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by katzgrau 6y ago
Doesn't your personal belief help answer that question though? It seems if you sincerely believe you have free will, you'll end up doing things that look a lot like the exercise of free will.
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Not to get too esoteric, but at some point a trillion years is meaningless. Nothing really matters or doesn't matter - it's how you want to look at it. And distracting yourself with pointless stuff is totally valid. In fact, it&#x
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Existing as a human forever would suck, but I'm sure an eternal being could find other ways to keep himself occupied.
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Well, usually adherents also believe that there is a higher power watching out for them, or that they will eventually be judged for their actions. What it really highlights is that the will to live is dependent on personal perspective. Ther
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> but bank on having billions of users At the point where you have billions of users, you may just be a...
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> Speech that is false and intentionally causes a panic should not be protected. What is true or false isn't always clear though, even if there's a popular or official consensus. The point of having a public forum is to give ne
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I think it's somewhat inevitable that in times of scarcity, the most aggressive (either psychologically or physically) members of a species are going wind up surviving and passing on the traits that helped them survive, for good or wor
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Search is really only the main driver of traffic for national sites. Local and niche coverage get traffic though a mix of social, newsletter subscribers, referrals, and direct visitors.
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> TL;DR: Baby Boomers have lost influence at Rolling Stone in the last 20 years I was actually wondering if younger people even gave a shit about Rolling Stone anymore
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Like PHP in general, it was easy to get started with and now there are tons of developers pushing it in the ecosystem. Now that so many people know it, it's self-perpetuating at this point.
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> people generally tend to change when they experience the negative consequences of their action, not just willy nilly. I think you're discounting the effect of lived experience and natural maturity that comes with age. People and t
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A fair percentage of companies exploring my SaaS company as potential clients are doing so because Google doesn't provide any support / insight for practically any issue they may have.
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Depending on what 5x is, you might not annoy as many users as you think. I did a major pricing overhaul with my SaaS company a few years ago and made lots of sincere appeals to users. They generally supported me and the app. I had some chur
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Ah yea. Good beers took a while to come to my area (maybe 5-10 years ago). I'm guessing other parts of the country might have been a little different, especially as Big Beer tried to catch the craft wave and smaller breweries didn&#x27
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Honestly, BWW had the best tap lineup in my area for a long time, which has no shortage of trendy bars.
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I went to an Applebee's for the first time in 10 years recently and I... liked it. I swore it off as an uppity 20-something. That said, I've been living in a fairly urban 'burb with a nice downtown for almost 10 years. It&#x2
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I was looking for someone who laid it out like this. Breaking it down is a great tip, but sometimes you can think of the most fundamental thing you could do to constitute "started" Got a long paper or email to write? Open your edi
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There's definitely a place for restaraunts with bigger menus, especially when you're dining with kids or people who generally dont stray far from what they know. The probable gripe is when the restaraunt really sucks at making 80%
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My issue with the question is that "cutting corners" is kind of ambiguous. If I leverage an existing relationship with an employee at a company in order to get an interview, is that corner cutting? It happens all the time. What if
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That's really what Stoicism is all about - control what you can, accept what you cannot. That doesn't mean that you will be immune from suffering, but it frames our problem in a rational way and sometimes makes them more tolerable
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Came here for this comment :) Saw the hand and that immediately became my favorite thing in the notebook.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
It's amazing how overlooked exercise, eating well, and sleep can be. Sprinkle a little gratitude in and you're mentally prepped for the day. Been running my company for 8 years, and I take the same approach to the day.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Wow, do not take this advice. This must have been written by someone with little to no skin in the game. I'm honestly surprised someone would post this. The idea that a good product will sell itself is a developer's fantasy. Tru
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> The idea that we might be in a simulation is equivalent to a creator God, just more hi-tech. Off topic, but I always found it interesting that some people who otherwise reject the idea of a God latch onto that one. At some point it&#x2
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Explain very nicely how you can achieve what your bad customer would like for fee or upgraded plan. In fact, tell them that you'd love to do it but you would need to direct new resources toward that effort. Make sure that fee is a heal
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With any serious pricing model you're going to cut a lot of people. Put a sustainable pricing model in place that can afford support staff. Sure, a bunch of cheapskates will up and leave - there will surely be a second rate competitor
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Your pricing model is broken and it's bad for you and customers. Do yourself a favor and put a limit on support after the upgrade and then offer an ongoing maintenance package. I used to have a similarly bad attitude when I had low met
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When you drink, even in moderation, your mental clarity probably isn't at peak level again for at least two night's rest. That's my experience anyway. People who think they're back in tip-top shape after a night out tend
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That depends more on how you say it. Try not to invoke guilt. After all, you presumably like these people and don't want to make them feel bad - but you just don't want to drink. Guilt is where it can go wrong, so you kind of have
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Or just tell them the long and thoughtful truth on why you don't drink in detail. Mental clarity, avoidance of toxins, better workouts, etc. A nice exhaustive list. I garauntee they'll be sorry they even asked and zone out in 10 s

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