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There are a lot of car haters voicing their hate but if you already hate cars, don't drive. That's not why people in LA are getting rid of their cars (if they are). There is an introvert/extrovert angle here also. A car is co
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Context is the problem. This myth applies to all subjects. But it also applies to Excel, because it's not the subject, it's the context. What they still teach at school is the "Excel" of their time. They thought it would
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Isn't this all simply about correlation vs causation? Machine learning can find strong correlations and we can make predictions based on those correlations, but at the end of the day, the machine knows nothing about what is causing any
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If it's an assertion, we can test it. "The sky is blue" is an interpretation that can be re-tested. "My car has a flat" can be tested. If it's something that happened, we can't repeat history, so we'r
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Two techniques I use. Batch Process by Elimination. Google labels/tags + rotating stars + quicklinks is a powerful combination. Quicklinks can search for tag and star combinations. Tags represent substance, and stars represent state. S
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It's because their guidelines are based on look and feel (aka "design"), not user experience or use case. They basically have no guidelines for the experience. It's all colors, motion, and size. Each product team then go
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Choosing how to die is not choosing to die. Your inability to make this distinction and to use one word to describe both is not something you can blame definitions for. > that's not how language works It is. If we need another word,
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The Rise of Social Machines [pdf](hip.cat)
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If you pay coders to code, they will give you code, and if you track performance based on their output, the code remains to justify their cost. And it's just hard to delete good work. So everything grows in businesses that hire tons of
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First of all OP is not dying. But there is a crucial distinction to be made between suicidal thoughts being a forgone conclusion in one's mind, and someone sanely exercising the right to die peacefully. The inability to distinguish the
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Just assume you have depression and seek external professional help. You can afford it! When you're depressed you won't perform well. Depressed people have darkness following them around and people will avoid you. So you're c
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> even when everything is going right How do you know this if you're having "intermittent moments of anxiety and depression"? It's none of my business, but you sound troubled. Emotions being broken is a different issu
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There is no need to ignore anything. Emotional bias is precisely why we have brains to balance them. If you can recognize you have bias you're all set. And lo and behold, next time you won't get as angry in the same situation, etc
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This is correct.
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> pay close attention to those negative emotions, because they're usually trying to tell you something No. They're always trying to tell you something. That's all emotions are. And they've already spoken, so arguing
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There's a difference between a negative comment and a hateful comment. Engaging hate usually leads nowhere and the source is often too subjective to matter. But understanding constructive criticism or user sentiment is important. If 30
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But the problem is no one is day trading to contribute to the balance of the system. They do it purely to make money or because they have a gambling problem. > There must be some smart players out there that are doing efficient capital a
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> wanting to justify risk aversion I don't think this is it. In fact, I think it's the exact opposite. I think risk aversion is what's justified by default. You don't need to defend being steadily employed or your lac
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This is one of those things that just can't be reiterated enough just for the sake of those who need to hear it -- either for the first time or again. > Loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, Our modern obsession with fa
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> Sure I love her and I definitely can't afford my own rent I know it's none of my business, but even if it's somewhere tiny or far, getting your own place might be the best thing you've ever done... Just throwing it
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Sustenance is done by utility. The organic evolution of languages at the word level is determined by word choice, and every time we utter anything, by exercising choice we're contributing to the sustenance of the expressions we just us
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It's called a dual license. And yes, you can do it for anything. Copyright is automatic, and it grants you control over the right to copy your creation. You just need to make sure you're the one that created it. Found this to be a
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Couldn't this be said about anything magical though? If it's magic, it's human intelligence. If it's magic, it's consciousness. If it's understood, it's algorithms. It's only a matter of time. There i
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Exactly. Wikipedia is full of disclaimers about the differences also. The issue is just with word usage that continues to fuse the two, where is reality any direct correlation ended ages ago.
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There's that one iconic image of neurons suspended in space with bolts of electricity flashing between them. We are told that's how our brains work. We are then shown a diagram by a computer scientist. Instead of cells and thunder
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The thing we tend to overlook about our inner dialog is that we actually have very little control over our thoughts. You know you have a problem when they become suicidal, because healthy minds simply do not have them. But even healthy mind
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Which is not how the term is being used in the article. But also "technically questionable decisions for the sake of reducing development time and costs" does not automatically become debt. Technically questionable decisions happe
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Right. Except that's just one of the many ways it's defined in the article. The article is a hot mess. Even then, from a business perspective, reducing costs can be completely intentional and pragmatic. Meaning it can be profitabl
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Sounds like the word "debt" is being used to make their clients feel guilty, and the word "remodeling" is being introduced to make it sound as if they're doing something novel. Doesn't technical debt just refle
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There are more ways of looking at what appears to be obscene amounts of talent... some suggest the media also has a hand, since they create the celebrities (monsters). Einstein was definitely celebrated. But it's odd how popular percep

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