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by nineplay 5y ago
I think it is pure ignorance to call Buddhism a "philosophy rather than a religion" and sneer at idols. You might as well sneer at a display where a round, black-and-white ball is called a 'football'. It shows a comple
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by nineplay 5y ago
I've frequently seen "Buddhism" adopted by westerners from a secular or Judeo/Christian background and treated as though it's some sort of feel-good practice which lets them feel vaguely superior to other religions
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by nineplay 5y ago
I'd thought that one of the biggest advantages of python is that 'non' programmers can use it. All the math majors and data scientists love it and aren't interested in learning C++ . As much as I love C++ I wouldn'
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by nineplay 5y ago
That's an interesting point. Certainly the zeitgeist among the millennials seems to be that things are bad and they are only going to get worse. Maybe Star Wars seems hopelessly optimistic since civilizations will implode well before
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by nineplay 5y ago
> People who complain that nothing good is made anymore must just be looking at what's advertised heavily I can't speak for everyone but I think it's hard to find anything 'fun'. The indie films inevitably seem
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by nineplay 5y ago
FTA > One thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work very hard This is such a narrow definition of "great things" that it is useless. Great things in PG's eyes maybe, but I hope no one&#
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by nineplay 5y ago
I'll have to take your word for it because I'll never know.
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by nineplay 5y ago
Travel alone. Please. Everyone I know who has done it has found it worthwhile. It's easy to find dozens of excuses to avoid going into the unknown. Don't let them control you.
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by nineplay 5y ago
It's not about YOLO, it's about looking at your life though a lens besides "work,work,work,save,save,save" When I was 25 I had the time and the money to take a couple of weeks off and travel. I wouldn't have stayed
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by nineplay 5y ago
One of my greatest regrets is how much time I wasted on 'work' in my 20s and 30s. I was an engineer, I made a comfortable salary, but I rarely took a vacation, I never traveled outside the UI, I took days off reluctantly with a v
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by nineplay 5y ago
The article was all over the map and didn't have anything inciteful to say. I was amused to see the college admissions scandal brought up since only one of the several colleges involved was Ivy League.
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by nineplay 5y ago
I write to engage. I'm enjoying my time in this topic since I'm getting some response and I always upvote all responders hoping to encourage the conversation to continue. I've gotten highly upvoted comments with no response
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by nineplay 5y ago
Removing 'likes' won't solve all the morale-crushing issues of course. When everyone you know is posting pictures of the happy hours that you weren't invited to, and the fabulous vacations that you don't have the t
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by nineplay 5y ago
That's part of it, but I'm also sitting here with the warm satisfaction that my earlier comment is up to 12 votes. Without votes or likes, I tend to assume that no one has read my comment, or no one finds it interesting. The eff
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by nineplay 5y ago
If Facebook cared about the mental health of its customers it would remove public likes. One of the big crushers of self-esteem is seeing your own post get 5 likes while a friend's gets 50. FB won't, of course, because it's
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by nineplay 5y ago
This sadly isn't surprising since it's been happening in one form or another at least since Jack Welsh, and probably earlier. He was probably just the first one to give it a name. It's never been any secret at places I'
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by nineplay 5y ago
How do you manage when different people in the same area are in different meetings? That's where I see the problems occur - there'd be 4 people in my immediate vicinity having 4 completely separate conversations. That would neve
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by nineplay 5y ago
I don't know what "all those things are possible" means aside from "all those things are possible as long as we zoom together while in the office". You can screen-share in the office - as long as you are both on zo
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by nineplay 5y ago
> Me and my teammates also become more efficient when we work together in the same physical space I've found it the complete opposite in software. Zoom screen sharing is so much easier than peering over someone's shoulder at t
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by nineplay 5y ago
Plus in a world population of about 8 billion, the WHO has nothing better to do than worry about factors "contributing to" the deaths of 745k people? That should be considered a embarrassing waste of effort.
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by nineplay 5y ago
I find that a lot of the "big" issues boil down to trust - in businesses, in Wall Street, in the government, in the justice system. If one person's POV is that <institution> should help while the other person's is
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by nineplay 5y ago
I think that's fair. The internet is full of people who won't even go to the effort of reading the article they are confidently promoting as the truth. Sometimes something as simple as "actually this study is about lions. n
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by nineplay 5y ago
"Arguement is flawed" is still in the eyes of the poster. I certainly wouldn't just unthinkingly accept this sort of feedback, and the simple truth is that internet "sources" are rarely trustworthy beyond the write
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by nineplay 5y ago
Many people can teach, but to do it successfully they must come from a place of respect and trust. If someone I know wants to teach me about their field of knowledge, that will be successful. If an anonymous stranger presents information
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by nineplay 5y ago
> So I tried to teach critical thinking to random people on Twitter Everyone everywhere on the internet thinks that the "other side" lacks critical thinking skills. I'm not surprised your effort failed, I'm sure if
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by nineplay 5y ago
> Instead of lionizing celebrities, money, infamy, or hyper individualism, maybe it would be worth respecting wisdom, mastery, expertise, monetary-agonistic accomplishment, and insightfulness. I wonder if that's ever happened in the
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by nineplay 5y ago
That's truly a pity. At the risk of sounding insufferable, whenever I read a "modern" book I feel like I immediately can tell where it's going and how it ends. It's the reason I spend most of my time with my nose
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by nineplay 5y ago
There are very few justifications for the existence of Twitter but one is undoubtedly Eric Carle's feed. He posted new drawings for every holiday. https://twitter.com/ericcarle?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcam...
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by nineplay 5y ago
I think some of it was sincere criticism of a unpleasantly stereotypical main character. The novel was initially popular among mostly-white female book clubs, then as the Latino population started to read it there was a collective WTF. Dis
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by nineplay 5y ago
> the classroom imperative to “write what you know” has led to dullness, angst and dead ends: cold and bony literary mumblecore. I agree with this, I think modern "serious" fiction has gone away from the idea that you should wr

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