jtr1

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by jtr1 5y ago
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Fascinating! Would you be willing to share more context about this? Did the compensation seem commensurate with the work you put in? How feasible does it seem to generate a steady income this way?
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Tree of 40 Fruit(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by jtr1 5y ago|0 comments
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> A high-priority item for the environment is simply education, since voters are pushing strongly against clean energy ("wind turbines kill birds", "nuclear plants go Chernobyl", "electric cars are expensive|auto
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I don't at all want to give the impression that I'm against liberal democracy or individual freedoms. I'm with you there. I'm just not convinced that they're as compatible with absolute private ownership of capital
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So what's your alternative? I'm all ears.
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Can you provide an explanation of Exxon's behavior that is not driven by the incentive to deliver profits to their shareholders? I'd certainly be open to another way of understanding the situation, but this behavior is so common a
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Ground Temps Reached 118°F in the Arctic Circle Last Week(cleantechnica.com)
12 points by jtr1 5y ago|4 comments
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I've certainly made many friends through work, but in my experience a for-profit workplace is an artificial environment with a lot of distorting incentives that make it more challenging to establish genuine friendship.
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I have fantastic colleagues and I'd still rather work remote. My commute easily gets up to 10 hours / week on a miserable public transit system. I prefer to spend that extra 10 hours with my family, friends, and neighbors, or on h
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I've suffered from similar problems (anxiety/ADHD/compulsive behavior). Definitely had endless scrolling mess with my sleep and exacerbate mental health issues. I've tried Apple's Screen Time feature, but found it f
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The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math'(theatlantic.com)
10 points by jtr1 5y ago|11 comments
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What would you propose?
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by jtr1 6y ago
I was in a class back several years ago where the instructor gave a memorable less about inner monologues. He pulled up two volunteers and asked one to explain a new concept to the other. Good, fine, everything went well. The second person
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DC-X: The Rocket That Beat SpaceX by 20 Years(amusingplanet.com)
1 points by jtr1 6y ago|0 comments
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I believe my company is going to end up maintaining a small office with a set of open desks that people can come in an work at. At least for us, this seems like the right balance. We've grown in the pandemic, so keeping a smaller offic
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by jtr1 6y ago
I laughed out loud listening to the recording. It's so grating! But very fun
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Your comment reminds me this, by Billy Collins: "Introduction to Poetry" I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem
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by jtr1 6y ago
> abolishment of oppression (slavery, debtor's prisons, serfdom, involuntary servitude, military conscription in many countries) On quite a few of these, I think you might be shocked to discover how much of the apparent gain is defi
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by jtr1 6y ago
It'd certainly be a radical shift in a place like the US, but it's not hard for me to imagine public opinion taking a hard turn against the practice. There's no a consistent, visible, widely understood value added by landlord
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I find this fascinating and I wonder if simple cases like these could help steer the conversation about encoded bias in a verifiable direction. What sort of training material would you have to curate in order to achieve an outcome where She
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Lovely scene. Thank you for sharing!
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I think cultivating curiosity about others is integral to building empathy, but it's a lifelong practice. I still find it very easy to project my own experiences onto others - an easy shortcut that drains my interest in them and makes
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Trade-offs in response to Covid-19: the case for inclusive decision making(nature.com)
1 points by jtr1 6y ago|0 comments
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> Add in that governments generally do a bad job running businesses (wasteful) It's always strange to see this kind of statement presented as axiomatic. This sort of circular reasoning sounds like ideology on autopilot. Utilities sh
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Agreed. I'd almost go so far as to say that it's an essential tool for aggregating intelligence. Sifting for and refining ideas just strikes me as so much more efficient than attacking and defending them.
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3D-Printed Thruster Boosts Range of CubeSat Applications(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by jtr1 6y ago|0 comments
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Looks like there is an open feature request on GitHub for supporting Mermaid charts: https://github.community/t/feature-request-support-mermaid-m...
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I still think it's a gorgeous building. With more than a half-century's improvement in materials and process, I wonder how if it would turn out differently if someone were to try it again?
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Glad you're getting some space from them. I'm doing the same myself. Not sure how much I blame parents, though. These sites are designed like slot machines, which means there are a number of professionals and executives out there

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