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by tw1010 8y ago
People who ask "why read the classics" might not want to spend their time on something just because an authority (who decided what the classics are, and what ulterior motives did they have?) said that's what they are, or beca
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At what age is brain aging considered having gone from a good thing to a bad thing?
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Things like this make me wish I'd gone into math or physics instead.
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My spookometer isn't going off because of what happened with the diplomats, but why the story is covered so darn much in the news.
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Implicit in this is the idea that if country X invests a significantly larger amount in research than country Y, then X will have significantly more output than Y. I don't buy this. And the reason I don't is because my own country
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I like to say I don't watch the news. But I'm also almost never surprised when news articles arises in discussion irl. So I guess I still consume a lot of news, it's just that I don't read the NYT much, but I get it from
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Are there any good books about ideas or a history regarding how societal values and technological tools of the parent generation has influenced their children? How did the philosophical insights of e.g. Kant or Humboldt influence western co
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It's mostly a critical mass problem, as far as I see it. If everyone had a different more positive tone, the one bitter one would stick out (and mostly people wouldn't even think about choosing that tone in the first place). But s
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You can wish newspaper titles would work like wikipedia articles (like a reference to a core concept in the body of the text), and you can evaluate articles based on that wishful metric. Or you can evaluate articles based on how well they s
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They only work in that capacity if you already watch a lot of memes, so they effectively act as a shibboleth (in-group out-group separator) for separating people who spend a lot of time on reddit from those that don't.
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I wish we didn't have a culture of being bitterly angry in our talks.
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You can't blame the article for being filler when clearly it serves more purposes than just informing you about the name of the condition. Another purpose of the article is to ask for help from the public, which is the goal the first 6
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On the other hand, that's probably a good sign you should select your inputs more carefully. Try reading some time tested classics or a bunch of books that you know have a great signal-to-noise ratio. You'll probably find your noi
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Everyone that writes on the internet seems to assume everyone in their audience spends too much time on the internet. I know plenty of people totally outside this weird circle jerking ADD-ish skimming internet addict sphere who manage life
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I guess this is a law now. I have nothing against it, but imma be the first to coin the observation. Let it be known that today tw1010 was the first to observe that it seems, funny isn't it, like every new pet project the tech world st
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I read the title as impedance, then I read the article and kept reading impedance, and was about to write a comment mentioning that that's not at all impedance he's talking about, it's idempotency, but then I read the title a
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Why are you spamming this?
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You probably shouldn't incorperate a scientific study into your model of the world unless you've also memorized the methodology that it's attached to and relies on.
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"Worthy"? Taking investment is not something special, something that needs to be your one and only life mission before you're allowed to do it. If someone thinks an investment to the site will yield a bigger return back, that
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I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thus make people come back) is greater than the incentive to strictly filter only s
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"1,337 people have signed up so far." Is that just boilerplate or was I really lucky?
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How would brutalist design make the point any less valid?
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Humiliated is what you say when you want to say "made fun of" but you want the humorist to be penalized for making the joke.
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It feels so amazingly depressing for so much sunk knowledge to just go away and be worthless. Feels like I could have learned so many more things that I could have had gotten joy out of today and still extract useful things out of, or build
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Newsflash, don't form your entire world view as a function of things you read in the news.
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People don't just use discord for gaming chat.
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Great, distracting games where I least want them.
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Such a lazy and stubborn approach to just ban EU users to protest GDPR.
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Why the need for all this formalization of process. We're all adults. As long as we hire people who can communicate well, shouldn't just having conversations here and there when the need feels natural be enough?
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They do mention wage, but they don't seem to agree with what you think they are " a job that is generally well-paid ".

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