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by orasis 9y ago
Overall I get value out of Upwork as a buyer, but a full 60% of the applicants I get are scam bait-and-switch accounts. I’ve figured out how to navigate it but it doesn’t surprise me that they’d be strict on their TOS.
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Service to others. Gratitude. Exploration of the edges of discomfort. Surrender to this experience.
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I’m a construct-aware thinker. So it means something different to me now than it would to my previous nihilistic stage. Here is a nice model of human cognitive development beyond the meaninglessness of nihilism: http://newpossib
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It depends on your level of cognitive development. Construct aware thinkers realize that meaning undeniably exists, even if it is seen to be empty of basis.
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Nihilism is the scourge of our age. It takes courage to create meaning and love life.
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Drones are far too loud.
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Don’t write a report. No one reads them. Talk talk talk and listen listen listen with the people that matter. Don’t end the conversation until one of you changes your mind or you decide that you have to quit.
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Try 1 TB/day and you'll definitely get an analgesic effect.
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Turmeric is my pain killer of choice.
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The article certainly wants to paint the women as naive rather than empowered sexual beings.
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by orasis 9y ago
This article is a fascinating reflection of our current culture. It’s simultaneous power shaming and slut shaming. It’s pretty sad that across all of the women interviewed they’re either portrayed as naive and disempowered or “merely” prost
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Where do you think male dominance hierarchies come from?
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“the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men.” Female sexual selection is a powerful force that creates the male dominance hierar
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Indra’s Net connects us all, especially in meme-space. We grow or diminish memes based on the fuel we give them. BitCoin is not an investment. It is speculative baseball card trading and its harder to keep safe from theft than baseball car
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Each of us has some small responsibility in this, call it karma if you will. These outcomes highlight the importance of telling the truth rather than promoting ideas that are in our selfish best interests. Jordan Peterson has some excellent
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When a lot of money is on the line you can use a lot of resources.
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Beginners follow the rules. Intermediates bend the rules. Masters create the rules.
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Buy a condo in an cheap tourist destination to rent on AirBnB.
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So you want to make them more rare so that people have a strong incentive to harvest from the wild? If you legalize home growing you'll create a larger supply. You should look at the history of Chestnut blight in the US. Due to the b
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This can be fixed quickly with congestion pricing.
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The good: Acknowledgment of yin and yang (masculine and feminine energies). Acknowledge of the primacy of sexual energy shaping our lives and society. The bad: Most of this article is magical thinking woo from authors who are extrapolating
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As someone who lives semi-arid, good luck growing abundant food on this land. I have 12 acre feet of water rights on 58 acres in Montana and its still a lot of work. (For sale btw: It's fun as a giant playground http://www.e
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Congestion pricing for use of city streets would quickly solve any problems due to increased use.
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You could wait for the research to be conclusive, or you could dive in right now and radically improve your life. I recommend starting with the free short book, Mindfulness In Plain English - http://www.wisdompubs.org/sites&
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This post is about AsianRegistry. I use 101domain for my .ai domain. I assume I'm immune from AsianRegistry's influence? Can anyone confirm?
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I like the saving others time math - nice way to think about it.
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That's pretty sociopathic to be posting this now.
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“Pattern and Nebulosity” Meta-Rationality with David Chapman (podcast)(deconstructingyourself.com)
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Businesses are pretty simple. It's about consistently growing revenue and healthy cash flow.
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Thanks for the feedback. Working to find the best language has been a hard slog. It's actually not for improving a web site's design but is targeted specifically at mobile apps. I'm using the "configuration" langu

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