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by joaomacp 9y ago
Learned Helplessness is a really curious subject. I think the current capitalist system in western countries relies heavily on this mechanism - "I must work for many hours, otherwise I will become unemployed, so I am bound to this life
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by joaomacp 9y ago
Beautiful comment! It really lines up with my experiences. Especially the fact that "you may not even realize you learned until after the fact". Most skills I have, I cannot point to a specific point in time when I learned them, i
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by joaomacp 9y ago
It's not slavery, because you're not forced to do it. You signed a contract agreeing to those conditions.
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by joaomacp 9y ago
Sure, but also a lot of money to be lost. And you can only lose so much before you go broke.
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by joaomacp 9y ago
The media always focuses on the negative: if kids were really fighting more and being more aggressive, the titles wouldn't be "Kids are more corageous than their parents were". They would be more like "Did we create a vi
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by joaomacp 9y ago
22 here. I agree with everything except the ads part. Me and my friends are so used to identifying and quickly ignoring ads from a young age, that they have become largely uneffective on us. Comparatively my not-so-techie friends and family
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by joaomacp 9y ago
> are there lessons from browsers that we can integrate into the OS? Windows 10 is working on adding tab navigation to all windows: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/tabs-come-to-every-w...
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by joaomacp 9y ago
I agree. I've concluded it's good to have this self-improvement mindset, even if you never get to where you want to be (because it's always changing), and you should accept that, because human society is built on that uncomfo
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How to help make humans immortal?
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Unexpected words from the devil himself!
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by joaomacp 9y ago
> Sometimes I think I drink because I'm scared to actually succeed with this side stuff, and somehow unconsciously I sabotage myself. On a related note (I only drink socially and rarely), I also feel like I sabotage a lot of my proj
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by joaomacp 9y ago
> How much resistance do we have against a horde of robotic raptors carrying weapons? Atlas would suck against self-flying grenade-dropping drones.
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by joaomacp 9y ago
You can definitely get better at it. I've been working for the last year at an open office (before that I was in college), and it took me 2 or 3 months to be able to 'turn off' the conversations around me for long periods of
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by joaomacp 9y ago
Well done. Thanks for sharing.
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by joaomacp 9y ago
I always access HN by hckrnews.com . It's much easier to look at the top posts for the day. And since it also has the top posts from previous days, I don't feel the need to check the front page as often.
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Show HN: Download Spotify tracks and playlists(mp3snatch.com)
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The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse(youtube.com)
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by joaomacp 9y ago
This line seems straight from a dystopian sci-fi novel. A world where humans preferred caring for other animal species instead of reproducing. Seriously though, I think middle-class white families are already too hesitant about raising chil
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by joaomacp 9y ago
So if my side project is not working out, I will work for google or facebook. I don't think that's better.
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by joaomacp 9y ago
We found Stallman, here he is
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by joaomacp 9y ago
MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW Oh sorry my cat just wanted to comment on this. Hope it doesn't get downvoted for not being relevant, because he has a 'conscious experience similar to our own'...
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by joaomacp 9y ago
Always fun to hear about these cat and mouse games of government vs. people who want to avoid taxes :)
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by joaomacp 9y ago
It's important to think about what is or isn't wasted time. I think about it a lot, because to me, time is the most precious resource - I won't be alive for that long, my time being young is almost over... To make the most ou
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by joaomacp 9y ago
Even the people in Europe in the 15th/16th century were immigrants from previous humans in Africa. Everyone is an immigrant from the first cell that replicated, and began life.
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by joaomacp 9y ago
I don't have much knowledge of the issue, but couldn't it be that big investments in nuclear energy would propagate and facilitate the process of isotope separation for enriching Uranium, which would mean more countries having the
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by joaomacp 9y ago
>Both lottery winners and victims of horrific accidents revert to an average happiness over the long term. Could it then be that people who buy time also regress to the average happiness after a while? It seems pointless to measure happi
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by joaomacp 9y ago
It's a bit depressing to me that I'm 22 and on my first dev job I have a nearly identical day as a CIO. It makes me think there won't be any changes to my daily life if I continue on this path (I mean, I can get some differen
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by joaomacp 10y ago
1337 terms m8
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And less research and innovation
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by joaomacp 10y ago
What about killing millions of pigs because they're tasty? Do they have agency? What about stepping on an ant for the fun of it? Does it get a negative reaction equal to the killing of a dog? It's an animal's life... The only

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