owlglass

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by owlglass 4y ago
If you're talking about the Halo Effect, both men and women are susceptible to it. Interestingly, this effect might be "negated by feelings of jealousy in women" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal
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by owlglass 4y ago
While I do agree that this much fear of mortality likely warrants mental rather than anti-aging therapy, commercial applications like these are likely to motivate more research that generates actionable insights for your average person.
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by owlglass 4y ago
I'm curious, as someone who appreciates the simple and intuitive Lichess UI, what makes the Chess.com UI better than Lichess'?
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by owlglass 4y ago
Lived the same "pile of poop" lifestyle 20-23, slowly crawling out of it with many of the same techniques you mention. I'm glad to see things have looked up for you.
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by owlglass 4y ago
Just wanted say I've really been enjoying Grila and rcmd (from the same developer).
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by owlglass 4y ago
Perhaps we'll see OpenAI grow to be the Google of 2022?
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by owlglass 4y ago
Second this. The Kindle is also much faster for me when clicking on footnote links (on sideloaded books).
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by owlglass 4y ago
The thrust of the article [1] is that the income defined as "Poverty Level" (60% of disposable income), is higher in the US than in many European countries. This definition is based on disposable income, which does not account for
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by owlglass 4y ago
When the Mises Institute publishes articles arguing that "drunk drivers cause accidents but so do sober drivers, and many drunk drivers cause no accidents at all," and therefore drunk driving should not be outlawed, it's hard
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by owlglass 4y ago
Regarding the edit: is there anything to indicate that they're anything like you and me? Is hoarding resources in such excessive quantities at the cost of so many others not tantamount to a personality disorder?
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by owlglass 4y ago
I think he doesn't want the people who eventually find him to have to deal with a decayed corpse, so they'll hop into a top-loaded freezer when they feel death is near to save them the hassle.
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by owlglass 4y ago
While watching these people use their privilege to steal so much money is frustrating, I don't see how some Ivey League twenty-something's wrongdoing prevents you from doing regular things.
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by owlglass 4y ago
I procrastinate as well. What I find has been working for me lately is not making it about the thing itself, but about who I'm becoming by doing it (and doing it early), as described here: https://www.neelnanda.io/blog&
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by owlglass 4y ago
I agree. I'm most satisfied when I get something done and acquire a new skill in the process. It doesn't really matter whether it's in software, math, cooking, writing, etc. David Foster Wallace wrote about something similar,
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by owlglass 4y ago
"Somehow it was all tied up with a story he’d heard once, about a boy born with a golden screw where his navel should have been. For twenty years he consults doctors and specialists all over the world, trying to get rid of this screw,