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by skunkworks 13y ago
I share your distaste of when evolution is personified or otherwise represented to be anything other than a powerful but passive process. That being said, I have no problem with the statement that bacteria want to survive. They most certain
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by skunkworks 13y ago
When I first head of wabi-sabi, it was to describe the aesthetic appeal of raw denim made on heirloom equipment -- the uneven weave caused by loom chatter, how dye gets everywhere, the uneven fade patterns, the leg twist caused by the skewe
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by skunkworks 13y ago
You're taking a cute fictional story and running wild with it to somehow fit your weird anti-PC agenda. No one here, including the original article's author, is claiming that this is evidence of cultural equality. Way to waste you
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by skunkworks 13y ago
By an intern, nonetheless.
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by skunkworks 13y ago
You're welcome to dismiss my argument as a series of platitudes, but you should also agree to allow me to dismiss your story as a platitude, about how you were so determined not to be poor that it drove you to succeed. I'm not act
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by skunkworks 13y ago
It's not just a choice in a vacuum, there are other things that contribute significantly to you making right and wrong choices, and specifically when it comes to making good life choices, a lot of those decisions are influenced negativ
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by skunkworks 13y ago
> You, like a real rich person, start to attribute success to your own individual skills and talents, and you become less attuned to all of the other things that contributed to you being in the position that you're in. Rather than h
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by skunkworks 13y ago
What a hilariously irrelevant, tangential, presumptuous response. You must be fun at cocktail parties. Do you also tell people about how they shouldn't enjoy their shoes because they were stitched up by some poor sap in a sweatshop? I
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by skunkworks 13y ago
Agreed. There's an emotional reward I get from not only writing with my Namiki Vanishing Point fountain pen on a nice piece of Rhodia paper, but also from seeing a clean and well-organized task list or set of notes written with good pe
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by skunkworks 13y ago
A salient point re: the existence of different types of depression. Some cause a physical slowness (can't get out of bed), some cause anhedonia, some are the dementor type, etc.
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by skunkworks 13y ago
Mmm, if it's not acceptable to scream at an adult, it's not any better to scream at a child.
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by skunkworks 13y ago
Yet another good point re: disinterest in an argument being a potential third poison. I can see how detached engagement at least gives you an opportunity to have your voice be heard without the angst of fully-attached engagement. I think I
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by skunkworks 13y ago
I agree wholeheartedly that unconscious desires find ways to express themselves, but it's novel for me to correlate those who are disconnected from their emotions (i.e. push them into their unconscious) with those who are more likely t
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by skunkworks 13y ago
> I find that someone who doesn't work well with emotions is typically bad at reasoning too, because the arguments they make end up expressing their feelings in obtuse ways. This is an interesting explanation. Do you think that peop
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by skunkworks 13y ago
Agreed on all points. Really when I say "black magic" therapy, I'm being sloppy because what I really mean is that if you're not that good of a therapist, you shouldn't be offering anything but basic, rigorous types
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by skunkworks 13y ago
CBT gets props because its empirical results have shown to be more effective than the traditional talk therapy approach. It's been around for a long time, has been studied enough for us to be confident that it makes a real difference,
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by skunkworks 13y ago
A welcome article to read after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6346567 I hope one day we'll have a complete model for understanding depression, but for now, it's encouraging enough to know that there a
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by skunkworks 13y ago
No, psychiatry is not a very, very loose and abstract field as much as it's an attempt to wrangle and understand a very, very loose and abstract subject, which is the essential nature of our thoughts and how we actionize them into beha
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by skunkworks 13y ago
Agreed on all points. I have a feeling I'll be coming back to read this again in the future.
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by skunkworks 13y ago
This is not a helpful or even relevant comment
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by skunkworks 14y ago
> That's all well and good as long as you give the full story, but you've forsaken the anti-grain diet fads while parroting their mantra almost verbatim. Namely, the idea that grains are a primary food source only because they're an eas
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by skunkworks 14y ago
That was my first thought too. My guess would be a shortened URL that redirected to a private server, which then redirected to some Facebook contact form. Facebook message times could then be roughly correlated with IPs harvested from logs
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by skunkworks 14y ago
It is a common coping mechanism to find arbitrary things to blame in tragedies where there isn't one. It's part of our rational mind to find meaning and patterns in the natural world. We do this to understand. It's often wrong -- our eyes t
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by skunkworks 14y ago
It depends on where you live, how much you want to spend, and what sort of fit you're looking for. Barneys will have a selection of mid-range denim -- brands like APC and Naked & Famous. If you're in SF, NYC, or LA, there's Self Edge, w
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by skunkworks 14y ago
A bit incredulous but bemused, I imagine. The world of so-called denimheads can be strange and fetishistic -- at its most extreme, it has a Zoolander Derelicte quality to it, where beat-up raw denim is left unwashed well-past its due date a
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by skunkworks 14y ago
This is fantastic. I did the same with a very similar botnet way back when, except my "hello" in IRC wasn't as friendly. Left to eat for an hour, then came back to my hard drive erased. Live and learn...
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by skunkworks 14y ago
That seems like needless hyperbole, if not a poor attempt at snark. There's plenty of content in there.
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by skunkworks 15y ago
The entire time I read this article, I was well-aware of the fact that this one-on-one presentation was only an Apple PR move, and I felt that he as a journalist knew it too. What he wrote reflects this as well. It seems condescending to bo
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by skunkworks 15y ago
BTW, if you decide you want the Kindle version, there's a $10 promo code. I'm not sure if you need to be signed up to Amazon Student for this, so YMMV: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...
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by skunkworks 15y ago
Link to the 2nd Edition version of this book: http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesl... (Didn't even realize it had been updated until I checked!)

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