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by warent 5y ago
FYI that youtube video on the landing page is from 2012
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by warent 5y ago
Objectively just about everything is abnormally expensive right now. Not just in the USA, but also Canada and Australia that I know of. Maybe other places as well.
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by warent 5y ago
California is crumbling, socially. Have you seen the homelessness epidemic from San Fransisco and everywhere south? I work in a lucrative upper engineering management role and still cannot afford to buy a house... That's not really an
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by warent 5y ago
That just sounds like people in their 20s in general, even without weed. Marijuana might make it seem worse because stupid ideas sound much more profound when we're high
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by warent 5y ago
This would not surprise me at all. But I'm curious to know if they got the causation backwards. Maybe people with schizophrenia just have a higher likelihood of smoking marijuana
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by warent 5y ago
I would agree if she didn't exhibit racism. Keeping her in a workplace after learning about that would be sending a signal that they care little about how hostile the workplace is.
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by warent 5y ago
My psychologist taught me that fear, anxiety, etc. destructive emotions are surface events, bubbling up from somewhere deeper. Mindfulness can be used as a resource for us to be with that fear; in the words of Thich Nhat Hanh "those pa
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by warent 5y ago
I can only believe that people who enter highly radioactive areas illegally just have no idea what radioactivity is really like. It's invisible, so it's easy to imagine that nothing is really happening. In my mind, the first ima
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by warent 5y ago
Apple and SIS have a qualified law enforcement privilege that allows them to err in store security-related accusations and not be sued for it. However, if they exhibit "reckless disregard for the truth" – ignoring obvious fac
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by warent 5y ago
Are there recorded cases of this ever happening?
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by warent 5y ago
They're excellent for curiosities now. I just bought linen bags with big dollar signs on them as props for a personal project. Amazon made it easy. So basically any time you need something where the concept of fakes doesn't matter
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by warent 5y ago
I've been estranged from my family since my teens due to an unpleasant childhood and young adulthood. Eventually, the flames of the furnace of life reaches all of us; some younger than others; some more acutely than others. In skillful
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by warent 5y ago
I've always wondered about code like this and what inspires people to write it. How is this any different from just directly writing machine code? Or is this the exact opposite, operating at the highest level of abstraction?
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by warent 5y ago
Same for lead companies too. They knew it was making people sick and killing them, but they hired people to publish bogus research and keep selling it.
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by warent 5y ago
You seem to be interpreting what I'm saying literally. No, I don't believe that businesses literally have furnaces in which they throw humans. It is a metaphor. Nobody said "everyone is evil as a function of profit." Whe
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by warent 5y ago
I truly can't comprehend people who have this ideological hatred or disdain of business, profit and capitalism. Because not all CEOs are Richard Branson, who for all his flaws is known for having a big, playful, loving heart. T
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by warent 5y ago
Probably the reason is that it's just fun? It's okay to do big things and have fun at the same time
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by warent 5y ago
Did you retire from engineering? Esoteric tools can certainly be a problem but that's a tiny portion of the pool of people who experience this. Technology in general changes all the time
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by warent 5y ago
For anybody wondering, this is a reference from the cult classic movie A Christmas Story. Very funny, brings back memories
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by warent 5y ago
I remember him saying in another video that NYC is going to become basically a ghost town in a couple decades if this kind of behavior from the government (along with its failure to fix the real estate problems) keeps up. It's curious
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by warent 5y ago
Why is this being downvoted? It seems like perfectly reasonable advice and one of the first things that came to my mind as well. Is there something in the video that happens which is causing people to vote this down? Edit: instead of silent
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by warent 5y ago
I think in modern terms it's hard to appreciate how expensive that book would have been to make back then. The parchment is calfskin. In the medieval era, it was uncommon for noblemen to slaughter their livestock for anything, even foo
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by warent 5y ago
If it is indecipherable, I've always subscribed to the theory that it was a scam. Someone crafted the book to make it seem mystical, which they could then use to influence someone somehow. Probably not for money. It seems like it was c
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by warent 5y ago
Very true. I apologize if I came across as insensitive to those unique struggles. Agreed, there seems to be tremendous potential of combining things like MDMA with psychotherapy (and it might not be advisable to self-medicate).
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by warent 5y ago
Few people are willing to put in the long hard work required for many things including mental health. Instant gratification and quick fixes are very popular, and I'm not convinced of it being a long term solution. It's like being
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by warent 5y ago
space is short for outer space, as opposed to the inner space between earth and it's atmosphere. Nice try! EDIT folks this is just a benign and playful post, the downvotes and flagging is completely unnecessary
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by warent 5y ago
There's a great videographer on YouTube named Chris Broad who moved to Japan and has been living there for something like 10 years now. He does a show called "Abroad in Japan" He did a great video on this topic which is worth
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by warent 5y ago
This is an old system and is a serious problem for Chinese mental health. They have something called "revenge bedtime procrastination", which is a product of how badly overworked they are. But in other news water is wet. Chinese g
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by warent 5y ago
Not that you can blame anyone for missing it; there are so many negatives in that text I'm having a hard time decoding what it's even saying... In other words, Hölzle had a neutral stance?
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by warent 5y ago
That was it, thank you!

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