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by qntty 11y ago
Sorry if this is off-topic (and maybe a bit personal), but as a recent graduate, I'm not sure what I would do with all that extra money. What do you (or most people) generally spend it on? I make less than that, but if I didn't ha
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For straight Buddhism in modern terms, What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula and Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness by Henepola Gunaratana are good.
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I'll take Lao Tzu over Confucius any day.
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>The external reality is that there are real, physical differences between people that correlate at least somewhat with what we perceive as "race". This doesn't seem to contradict what they are saying here though. From the
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If dates involved asking questions with a definite right answer, that article might exist.
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At many places they do: zero days for both.
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I assumed the same
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You can't compel someone to pay you something other than cash. For people who insist on paying in cash, a business can just refuse to serve them.
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No, not that Francis Bacon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)
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Not that I'm advocating anarchism, but you misunderstand what anarchism is if you think that it doesn't involve complex systems. The dream of anarchism is to have a stateless society, where there's no top-down control, not on
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Fifty-nine percent of the students surveyed said the total outstanding student debt was in the “millions.” The most worrying part to me. 59% can't estimate things like this within ~two orders of magnitude?
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Manhattan distance is because Manhattan is a grid, and that's how taxis drive or how people walk.
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I think the implication is that R&D departments have the control to avoid it
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Maybe not unrelated New research sounds a particularly disquieting note. A major evaluation of Tennessee’s publicly funded preschool system, published in September, found that although children who had attended preschool initially exhibite
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You are your phone The fact can no longer be avoided: You are your phone. The pattern of smartphone use is the pattern of the self. This is who you are: Barcode of smartphone use over two weeks.Black areas indicate times where the phone was
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Glad this wasn't called "'Learn More' Considered Harmful"
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>esteemed by those who believed themselves to be above the median An interesting counter point to this idea: https://medium.com/message/why-chess-will-destroy-your-mind-...
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I'm interested to hear what a "spouse firewall" is
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>I'm also older than the average age of a start-up employee (late twenties) I took this to mean that the average startup employee is in their late twenties, and he is somewhat older than that
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Quoted in SICP: A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scienti
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What I mean is that women might be better at assembling furniture that they're not familiar with, compared to men. But if you have an assembly line operation, and familiarizing yourself with the instructions isn't a bottleneck, me
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That doesn't follow. Things don't always scale like one would expect them to.
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There is a stark difference, I think, between not officially supporting certain un-Christian things and enforcing childish rules like a curfew.
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Closed Minds on Campus(wsj.com)
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Truth in advertising: The Web of Language Distinguished Usage Panel, charged each year with picking the Word of the Year, consists entirely of me.
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can you explain what you mean by this?
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Aaronson also wrote a longer essay related to philosophical questions raised by computational complexity: http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2011/108/
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Both were submitted by the same person
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Why the second post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458311

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