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by jlos 6y ago
>>> In social media era, everyday our adversaries are running very effective military-inspired psyops campaigns to sow division and polarization within the body politic. Am I the only one who thinks this is a 2 way street and our g
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Take some classes towards some kind of counseling certificate, specifically ones where you can observe experienced counselors. You'll see people with expert listening skills use them to help people. That's what I did and it change
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I think this is due to at least 2 factors: 1) The success of movements for gender equality actually make the excesses of those movements hard to critique. 2) Treating a problem as a choice. The problem is having a home that is relatively cl
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>> Interesting that you say it is all about confidence and self love but yet you felt the need to shave it off. If it is so relative why didn't you leave it as it is instead of trying to hide the problem with a complete shave? Hm
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I started shaving my head this year (though I'm a few years older than you). I've gotten a few thoughtless comments from people too. Just to clarify I didn't say 'just' hit the gym; I said that was the easy part. Do
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Barbers also trim beards. They will also help you decide a good look for what hair you have, even if it's shave, buzz with a fade, etc. Again, well groomed is more important than the actual cut. For the record I shave my head. But I al
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>> Not to mention my confidence has gone straight down the strain and I find it hard to focus on other aspects of my life like my work and hobbies. I'm going to suggest your loss of confidence is not an affect but likely the caus
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It's always a sad to read the comment section when discussing male attractiveness; so many people with learned helplessness. Being attractive is 3 traits: physical fitness, grooming, and sociability. The first two are easy 1. Find a sp
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LinkedIn is like every large internet gathering (Reddit, Facebook, Youtube, etc): 80% is a sea of thoughtless garbage, 15% is trivial but entertaining, and the remaining 5% is genuinely useful information and functionality that didn't
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I'm at a standing desk on a balance board and I had to get off. I got disorientated and nauseous just watching that. I can't even imagine spherical geometry with VR.
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The traits associated with technical skills definitely bump the distribution more to the side of 'neckbeard'. So, yes, most programmers are normal (well groomed, exercise, developed social skills) but the number people who show no
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I think the main reason for the investment differential between the young and the old is that spending on the elderly is typically urgent. Problems for the elderly are mostly health related and if left unfunded will means someone, somewhere
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> These people who live a vigorous life to 70, 80, 90 years of age—when I look at what those people “do,” almost all of it is what I classify as play. It’s not meaningful work. They’re riding motorcycles; they’re hiking. Which can all ha
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>> You never hear about people losing money in Vegas, only about that one time someone won big. It's the same with WSB, sort of. I'm not sure about that. This guy[0] lost his life savings investing in ornamental gourd future
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>> Do people... not plan ahead? Construction companies (on average) don't look further than the point of sale. It doesn't matter if a poorly chosen element of design in an apartment building will potentially affect thousands
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For me the contrarian impulse is that if Im arriving at the same conclusion as a large number of people, did I actually reason my way to that conclusion or am I letting unconscious social forces guide me? So, I play the devil's advoc
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I think there are actually two issues here: the incidence of violence and use of a "Content Killswitch". By a content killswitch, I mean that concerted action by 3 companies to basicaly scrub the entire internet of source materia
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Pretty sure your getting downvoted because this sounds like the advice of a professor who hasn't spent much time in an industry setting: grind algorithmic problems to succeed, only to find out past the interview that knowledge rarely g
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While I don't disagree with the Canadian government's messaging being disingenous, 7% of the entire Canadian GDP came from just resource extraction in Alberta (not to mention the ancillary industries surrounding oil and gas). Re
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The story here is Denmark's tremendous job in utilizing renewables for energy consumption [0]. The country's economy has almost no stake in oil and gas revenues. - About 2,000 persons worked in the oil and gas extraction sector in
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I would agree it's overused and often a sign the writer lacks clarity into what they are trying to communicate (aside from the more nefarious uses to obfuscate). But I think it helps to understand it's purpose instead of to say it
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The passive voice one is a common misunderstanding. Passive voice isn't bad but it's primary purpose is to allow flexibility in word order. A good rule of thumb is to have something familiar at the beginning of a sentence and some
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I wonder if this disillusionment comes from trying to combine what gives you meaning and what gives you an income. I spent most of my 20's failing to become a religious minister before switching to CS and experienced a large amount of
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While it sometimes has the connotation of a lack of skill, the contrast is the motivation: The amateur's labour out of love, as opposed to the professional who labors for practical gain.
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Nit picking here, but dogs weren't bred from wolves; they both descend from a proto-dog. Dog ancestors were scavengers that ate remains left by humans and were eventually domesticated.
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I frequently used spaced repition in my maths/physics courses to great success. The types of things I would memorize: - Key theorems - Proofs - Any kind of visualizations (e.g. statistical distributions) - Properties - Trig identities
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One of the best uses for Spaced Repitition I've found is to manufacture those "Aha!" lightbulb moments. The process works like this: 1. I create diagrams/other visuals from what seem to be important concepts from the boo
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To answer your main question - "what level of maths" do you need is more about what topics: a couple introductory classes in Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Discrete Mathematics will make that sentence understandable. I'll give
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There are trade offs with that too. If you use a home office for a write off, you have to pay tax when you sell the home
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There's a few journal's listed as sources on the side of the linked article. Didn't read through them myself, but that would probably be a good place to start.

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