throwaway2331

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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Ah yes, a bunch of silver-spooned layabouts, who happened to be able to read and write thousands of years ago, serve as a monument to man's ability to convince himself he's not just a sack of meat that's slowly rotting, thoug
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I was wrong. It seems like I still have many more places to visit.
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Not particularly thought-provoking or insightful. Though it would be nice if IR/geopolitical thinkers finally incorporated (pun intended) corporations into their lenses. The nation state fell into decline around the time the corporate
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Do you live in the PNW? Because that sounds a lot like the PNW. The northern east coast is what I believe the GP was referring to. We don't really have homeless people. I've honestly never seen a homeless person before, until I le
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I used to be someone that really put pressure on myself to focus and understand what it is a piece's author was trying to convey. Now I've stopped caring so much, after reading beyond plenty of material from all over the spectrum
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
> "You have picked a bad distro and DE combo" Ha! At one time I cursed those who threw this at me; now I know better, and throw it at others! All joking aside, I really dislike Fedora and Gnome. It does have a lot of problems.
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Contrary to most, I actually like the long compile times. I also like programming in Rust without a linter. It really makes me think about what it is I'm doing. I do not have the luxury of typing something down, compiling it, and runni
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
SSH into her box (please, hold the giggles). It's much easier to diagnose + make changes to remedy the problem on Linux (if you know your way around). Hell, even if you don't: the majority of the system (barring systemd) is fairly
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
No one is free. We're slaves to our dopamine reward system. It's like injecting someone with heroin constantly for years on end and telling them: "you can leave anytime."
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
If it's all you've known, then it's still bliss -- it's just life. Imagine there was a planet, not too far from ours, that was inhabited by humans that didn't age, never got ill, never did harm towards others, we sa
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
> revolutionized I have only seen "revolutionized" used in the context of commerce and industry. Whether the procession of such is negative or positive is subjective to one's own taste. I think what you just stated is a ne
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
> their culture is concerned solely with matters that fall within direct personal experience, and thus there is no history beyond living memory. > one of the strongest Pirahã values is no coercion; you simply don't tell other pe
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I think my main issue with the PNW is the absolute cacophony of road markings and layouts (especially around cities). There's just so much shit going on on the roads, compared to the east coast. They're little things here and ther
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Have you tried a "dopamine" (see: habit/reward) fast? I've found I can temporarily hard-reset my "go go go" inclinations, by starving my behavior-reward system of hyper-stimulus (i.e. anything modern; e.g. inte
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
> There's a reason why in scientific discussion anecdotal evidence is dismissed. Because it doesn't feed the research machine! One anecdote is dismissed. Ten anecdotes are collected to start grifting for grants. And one hundred
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I think it's separate from autism. In my experience, it's not that you don't understand or can't comprehend how other people are feeling: it's that you just miss it a lot of times, because you're not paying att
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I've found that having emotional empathy (rather than logical empathy) isn't productive, or efficient. I have ADHD, and I've worked with people with ADHD. Having emotional empathy for their situations and what they're go
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Yes. I'm not blind to the fact the Russian people were, at the end of the day, just people going about their lives; and these people were no different than you and I, just doing what they could to survive/thrive. However, there we
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
There is something admirable in being unproductive and unreasonable. I don't have the temperament for it; and just like you I can live my life to the best of my ability, winging it with the best of intentions. However, after seeing how
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Unfortunately, this is my base inclination. That everything is essentially predetermined by my genetics, and how my environment has affected their expression; and that my free will and choices are just an elaborate illusion played by my bio
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I would wager that almost no statistically significant (what a terrible term) portion of college students know who they are (barring children that have not gone through the gamut of schooling, and have worked most of their lives). Perhaps r
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Only if you lack a foundation with deeply-held values. When you know who you are, and are confident in your values, then no amount of pressure from the outside world can make you bend a knee. That's not to say I'm there yet. I&#x2
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I'm a cynical realist who held the same viewpoint as you: "everyone's a fucking liar. Can't they see all the shit that's being peddled is just bullshit?" Then, I stopped worrying and loved the grift. It's
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
All of the Olive Gardens were minted inside an "inner circle" over a few days, before the first news article was published (a few hours after there were none left). Then the value was pumped up by demand to be part of the meme. Ta
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Commerce is a vulgar endeavor. Whatever nobility or higher morality finds within it, it's just an exception that slipped through the cracks. Idealism towards the external world will always be met with defeat (you simply do not have the
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Yes; it's a trade-off due to how difficult it is to make people give a shit about the short-term---forget about the long-term (if there's no stock involved. We've barely figured out how to make CEOs tuned into the "long-
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
I'll barge in and say that there's this meme in business schools that: "what gets measured, gets done." They're mostly there to serve as the source of truth, whether or not a specific manager is getting a bonus (and
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Drugs are illegal too, yet people do them all the time. Speeding? Basically a national past-time at this point. Misrepresentation, common fraud, and misappropriation? Par for the course in most small businesses. It's only a crime if so
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
Man, unvarnished, lacking agenda---besides the stroking of one's ego---and blunt communication: I missed you so. I agree with the sentiment. Being an "adult" is about restrictions, limits, boundaries, and confines; you can&#x
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by throwaway2331 5y ago
> Since you're on HN you're probably more intelligent and somewhat more disciplined than the general population. I doubt that what works for you would scale to the population at large IME, it's never been a discipline issu

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