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by visakanv 13y ago
I used to read Men's Health for several years when I was a teenager. It's true, after a while it gets rather repetitive. But I thought it was alright. I thought they had some pretty good reminders. I was often pumped to hit the gy
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by visakanv 13y ago
ah, damnit!
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by visakanv 13y ago
It's true. Not just PG, but everybody else in the room, too. It's the classic courtier situation. See: 48 Laws of Power
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by visakanv 13y ago
Sounds legit. Can you think of any such example?
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by visakanv 13y ago
I agree. Can you point us to one such example?
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by visakanv 13y ago
Agreed. It's likelier that you'll grow to love what you do than you'll wake up one morning feeling like you want to do something that you love. My theory is this: People like Steve Jobs, etc say "do what you love" o
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by visakanv 13y ago
How would you disprove the law, though?
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by visakanv 13y ago
Oh wow, this is a beautiful tool that I've always dreamed of having! Wonderful! I agree with some of the nitpicks, but overall, omg I've always wanted this. Thank you!
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"Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013", by China's State Dept(news.xinhuanet.com)
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https://xkcd.com/610/
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by visakanv 13y ago
"Skate to where the puck is going" is a very succinct way of communicating that! Love it, gonna use it from now on. Thanks!
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by visakanv 13y ago
- The study involved 2,392 men and women 18 years of age or older. The participants were not told that the study was specifically looking into their knowledge of tech terms. - The study was conducted by Vouchercloud.net, a coupons website,
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Study reveals that 1 in 10 Americans think that HTML is an STD(latimes.com)
1 points by visakanv 13y ago|2 comments
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I also know of another guy who planted an entire forest: http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/indian-man-who-pl...
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by visakanv 13y ago
What a classic Hero's Journey story- man encounters difficulty experienced by his loved one, tries to solve her problem efficiently, loses her in the process, becomes an outcast, persists, finds meaning in his work, receives help, is h
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by visakanv 13y ago
Yet strangely, hackers are finding this piece of news interesting. I wonder why? Could it be the idea of having a cat on a ship is interesting from a systems perspective? What's a ship's cat equivalent in a computer or human syste
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by visakanv 13y ago
Homo sapiens reached anatomical modernity about 200,000 years ago and began to exhibit behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago. I suspect that our descendants 1,000,000 years from now wouldn't consider themselves Homo sapiens- pri
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by visakanv 13y ago
This is one of those odd moments where everybody mysteriously agrees that something... is interesting. Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Off...
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by visakanv 13y ago
State-run utilities? Public transportation?
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by visakanv 13y ago
I totally sympathize with your plight, it's a sorry state of affairs. I'd love to know, what's your take on "crowdfunding" type initiatives, such as http://www.experiment.com and http://www.pe
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by visakanv 13y ago
"None of that (shield in Eastern Europe, Syria) would ever happen with McCain or Bush leading the country." How are you so certain? =\
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by visakanv 13y ago
What exactly can Obama do, though? Anybody have any clear ideas?
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by visakanv 13y ago
Yeah, it's morbid-funny to take the TV booker's advice and apply it to the diver and doctor. "Don't get too precious about it."
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by visakanv 13y ago
TL;DR: Football manager: Be careful about your information diet. Stop bringing everything home. And... alcohol? =\ Headteacher: Policy of being calm and non-confrontational. (But how?) Runs, which is therapeutic. Spends 5 minutes reflecting
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by visakanv 13y ago
If you're 10x as productive as other programmers, why not join a startup as an early employee, or be a technical cofounder? Wouldn't that be better, compensation-wise?
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by visakanv 13y ago
> "With programming there is no cap. Rather than paying a particularly good programmer 10x as much, you can just hire 10 mediocre programmers, and they will probably get more done. So smallish differences in competence never transla
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Relevant: Fuzzies vs. Utilons http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa...
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by visakanv 13y ago
Yes. A baby step in the right direction here is to chunk big things into little things- it's harder to screw up little things.
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by visakanv 13y ago
I was watching Trainspotting with my wife the other day and it both amused and troubled at how the drug addicts' behavior reminded me of how I typically procrastinate. People vastly underestimate how elaborate, nuanced and complex the
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by visakanv 13y ago
Yep, greed is a human constant. The structures that we build around ourselves, though, don't necessarily have to reward it.

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