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by kranner 7y ago
As I recall about The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus concluded that life is fundamentally absurd and meaningless, and "what counts ... is the most living." The absurd man of Camus "enjoys a freedom with regard to common rules."
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by kranner 7y ago
But that's quite different from your original statement. We weren't talking about what matters at the end of one's life. You simply said "[family is] all we have". I think it's fair to interpret that as applica
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by kranner 7y ago
What about art, mathematics, fiction, music, etc?
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by kranner 7y ago
That may be the good news, but the bad news is that a lot of people will run out of money for basic necessities like food and shelter. It might have been different if every country had evolved to allow people to survive economically during
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by kranner 7y ago
Another step one can take is to use a separate number for authorising banking transactions. This number should be 'unlisted', i.e. not shared with anyone but your bank(s).
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by kranner 7y ago
Quoting from a blog post I wrote [1] which included a note on this documentary and why I think it made an overly positive case for Vipassana and its effects on prisoners in Tihar Jail: > There is a popular documentary on YouTube called “
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by kranner 7y ago
I agree. If regret-minimisation is the goal, one can go about it the other way, by learning not to regret so much. In my personal experience, loving the mundane and not regretting things I haven't done has come naturally with age (and
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by kranner 7y ago
Missing the all-time classic "Speed Thrills But Kills".
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by kranner 7y ago
The middle class and everyone below the middle class.
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by kranner 7y ago
A book on sleep (and more) that deserves to be much more widely known is The Head Trip by Jeff Warren: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2168851.Head_Trip
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by kranner 7y ago
The author has an article on it: https://www.gwern.net/Subscripts
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by kranner 7y ago
> I feel that the real problem is understanding the Indian accent. Well there's many more than one. "The Indian accent" is really only a trope on American TV shows. For instance, your username seems Indian/Bengali (so
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by kranner 7y ago
From one of the comments, it is interesting how "-HINDI" in the search string does seem to eliminate most Indian videos (even ones in other Indian languages like Tamil) where "HINDI" does not seem to be present in the vi
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by kranner 7y ago
Then “IQ” is the wrong word for it.
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by kranner 7y ago
IQ seems to be rising, actually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
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by kranner 7y ago
Fair rebuttal, but I don't know if medical cartels would allow AI to replace their limited supply of cardiologists so easily. It is quite cheap here in India already (got an orbital MRI last week for $105.10, including radiologist&#x27
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by kranner 7y ago
> Full disclosure: I don't have any always-on microphones in my house Does this include smartphones, computers, or other such devices capable of becoming always-on microphones in software?
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by kranner 7y ago
Radiologists are cheap and plentiful in the developing world, compared to MRI machines.
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by kranner 7y ago
> As a human being you should be looking to interact and socialize with other humans, in person, as well That's what one has a family and friends for, not necessarily work colleagues.
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by kranner 7y ago
> I don't know your case specifics, but in presence of objective abnormalities - there is obviously going to be hesitation to diagnose somatoform. From the HN Guidelines: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation
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by kranner 7y ago
My Calibre installation has 10,257 books! That's probably less than half of what's scattered on my drives outside Calibre. Calibre has nice search by 'title:', 'author:', and 'vl:' but eventually it h
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by kranner 7y ago
I'm just curious what you would consider marketing-speak then. To my eyes, your phrasing seems to veer off into the other extreme towards seeming patronising and insincere. And it is pretty clear that you want essentially the same thin
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by kranner 7y ago
Yes but conceptually it amounts to manual classification into multiple categories, which is just neverending work in my experience. Manual classification is still useful to classify documents according to labels that are not present as stri
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by kranner 7y ago
> IMHO organising correctly your files using aptly named directories I have a lot of ebooks on my computer (> 10000). One problem with organising books and other PDFs is that sometimes they fall into multiple categories. (Should a ne
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by kranner 7y ago
There is just so much lack of general awareness about the things that can go wrong with your body once you're past the midpoint. Most young people are oblivious, just like I used to be. Now I'm 40, and this Sunday night I start se
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by kranner 7y ago
You’ve missed my point. I was referring to Schopenhauer‘s statement which is translated as “one can do what one wants, but can’t want what one wants.” https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/32731/what-do...
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by kranner 7y ago
That’s an interesting experiment and thanks for writing it up in detail. However I’m not sure what the VR really adds to it, above e.g. learning to shift the default point where most of us are conscious from (behind the eyes) to the lower a
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by kranner 7y ago
That’s true, but not enough to refute that ageism exists.
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by kranner 7y ago
> kids are an entirely deterministic and preventable outcome. You may not want kids, but you can't choose not to want kids.
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by kranner 7y ago
> You just need to be somewhat good at what you do. This is a vague statement that makes your premise unfalsifiable. If someone is not hired because of ageism, it is always possible to say they weren't good enough at their jobs, bec

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