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by majos 8y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. It is true that modern funding of scientific research is flawed. Certainly in the US and probably everywhere. Almost any working scientist has plenty of stories about the silliness of bureaucratic requireme
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by majos 8y ago
There's another half to this advice: if you have clearly improved yourself, you should consciously add on some self-esteem. I say this as someone who was depressed about who I was, affected a lot of (positive, by most standards) change
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by majos 8y ago
It's also easier to give forgiveness than permission, especially in an institutional context. Forgiveness after the fact doesn't imply approval of the act the way permission beforehand does.
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by majos 8y ago
For thise interested in Murakami's contemporaries, Banana Yoshimoto is an interesting case. I've only read one of her works, Kitchen , but the similarity is almost astonishing. They both cover themes of loss, a strong sense of a
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by majos 8y ago
What's the point of the folded table viewer? How is it any better than just including a password in the manual? Is the idea that the password changes, so you need the viewer and manual each time?
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by majos 8y ago
Ah. I read that she picked the black turtleneck as a compromise between being professional and not drawing too much attention to herself or dressing "too feminine" -- though who knows how true that is.
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by majos 8y ago
What's so bad about the black turtleneck?
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by majos 8y ago
I stopped using Twitter and switched to the weekly print copy of The Economist for news. It means you're slightly behind, but anything you learn you learn more deeply. And a lot of up-to-the-minute stuff is just needless button-pushing
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by majos 8y ago
"We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have been set, all the necessary systems have been put in place. That is when time begins to pick up speed. It no
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by majos 8y ago
Fun read. As far as I can tell, deep cave systems are the last places on earth that are 1. truly unknown and uncharted and 2. explorable by certain people with certain skills and attitudes, without huge funding demands (by comparison, the d
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by majos 8y ago
Interesting. I know I've read accounts by, say, ethnic Koreans claiming that even when raised in Japan the ethnic difference caused native ethnic Japanese to treat them differently. Maybe I'm unduly influenced by a small number of
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by majos 8y ago
I wonder what percentage of these immigrants are ethnically east/southeast Asian, or even ethnically Japanese. I imagine a large portion of the Peruvian and Brazilian immigrants shown in the chart have Japanese ancestry (I believe Japa
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by majos 8y ago
What is the point of this comment? Are you really disputing the idea that small acts of connection are meaningful (especially to lonely people)? This idea seems very noncontroversial to me.
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by majos 8y ago
I think the evidence for Bill Gates as a force for good is strong. Sure Microsoft attained and maintained its dominance in unethical and maybe illegal ways. But I am not aware of much destruction beyond preventing other software companies f
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by majos 8y ago
This reminds me of a recent Twitter thread [1] from Zachary Lipton (new machine learning faculty at CMU) arguing that radiologists have a more complex job than we, as machine learning enthusiasts, think. [1] https://mobile.twitte
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by majos 8y ago
Omegle used to do something like this. The random stranger chats often started with prompts (but I don't remember what they were).
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by majos 8y ago
I figure that most incel-type dudes have never had the experience of rejecting someone romantically, for any reason, but have been rejected. The complaint that women can be shallow and men can't (which isn't true; everyone, largel
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by majos 8y ago
Kindness, perseverance, tolerance, humor, conscientiousness, generosity, empathy, . . .
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by majos 8y ago
How would you say the Slashdot and HN cross-sections differ?
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by majos 8y ago
I started using StumbleUpon in high school, maybe around 2007. Until then my internet activity was pretty limited to Wikipedia and (oddly enough) Slate. StumbleUpon cracked that open -- the number of cool, strange websites I'd never ha
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by majos 8y ago
Side note: I wish the "killer app" for deepfakes hadn't been porn. The technology was impressive, but having such a scuzzy popular usecase made sharing it with others kind of fraught.
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by majos 8y ago
That retired general was Smedley Butler, who among other things is the only person to receive two different Medals of Honor (the other 18 double recipients got two from different military branches for the same action). He later became a maj
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by majos 8y ago
I recently read and enjoyed Orlando by Virginia Woolf. It tells the story of an English nobleman who lives for hundreds of years and accumulates a bunch of experiences. To me, its main point is about the fluidity of identity and what it m
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by majos 8y ago
Is this serious? I'm hard put to imagine anybody who doesn't get paid to do philosophy (or at least have regular access to such a person) getting anything out of this book.
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by majos 8y ago
This guy's Wikipedia page has a "Known eccentricities" section. Worth reading.
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by majos 8y ago
What is the upside of this test? If they say nothing it may be that they don't know you're wrong or silently concluded you're wrong. If they do say something you say...what? "Just testing you"?
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by majos 8y ago
The comment makes sense to me. It's saying that the CIA didn't "los[e] its way during the Bush II administration", since it did similar things in the Bush I and Nixon administrations (whether or not that's true I do
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by majos 8y ago
It's interesting to me how the problem of "who owns what parts of this river?" is playing out in so many parts of the world. Off the top of my head we have the Nile with Egypt and Ethiopia, the Yangtze (edit: this should be M
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by majos 8y ago
Ah, I was looking at the 1992 act. https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/115...
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by majos 8y ago
> In 1988, Bill Clinton signed the Higher Education Amendments What? Clinton was a governor then. And, looking up the referenced act, it was signed into law in 1992, before Clinton took office. Doesn't substantially change your comm

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