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by renjimen 4y ago
It's a tough call. Tinder made me anxious and depressed but it was also more effective than my alternatives for meeting people. While being single didn't lead to such acute mental health issues it did fill me with a low level sens
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by renjimen 4y ago
I’ve found that it’s okay to sit for 8+ hours most days so long as I’m getting out of my seat every hour and going for a short walk or two every day. Yoga, even a 15 minute session once a week, helps a lot, as you say. Using a vertical mous
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by renjimen 4y ago
This is all a result of short termism. Short term profits from dark behaviours trump long term profits from satisfied customers. Why is this behaviour of publicly traded companies surprising to anyone? It’s not unique to software either. It
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by renjimen 4y ago
> The wall we all hit Sure, it’s an op-ed, but making blanket statements like this (in the first sentence) detracts from its more valid points and alienates a large portion of knowledge workers who actually enjoyed some of the changes br
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by renjimen 4y ago
I agree about friction being important. I think it’s something we need to build into tech workplaces to sustain long term healthy work lives. Like, Pomodoro but the opposite. Maybe we need to ditch Slack and Teams for everything but the wat
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by renjimen 4y ago
You can find balance in the digital world. In fact, plenty of people feel more comfortable and themselves online. But plenty don’t. This article lacks that nuance.
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by renjimen 4y ago
Just to add some more detail, we estimate a maximum 2 m sea level rise by 2100 due to contributions from all glacier sources, including the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Ice Sheet, but more likely closer to 0.8 m [1]. That is still
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by renjimen 4y ago
I like the concept. I'm missing the social side of music since moving away, physically and musically, from my school and university friends. It would be great to find music friends across the internet. Some thoughts: - Since most music
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by renjimen 5y ago
Geology: The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson Though he does such a good job of passionately portraying so many topics in these books I feel they could get people into any one of the earth sciences. Hell, even politics and economics.
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by renjimen 5y ago
Dropout is random, rather than learned. But I can see how it could have a similar effect to forgetting.
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by renjimen 5y ago
You could use SAR to observe independent of lighting and climate. I’m not sure how good the coverage is right now but it’s improving (see Iceye and Capella). Resolution for car ID though… I’m not sure it’s up to that
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by renjimen 5y ago
Snark aside, making the correct check/uncheck often still results in spam emails anyway, such asking for feedback or once a year sales promo. I’ve noticed the majority of independent online retailers do this. I guess it works or they w
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by renjimen 5y ago
> Becoming one is a choice under your control To an extent. Some people are predisposed to addiction and the poor are much less likely to have the knowledge or support required to recognise or battle addiction.
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by renjimen 5y ago
It’s weird how much guilt we have about how we spend our free time. We are constantly measuring our activities against what society, our parents, our friends, and social media say are worthwhile pastimes. I care far less in my 30s what othe
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by renjimen 5y ago
It’s model building isn’t it? Our world model is a compressed representation of the real world. The better the model the more effective the compression, given the same storage space. That’s why unexpected results excite us, because they all
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by renjimen 5y ago
You'll enjoy this parody then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg It hits the nail on the head (but I still enjoy Curtis' work)
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Agreed. It's a point he makes over and over again: the world is complex and any alleged narrative is just a simplification we make to help ourselves understand the complexity or influence others. "Good guys" and "bad guy
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by renjimen 5y ago
It's ambiguous but maybe they mean a chronic disease instead? i.e. constant suffering but no end date.
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I didn't say I believed anything of the sort. I just suggested the parent mention a few people to help his argument.
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https://outline.com/B8MX9p
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Even naming a few would actually help your argument, since you can think of so many
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I love these kinds of planetary scale thought experiments. They must be a treasure trove for sci-fi writers. Imagine being on Earth living through one of the energy transfers. Reminds me of Asimov's Nightfall.
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The great thing about this book is that it's as much about the difficulty of trying to contact an alien as it is about the problems with the scientific process and academia. Really a fantastic read with so many angles to interpret it f
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Rural folk employed in industries such as agriculture and forestry are going to feel the effects of climate change the most. You'd think rural folk would be the ones fighting for climate action. Meanwhile, I don't think many urban
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by renjimen 5y ago
This is a good point. The dictionary contains definitions but misses social context, which changes over time. Just like the language we use for disability, racial identity, or any other emotionally charged subject.
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> First, we should stop trying to predict or even attach probabilities to disasters. From earthquakes to wars to financial crises, the major disruptions in history have been characterized by random or power-law distributions. They belong
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by renjimen 6y ago
The temperature effect on atmospheric circulation is called an inversion. Basically, air near the ground is normally warmer than that above it so rises buoyantly, mixing the atmosphere through convection. When the air near the ground is col
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by renjimen 6y ago
Nearly everyone believes $1 is worth something so it's not in my interest to give you $1, particularly with a snarky response like that. Dollars are not actually a measure of any physical thing, unlike metres or whatever. They represen
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What’s $1 worth? It hasn’t represented a physical asset since Nixon.
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Exactly! Few people espouse the downsides of being very passionate about something. It can often lead to missed opportunities and a narrow view of life. Not to say it can't be balanced, but a lot of very passionate people I've met

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