kirsebaer

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by kirsebaer 5y ago
>> The emptiness in your life will never go away. I used to feel like this, that I just had to put up with my constant feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness and that all these activities I saw other people doing and supposedly enjo
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
Try MDMA.
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
Check out CPTSD (Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) and Childhood Emotional Neglect. What you describe is very common in people who were emotionally neglected or mistreated as children.
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
You could check out self-managed organizations, like Semco in Brazil. https://semcostyle.us/ You still have executives, but lots of management decisions are made by employees themselves, like decisions about wages and sched
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
You can make youtube videos. You will reach a way bigger audience than one-on-one teaching.
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
Yeah, this should be emphasized in any linear algebra course as a primary way to think about determinants. Otherwise the determinant seems like just some math formula to memorize that keeps appearing for some reason in other math formulas.
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
There are very few mentally ill people wandering the streets in Oslo, Norway. I have seen one guy with unkept dredlocks who seems to enjoy hanging around and chatting to passers by, but he almost certainly has a public-funded apartment and
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
I'm in Oslo now. There is an active start-up scene here. I have lots of Norwegian friends who have started businesses or non-profits. I know of people who started a tech business in SV and then moved back home to Norway for the quality
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by kirsebaer 5y ago
The declassified CIA manuals on assassination: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/index.html
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by kirsebaer 6y ago
Most people never ever think about suicide. You might consider if you fit with "complex PTSD" or "childhood emotional neglect". This seems common among high-achieving tech people.
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by kirsebaer 6y ago
So if I am a key employee in a company that is going bankrupt, I should threaten to leave and then negotiate a large retention bonus based on how much it would hurt the company to lose me during the crisis. Many people who are not part of t
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by kirsebaer 6y ago
There is lots of evidence that videogames are helpful for kids' development. Complaining about videogames sounds a bit like adults in the 19th century complaining about kids wasting time playing chess or reading novels.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
In the 19th century anti-pornography activists claimed that perverts would throw pornographic prints over the walls of schoolyards because the perverts supposedly got off on "corrupting" upper-class children. Sounds a bit implausi
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
He had family money.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
It is important that people are informed about major US corporations.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Yes, the FedEx statement was so childish.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Yeah, it's like a married woman in the 19th century would like to speak with a lawyer about her rights, and her husband forbids it, and people comment "oh, but is he really so bad? Why does she need a lawyer anyway?" Employee
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Illegal products is an enormous market.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Most people with this bacteria do not develop ulcers. Psychological stress does seem to increase development of ulcers -- it's a contributing factor. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25111233 I notice in mysel
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Plus, they might then have to think about what is actually bothering them, and that could be very upsetting.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
When you read news from something that you personally have been involved in, you will notice journalists simplify and often get things a bit confused. Like, when a journalist quotes you in print, it is often not a real direct quote, but rat
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Yes. We should have high-quality videos for the entire STEM and med school curriculm. It wouldn't cost that much as a % of public education costs. Khan Academy claims to be doing this, but their videos are not particularly high quality
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Feynman wrote about feeling terrible guilt from working on the atomic bomb.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
"In 1971, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, passed a resolution encouraging “Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
Kids who went to Sudbury Schools (no curriculum, democratic free schools) report developing high resilience. In these schools kids do what they like: read, videogames, singing, whatever, without any academic pressure or expectations. They t
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
And in 2006 the US Supreme Court ruled that psychedelic ayahuasca use is a protected religious rite.
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by kirsebaer 7y ago
The Ehrlichman quote was first published by Dan Baum in his 1997 book, Smoke and Mirrors. This book came out before Ehrlichman died, and it included other interviews with Nixon staffers that supported the Ehrlichman quote. The book was revi
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by kirsebaer 8y ago
Not mentioned at all in this article: Warhol was a devoted Catholic his entire life. "He attended Mass almost daily. Other days he would just slip into St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, drop into the back pew and pray. He spent hi
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by kirsebaer 8y ago
See the classic 1928 short book Propaganda by Edward Bernays, early public relations specialist. Bernays estimates around 80% (or around there, I don't remember) of news articles are placed by PR agents. And he explains how and why the
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by kirsebaer 8y ago
You are onto something with letting kids be bored and struggle to create their own activities. You taught yourself to use a computer, without taking an expensive "kids learn computers class", right? Signing kids up for all these c

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