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by kian 7y ago
You nailed my feelings on the matter - I love the concept of 'air-gapping' as applied to personal truths here.
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by kian 7y ago
Information about the private emotional states of my team members is precisely the sort of information I'm supposed to be guarding, and work is not a safe space for opening up. If they wish to share frustrations with process, the stat
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by kian 7y ago
To be honest, I'd find it pretty creepy to both have this asked every meeting, and also to have it tracked by any tool. I would likely seek work elsewhere. One on one conversations about emotions can be appropriate, but a group setting
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by kian 7y ago
And yet, we also wouldn’t demand car manufacturers change how they build a car because races, sexes, or genders differentially purchase, say, lexuses vs hondas.
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by kian 7y ago
Even in that world, I would dare say that poems have meaning. Just one that is personal to the beholder. As a lover of the sciences and mathematics, it used to really bother me, the 'subjectiveness' of there being no "right&q
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by kian 7y ago
Let's use your coal mining example - Gilette, Wyoming recently had two mines close. There are 30,500 residents in that town, and 600 were left without a job. (Compare this to the 153 mining jobs lost across the entire state the year be
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by kian 7y ago
What ever happened to d) this is not acceptable, and something should be done about it by individuals directly? Why do we need to abdicate responsibility for our local problems to a larger authority? Mutual Aid Societies and religions used
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by kian 7y ago
In what way is working an unpleasant job that you could choose not to do slavery? Sounds to me like the person prefers the probability of PTSD to the guarantee of a life of poverty. How is that not informed consent? Because we wouldn'
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by kian 7y ago
Is there a link to your hiring page? I'm not seeing one on roamresearch.com
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When you think or hear a particularly clever phrase, write it down. Whenever you feel the creative urge, stop all other things and write it down. When writing, try to imagine and feel what it is you are talking about, and metaphors will nat
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by kian 7y ago
Firefly. And ouch
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by kian 7y ago
In programming, this problem would be solved with something like higher order functions or parametric data types, allowing us to both abstract out the commonalities and maintain incredibly specific, easily modifiable, highly customized func
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by kian 7y ago
It will be once it's used against the people running said state.
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by kian 7y ago
orthorexia - what a fascinating word!
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by kian 7y ago
Read "Breakdown of Will" by George Ainslie, if this is your first introduction to that word.
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Although I love to write, I can imagine a world in which the construction of sufficiently detailed outlines, along with some sort of style examples, could be automatically converted into a full-fledged essay that elaborates on the connectio
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by kian 7y ago
Sorry, I should have clarified - On the one hand, we have an unprecedented level of maturity and quality in the materials of instruction available to be curated. This is what I meant by saying that a motivated learner combined with a good c
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by kian 7y ago
Despite having more years of schooling would be more accurate. The watering down of the curriculum over the last half century likely makes it very difficult to get a 'better education' today unless you intentionally work to make i
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by kian 7y ago
It seems almost certain with the dawning age of biotechnology right around the corner that private options are going to completely dominate any public options conceived right now.
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by kian 7y ago
Fantastic mondegreen ("knit pick", like picking at stitching with knitting needles, as opposed to "nit pick", which is picking off lice eggs to prevent future annoyance)
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by kian 7y ago
Yes, thankfully the state of California, in its infinite wisdom and knowledge of the particular circumstances of each individual involved, knows better than those poor schmucks who don't even speak english as their first language and t
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by kian 7y ago
I think what the parent is suggesting is that unless those drivers are driving onto the sidewalk, it wouldn't matter if the pedestrians chose to cross only when a driver was incapable of hitting them, regardless of whether that driver
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by kian 7y ago
Curious here - with everything going on with ocean acidification, would we really rather sequester carbon dioxide in the oceans, where it will contribute to the destruction of corals, or leave it in the atmosphere?
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by kian 7y ago
What a lot of people don't understand about democracy is that the nation most responsible for spreading it isn't one - it has a representative republic. There's a reason that the US government was not set up as a democracy -
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by kian 7y ago
Because he was never the poor man's savior that everyone made him out to be?
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Note that cotton clothes leave exactly 0 microplastics no matter how much water is used to wash them. Prevention is still the best cure - just stop buying plastic clothes. Kind of like how the way to adapt to the Roman habit of sweetening w
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by kian 7y ago
This is precisely what another commenter on this thread meant when they said the presumption of innocence that underlies our system of justice is currently eroding in modern society. Assuming guilt gives too much leeway for authoritarian ab
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by kian 7y ago
From the article, it's not evolution. It's due to changes in weaning habits from industrialization, poor indoor air circulation, and lack of chewing solid foods as babies such that the jaw doesn't develop properly - when the
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Just to be clear, negative feedback is not giving 'bad feedback', it's taking an action that 'dampens' a signal as it gets outside of a zone of control to bring it back in line. Positive feedback would not be pleasu
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If you think of 'reduce' as instead 'accumulating' a value, then it takes a function that adds a single element to the accumulation, and a base accumulation to use if the list is empty, and a list, and returns an accumul

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