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by sridca 10y ago
One is fear-driven, and thus highly dependent on other people's granting of validation. The other is self-generated spirited enjoyment of anything one might do, with little dependance on the validation provided by other people. Essenti
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by sridca 10y ago
> the pain of being alone motivates us to seek the safety of companionship, Yes. > which in turn benefits the species by encouraging group cooperation and protection. Yet, a fear-driven cooperation and protection is bollocks compa
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by sridca 10y ago
That's obvious though, isn't it? People are going to gravitate towards adopting the language with highest economic and social capital (presumably why English took over French as an international language?).
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No Dating Required(micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)
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by sridca 10y ago
> [letting women] verbally feel him up Could you explain what you mean by this phrase?
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by sridca 10y ago
> The thing that sucks about approaching someone is when it is welcome, you are golden, and when it is unwelcome, you are a creep. I hear you. I actually read a comment here at HN by such a "golden" man and his experiences (wom
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by sridca 10y ago
> if it compiles, then it just seems to work That's exactly been my experience with Elm. For example, on a web project I had been working on I decided to add the 'search' feature; the very first change[1] actually worked!
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by sridca 10y ago
My plan so far has been to lose fat in moderate amounts. I found that aiming to maintain the body weight while doing resistance training easily achieves that. So every week I gain equal amount (in weight) of muscle to the fat lost. The di
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by sridca 10y ago
I'm on the same boat, except I had to drop both breakfast and dinner (2-course lunch, with fish and oranges in the evening) to maintain body weight without gaining fat! I do this despite doing compound lifts (pull ups, dips, squats)
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An Ex-Con's Guide to Prison Weightlifting (2014)(fittish.deadspin.com)
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> in my experience people who do things like that tend to have serious confidence issues It has been noted that prisoners tend to suffer from low-esteem. Also, "it is really the weak who commit the crimes, not the strong." - h
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by sridca 10y ago
I didn't interpret it as another meaning game, but rather the same same meaning game but being played from the other side this time. To provide a concrete example: on one hand there is the motivated engineer willing to do the best
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> When your own appetite for meaning is satiated, and you are ready to start making meaning games for others. When you’re ready to play god for your own amusement. So what the author is effectively saying is that at a certain age one j
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by sridca 10y ago
Your comment does not address the key points in mine. There is no doubt that marital/ spousal rape needs to be criminalized. Criminalization, of course, is not going to entirely eliminate it[1] - which brings me to the point I'm t
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by sridca 10y ago
Your comment does not address the key points in mine. There is no doubt that marital/ spousal rape needs to be criminalized. Criminalization, of course, is not going to entirely eliminate it - which brings me to the point I'm tryi
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by sridca 10y ago
I do understand the difference. Whereas for some reason you are persistently reluctant to acknowledge that what we do now (and have always done, and will always do) is, in fact, teach (with carrot and stick) and not tell. This is called soc
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by sridca 10y ago
> [Nikhil]: Or educate men in society that these things are wrong. > [Winston]: You really think the problem is that men don't know the raping is wrong? > [ChongLi]: Yes, actually. > [OldManJay]: Are you familiar with crimi
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10 Scientific Papers That Can Transform Your Understanding of Health and Medicine(darwinian-medicine.com)
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> Programmers are so sensitive, and honestly all your "sighing" is obnoxious. > I'm actually not annoyed TIL that programmers can be both sensitive and deny being sensitive.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/active is quite interesting and this particular thread is standing at position #6 over there! > HN is pretty open about being more heavily moderated than other parts of the net [...] I find it
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> There's really no pretense that votes are the only factor in ranking stories. True, however the HN front page has always given me the impression that votes matter the most, and that the front-page is largely reflective of the in
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I came across this: > (2015-10-16) The people behind the scenes at Hacker News now hand pick stories they want on the front page. It's not a user-generated voting-controlled news site. But it pretends to be one and tries to look li
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by sridca 11y ago
If I was the husband, I'd rather prioritize being able to swiftly handle my wife's aggressions over brushing off such an intimate challenge for the sake of an employer (who instead gets to do the said challenge). Anyhow - the purp
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by sridca 11y ago
That's interesting. But how does it help the wife to directly interact with her husband's boss?
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by sridca 11y ago
Why is this post hidden from the front page? It was there moments ago.
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What's with all this "objectification" philosophical nonsense? Shouldn't the only thing that matter be how people treat each other? Why are the likes of you not directing their ire at HR departments (where humans of bo
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by sridca 11y ago
Indeed. Roy Baumeister has written about it (where I first picked up the fact, having grown blind to it all my life): http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
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Jose Valim signs off of Twitter(reddit.com)
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To what desired effect did the women utilize the money "far more effectively" than the men? Without knowing the purpose of their spendings I can only assume that you morally approve one over the other (which would put a big dent i
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AMA with Miguel de Icaza(reddit.com)
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