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throw1234651234
7y ago
>Cannot she ask them to pay for a taxi then? This is pretty amazing delusion.
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throw1234651234
7y ago
"corporate hellscape aspect" - that's exactly what I mean.
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7y ago
heh, this is pretty cyberpunk though
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7y ago
"For example an average person, if focused, can learn to read (but not understand) Korean decently in under an hour." Correct. I also recommend reading 3 books a day to change your life for the better.
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7y ago
Because you already knew Haskell and you knew what open sum types are. You learned some semantics.
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7y ago
Figure eight bend > square knot.
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7y ago
In my experience, multiple places manage to mess up changing my oil in magical ways. It's also an opportunity to do an overall maintenance check under the car. With that said, if I spent the amount of time working on my career I spent
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7y ago
The truth is that you can't learn anything useful in an hour unless you don't know really, really basic things about life.
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7y ago
This is purely anecdotal, but I had a 15 minute (literally) ultrasound. Hospital "facility use" fee: $800. 15 minutes of technician's time: $250. Bill came down to $650 after adjustments. This is messed up. I imagine people w
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7y ago
I have filled my schedule with study time, working out, cleaning time, full sleep time, cooking time, etc. The result is that I am a super efficient, productive employee that gets absolutely nothing done outside of work, has not learned any
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7y ago
It's either a knowledge gap...or he is hopeless if he knew the symbol but didn't pick up on it. Nothing I know of can improve that.
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7y ago
"They were not delighted to hear that." - I used to do that, be a smartass. Then I realized at worst they get more info, at best, you are training them and wasting your time. Then there is that whole thing where they are getting
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7y ago
I don't understand it enough to get excited - what are the potential applications?
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7y ago
I am yet to see any real evidence of those claims.
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7y ago
"I don't see how you can take this and draw a conclusion that video games have the same effect on the prefrontal cortex as meditation." See below. "Lots of activities can boost the size of various parts of the pre-fronta
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7y ago
I don't understand the difference between this and thinking about yourself. I wanted to believe in all this Eastern stuff, I really did. Spent a lot of time on it too, find it hard to. I know mindfulness is a huge trend right now, but
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7y ago
Here is a link explaining that a lot of meditation studies are funded by those starting the cult (e.g. Transcendental Meditation, which involves mumbling random gibberish taught to you by a "master"): https://www.health
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7y ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neuronarrative/20140...
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7y ago
Not surprising. There are no proven benefits to meditation. The prefrontal cortex activity touted by Kelly McGonigal is achieved through any other focused activity, like playing video games.
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7y ago
It's also one texbox and button.
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7y ago
I wonder if there is any trick for old people (30s) to get into college for free for a Bachelor's or a Masters. I am guessing they don't care about SATs at that point.
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7y ago
I am hard-pressed to think of a popular page which doesn't use JavaScript.
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7y ago
What you basically said is that women > men - [physical advantages, reproductive necessities]. You didn't explain why.
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7y ago
Is there any way to "bleed" more heat (other than making the atmosphere thinner, which is obviously a double-edged sword, and not feasible anyway). Would be interesting to keep inflow the same and reduce outflow, but I have no ide
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7y ago
So copy the file to a DVD. The idea here is that you are cutting out the physical costs - production, delivery, loss to spoilage, etc. Fact of the matter is, you probably don't even want the thing when you are done with it - e.g. shitt
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7y ago
ctrl+f
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7y ago
"a term for a grammatical subclass to join sex in referring to either of the two primary biological forms of a species" Don't try to rewrite grammar to fit trends. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary&#x