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by rwnspace 9y ago
I used to have seperate accounts on my Windows installation for work, gaming, & casual browsing - all of which have very different themes and even applications (making sure I use an alternate browser to casual browsing is essential)...
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It's a reference to the notion that Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQ of something like 105, so have more 140+ IQs, and as such they are disproportionately represented in Nobel Prize winnings in the 20thC. Etc etc. I won't source
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https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/ To do this: ctrl+U (in FF) -> look for css link at top of html -> look for font names near top of css.
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That would be far too close to careful journalism in the empirical tradition. Can't you see we're in the middle of a culture war, and we need articles on the front-line every 24 hours?
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In my subjective experience, I am much more inclined to respond very negatively to others' discussions on depression, when I am myself depressed. My personal experiences with it are confused by PTSD and ADHD, but I've got a few (t
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I would argue that there is a discrete population with the 'disease' of ADHD, in the same way that doorways are a discrete difficulty for people who are very tall. One must either move into a house with very tall doorways, or lear
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More than a few times have I seen absurd wpm numbers mentioned in a blasé manner here. 500wpm is quite achievable for a light thriller, skimming the odd paragraph. Approaching 100% comprehension provides dimishing returns with this kind of
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Thank you.
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You could argue that symbols are all 'inherently meaningless' without breathing some life in them from your own needs and experiences. 'Fingerspitzengefuhl' [1] is one of my favourite words in German and I think gaining
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I felt more socially confident (perhaps not confident exactly, though that was an aspect -- more strident). My sleep was at healthy times, for slightly longer, but the difference between being 'asleep' and 'awake' was, w
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Tristram Harris [1][2] is worth listening to on these points, I'm sure many on HN are already aware. Without rambling too much, I'm one of those over-sensitive, slightly aspie types that reads SSC and gets carried away with over-a
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No - YOU can change anything. Very fortunate for you. After years of disabling depression, it wasn't until I had some very lucky breaks and found the right medication that I was able to start treating myself decently, at least some of
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I am boycotting Facebook, but I only interact with 5% of my 'friends list' on a regular basis, so it's hard to get the message out, y'know?
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Pardon me, I understood you correctly, and that it's a side-point -- I just went off on my own tangent...
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I've been thinking about this recently as it pertains to changes in my own life... I've been training myself to be less addicted (in the general sense), and I've noticed several aspects of my 'personality' flip like
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What is personality except a set of cognitive biases? The narratives we use to inform our perceptions, influence the priority of memories/associations, and inspire future decisions are as much our own making as they aren't. If the
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I don't claim to understand economics very well, but I'm led to believe the Georgist Land Value Tax is a good way to combat 'landowners' aggregating wealth sans labour or adding value. How would this marry with our theor
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For ambient, I really enjoy Taylor Deupree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2hh2hAPyc8 My personal favourite for working (or unwinding or cooking or cutting your toenails), though rhythmic & structured electronica, wou
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It is absolutely not average. 200wpm would give ~22 hours. In this crowd, I can imagine 10-12 hours would be feasible (especially if you skip/skim the occasional boring paragraph). Anyway, who needs retention when you get to announce y
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There's also a pun about maids and laundry somewhere in there.
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Appealing to worst instincts (and shaming those who are folly to them) is a real classic. Shaping products towards maximum capital extraction instead of holding that secondary to some kind of human-focused philosophy is also called 'ef
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If you find this kind of thing compelling, I recommend 'Finding Moonshine' by Marcus Du Sautoy. I mostly enjoyed it for the anecdotes about John Conway, but in any case, it's a good layperson book about mathematics, symmetry,
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I suppose it's here I should make the customary Georgist call for Land Value Tax.
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Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis. Wonderfully written, though not as completely fleshed-out as a modern sci-fi reader may be used to. Still stands on its own two feet, worth a try. My first sci-fi. The Golden Bough, Frazer. Sublime,
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Lacelovers?
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And yet, behavioural biology tells us that the development of the pre-frontal cortex is heavily influenced by genetics, epigenetics, and early-years experiences. The PFC appears to influence things like rates of risk-taking behaviour, addic
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The notion in the article is great fodder for a novel, but I think this perspective is sound. You've said almost as much, but I think there's a good argument to be made that societies which undergo an industrial revolution either
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>If the intention of Wikipedia volunteers is to make knowledge accessible, they are doing an increasingly bad job. Letting them know that is a service, IMO. I think 'make knowledge accessible' has too many interpretations to sa
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Well... So what? As long as people are happy, literate and nice to one another I think fluctuations in IQ are not a huge problem in themselves. It's only a problem if you think democracy the system can't be improved upon, because
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Well that's the major question, as far as I'm concerned. Does the punishment fit the crime? Are there punishments for which there are no fitting crimes?

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