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by qntty 6y ago
Reflectively pointing to imperatives like "normal or OK" when someone is having a moment of questioning imperatives that have got them this far is unhelpful. Why does it matter what's normal or OK? Maybe the thing that OP sho
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by qntty 6y ago
AKA, please work harder for your corporate masters because poor people are suffering. What's that? You want your corporate masters to pay a fair share of tax so poor will suffer less? No, just work harder and that extra work won't
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by qntty 6y ago
On the other hand, privatized delivery poses the same problem as private control of the internet in the absence of net neutrality. If there was no USPS to compete with, what's the stop Amazon and other major retailers from coming to ag
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by qntty 6y ago
This is one of the advantages and disadvantages of democratically-run workplaces (worker cooperatives etc). On the one hand, sometimes the people who are best positioned to make decisions about a person aren't their managers but their
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by qntty 6y ago
Yes but my skill in meditation is no match for 4 1-hour coding interviews back to back.
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by qntty 6y ago
I got an in-person interview, which didn't go as smoothly.
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by qntty 6y ago
One of the best interviews that I ever had was a phone interview where I just so happened to have a good session of meditation beforehand. I never realized how much how well I could do in an interview until I did one while feeling relaxed.
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by qntty 6y ago
You don't have to believe in a naive worldview where the NYT supposedly used to be a principled newspaper in order to want people to behave more decently toward one another. There's always been things you can't say at the NYT
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by qntty 6y ago
The "US" servers are actually in Canada. I use them and the performance for streaming is slightly better. Although I wouldn't really be worried either way as I don't use public torrent sites.
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It's the oldest text on mindfulness meditation in the buddhist tradition. In all likelihood, they didn't just read it and follow the instructions, as interpreting it's meaning from scratch is the life's work of a buddhis
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by qntty 6y ago
I do something like this too. I keep markdown files related to projects I'm working on. I never really made the connection between what I do and lab journals, although I'm familiar with the concept. This makes me think that I coul
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by qntty 6y ago
Most of the value is the friends you make and the informal relationships you develop with professors and other people at the university. For someone who already has friends to talk about academic things with, and who doesn't need the s
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by qntty 6y ago
Hopefully you're being metaphorical with the use of the term expected value, or are you really suggesting that a young person plans their education based on what's more profitable? Not that money isn't something to consider,
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by qntty 6y ago
There are two problems with this. The first is that it's impossible to know what the consequences of a lockdown are, because in all likelihood, many people would be staying home and losing jobs without a "lockdown" because pe
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by qntty 6y ago
Have you done this? Where did you go?
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by qntty 6y ago
We understand the world through our senses and our body. The best way to understand an abstract concept is to turn it into something that we can visualize or somehow "feel" in a tactile way. For example, sometimes functions feel l
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by qntty 6y ago
It's a common idiom in American politics. It was pretty cliche to contrast Wall St and Main St (finance industry and rest of the economy) during the 2008 crisis.
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He probably hastened the beginning of the Civil War and therefore saved many lives due to ending slavery earlier. It's hard to evaluate the morality of something that had such a large effect. How many slaves would have died if they had
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by qntty 6y ago
People in high crime neighborhoods rightly regard the police as the enemy, because the police treat them as the enemy. Giving the enemy better intel is never desirable.
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I didn't read through the entirety of SICP, but I read through the first ~3 chapters, and it helped me to understand the way that functions are associated with the environment that they are defined in and how this fact can be used to c
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by qntty 6y ago
Certainly possible. Just for fun, let's do some quick math. Imagine that we had 100 billion processes running constantly at 10 GHz since ~1970. This would result in ~10^30 clock ticks (10^9 sec * 10^10 ticks/sec * 10^11 processors
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by qntty 6y ago
Unless the stakes are so high that you can't afford to mess up, the best way to "learn a communication style" is to do whatever comes naturally and wait to see what kinds of problems come up. Since the stakes are as low as th
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by qntty 6y ago
This is all bad advice for this kid IMO. He's 19 and working as a research assistant, presumably part-time. I did that in college too. The people were nice and there was never a need to be at all guarded. The best thing he can do is ge
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An Interactive Regular Expressions Tutorial(regexone.com)
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by qntty 6y ago
Yes, I guess nothing is ever that simple. But the fact that you are able to have a dialogue about this shows that leftist nomenclature can lead to understanding in the same way as any other nomenclature, which is the understanding that&#x27
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by qntty 6y ago
Both groups are told that they will get psilocybin and they do. Maybe they guess there's a placebo group, but when it starts to kick in, they figure it wasn't them.
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by qntty 6y ago
Seems like a pretty straightforward point to me. Powerful people are punished less for their lack of understanding of less powerful, even though the consequences of their ignorance are worse. Who has more reason to worry, a manager making a
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by qntty 6y ago
Hmm I guess this a there's a lot to say about this. I'll just say two things. One, that most people (including maybe you) are more messed up than they think from childhood. Secondly, (and this is an even bigger issue) there's
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by qntty 6y ago
You're definitely in a vulnerable and potentially suggestible state when you're on psychedelics, but we all spend the first 12+ years of our lives in a pretty vulnerable and suggestible state, way more so than psychedelics can cre
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by qntty 6y ago
Definitely a small risk, but not an extreme one.

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