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by timeagain 3y ago
Ok here’s the problem. What hubris does it take to assume the fundamental constants could be changed? Just because they appear in math equations doesn’t mean they can be twiddled and tweaked like programming variables. We have no prior know
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by timeagain 3y ago
All these “we” statements should be “me” statements. So many people are ready to take what they’re given, but you can opt out. Find in-person work. Throw out your phone. Live close to your friends. Drop in on your neighbors. Become a regula
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by timeagain 3y ago
I can’t get behind all these fine tuning arguments. Who’s to say what life might form if the proton had a charge of 1.01e or if the fine structure constant was 1/138? Something about the line of reasoning that there is a multiverse and
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by timeagain 3y ago
if the majority of the public is much older they will likely vote for measures that favor them. Millennials look like they will be pretty left-leaning. The US could divert 10% of its military budget and ensure seniors live in relative comfo
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by timeagain 3y ago
Or extinction?
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by timeagain 3y ago
No joke hese articles were the reason I started going to therapy. I think before reading them I didn’t consider workplace issues to be a part of my “real life”. In some sense I was aware of work life balance but I didn’t fully appreciate t
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by timeagain 3y ago
This one is a little dramatic, but in the article she provides a devastating description of what it means to be a bad manager (or partner). https://issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
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by timeagain 3y ago
We build cybernetic systems called companies with the goal of creating/increasing profit. As we get better and better at making these systems, humans play less of a role and the roles we do play become ever more formulaic. I wonder whe
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by timeagain 3y ago
Yeah but that scale is fantasy/sci-fi. Baked within it is a kind of assumption that it is a scale we should be moving up through, which is not a given. So I guess it is reasonable if you think the destiny of life on earth is to “conque
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by timeagain 3y ago
IMO their slack avatar/posts go gray within minutes of them being sacked.
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by timeagain 3y ago
In less well paying jobs it is usually easier to have emotional integration. Less of your identity is at stake, your responsibility is small enough that you don’t have to reorganize your values to work the job. This is my experience working
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by timeagain 3y ago
I also love the fact that Baudrillard was a “patapysician.” It fits nicely with his philosophical works, where he focuses on how the metaphors we create become our reality, and then we dump more metaphors on top of these in an endless cycle
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by timeagain 3y ago
I’ve never heard of this movement before but it makes a lot of sense in the context of the time. This is about the time that David Hilbert would push the world of mathematics to tie up its last loose ends. Physics was seeming “almost done”
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by timeagain 3y ago
I’m torn on this subject. I’m all for stopping dumb bugs from occurring, But I can’t help but think in the general case this blog post is advocating for putting business logic inside my data layer. I am reminded of blog post I read some nu
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by timeagain 3y ago
Based on my experience receiving the questions beforehand is not super likely. Getting other interviewers’ questions beforehand /as another interviewer in the loop/ is already like pulling teeth.
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by timeagain 3y ago
It’s like saying that rain falls where there are blue regions on the weather map :)
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by timeagain 3y ago
As soon as I read “evolutionary perspectives” I noped out. Musicians aren’t competing to spread their genes, especially not as a result of evolution. Music may have helped us in our journey somehow, maybe even as a precursor to language. Bu
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by timeagain 3y ago
Top performers are divas. Much better to have an average youngster who can be more readily abused.
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by timeagain 3y ago
A lot of these tools are created in an atmosphere of corporate redundancy. Sure your test framework, regional deplyments, A/B testing, CI, code coverage, storage infra, network infra, security settings, and app configurations are held
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by timeagain 3y ago
I’m not sure that I would recommend a young person get a media studies degree. What I can say is that as an adult reading about media studies is fascinating and rewarding. Learning what goes into good film making touches on history, psychol
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by timeagain 3y ago
It reminds me of the Netflix series “Carol and the End of the World”. Upon realizing the world is ending, some people go nuts and travel the world and join cults and run theough their bucket list. But the main character just wants to live a
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by timeagain 3y ago
A large company values redundancy more than efficiency. In a startup having Steve do all the website design is efficient and cost effective. At megacorp, having Steve do all the website design means there is a single point of failure, and g
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by timeagain 3y ago
Appropriate for what? The podcast covers soooo much and attempts to catalog all influences from proto-indo-European onward, with a focus on shared word origins and phonetic changes over time. So some of the pronunciation is speculative reco
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by timeagain 3y ago
People who are good at finance also tend to be risk averse and long-term planners. The great part about charging a fee is that you get to charge it even when the market dips.
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by timeagain 3y ago
The freaks would reply, “how do we tweak our traffic infrastructure to minimize the effect of deadly irresponsibility?”
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by timeagain 3y ago
From the PR, it sounds like contractors will be chosen in the next year, which sounds funded to me. But I don’t know Eurospeak either…
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by timeagain 3y ago
Right. Even the top commenter right now about just being interested in coding and learning is playing. They are playing the “engaged IC”. You can bet the political people know how to use and abuse that role just like any other.
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by timeagain 3y ago
I feel dumb but can you be more specific? Are you talking about antidepressants or amphetamines? I’m guessing you aren’t talking about insulin.
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by timeagain 3y ago
The Donald trump school of physical excellence [1] As someone who only started to exercise in their mid thirties, the idea of living longer through not exercising is laughable. Even if it were true, I would rather live to 65 with an able bo
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by timeagain 3y ago
+1. It can become a ramble at times and full-time philosophers seem to hate it. On the other hand, there is a lot of practical wisdom in the first half of the book, and what I consider to be a good payoff if you stick through to the end.

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