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by scruple 3y ago
> Have you ever done acid? Yes, and a variety of other psychedelics in my early 20s. I remember spending time on erowid and then seeking out substances. Mescaline, peyote, ketamine, psylicobin, acid, GHB, DXM, others I'm forgetting.
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by scruple 3y ago
It's some form of Stockholm Syndrome but for people who live in dysfunctional places.
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by scruple 3y ago
Of course, but also literally no one would starve to death if we stopped growing Almonds in the Central Valley.
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by scruple 3y ago
We're RTOing, to a hybrid model. I don't really give a shit, work is equidistant from my home and my kids preschool and daycare -- I have to spend ~60 minutes a day in a car regardless of where I work, and my particular office set
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by scruple 3y ago
Yeah, that orientation makes all of the difference. My current space has an entire wall of windows but 1) the building is oriented such that we don't get direct sunlight because our side is almost directly north facing, and 2) there ar
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by scruple 3y ago
> I'm just personally grabbed by the question “what is virtue” in a way that’s hard to shake. Personally, I'm with the GP here... I don't think you'll find it at the bottom of a (contemporary software engineering) emp
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by scruple 3y ago
Thanks for posting that, I didn't know these books existed. I bumped them to the front of my reading backlog. I'm always fascinated by the human stories behind these software efforts.
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by scruple 3y ago
I have two main tasks for this year. One was to dig through a system that was built a decade ago and modernize it. I just wrapped that up. The end result has eliminated multiple points of failure and unnecessary process, and has enabled my
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by scruple 3y ago
Well, we'll find out any day now where D4 sits, right? I know where I'd put my money if I were a betting man.
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by scruple 3y ago
I do, yes, at least 3-4 times a week, depending on ym training schedule. I also regularly fill a tub with cold tap water and add ice to soak my lower body after long runs or rucks (long here is north of 2.5-3 hours). I worked up to it gra
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by scruple 3y ago
My dad went through this shit at the end of his working life. Physician in the plant, guy had been kicked out of his family practice (his father started the place!) because he was a liability. His go to answer to these guys on the factory f
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by scruple 3y ago
But the inverse is also true, no? It only takes one billionaire to ruin countless lives.
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by scruple 3y ago
Huh? This thread is about their old games that are still being played .
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by scruple 3y ago
Broodwar, SC:R, and D2R seems to be telling a different story. Hell, WoW is close to 20 years old at this point.
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by scruple 3y ago
Worked in embedded in Santa Barbara for a while. Met a few of the wonderful folks at Green Hills over the years. Had the same initial thought.
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by scruple 3y ago
> chronic stress is ... caused by financial hardship, bad relationships, overwork and other daily life stuff. Or living in / growing up in an environment where these are the major concerns. Cycles, etc.
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by scruple 3y ago
That may be, but I live in SoCal and I seldom come across disc golf parks, too, let alone anyone playing it. And I know someone who plays on a team, though he lives hundreds of miles away, in Santa Cruz, where I understand it's more po
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by scruple 3y ago
Just curious, because I daydream about doing these sorts of things and consider the same places. Do you have a family with you?
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by scruple 3y ago
I drove over a mountain pass at 6,000 feet yesterday twice. Last night, after getting home, I say down to read and there was a noise in my right ear. It sounded digital in nature and was repeating. It was unnerving, I couldn't concentr
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by scruple 3y ago
How do we know that either side isn't lying about the depth and breadth of their nuclear arsenal?
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by scruple 3y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts. Canticle for Leibowitz by Henry Miller. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Blindsight is possibly my favorite book of all time. It stayed with me for a very long time and sincerely changed the way I view th
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by scruple 3y ago
I spent decades of my life trying to pursue moderation. It doesn't work (for me). The Sinclair Method worked. I tried AA but the white knuckle approach wasn't right for me. I know people who have absolutely gotten sober using AA,
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by scruple 3y ago
Have you been to an AA meeting?
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by scruple 3y ago
Married, my wife also works a demanding career, and we have 3 kids and 2 dogs. I've been part-time remote since ~2012, full-time since 2016. I've recently taken a hybrid role. I really, really enjoy going into the office twice a w
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by scruple 3y ago
Right. Wealth and power are concentrated and do not need to be coordinated. Their individual actions and self-interests organically merge to maintain the state of affairs that keeps them wealthy and in power.
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by scruple 3y ago
I wonder if this could be fallout from the ABK deal being blocked? If I understand correctly, they "owe" ABK $2.5-3B in the event that the deal doesn't close?
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by scruple 3y ago
That's a great price for the Instinct 2. I've had my eye on it for a while and $100 off might get me to pull the trigger. Thanks for mentioning that.
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by scruple 3y ago
There are multi-million dollar homes and a school facility built on top of (parts of) the EPA Superfund site near the old El Toro MCAS in Irvine. Another set of million dollar homes nearby was built on top of a nursery that was founded in t
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by scruple 4y ago
Yeah, remedial training blocks (fail to meet the standard, you move to a different phase of training for 3 weeks and try again) weren't uncommon in the military, at least not when I served (granted that's north of 20 years ago now
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by scruple 4y ago
n=3 here but the amount of straight up nepotism I've seen makes my head spin. I recently quit a job, without another lined up, at a startup where I couldn't even last a year. The CTO and the entire engineering management layer und

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