orthoganol

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by orthoganol 11y ago
Having a logic is not the same as being rational. All madness has its own logic. I want a raise so I terrorize my boss until he gives me one is a logic, but it is not a rational approach.
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Funny, in my travels outside of the US people seemed more interested in getting your WhatsApp, Skype, Line, or WeChat. Regional variations I suppose.
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Pretty polarizing thread. I deleted FB two years ago. I'm a social 20-something. It hasn't impacted my social life at all, actually, and I do feel happier. I18n friends, my family, or college acquaintances or x-coworkers who I car
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by orthoganol 11y ago
That's a narrow viewpoint. Sociology, history, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, even the hated field of literary theory all provide fertile ground for drawing conclusions about the nature of human subjectivity. The people who cl
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by orthoganol 11y ago
> They're the mind viewing itself through its own intuitive folk-theory of mind Why do you think I'm suggesting any theory of mind at all? You're stating too much. I'm just suggesting look for patterns and produce mod
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by orthoganol 11y ago
This is the standard reductionist position, and the standard strawmannirg of people who don't agree with it. To explain it crudely, yes, it all ultimately reduces to the neuronal substrate and no one in their right mind disagrees. The
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by orthoganol 11y ago
I imagine the majority of people on this forum are pressuring themselves to focus on something, a project, work, or relationship. Inevitably you'll have to battle a wandering mind. Maybe that's where burnout comes in, not letting
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by orthoganol 11y ago
a) I disagree still... let's put it this way, on a forum like r/zizek where people discuss Zizek's positions, it's patently obvious who hasn't actually read Zizek and who just watches YouTube and the Pervert's
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Too many entries to sift through if you sort by all time, but I recall him being called a charlatan here, which is what Chomsky once called him (which might explain it). Otherwise I feel the tech community in general rejects the field of cr
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Those are superficial examples. It's things more like social pressures that exist that you may not even be aware of. Acting and thinking in certain ways without fully knowing why.
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by orthoganol 11y ago
All who've I met are trying to assemble regular social groups, many dating locals... spend some time on r/digitalnomad if you're interested.
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by orthoganol 11y ago
I thoroughly enjoy Zizek, and to actually understand him I would recommend reading his work, because the Zizek of cinema or Youtube really is a confusing, tiny glimpse of his thought. I'll also note that he's pretty unpopular in t
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Speaking from experience, there are a lot of people looking for Westerners with a $40-60/ hour budget, which is too cheap for Westerners and too expensive for South Asians. It doesn't have to do with qualification, it has to do wi
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Translation: if you have no skills yet or have zero ability to market them and win clients, then this is for you. > Last but not least: People who do this will have much easier access to locals (after all you share an office) and therefo
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by orthoganol 11y ago
As someone who has backpacked while coding, this is terrifying: > Backpack Consulting connects skilled travellers who want to discover the world with companies who are looking for specialized help. In return for volunteering help, compan
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by orthoganol 11y ago
In case anyone associated with Sprig reads this, I had written you guys off a while ago because I can't stand landing pages that do weird/ annoying scrolling. I just checked and it's still like that... please just make it a n
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by orthoganol 11y ago
As an archeology nerd, I appreciate this. However it feels like you're lying when you say "Just tweet or text us", when you actually need to manually type out the message on a field in a Gumroad checkout widget... I think you
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Maybe because I'm no longer in my early 20's, something about agreeing to be an employee in that environment, e.g. staying late for "1st and 2nd dinners", for something you didn't found, just feels humiliating.
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by orthoganol 11y ago
> Japan is a leading nation in many ways - not just technologically, but also socially and both in the good and bad aspects I lived in Japan. Most expats (granted, not engineers) are in agreement that Japan feels like 2050 for technology
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by orthoganol 11y ago
I think the biggest risk at least in a city like San Francisco is people taking their anger out against "rich techies" on these robots. Look how riled San Francisco is right now, what with the perception that techies are causing a
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by orthoganol 11y ago
If 90% of their business comes from 'power users' and investment firms and not 'locals renting their home while they are out of town' - then AirBnB is founded on an extraordinary lie.
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by orthoganol 11y ago
> Here’s what’s wrong: an increasing amount of Airbnb’s commercial activity in cities like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles does not come from the listings of “regular people” who are merely renting out a spare room. This is my p
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by orthoganol 11y ago
? At their $14/ meal price I can just order something healthy on SpoonRocket for a few bucks less, with almost instant delivery. Why wouldn't I do that?
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by orthoganol 11y ago
I agree with pg, but I do think he could be more open minded to critical theory kind of stuff in the humanities. Yeah a lot of it is truly terrible to read, just following some weirdly abstract chain of logic that leads nowhere... but some
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by orthoganol 11y ago
> The Stack That Helped Medium Drive 2.6 Millennia of Reading Time > For a site as seemingly simple as Medium, it may be surprising how much complexity is behind the scenes. It’s just a blog, right? You could probably knock something
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by orthoganol 11y ago
I think the factory-style production of prototypes is causing real effects in terms of the importance of design, just in order to not get brushed off. There are just so many decent looking projects being posted to Product Hunt every day, an
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Except it's $14, because I can't remember the last time I built even a trivial app that didn't incorporate background processes somehow (the extra $7). Then it's an extra $20/mo if you want SSL. Which you will most
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by orthoganol 11y ago
Bluntly, that's a very white person response. Do you know about Compton? Anything that's not selling drugs or gang related to get out is fine. What's right or wrong has a lot to do with the circumstances you're in.
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by orthoganol 11y ago
$90 million revenue run rate this year and an $11 billion valuation... Are VCs trying to rush everything onto the public while they can, or what? Slightly disconcerting when people say VCs aren't trying to do things like they did in th
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by orthoganol 11y ago
> Like the Internet itself, the project is effectively endless, containing 10,000 video clips, 10,000 spoken sentences, news, tweets, charts, graphs, lists, and millions of individual data points, all presented in a classically-designed

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