wobblybubble

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by wobblybubble 5y ago
My intuition tells me that that is an overstatement.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
I’m probably just bad at it.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Is it the #2 most common passion project here though.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
It seems disingenuous to you because you disagree with it? Seems like a misapplication of that particular word.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
The irony is that this comment is less informative than the thing that it is criticizing. Basic summary: the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Which is as informative as claiming that the truth is on some kind of binary extreme. A furth
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Then the intuition of random commenters is worth close to nothing.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
“The only thing”—only half of all weekdays if one follows the in-bed-for-eight hours recommendation. And you of course have to eat and groom yourself outside of those hours. I’m not saying that you are wrong. But it seems weird to dismiss
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
> Programming is the new literacy. People who can do it are on a different plane to people who can't. This is what I believe sometimes. Then I look at all the pitfalls of shell scripts and how the time investments on automation task
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
It could be. But this is Hacker News so it often means something hacker-related.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
> “Proper education” is student, culture and even teacher dependent. There is no singular best practice. In my experience it is not productive to have this kind of conversation with teachers since they will go back and forth between (1)
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Productive is a meaningless word in this context. You can productively work for or against the best interests of society at large.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Why does there need to be passion project? He could study philosophy or do whatever that one can do in an office by oneself.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
> This is to Danish parliament. I wonder if the research he is quoting applies to (a) a larger country (b) with a heterogeneous population that (c) communicates primarily in English (where most misinformation seems to be aimed). Are you
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
> I intuitively believe that there's truth to all of these so called myths, but I'd love to be proven wrong. His opinions are based on claimed research while yours are based on intuition. I’d sooner trust his opionions compare
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Mindfulness is an English translation of the Buddhist word “sati” which Buddhists use to describe one particular quality of meditation. To dismiss it because some people have coopted it would be like, well, to dismiss the yoga tradition be
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
I have not been personally affected, no.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Fair enough.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Being one of the safest is not the same as being crime free.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
A lot of what teachers do is exactly just that—basically talking at the pupils, as if they were vessels who are supposed to have their heads filled up with knowledge. Proper learning is supposed to be more active and pupil-directed. Look
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
It seems that adolescents tend to like to sleep for longer than older adults. That just seems how people are wired at different stages of life; nothing wrong with either preference. But the older adults run society, which means that getti
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Conquerors and national movements of the past should have had more ecological awareness.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
That seems like such a middle class worry. I don’t see how people with tens of millions of USD (or equivalent of course) are more susceptible to opportunistic crimes like robberies and car jackings. If anything they are less susceptible s
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
I don’t really see how this is a problem unless you hide your money in your mattress. The emergence of modern states happened with the industrial revolution and the ascendence of the bourgeoisie. The original point of this centralization o
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
I live in Scandinavia. I refuse to believe that Scandinavia was ever virtually crime free. Anti-social behavior has always existed (also here).
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
lmao.
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
Is the one percent that powerless?
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
> People have even less family wealth in less stable places But we’re comparing whites and blacks in America, so the old “but people are starving in Africa” doesn’t apply here. So why is there a disparity of family wealth between white
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
> Yes, undeniably so, but the same applies to non-Asian groups. You’re the one who wanted to focus on Asians: > > As usual in the American racial discourse, this argument entirely ignores the huge gaping hole in its side that is
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
> Given the generally accepted ideal of equality in the rich and educated world It isn’t a generally accepted ideal in the West. And where it is accepted it might just be (if you read the fine print) some kind of equality like "eq
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by wobblybubble 5y ago
It isn’t surprising that groups like descendants of chattel slavery who have had the same legal rights as white people for about half a century are systematically worse off than groups like middle class immigrants from East Asia.

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