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by meric 10y ago
What's the natural consequence approach there? I would ask him for his favourite ice cream, take him out to the supermarket if he likes to come with me, buy a 2L box of it, and let him eat it the whole night if he wishes. Be happy he
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by meric 10y ago
Timeouts don't work either This avoids the problem. physically restraining him This exacerbates the problem. How can anyone trust someone who physically ties them down? Can you start any kind of relationship like this, let alone co
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by meric 10y ago
Yes, I wanted a version of Lua with Macro's that reused familiar syntax (for lispers), that can run on LuaJIT, and is implemented in Lua completely.
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by meric 10y ago
I'm developing a language that's a superset of Lua and Lisp. It's still in its infancy, but here's an example of a Lisp/Lua function in a module that can be imported as a (+...) macro that expands into Lua `a + b +
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by meric 10y ago
Or, Why Clinton's DNC Keeps Getting Away With Not Keeping America's Secrets Safe.
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by meric 10y ago
Then it's more than 2 cents worth.
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by meric 10y ago
We started getting people do some python and javascript development for us on upwork.com. After some months one of them quit their full time job and now work for us full-time remotely.
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by meric 10y ago
The one I went to once, people were talking but I didn't feel they were genuine.
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by meric 10y ago
Tao Te Ching
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by meric 10y ago
He is a therapist, without the title.
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by meric 10y ago
Microsoft has not spent my trust. I was born in a Mac OS household. By the time I was born, my parents used Apple II clones and Macintoshes for over a decade. I have used Macintosh my whole life, except for the time before I was computer li
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by meric 10y ago
>> So those more adept at learning, the metaskill of acquiring new skills, are best positioned to weather the coming technologic changes, and thrive under new conditions. Or, some are merely older workers, who by the time they acquire
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by meric 10y ago
The way people write "Science" capitalising the first letter, and says things like "one day Science will solve these problems for us", sound a lot like putting faith in a religion to me. What is religion but philosophy m
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by meric 10y ago
You have two options: 1. Drop law school and do it. 2. Finish law school and do it. You will always have another idea. You will make important connections even without law school. You will always be able to learn new things. Let go of the i
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by meric 10y ago
Yeah maybe propose doing something else with him, that you'd want to do. Maybe he's really great tennis partner or something and you enjoy playing tennis, then you could do that with him instead. That's if you're close
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by meric 10y ago
I never buy anything unnecessary if I'm counting how much financial impact it's going to have. I don't have a car, but if I do, it's because I need it for the income, or because I have so much money buying a car feels
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by meric 10y ago
If we're the pixels, then things like your relationship with your parents are the words johnmarius are referring to. The relationships we have with other people cannot be seen coherently through the "atoms and the void" view.
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by meric 10y ago
>> All groups trail white men in earnings — except Asian men. They made 117 percent of what white men earned in 2015: Why not just say: >> All groups trail asian men in earnings — They made 117 percent of what white men earned i
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by meric 10y ago
Tao Te Ching is a good one.
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by meric 10y ago
Nice!
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by meric 10y ago
I agree. >> Indeed Merkel tried persuade the UK Gov to revert the vote like the Greek PM did a year back That's reason enough for Brexit. This is an abusive relationship. Britain: "I want to leave, I don't feel comforta
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by meric 10y ago
Dreaming about it, yes.
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by meric 10y ago
I'm not going to convince you, but in my experience I find it to be true. The more I am focused on the present, the more the choices I do pick appear to be the obviously good ones. The other choices merely clouds my life, like the OP,
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by meric 10y ago
We like to make fun of CEO's multi-million dollar salaries, but it doesn't mean it's an easy job.
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by meric 10y ago
Everyone has their own specific set of strengths and weaknesses. It's toxic to compare people's weaknesses to your own strengths, or to compare your own weaknesses with other's strengths. Enjoy connecting to people and making
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by meric 10y ago
This is great analysis. Keeping in mind there's more motivation to do this kind of analysis during euphoria phase of the stock market than during capitulation phase of the stock market like in 2009 or 2010, I think this shows investing
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by meric 10y ago
That's a good idea. It's called "Musharaka al-Mutanaqisa" and is a form of Islamic banking and finance. "An innovative approach applied by some banks for home loans, called Musharaka al-Mutanaqisa, allows for a flo
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by meric 10y ago
I think this is made for rich people who don't understand computers let along technicals of bitcoins, who want to own hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions worth, but don't want to worry their computer getting hacked o
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by meric 10y ago
Let me clarify, the increase in housing supply is a reaction towards an increase in AirBNB's and may not cancel out the decrease in housing supply due to those AirBNB's. I made the comment to say the decrease in long term residenc
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by meric 10y ago
The hotels's profitability will reduce, and the marginally profitable ones will be converted into apartments, increasing residential supply.

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