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by padolsey 7y ago
I agree with your larger point (that suicide is not a directed rational behaviour) but I want to take a stab at a trope I see repeating here again and again. The trope of the 'alien' mental illness that infests and infects our oth
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by padolsey 8y ago
Gardens and other natural spaces absolutely affect social and mental wellbeing. An interesting piece of research into the effects of greenery and nature on wellbeing was conducted back in 2001 by Ming Kuo and William Sullivan [0]. I love re
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by padolsey 8y ago
The neurological field has grappled, over the last few decades, with an increasing understanding of the interconnectedness and pliability of the brain and the rest of the body. We've gone from categorical localization of function to ne
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by padolsey 8y ago
For lack of ideal heuristics, I recently built myself a tool to find books that "people like me" read most. This is similar to the rating heuristic, except it relies on a collaborative filtering & clustering of sorts. The inte
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by padolsey 8y ago
A counterpoint to your point on shallowness and narrowness is Andrew Solomon's "Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity". Journalists, ostensibly, are good at writing, interviewing, and exploring wide
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by padolsey 8y ago
What's funny is that your comment alluding to the generational persistence of punishment indicates the very cyclic nature that you are seeking proof of. Its persistence does not prove its worthiness ('appeal to nature'), only
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by padolsey 8y ago
> "you will naturally begin to do some real work, because the movement started" This works. But only if there is a cadence that you comfortably settle into. Slow feedback cycles in your tools, real world blockers or other probl
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by padolsey 8y ago
Is anyone able to ELI5 this?
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by padolsey 8y ago
The public wouldn't buy the 'neutral' aspect, as every mechanism that a platform provides, is in some way biasing the type of content that is broadcast. Twitter's RT feature, which requires no curation or modification of
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by padolsey 8y ago
> They're not. And the specific reason they are not, is the algorithmic timeline and content suggestions. I think the more pertinent reason here is that these platforms have broadcast capability (immediate communication with many pe
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by padolsey 8y ago
Thank you for writing this all up. I found this all really interesting but one question remains: what should we do when we have burnout? It's easy enough to say "just employ one of your coping mechanisms" but presumably there
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by padolsey 8y ago
I understand the point about the data resellers, and I agree. But TBH I'm more concerned about the minority of 'good actors' in this space, who have gotten my information the correct way, but now, due to various constraints o
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by padolsey 8y ago
I feel really bad for smaller companies/orgs. I've received countless emails from various businesses I've had interactions with over the years. I've seen the full gamut of messaging -- from "changes in our privacy p
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by padolsey 9y ago
Yep! Or even: const initials = name.match(/\b\w/g).join('')
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by padolsey 9y ago
I don't know if I buy into that as a line of reasoning. I'm ostensibly an INFP and I actually love problem-solving (hence being a programmer). When I work from home I am motivated to work for a number of reasons: - It's inter
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by padolsey 10y ago
I feel that it should simply reset after X days without any takers, thereby reflecting the market's ill-appetite for the increased price. Or perhaps the price should decrease by $2 each day without takers. Would be really interesting t
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by padolsey 10y ago
I saw it as an attempt to draw a contrast between the internal struggle of the mother (and that of every human suffering from loneliness) and the relative placidity and pleasant obliviousness of nature. To me, it highlighted the power of mi
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by padolsey 10y ago
Just because we are biologically tuned to "market" ourselves, for leverage in survival/gene-spreading, I don't think it's correct to state that the "entire purpose" of life is to market oneself. Nor does i
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by padolsey 10y ago
Referendums in the UK are, legally, glorified opinion polls and so any resulting democratic mandate is spurious.
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by padolsey 10y ago
What exactly would that future look like? Where there is no government, one will appear. People seem to have this incurable efficiency whereby we create rules, regulations, and eventually bureaucracies. Rules, implicit and explicit, manifes
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by padolsey 11y ago
I love these! I tried automating the creation of them a while ago[1] (refreshing the page creates a new one). I should probably revisit it though as the generated puzzles aren't tricky enough.. [1] http://padolsey.github.io&
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by padolsey 11y ago
Maybe, but I feel that the answer to such biases is to introspect and understand your potential prejudgements, and then not let them specifically sway you. Anyway, the accepted alternative, an entirely meritocratic process, is fraught with
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by padolsey 11y ago
I get that. I just would rather not feel like a monkey being prodded whenever I attend an interview. An interview being repeatable (for comparative purposes) brings no value to the candidate.
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by padolsey 11y ago
This methodology may correctly filter the candidates the author is seeking, but if this made up the bulk of any interview I attended, it would probably turn me off the role. FWIW, when I attend an interview, as either party, I want to have
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by padolsey 11y ago
Agreed! FWIW this is why I made Operative. It gives you a way of writing "inline" JS that utilizes web workers (caveat: not actually inline; no scope/context access of course). It provides good support across browsers and fal
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by padolsey 12y ago
With no defined height you can still use the `translate(-50%, -50%)` hack, right? I'm kinda surprised it hasn't been mentioned in this thread at all; I use it all the time. http://codepen.io/padolsey/pen/
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by padolsey 12y ago
To be fair, the article doesn't talk about being merely "good", but the much harder-to-achieve and more subjectively understood virtues of character, generosity and empathy. From what I've seen, the people who emanate th
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by padolsey 12y ago
Yes, but the author explicitly explores the semantics she pushes in regard to other limitations: our size relative to the universe, our inability to fly, etc. With everything taken into account, it is indeed odd that the thing that seems un
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by padolsey 12y ago
I get your point but, for me, it was more fun back then. There was more to hack on; heck, you could craft your own selector engine and people would use it. Awesome. Now, seemingly, all there is to do is build yet another CRUD application wi
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