kar5pt

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by kar5pt 4y ago
Nobody is anti-marriage. You're just pulling a straw-man out of your ass.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Whenever I travel, AirBNBs are still much cheaper than comparable hotels.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
1. I was referring to walking as recreation, not walking in general (not sure how people missed this) 2. Body parts don't have a "purpose" unless you believe in a creator-god.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
I was referring to a book I read by a Brit who lived in Africa for 30 years. He wrote about an interaction where he moved to an African village and "went for a walk" through the village. The locals thought he was strange to walk f
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Did you even read the article? CBT and the cognitive model are not the same thing. CBT (the therapy) works, but that doesn't mean the underlying theory is correct. "Not only is there contrary evidence showing problems with reasoni
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by kar5pt 4y ago
If he was an investment banker he wouldn't have been playing video games 14 hours a day.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
This is not true. The cognitive model of depression has been debunked: https://theconversation.com/cbt-is-wrong-in-how-it-understan...
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Yeah. Virtually none of the suggestions OP is making are "natural" in any meaningful way. Even going for walks usually implies walking in a park, which is an invention of the past 100 years or so. It's also very Euro-centric.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
I wish this were true, but is it? One of the most stable societies in human history was ancient Egypt which was ruled by a god-king and remained relatively unchanged for thousands of years. Democracies, on the other hand, tend to be much mo
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by kar5pt 4y ago
How do you put on pants in the morning?
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Also Plato is the earliest (Western) philosopher for whom we have full dialogues. For most of the presocratics we only have fragments of their works.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
It seems reasonable that the kind of ideology might affect how it correlates with brain activity, wouldn't it?
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by kar5pt 4y ago
I find it hard to believe that refusing to rent out 3 units would raise the fourth one from $1000 to $4000. I also don't think businesses normally refuse to sell large portions of already produced merchandise to maintain artificial sca
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by kar5pt 4y ago
I was hoping for peer-reviewed research, not articles written by journalists. I'm not denying the vacancies are real (not sure how you thought that?). I'm questioning whether the cause of the vacancies are landlords intentionally
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Yes. Something can be difficult to define exactly, yet also have clearly recognizable features. You haven't thought about it very hard if this "amuses you".
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by kar5pt 4y ago
The cake analogy works for the brain, not the mind. The brain is the abstract unification of all your neurons and electrical impulses into a single entity. The mind is...well...it's difficult to define exactly what the mind is, but it&
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by kar5pt 4y ago
People keep telling this story but not providing any evidence. What evidence is there that landlords not wanting to rent their units is the cause of high rents in nyc? On its surface it makes no sense. Why wouldn't they want to collect
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by kar5pt 4y ago
What a useless platitude.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
I could flip this around and say that focusing on internal causes of depression is a way for those in power to avoid the social responsibility of having to change it. We can kick the responsibility ball back and forth all day. Why is it s
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by kar5pt 4y ago
This would be a great comment if you cited sources.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Important context: the studies were done in China and Korea. The article references two previous studies that were presumably done in America, but they were both done in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. Seems like a big limitation of
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by kar5pt 4y ago
What DNA test did you take?
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Based on their app, this isn't surprising
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by kar5pt 4y ago
"Accept it and move on" sounds like a pretty unhelpful response to someone seeking therapy for childhood trauma.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
The Taoist influence on Zen is overstated in my opinion. Most of the non-dual stuff Westerns would consider "Taoism" is right there in the Diamond Sutra (straight out of India). Westerners also typically underestimate how much Tao
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by kar5pt 4y ago
> Do what works for you. The only truth is what you can directly experience in the laboratory of your life. All the other teachings are just suggestions. This is just your own opinion at this point. It's not buddhism. Buddhism has s
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by kar5pt 4y ago
I practiced zen for a while and had the exact same experience. I had real-life problems that were causing me psychological distress and was using buddhism to avoid having to address those issues. I figured none of it mattered anyway since l
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by kar5pt 4y ago
I'm also at Meta and worked at two non-FAANG fortune 500s before this (5 YOE total). The performance anxiety at the two previous companies was nowhere close. Performance reviews were done mostly by managers and the stakes were much low
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Does anyone have recommendations to get off of Gmail? I've tried in the past, but I get so much junk mail that not having gmail's auto-categorizing makes my email unusable.
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by kar5pt 4y ago
Grand Central is not "less than minutes away from Penn Station". It's at least a 15 minute commute. Potentially more depending on which part of the station your walking to/from and if there's delays.

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