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by jlos 5y ago
The is basically Durkheims conclusion: suicide is the outcome of sociological, rather than psychological, forces. [0] There is an argument that a lot of the mass shootings are actually better classified as a type of suicide under this model
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Our culture offers very little in the way of making life meaningful, especially for those who suffer. I don't diminish the suffering of the people who's life no longer feels worth it. In fact, many people's lives are truly un
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I didn't mean to imply Rogan is some underdog, but that Rogan and the NYT represent different approaches to the ambiguity of modernity. The NYT aims for worldview solidarity while Rogan accepts and embraces the ambiguity. I also suspec
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Modernity is marked by the requirement to choose a worldview as technology increases our interactions with others who's alternative perspectives of reality challenge and conflict with our own. This is the basic conclusion Sociologists
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I enjoy several languages but Ruby definitely ruined python for me. I used to think python seemed elegant, but everytime I've had to work with it lately I just wish it was Ruby.
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I always love a fresh perspective, but I would temper the enthusiasm around a redacted edition of a biblical text from 1919. German higher criticism (and thus all biblical scholarship at the time due to its influence prior to WW1 & WW2)
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Fission is a chain reaction, Fusion is not. A fusion reaction is so unstable that if the reactor failed the conditions for sustaining fusion would immediately stop. It's basically the hottest plasma we can make suspended in a magnetic
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It's in his book "How to think seriously about the planet: a case for environmental conservatism" Dont have the page, but the book is good enough that it's worth reading
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It's in his book "How to think seriously about the planet: a case for environmental conservatism" The book itself is worth the read on its own. He has a very specific meaning of conservatism that doesn't map well to poli
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I think the problem "de-risking" childhood is only an instance of the bigger problem of what Roger Scruton calls "Risk De-aggregation". Risk Deaggregation is taking a single point of risk (and its associated metric), and
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Don't get too excited. Labor laws were passed forcing workers to take their pre-plague and limiting their mobility. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351
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Oddly enough, you'd have better results if you asked the person to help you out instead. I'm missing the research but hand-wavy explanation is that you justify having done something for someone by becoming more attached to them. I
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by jlos 5y ago
My favourite is idiot and idiomatic, both coming from the word ἴδιος - literally meaning one's own. While idiot usually implies someone lacking intelligence, an ῐ̓δῐώτης (idiotes) is a person who lacks perspective, namely, one that is
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The distinction between "hallow" and "sacred" is a distinction that arises only due to the traditional of English translations. Sacere is the Latin. Lord's prayer is written in Koine Greek and uses ἁγιάζω (hagiadzo)
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Do you have sources to support your idea is more than just conjecture? I just finished an engineering risk management course and transporting oil by rail was unambiguously riskier.
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Every discipline (academic, artistic, practical, even athletic) deal with certain types of problems and have develop their own heuristics for dealing with those problems. And because most discipline involve not a single skill but a set of s
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Yes, ancient greek. And I think the connections are mostly indirect. In interpreting literature in another language (Latin, Greek, etc) you spend time analyzing syntax and grammar looking for the idea or intention. Programming is very diffe
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The issue is (only slightly) more nuanced: while the executives collected bonuses, they did go for a few months without pay and their overall bonus' for 2020 were lower than in previous years. It does reveals the reality of our manager
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The best parts of education is not primarily the material you remember. It's the effect on your thinking patterns as a result of studying and the familiarity with a school of thought. For example, I studied Greek before software engine
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"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Art of War 3:2
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Commute time is one of the biggest factors on your quality of life. Increasing your commute time has been to shown to: - decrease your number of friends - increase your likelihood of divorce - increase your over all mortality And then with
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I think it's at least possible these drones may actually reduce collateral damage. Some combatants work amongst civilian populations, using the potential for collateral damage in their favour. Smaller, highly targeted drones could redu
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As a junior, the best I've seen is surfacing the complexity appropriately: 1) Readable Interfaces usable by juniors when parts of the code will be used by lots of devs and will almost certainly change 2) Higher complexity behind the in
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I don't see why this is downvoted. It's a sincere and humourous mistake
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1) Main is a standing desk with a wobble board. The wobble board allows for constant micro-adjustments and also a few good 'steady' position for focusing 2) Ikea Nilserik wobble stool. This lets me "perch" in a semi stan
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Why isn't Canada or Russia, the two largest countries by land mass, included?
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"Mastering your emotions" if you mean, controlling your emotions, is not balanced or healthy. Mastering your emotions means listening to them as a critical feedback to your environment and then rationally controlling your response
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They also prevent children from deleting messages. Messenger kids has been great for my family, especially the times when we've had to self isolate and couldn't meet friends outside.
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I think its intentionally mixing messages. It combines sincere insight into the benefits of mindfulness. However, the world the narrator speaks in is clearly a fantasy world detached from reality. The video both makes a profound case for mi
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Having seen this for the first time, it seems the video is some kind of absurdist double entendre: it combines insightful comments about mindfulness while seemingly satirizing the entire enterprise of it at the same time. Some supportive po

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