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by rakejake 4y ago
I sometimes have to face phone calls like these where I know the person is very outgoing and has very "shareable" interests (interests that are simple, broadly applicable to everyone and in vogue - think hiking/climbing, freq
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by rakejake 4y ago
No. Having read a lot of his work, I'm confident it is one person.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Problem is, I find it very difficult to define the boundaries of "true friendship" because I have not had any events in my life that tested those friendships. Family (at least the ideal functional family) as portrayed in media, an
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by rakejake 4y ago
Get well soon.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Are there resources online on how to do this? I've always wanted to learn more about construction work, at least to the level where I can do some minor repairs.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Cheers. Was already on the Rust train. I'm waiting for this year's Advent of Code.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Perhaps, but I don't see myself FIREing and then spending my life gardening or something. I would like to have a sustained, organic interest in something (may not be software, but definitely something in the scitech). That is my goal a
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by rakejake 4y ago
Yeah I've been there. But I don't think you can improve your working memory or your "intelligence" (however you choose to measure it) much beyond your baseline (which could be quite high already, compared to the average)
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by rakejake 4y ago
True. I'm not an insomniac or anything close and I exercise regularly. I think sleep hygiene and sleep posture (and breathing during sleep) are the last pieces of the puzzle. Still working on it.
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by rakejake 4y ago
I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my
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by rakejake 4y ago
I oscillate between this (having an expanded brain capacity) and the exact opposite (a more limited brain capacity, the ability to take things one at a time, be eternally optimistic, not have your mind race all the time, sleep instantly whe
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by rakejake 4y ago
Google owns Waze
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by rakejake 4y ago
Sauna seems like a good remedy for sinus issues, and a lot of the problems you mention sound to me like symptoms of sinus congestion
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by rakejake 4y ago
Fantastic article. Thanks for sharing.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Fantastic comment. I think this makes a lot of sense, even outside the drug trade/Baltimore setting. Cultures which are highly individualistic usually have a different set of problems (drugs, mental health, gun culture in America etc)
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by rakejake 4y ago
What exactly are you supposed to do? Move to the middle of the Amazon away from civilization? Knowing the exact sequence of events that led to the pandemic is extremely important, and not only as research for future pandemics. There is reas
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by rakejake 4y ago
Greg Egan's distress has something similar although in that situation it's not just the retinas. All the organs are revived to make the person who died "alive" for a short while to help the police identify the culprit
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by rakejake 4y ago
Not all countries are blessed with the nature's bounty that the US is blessed with. I agree Energy is something India will be working on furiously in the coming decade. I presume both nuclear and renewable will be expanded rapidly. In
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by rakejake 4y ago
Sorry, meant to say Slaver.
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by rakejake 4y ago
Is this a cryptic crossword clue for "slaves"? I know the parent comment spells slaves.
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by rakejake 4y ago
I am not claiming that a majority of people in the past enjoyed leisure time. The improvements in tech that lead to more leisure time does not automatically mean people enjoy that time. While there is pressure to get a task done at work, or
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by rakejake 4y ago
Sure, you could put it that way. There are always two sides to this: one side says onus is on the individual to regulate what they do/consume, other side blames the addictive properties of the substance. The internet is no way comparab
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by rakejake 4y ago
The problem is the absence of leisure during leisure time rather than loss of leisure time. True, there is more time today for hobbies and other such activities than there was previously, and less responsibilities. But the increase in the p
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by rakejake 4y ago
DRS (Hawk-eye + Ultraedge) has transformed cricket in my opinion. Where before, one erring umpire can change the course of a game, now there is the option to challenge calls. And guess what, if you land up in that 50-50 umpire's call t
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by rakejake 4y ago
The hardships are the joys, at least that is the way I read it. There is obviously a threshold, and getting robbed and having to work to get out of a country is unpleasant I'm sure, but the intrigue and friction in navigating a new cul
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by rakejake 4y ago
Same here, got hooked to news during Covid and for a few months it was agony. Then I realized why I stopped reading news regularly in the first place.
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by rakejake 4y ago
From the article: "The main reason for this exodus of wealthy technologists is the complete waiver on personal income tax and minimal capital gains tax. India levies a personal income tax of 30% on income above 15,00,000 rupees ($19,30
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by rakejake 4y ago
The article is light on actual stats but the quoted 44000 for the golden visa is across all categories (medicine, students, investors, founders etc). So, crypto/web3 is moving because the govt seems genuinely hostile to them, and the u
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by rakejake 4y ago
+1 for Iron and the Soul. Really spoke to me.
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by rakejake 4y ago
+1. I came to the same conclusion. The pandemic sped up the timeline of my mental processes and illustrated all the holes in my model of the world. That way, I am glad this lockdown happened before I made any life-altering and hard-to-rever

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