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by pqs 8y ago
You underestimate the role of luck on the success of these guys. They are clever and cynical assholes, but they have also been very lucky. There are tons of clever and cynical assholes who have shitty jobs due to their lack of luck.
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by pqs 8y ago
My mother had a pharmacy and she often called the doctor to solve this issues. The doctor is a phone call away, and the pharmacist job is to do whatever he cans to improved the patient's illness.
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by pqs 8y ago
This sounds like academia. People writing papers with the only purpose to be cited (not read) and improve the currently fashionable index (h-index, whatever). People presenting in conferences that are organized so everyone can add a confere
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by pqs 8y ago
It is productive if it feeds and shelters your family. I once made peace with this and now I'm happier.
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by pqs 8y ago
Thanks for your answer. Currently, in Spain, a lot of left wing people have an idealistic view of the war that I find dangerous. Also, there is still too many people downplaying Franco's brutality. I fear that this condemns us to make
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by pqs 8y ago
I'll give you more context. It is a small town, quite remote. Soldiers (no officers are present, as the officers supported Franco's military coup and were sentenced to death for that just at the beginning of the war) and militia m
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by pqs 8y ago
How do you avoid the snowball effect? If many tasks/mails are coming everyday and you are snoozing them to the future, you are adding more tasks/mails to your future inbox, which in turn will motivate you to snooze them again, fee
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by pqs 8y ago
The problem of taking sides is that there were no good guys in this story. My grandfather's father and a substantial part of my grandmothers family (her father, brother, ...) were killed by anarchist because they were Catholics and bec
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by pqs 9y ago
I agree, without taking security into consideration, Telegram's user experience is great. The clients are very nice, as the data is stored on the server, you can access it from any device (great on desktops and tablets, I hate not bein
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by pqs 9y ago
It still seems an hypocrisy to me. In any case, they use the flag as a marketing tool, something which, from my point of view, doesn't show much respect for the flag.
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by pqs 9y ago
But then they put the Swedish flag in front of each shop. What a hypocrisy!
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by pqs 9y ago
I never stopped reading blogs using feedly. I don't like feedly a lot, but it works and it allows me to follow nice blogs, which, from my point of view, is a much better use of my time than using social networks, which I almost don&#x2
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by pqs 9y ago
The wikipedia article is quite good as a general introduction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now The official website is badly designed. It is difficult to learn about the general design of the clock.
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by pqs 9y ago
It cannot be healthy not to have weekends. The jews discovered, a few thousand years ago, that a weekly pause is necessary for the body and the soul. This tradition has been maintained during history and even atheistic regimes, such as the
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by pqs 9y ago
It doesn't work for me. It is so frustrating. I live in Catalonia (Spain) and politics has been so intense here these last months that I want the right to disconnect from politics, but I can't, because I can't disable the new
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by pqs 9y ago
My personal method is partially inspired by GTD. I apply it in a way that suits my own work context and it works well. There is no universal solution. GTD works well for some people in some contexts.
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by pqs 9y ago
Not in my case. $:~/projectes$ git clone keybase:// [uri] Cloning into 'something'... fatal: I don't handle protocol 'keybase' I'm on an ubuntu machine. What can I do to solve the problem? Keybas
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by pqs 9y ago
Google is in its own right to limit speech in its services. More work should be invested in making distributed networks (i.e. Bittorrent) easy to use to any user.
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by pqs 9y ago
I live in Catalonia, the same region as Barcelona. If you only need ibuprofen you should not go to the hospital, you must go to a CAP (Centre d'Atenció Primària, Primary Assistance Center). My experience, in a small catalan city, is th
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by pqs 9y ago
I agree with you. I can't believe that they even wrote a new app when they could just have installed mailman, or any other mailing list server, or even a news server. If I were to create a company I would create mailing lists for discu
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by pqs 9y ago
I agree. Happiness understood in hedonistic terms, what most people nowadays search, is futile, because a single inconvenience will make us unhappy. However, optimising for virtue, as the stoics understood it, can make feel that we are doin
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by pqs 10y ago
I guess that all most religions and philosophies would agree in that causing unnecessary pain is bad, that to kill for pleasure is bad, etc. It is difficult to explain in words where the common denominator is, but this doesn't mean the
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by pqs 10y ago
No. I live in Spain, in an area close to a river delta where it is very, very windy. I also lived in a windy island for many years. Wind, when it is strong enough, can be very uncomfortable, even dangerous. I guess that what you are looking
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by pqs 10y ago
However, there is objective evil. ISIS is objective evil, for example. Russia or the USA are in the gray zone, where some of they actions are evil, some others are simply stupid, and some other have sense. So, I understand your point, every
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by pqs 10y ago
I live in a windy place, in Europe, and I suggest you to reconsider your decision.
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by pqs 10y ago
I think you would enjoy listening Jordan B. Peterson's comments on the links between evolution and the stories of the Bible. It is very interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson https:/&#x2F
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by pqs 10y ago
Maybe LaTeX is not easy, but writing a scientific PhD dissertation in LaTeX is easier than doing so in Word. I did it in LaTeX. I had no problems. My wife did it in Word, and we both spend hours trying to solve tons of stupid Word related p
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by pqs 10y ago
Well. Facebook is not secure and we don't care. Most users don't care about security and this should not be a problem. Telegram is a very nice mobile platform. I use it to share a microblog (Telegram Channel) with some friends an
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by pqs 10y ago
> My Dad always told me that you should have an hour a day and a day a week to yourself. When I was younger I laughed that off. These days I struggle to make it my minimum ideal. Precisely, yesterday I shared this article on Facebook and
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by pqs 10y ago
Exactly. Friend is not a binary concept, there are many degrees of friendship.

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