slogan and nothing close to the policies that are typically put forward. I'm not saying there is no such thing as revenue neutral carbon tax, but when the rubber hits the road, revenue neutral on the campa
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by jlos 5y ago
There is simply no simple way to address Climate Change like there was with CFC's in the 90s. - 1/3 of emissions come China which has an autocratic leadership accountable neither to its people or the global community. - 70% of emi
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by jlos 5y ago
Are you sure it's your accent and not your command of the language? Your comment has several grammatical errors, lacks common English idioms, and has some ambiguities that make it difficult to understand. > also get fluent speaking

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