shanusmagnus

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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
A job is a relationship. The fictions you get force-fed as part of growing up in Western civilization (not sure about other civilizations) about romantic relationships mislead in the same way. Most notably, a relationship is different from
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
On a similar topic, years ago I used to download video from Chrome, and as it was downloading I could watch it with VLC, so long as the download stayed ahead. Then that stopped working. Is there a way to recreate this functionality?
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
Sometime in the recent past people have started substituting a reasonable skepticism about what is known and knowable for a kind of blatant dismissal of everything that is not rendered absolutely elementary and deterministic. This is espec
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
Curious, what hobbyist software do you play with that has a better Windows presence than on OSX? I don't think your characterization of most Apple users is fair, either. Here's an analogy: my neighbor thinks I am an utter fool be
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
I've been thinking about the parent and grandparent comments for the last hour, and the longer I do, the wiser I think they are, as in one fell swoop you get a tangible way to think about what you should be able to expect from experts
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
Brilliant.
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
What is most fascinating to me is the fact that posts like the parent will delve into the game theoretic motivations of psychopathy as if the psychopath were some wholly unique flavor of creature operating under behavioral algorithms never
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
This is a beautiful and insightful comment. I used to live in the ghetto and knew cops that worked there, and after spending a couple of years listening to their stories the only thing that surprises me is how they're all not complet
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
Thank you! It's good to hear someone else say it. I've made a couple of runs trying to come to terms with Ember; invariably the docs are wrong, and various examples don't work with the currently-released Ember build; and th
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
This is a beautiful answer, thank you. Here's a twist that I read about from Tyler Cowen, from marginalrevolution: for reasons a child of your comment has pointed out, handouts to the people asking for handouts creates something of a
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
This is closer than it seems -- every xmas I get a ton of gift cards to places that I don't want to go to, and then I have to spend over that amount or else leave money on the table. It feels like an Applebee's currency already.
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by shanusmagnus 13y ago
This beautiful (parent) comment, in contrast to the main article, actually contains links and references to the items it refers to. Is there some compelling reason I don't understand why _so_ many magazines / websites, even high
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by shanusmagnus 14y ago
In other words, you decided against one click (the 'submit' button, since the 'nope' radio button was already selected) in favor of several clicks and a hundred keystrokes to tell the guy how uninterested you are? Huh.
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by shanusmagnus 14y ago
This is an interesting point, but I think it's important to take 'fear of failure' the right way, which is not [always] literally a fear of failing at task X; but instead as a trained predisposition to not attempt things. In the same way t
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by shanusmagnus 14y ago
This is the only thing that's ever worked for me; although even though it's worked, and is trivial to implement, even so it's often not been enough. How can one have a tool that successfully does the job, and yet so often ignore that tool?