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by noobly 8y ago
I believe when people claim you can't delete a FB account, they mean it from the perspective of FB. That data is still sitting in their databases, it's just tagged as "deleted", from what I've gathered.
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by noobly 8y ago
Starving seems to work for a lot of different critters, us included.
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by noobly 8y ago
A good day to be a worm.
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by noobly 8y ago
>At the early days of the broadly available internet I was sure it would lead to a more informed public, and from that a more accountable, responsible leadership. If anything we have gone in the opposite direction. I've always thoug
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by noobly 8y ago
Interesting write up. I mistook Less Wrong for Suckless and the Cat-V crowd initially and it was kind of interesting to note that they, methinks, fall much closer to NNT on these points (and in overall grumpiness). Particularly: >LW says
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by noobly 8y ago
And it works wonders. Nothing repairs my tired back faster than a few dedicated nights of sleeping like that.
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by noobly 8y ago
Of course! I understand that a list of books isn't initially helpful as it only presents a time sink and nothing of immediate utility, but I believe I gained noticable cognitive improvements from reading those. You might also be intere
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by noobly 8y ago
I can recommend the following: Coursera's course "Learning How to Learn" Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman How to Read a Book, Adler[0] The Trivium, Sister Miriam Joseph How to Solve It, Polya I'd also recommend others th
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by noobly 8y ago
I imagine programmers, on average, need phones less than other occupations do.
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by noobly 8y ago
I very much enjoyed the development of the answer by eliminating the less sensible ideas and methods, and the way that this caused an incremental telescoping toward what he wanted to say. In short, it mimicked the process of elimination, an
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by noobly 8y ago
Emacs Org-Mode. I'm still getting the hang of it, but keeping my TO-DOs in line with agenda mode and clocking in and out of tasks to really see how much time I've been putting in has worked wonders. I also use the Seinfield method
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by noobly 8y ago
Physical health is the easy part, imho. I'd be interested to hear tips about upkeeping a mentally healthy mind and social life. Though, of course, a solid foundation for mental health is physical health.
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by noobly 8y ago
>Why waste money on energy drinks when you can work out? 30 pushups > can of red bull Perhaps worth noting that initially this will not be the case, and I don't think it ever works quite like that. In my experience, working out h
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by noobly 8y ago
I didn’t gather that from what he said at all, personally. I interpreted his comment at face value; it is possible to pull a profit over an arbitrary period of time even with 50/50 odds.
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by noobly 9y ago
Reading this thread, I'm lead to wonder if there's any open source, Wikipedia style (public editing) apps / sites / courses being developed? This would certainly combat the scaling issue, as Duolingo's comments seem
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by noobly 9y ago
There are no formal prerequisites to maintaining peace and avoiding war, and I don't think a formal education or a "scientific mindset" is of much help here. Further, the opposite of a scientific mindset is not ignorance, for
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by noobly 9y ago
It's certainly no proxy, but it is a standard metric to measure said qualities against. I hope we see a rise in autodidact accreditation and acceptance of non traditional paths, along with more decentralized and public research taking
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by noobly 9y ago
The title is “The New Webster’s Library of Practical Information: Quotations”. ISBN: 0-7172-4565-9, and the only link I found that was representative of what the set I have resembles is below[0], though it’s worth noting that it’s quite ove
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by noobly 9y ago
I stumbled upon a dictionary of quotations of sorts (the quotes are organized alphabetically by topic/theme) and oddly enough I’ve begun keeping that nearby for the motivation, thought provocation and genuine entertainment those snippe
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by noobly 9y ago
>the video feeds would still be recorded, and facial recognition could be easily performed. As another pointed out, the article covers this topic, explicitly. >The best safeguards are to create strong institutions I would replace &#x2
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by noobly 9y ago
>there isn’t a one-time-fits-all solution for education. Recorded online lectures beg to differ!
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by noobly 9y ago
IME, speed reading is great in the domains where it’s applicable without substantial detriment to comprehension (as in the case of pamphlets, instruction manuals, a first skim of material, etc). What gets my jimmies in a knot is the ‘produc
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by noobly 9y ago
There’s potential for it, of course. There’s also potential for massive upsides.
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by noobly 9y ago
I've been asking myself this very same question for some time now. One thing to consider is the idea of income that scales well, though this is not easy. Examples of income that scale well might be a successful app, a hit song, etc, co
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by noobly 9y ago
I've heard this before, but it still seems a fun hobby, especially in domains that may be less exploited like crypto.
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by noobly 9y ago
Why not?
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by noobly 9y ago
Also, no mention of potential types like Ghost/Normal that have no weakness, or Ghost/Fighting that have complete coverage with their STAB moves. I haven't played in ages, but surely there's more type combinations that a
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by noobly 9y ago
Important to note that you do not have to be homeless nor live in a crappy fit to enjoy scrapping.
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by noobly 9y ago
For those concered about any security issues, it might be worth your time to look at the methods outlined in glacier protocol[0]. 0: https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/downloads/glacier-protocol.pdf
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by noobly 9y ago
It creates good form because it forces your shoulders, spine and hips to be in the proper positions for a real squat. Of course, there are ways around this (such as inflexibility as you mentioned) but I've found it's a great teach

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