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Robert Greene's interview with PG and others (free)(amazon.com)
2 points by thucydides 13y ago|0 comments
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by thucydides 13y ago
When I'm talking to my clients, it's so much easier to tell them to use to a site like this. Them: "When I click the button, the menu shows up. But it disappears as soon as I hover over it. Me: "What browser do you have?
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Why is American Internet so slow?(theweek.com)
1 points by thucydides 13y ago|0 comments
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by thucydides 13y ago
Great introduction! My favorite book for beginners is Philip Kapleau's Three Pillars of Zen. The author was a Zen teacher for many years and helped steer me in the right direction.
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by thucydides 13y ago
Good question. The site's 10 minute guided meditation right now does not sound like the forms of Zen meditation I'm familiar with, and it doesn't sound like mindfulness meditation. What is it? And is it evidence-based? I prac
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by thucydides 13y ago
Cool, but what about the District of Columbia?
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by thucydides 13y ago
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by thucydides 13y ago
It's possible to distinguish Smith as inapposite without throwing away stare decisis . The term of surveillance (forever), the breadth of surveillance (almost every American), and the greater privacy intrusion (because of cell phone
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by thucydides 13y ago
> If Smith v. Maryland is to be overturned... The Supreme Court wouldn't necessarily be deciding whether Smith v. Maryland should be overturned, but whether NSA collection of phone/SMS metadata can be distinguished from Sm
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by thucydides 13y ago
Unless we have good reason to believe the standard CEO-as-monarch structure is perfect, experimentation is a good thing. Moreover, his basis for suspecting his particular experiment might work was reasonable, since he was basically applying
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by thucydides 13y ago
This article is fairly tendentious, but the story itself is interesting and was well-covered in a Bloomberg Businessweek article here: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-edd... I'm not a
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by thucydides 13y ago
In the cases I'm thinking of, the patients were labeled paranoid - and ultimately schizophrenic - chiefly because they were angry and believed others were out to harm them. (They did not have hallucinations.) Their "paranoia"
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by thucydides 13y ago
Great piece. Two of my favorite substantive critiques: 1. "DSM-5 seems to have no definition of happiness other than the absence of suffering. The normal individual in this book is tranquilized and bovine-eyed..." The DSM does t
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by thucydides 13y ago
That might actually work, despite being unethical, since it would create outrage over the punishment victims' plight... The only reason the draconian punishment regime we call the war on drugs fails to elicit outrage is because it only
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by thucydides 13y ago
The savant-snake is very common in larger organizations, which are, by rule, more authoritarian.
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by thucydides 13y ago
The credulous initial stories about his "retirement" were funny. Ballmer was 100% fired. In the long term, the company seriously failed on many fronts. In the short term, Ballmer posted poor quarterly results and sent out a rambli
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by thucydides 13y ago
The real headline here: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?" If a headline asks a question, the answer is virtually always "no" or "not yet," but the paper wanted to run a story anyway. http:/&
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Why your organization is intractably political, and how to fix it(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
5 points by thucydides 13y ago|0 comments
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by thucydides 13y ago
Church's writing is consistently insightful and interesting. This is a silly attack.
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by thucydides 14y ago
Also: use a REPL. I typed all the examples from the Well-Grounded Rubyist into irb, played with the examples to test edge cases, and ended up learning Ruby faster than I thought possible.
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by thucydides 14y ago
I usually stay on topic while on HN, but I have to say that the phrase "crushing it" is extremely annoying, and I wish people would stop saying it.
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by thucydides 14y ago
Cigarettes are expensive because of local, state, and federal taxes. Heroin is expensive to compensate for the high risk of government punishment at each stage of the manufacturing/retail process.
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by thucydides 14y ago
"The corollary of this is that building muscle, which requires eating a lot, is inferior to being a skinny rake for longevity alone." Not true. Stronger people are less likely to die. Strength reduces your risk of death from all causes -
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by thucydides 15y ago
The headline for this link is incorrect: the Court did NOT rule that a warrant is necessary for police tracking. So what was the government trying to do? They really wanted the Supreme Court to rule that installing this GPS receiver was not
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by thucydides 15y ago
Hmm... this actually makes sense.
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by thucydides 15y ago
"I try to unravel the paradox [of blackmail] and provide a coherent basis for distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate threats. In brief, I argue that the key to the wrongfulness of the blackmail transaction is its triangular structure.
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by thucydides 15y ago
No, C+Ds usually contain threats of CIVIL action, not threats to report criminal behavior to the government.
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by thucydides 15y ago
I'm not quite a lawyer. I represented criminal defendants throughout my third year of law school. I earned my Juris Doctor in May and will hear if I passed the Maryland bar in November.
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by thucydides 15y ago
Not correct. If you threaten to expose a crime unless you are paid money, you have committed blackmail. It is blackmail even if you have a legal right to demand the money. Note that each act separately is fine: you can demand money; you can
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by thucydides 15y ago
Why the US? Legally: low taxes; generally no personal liability for corporate bankruptcy or failed contracts. Culturally: businesspeople are respected; no shame in having a failed business. How would hardware patent trolling affect your sof

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