tigerthink

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by tigerthink 17y ago
>It encourages conforming to majority views and rewards people who are talkative rather than insightful - often mutually exclusive groups, since insight is gained by thinking & doing rather than posting comments. Erm, I always upmod
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by tigerthink 17y ago
For maximum efficiency, buy stuff that's used to generate memories. For example, a sweet pair of rollerblades.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
That doesn't quite work, because if you've got an unusual situation then it'd be unreasonable to ask your friend to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
In my opinion this is a good argument for getting a degree in something somewhat unrelated to computer science like math or engineering.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I've thought an unhealthy amount about this. My solution is for everyone to copy the vote of whichever one of their friends seems like the best voter (most intelligent, unaffiliated, conscientious, etc.) If someone thinks they are a bette
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Having your identity childishly hacked is unlikely to interfere with your ability to live for a higher purpose. It might temporarily make it appear as though you were breaking your standards, but are appearances really what matter to stand
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I wonder how he kept track of all the phone company employees he gained the trust of, etc. Being blind he probably couldn't write things down easily. I also wonder if he could have avoided being caught indefinitely by keeping track of info
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Probably it's something he's noticed in himself that he'd like to fix.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
That's not a haiku But I still rather like it Are others checking?
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I've never really had an office job, and I am having a very hard time believing this. Can I get a corroborating account or two?
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I recommend buying a vibrating alarm clock like this one: http://www.amazon.com/ila-Vibrating-Alarm-Clock/dp/B0017TPFY... and putting it under your pillow.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Surely it isn't very hard to close your mail & IM clients?
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>Marcotte's study found that after people attempt suicide and fail, their incomes increase by an average of 20.6 percent compared to peers who seriously contemplate suicide but never make an attempt. In fact, the more serious the attemp
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by tigerthink 17y ago
If someone needs a web-based puzzle the python challenge is decent: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
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by tigerthink 17y ago
So you don't think going meetings of other small business founders or listening to lectures by an expert small business founder would be valuable?
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>You do not need a Professor who spends most of his time on research that doesn't benefit you teaching you. I don't know if my math professor does research or not. But the guy is a fucking brilliant lecturer. On the other hand, I'm at
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by tigerthink 17y ago
This isn't a very good study. What if the foreign students were simply smarter to begin with? I imagine they faced higher barriers to entry.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Yep, seriously. I'm not sure I understand why this post is of general interest.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Her. Her discontent.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
Well, I think I can relate to the part about having other people make me feel tired. But that might be just because I was introverted years ago. In any case, I think I can get along fine with introverts as long as they're polite. But when
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by tigerthink 17y ago
>that word choice determines thought choice, which determines emotions and actions Alright. So what's wrong with thinking that things suck? Sometimes they do, right? If there really is no way to improve a situation, does it make sens
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by tigerthink 17y ago
OK, so how about the example at the beginning of the article when the author was complaining about how difficult it was to resize photos on his Mac? Do you suppose it's enough that the "this needs to be better" was implied, or do you think
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by tigerthink 17y ago
I'm one of the evil extroverts, and I love it. I'll be happy to answer any of your questions.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
You could have bought one of those noise-amplifying toys, stuck its microphone inside the bedroom, attached headphones to it and turned the volume up.
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by tigerthink 17y ago
The class is CPSC 323, but it won't let me access it on the Yale server: http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/ If you're really determined, you could email the teacher (see his homepage here: http://sce.cs.yale.edu/ ). I think a better way to
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by tigerthink 18y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/2k/the_least_convenient_possible_wor...
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by tigerthink 18y ago
What was it? (I just registered for the SAT after reading this article. Did you pay the $12.00 to see the questions you got wrong and info like that? Looked like a ripoff to me. What's it gonna be, a 2-page printout?)
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by tigerthink 18y ago
Doesn't IQ correlate well with job performance? Don't you think the SAT predicts IQ fairly well?
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by tigerthink 18y ago
Damn, I didn't take the SAT because I didn't need it for my education path. How old can I be? :-P
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by tigerthink 18y ago
No. The story is about how Mark Zuckerberg suppresses dissent.

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