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by rofo1 7y ago
In other news, water is wet. I mean, come on, who didn't see this coming? Assange himself was claiming the same thing for years and years, and people were laughing, considered him paranoid and so on. Anyone with an impartial eye surpri
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by rofo1 7y ago
Absolutely. I have nearly identical experience. We are better off building over-all engineers that know what they are doing, than trying to catch up with the latest shiny thing (Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, ...Jesus Christ)
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by rofo1 7y ago
Why do they call it cold war, what do you think? They had wars either through proxy or through propaganda (aka. "culture"). Movies, music and books were big part of that war. Billions and billions went into the production and plac
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by rofo1 7y ago
British empire was (almost) 1/4 - it was never close to 1/3 of the world. Even at its peak, English language wasn't as widespread as now. The French language was, especially in 18th and 19th century, having substituted Latin.
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by rofo1 7y ago
The language of our time is English. There's just no disputing that. You can argue that it's because US won the cold war, and then indoctrinated the world via music and movies, and so on, and so on, but it doesn't change that
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by rofo1 7y ago
You should take the average human being into consideration. "heh, they put this ridiculous warning of everything, bunch of p..." will be said very, very often, and then disregarded altogether. It's a good starting point, at l
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by rofo1 7y ago
Seeing your faults is not necessarily (in itself) a bad thing. That means it's that much easier to improve, until you can no longer see trivial faults of your own. Try to answer honestly (to yourself) - why exactly do you care what oth
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by rofo1 7y ago
I stand behind what I wrote, cause that's the truth. I can't understand anyone being offended by it. Not a fan of the way we are blowing things out of proportion so much these days. Eating right is not that difficult. It's no
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by rofo1 7y ago
Oh, that's interesting! I've read it somewhere attributed to Aristotle for sure! Anyways, the point stands - should we tolerate everything, at all cases, always? Doesn't sound right to me
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by rofo1 7y ago
There is no need to obsess over anything when you better your habits. You will eat good, because that'll be your "standard", your habit, your go-to mode, your default. If you only eat good/clean when you are pushing your
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by rofo1 7y ago
I can't help but feel that general decadence in the last ~40-50 years influenced this. Other reasons, as far as I can see are: The destruction of the concept of (nuclear) family. The abject sexual promiscuity and the normalization of i
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by rofo1 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRWDuduuSw&list=PL3B08AE665... There are many, many ways to study calculus, so take this as a preference. For example, this wouldn't be my first choice. In general, I find the &quot
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by rofo1 7y ago
Based on my experience, I can say that after very difficult strength workout like rings, 1 arm pullups, iron cross, etc., there is a huge difference in recovery on the days that I sleep 11 hours vs. the days that I sleep 8 hours only. On th
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by rofo1 7y ago
Point taken. No clue how can you approach this problem (when the seller himself sends different products to different people). That's scary, but shouldn't such a seller go out of business relatively fast? After couple of bad grade
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by rofo1 7y ago
You don't need much knowledge to recognize whether 18650 cell is genuine. Just measure the capacity under different loads (say 0.5A, 1A), and check whether its weight is around ~45g (off the top my head). Get something like iMax b6 (di
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by rofo1 7y ago
I've been working remotely (for companies that are not all 100% remote) for some time now and other than the occasional communication problems, there is simply no downside to it (for me). I am much more focused, I do better work, in a
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by rofo1 7y ago
Most people think that mathematicians work with numbers, when the truth is far away from that. You are most likely to end up having to work with something that cannot be drawn or calculated and is superbly abstract, like some mappings from
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by rofo1 7y ago
Thanks for that, extremely entertaining, fun to read! :) "That's terrific you have alot of money. Can you lend me $800? I'll pay you back $100 every other day for 2 weeks. Sound cool?"
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by rofo1 8y ago
This is absolutely true since the minute they release the Helicopter video (aka. Collateral Murder). You haven't been paying attention. Can't you see that we delve into insane details (cats, condoms, urine, smells), yet ignore pro
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by rofo1 8y ago
> He went from an unsympathetic yet credible figure to one that's hard to side with for virtually anyone. The MO is shoot the messenger. As old as the hills. We aren't discussing what Wikileaks leaked anymore. We are discussing
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by rofo1 8y ago
Close to your point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory Not exactly, but close enough. Why would people want to do that, even if nobody is watching, that's the question we need to be asking oursel
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by rofo1 8y ago
> Also, I said sex is a necessary condition for most people to live an "awesome life", not all people. You misread that part. And by most people, I mean everyone barring the exceptional minority with physical or genetic ailment
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by rofo1 8y ago
To be precise, I was never out of shape in my entire life. At some points, I was extremely fit, some moderately fit, but I was never in a bad shape even when I wasn't sleeping right. So, that in itself didn't help with my sleep, f
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by rofo1 8y ago
I've had my share of sleep problems in the past. Fixed it by reading "Why We Sleep" and "Circadian Code" and borrowing a lot of ideas and suggestions there. I immediately gave up coffee, at first, a long with a bunc
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by rofo1 8y ago
> That's not a reasonable aim for positive effects on depression. If we can get positive effects from regular exercise, it's great. If it requires patients to get 'fit', it's really not. In my opinion, if you are
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by rofo1 8y ago
I'm working with really good people, as a remote worker and I have probably and objectively one of the best work conditions one can get without playing politics or being someone's "yes man" or something similar. I am alr
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by rofo1 8y ago
From the summary: Exercise has a large and significant antidepressant effect in people with depression (including MDD ). Our data strongly support the claim that exercise is an evidence-based treatment for depression. MDD I assume it means
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by rofo1 8y ago
> Money does buy happiness, for most people. Think about it. > Would you be less happier if you made half your current > salary? Before you answer the question, think about all > the life changes that would occur, should this
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by rofo1 8y ago
Other than these reasons (which should be considered basic, but I am aware they are not), I don't think I'll ever need money more than that. To me, money is what you use to buy food, shelter, transportation, pay bills. If you can
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by rofo1 8y ago
> There are whole industries built around making money buy happiness beyond that point. Humans aren't ideal creatures - once you make a ludicrous amount of money you start REALLY indulging in whatever crazy indulgences you fetishize

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