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811.
by lsc 9y ago
>Status -- those to whom we accord the highest status seem to be people who genuinely don't care about status; I think you are confusing people who don't care with people who don't seem fearful of losing status. As far a
812.
by lsc 9y ago
>ETA--Having attended the Olympic Training Center around age 16, I can't tell you how depressing it was to see 20 and 30-something athletes living in the dorms there, striving for their moment of glory while everyone else was out ha
813.
by lsc 9y ago
>You should forget about all of that high school math and start directly with university math. It's actually easier in that it really starts from the beginning. So, I think being able to do the problems in high school math is import
814.
by lsc 9y ago
huh. I've purchased both books and read partway in. I will make time to finish them both. thanks.
815.
by lsc 9y ago
>I can't speak for WB but I think the point is that even the art professors and art experts also "don't fully understand" it either. If it's the "blind leading the blind", how do we measure the value of
816.
by lsc 9y ago
http://www.3blue1brown.com/ I think you meant? But thanks. I'm filing that away
817.
by lsc 9y ago
>If you put in 4 years dedicated to learning math, I guarantee you that you will get at least as much knowledge out of this as if you had done this when you were younger. This is... not the majority view? But I am attempting to teach
818.
by lsc 9y ago
>Once unmasked, those paintings became essentially worthless. >Hence, it's "value" as art was purely based on who painted it. It had nothing to do with the artwork itself. To me that calls into question the whole purpos
819.
by lsc 9y ago
>Learning advanced math has definitely improved my life, often in unexpected ways. (Emphasis mine.) My impression is that the arts is about expressing yourself, and about understanding others. It's about understanding the human
820.
by lsc 9y ago
So, certainly the 'gift' is necessary to compete at a high level... but so is practice. You need both. In fact, my understanding is that one of the major 'gifts' that most elite athletes have is that they recover fast
821.
by lsc 9y ago
Yes, apple pay, I think, occupies a similar place to paypal I have run a business that recieved payments through paypal; I have not run a business that recieved payments through apple pay, but my impression is that they both do the same
822.
by lsc 9y ago
I didn't know that. I thought that chip and pin was the norm in Europe, and that getting a transaction reversed as a European customer was way harder than for American customers because of this. But... it sounds like I'm wrong.
823.
by lsc 9y ago
I agree that if there were more consequences for compromised businesses, there would be fewer compromises... but it would also massively raise the barrier to getting a merchant account. Essentially, you'd live in a world where everyon
824.
by lsc 9y ago
>Is war really about scarcity of resources or about conflict over resources, regardless of scarcity? I think there is a huge difference between the world before the green revolution and after, and I personally think that this difference
825.
by lsc 9y ago
"These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!"
826.
by lsc 9y ago
Because we allow you to use the credit card without using the chip. You buy from a compromised merchant, or a merchant that isn't properly hashing it's credit cards? bam, your card is stolen. You put your card in a compromis
827.
by lsc 9y ago
This is... the opposite of my impression, well, sortof. There aren't penalties for the business your credit card is stolen from (and I believe your credit card is usually stolen from a business you legitimately did business with.) How
828.
by lsc 9y ago
Yup. amazon needs to understand that they have at least partly become a luxury/convenience brand. We're willing to pay extra (not a huge amount extra, but definitely extra) to save time and effort. If you have third parties
829.
by lsc 9y ago
There was a bunch of research on this a while back, essentially saying the driver needs to be paying driving level attention the whole time or the car needs to handle itself completely; you can't just expect someone to go from not dri
830.
by lsc 9y ago
RSVP, you say? I have never heard of this technology. I just did a demo app and it looks really interesting. I'll check it out. (I'm super annoyed when people name things using overlapping namespaces... I have a long rant ab
831.
by lsc 9y ago
I have no idea. the kids who were good at sports seemed to be pretty popular in high school, though, which is what I thought we were talking about.
832.
by lsc 9y ago
I meant 'sports stars' in the context of high school... people who certainly could and traditionally did take food resources away from more scholarly children.
833.
by lsc 9y ago
This is shocking to me, too. I mean, I don't care what Chad is up to today, but the general trauma of high school is still with me in a way that I don't think is reasonable, considering that my experience wasn't unusual, and
834.
by lsc 9y ago
You have a good point. Really, I spend a lot more of my "negative or critical self-reflection" time thinking about my own arrogance and contempt... At my debate club, I mentioned this part way through the argument, that I did find
835.
by lsc 9y ago
I... really enjoyed your comment. I'm drifting off, so I probably won't respond to all of it, but thanks. that was pretty insightful. >From your posts you are coming off like an aspergersy male adult engineer Yes, and even
836.
by lsc 9y ago
>If you are perfectly content with your life, then Facebook probably won’t be an issue at all. But if you have _any_ area where you don’t feel fulfilled - like bad life/work balance, insufficient funds, loneliness, unfulfilled baby
837.
by lsc 9y ago
>The reason is simple - if you make others feel inferior, by being better at anything in any way than them, they hate and envy you. If that were true, the sports stars would not have been popular
838.
by lsc 9y ago
I'm still not seeing how that is any more distressing than seeing, say, your boss' boss, who once took obvious relish in firing one of your friends, continue to be successful in the office every day, you know? You are going to enc
839.
by lsc 9y ago
>Also, even having a handful of very wealthy friends can eventually lead to feelings of envy. I.. huh. I really don't get this. Maybe it is because I am doing better than I thought I was going to for the first half of my life?
840.
by lsc 9y ago
>That's a western thing. In the east being smart is cool. I thought it was an exclusive school thing. The Americans I know who went to exclusive high schools seem to have had very different experiences. I even know several people

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