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by padobson 5y ago
Came here to mention that I thought Christensen was absent from the list, but thought your Ecclesiastes (which can be found in just about every Jewish or Christian Bible) recommendation was inspired. Ecclesiastes talks so much about the rhy
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by padobson 5y ago
Looking at the whole internet as a sort of "Pandora for Books" has been great for me. I try to recognize when I'm consuming too much short text, like your comment, and then I'll go an pick up a book instead. I'll le
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by padobson 5y ago
The third tweet demonstrates nothing. The linked Nature paper in the third tweet [0] may demonstrate why a reservoir animal is more likely than the virus being artificially engineered, but damned if I can understand the reasoning in it. May
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by padobson 5y ago
At least one of the emails [0] shows Fauci had evidence of a possible lab leak in January 2020. If the virus' genome is inconsistent with evolutionary theory, that's a major red flag - and very early on in the pandemic. We should
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by padobson 5y ago
I completely agree. His review [0] of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom [1] illustrates his capacity for nuance combined with his willingness to face those unpalatable truths. As a sample, he was a socialist who also wrote this: It cannot b
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by padobson 5y ago
When I don't drink coffee, it might take several hours for my mind to hit peak alertness, performance levels, but it when I do finally hit my stride, it seems to last longer. When I drink coffee, I hit peak alertness/performance i
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by padobson 5y ago
it seemed very much to me like meditation (something I was more familiar with) and prayer were very similar. The concept of God may just make it more pointed, or more like a conversation. Yes, if I was going to introduce a non-Christian t
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by padobson 5y ago
It absolutely does. I've been praying pretty consistently since I was very young, around 5 years old. When I discovered that wasn't normal for everyone, even people I go to church with, I was pretty surprised. When I started medit
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by padobson 5y ago
I wake up at 6:30am and feed my cats. Then I sit in a comfortable chair with my journal and Bible and stare out the window and I journal and contemplate and read and write and pray. I used to do this with coffee, but I found the caffeine wa
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by padobson 5y ago
One of the interesting things about the infrastructure bill that has been proposed in Congress is it talks a lot about universal high-speed broadband access in the same way that, back in the ’30s, the recovery bills from the Great Depressi
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by padobson 5y ago
750 dollars in 1949 is about $9,000 in 2021. Vonnegut had to convince at least two gatekeepers: his own agent and the editor at Colliers. I spent a large chunk of time a few years back looking into the questions OP is asking, and the ultima
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by padobson 5y ago
Don't mix religious and political beliefs with health and science No? Newton? Pascal? Lemaitre? Wheeler?
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by padobson 5y ago
This had me nodding my head: However, we have to weigh the residual risks against the risk of death from Covid But then this made me wonder if there was a paragraph I missed: Vaccination is a moral obligation I think it's a mistake
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by padobson 6y ago
This is what I was thinking about reading this post. Why add things to Python to make it strongly typed? Why not just use Java or C#?
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by padobson 6y ago
It's shocking to me that I had to read a whole blog post and scroll through 50+ comments on HN to find someone who understood how salaries work. Well said. I feel like this entire discussion can be summed up in four sentences: "Fe
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by padobson 6y ago
You shouldn't be downvoted, these are the right questions to ask. Citadel says you were right to ask these questions: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i9SnRzR8AM1... https://ww
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International Fixed Calendar(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Experimental Engine That Could Get Us Anywhere in the World in 2 Hours(popularmechanics.com)
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by padobson 6y ago
both are easily neutralized by a peer competitor. This is what I was thinking the whole time. Rome was surrounded by peer competitors, and OP says their most effective use of elephants was against non-peer competitors like Spain or Gaul.
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by padobson 7y ago
It's good to see tax money spent on such a comforting program. I think it lends to a sense of national pride when policies like this lead to good feelings in the citizenry. That said, I think articles like this contribute to science il
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by padobson 7y ago
This was thoughtful, measured, wise, well-written, and completely ineffectual. There's no "threat of tribalism". We're living in tribalism. This piece could only be effective in another climate. Ham-fisted, on-the-nose,
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by padobson 7y ago
I was talking with the guy who ultimately edited this book, and his son had just watched Star Wars, his 4-year-old-son, and was very affected by it. And I kind of had this theory that when you're a very young person, the character in
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by padobson 7y ago
you figure out if you really want to work there, and they do as well I don't think this can be overstated. If you don't enjoy the interview process, you probably don't want to work there. At the same time, interviewing is o
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by padobson 7y ago
Don't get lost in the weeds here. The main thing to understand is that if something has value, there is a market-based approach to get that value. I don't need to argue that the environment and endangered species have value. They
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by padobson 7y ago
How do you boycott Monsanto/Bayer, which sell to farmers You organize the farmers to boycott. If you can raise $1mm from various environmental activist communities to lobby congress, you could just as easily raise the same million an
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by padobson 7y ago
A good rule of thumb is that if something is good, the market will support it. The "information asymmetry" argument is typically a red herring. No legislation will stop species extermination if information about the extermination
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by padobson 7y ago
Seems to me an activist loud enough to get legislation passed could also be loud enough to organize an effective boycott or at least a pretty effective PR campaign against companies (or even individuals) that are threatening species. People
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by padobson 7y ago
And I like Dave Ramsey's mortgage calculator: https://www.daveramsey.com/mortgage-calculator Or retirement calculator: https://www.daveramsey.com/smartvestor/investment-calculator
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by padobson 7y ago
Does anyone have any thoughts on heterodox ways to go the other direction? I'm a software engineer with an interest in the law and I always wondered what sorts of opportunities there were for someone like me. What's a good way for
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by padobson 7y ago
No less tenable than the food standards proposition, unless you have data that shows the difference in industry expenditures on food quality.

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