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by quacked 6y ago
It's not- I should have clarified in my comment. I was just showing an example timeline. The child commenter with the bit about the narrative and primary source removal is correct.
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by quacked 6y ago
The Post publishes a lot of disreputable trash that's outright false or unproven, but more and more often, it seems that they release primary sources of information (especially videos) much earlier than other news outlets will, if the
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by quacked 6y ago
Well, print out a PDF.
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by quacked 6y ago
I think the key to impostor syndrome lies in one of the author's sentences: "Your sense that you’re not the expert/rockstar/whatever thing everyone says you are might be true." The more your identity is based on the
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by quacked 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if you find yourself with a much greater facility for memorization. The only caveat is that it takes longer to get to the point where you can "play through" a piece, which feels less efficient than lea
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by quacked 6y ago
I completely agree; Bernhard's posts made me realize that even professionals do not necessarily know the most efficient methods for teaching and learning, and that it may be necessary for students, even as amateurs, to challenge and se
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by quacked 6y ago
I am inclined to agree with the impossibility of reconciling a definition of "power" that does not involve violence and non-consensual control; a lot of modern writers and thinkers will use their own definition of "power&quot
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by quacked 6y ago
I can't read the name "Jodie" without hearing the song "Jody" by Tatsuro Yamashita, the eminent inventor of Japanese City Pop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J-SNMOcB5M My apologies for not actual
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by quacked 6y ago
It definitely isn't helping, haha. I also play piano, guitar, and compose, and I used to struggle with memorizing, but I've been reading a lot of piano practicing theory and have drastically upgraded my finger memory, mostly by us
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by quacked 6y ago
When you practice and learn a piece, how exactly to you practice and memorize it?
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by quacked 6y ago
I have exactly the same problem. Michael Burry (notable for profiting off of the 2008 housing crash) is predicting an enormous index fund bubble, or the "safe" investments that people are so fond of in 401ks and IRAs. Even the mar
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by quacked 6y ago
I see your confusion, but I never actually agreed that the way people approached it in the past was ridiculous. Nearly every single human custom is arbitrary and subjective, but there's no reason to abandon all preferences simply becau
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by quacked 6y ago
You're right and you're wrong. Men who grow up being exposed to the idea of nipples as sexual have a subconscious response; men who have not, don't, which is why some lineages of humanity don't have the same taboo, like
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by quacked 6y ago
I work for a large organization that uses IBM-maintained tools, and they're awful. Is anything IBM does good?
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by quacked 6y ago
> In theory, that’s what the dates next to Amazon/App Store reviews are for. There's no way to chart the average review score over time, though, is there? If people saw several years of 4.5-averaged scores and then a sudden dro
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by quacked 6y ago
I disagree with your input about adding affiliate links, because I think that they would end up working contrary to the goal of this project. Sellers constantly reuse listings to sell updated versions of their products, with variable result
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by quacked 6y ago
To paraphrase a blog writer- "a lot of people complain about feeling disconnected, but when I ask them to describe what it would feel like to be connected, they are unable to describe anything." Many people are aware of life feeli
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by quacked 6y ago
Ah, I see.
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by quacked 6y ago
Strength of the state universities in a desired field. Some state universities offer much better quality and reputation of their programs than the ones in other states. The way that college is marketed as a social vehicle is that you choose
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by quacked 6y ago
2020 in-state and out-of-state tuitions averaged are about $15k/semester for public universities. https://www.valuepenguin.com/student-loans/average-cost-of-c... . If one is talking exclusively about in-state tuiti
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by quacked 6y ago
I agree with everything you said, but having worked as a contractor for the civil service, there's not a lot of morality here- more incompetence and cruising for pensions than can possibly be believed, though. As an aside, that pay cut
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by quacked 6y ago
It's funny, I was just thinking about the gold standard, but of course it couldn't be returned to as that would destroy the valuation of the holdings of the various financial elite. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by quacked 6y ago
Right, but I'm saying I don't think his numbers are correct. Either it was also not possible on average to put yourself through college in 1986, similar to how it's not possible on average to put yourself through college toda
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by quacked 6y ago
Going by that guy's numbers, someone in 1986 had to work 73 hours per week to afford a semester of college. I either don't think those numbers are accurate enough to reflect people who "put themselves through college", o
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by quacked 6y ago
I agree with the overall shape of both of the parent comments to my comment, but the main question I have is- what can be done?
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by quacked 6y ago
> How do you live with yourself like this? Pre-define your endgame lifestyle, calculate the costs, and then get off at your stop. Seriously, it's like a project cost estimate. How many kids do you want to have? Where do you want to
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by quacked 6y ago
This is true for most topics. The way that math is taught, the way that history is taught- all separate the vast and deeply interconnected miracles of human ingenuity and achievement and discretize them into asynchronous packets of informat
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by quacked 6y ago
This 3-part article series starting with the link below is a much funnier take on a similar concept as Graeber's: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta...
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by quacked 6y ago
You're right. It gets really gnarly, really quickly. "X says Y" is objective news, but it is extremely difficult to evaluate Y without deep knowledge of both the background of Y and the reliability of X. "Y is actually n
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by quacked 6y ago
A primary concern with "the news" is that it has no incentive to be correct, especially when it is reporting on predictions. Consider a situation where a respected economist releases a report that predicts a high likelihood of eco

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