Cancan82

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by Cancan82 5y ago
For me, if I cut out music with words, it’s useful; music with words destroys my productivity
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by Cancan82 5y ago
This is a huge point - promoters works up until a point - but eventually you have to deliver on the promise or people walk. Somehow, Elon delivers on damn near all his major promises (with delays and whatnot, but stil)
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by Cancan82 5y ago
Sorry - I laughed at your first sentence and spit coffee on my keyboard; just thought you should know!
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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O – Shel Silverstein(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
3 points by Cancan82 6y ago|0 comments
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by Cancan82 6y ago
There are always trade offs in life... so you want to be wealthy and have status at the expense of other things? That CAN be the right answer for some people and they will find meaning in that. It is totally fine to pursue that if your hear
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by Cancan82 6y ago
> In the speech, Wallace digs into higher education and what the true value of it might be. He suggests that its end-game purpose is not to teach students facts and figures or fill their heads with knowledge – but instead, it brings the
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David Foster Wallace: This Is Water(butwhatfor.com)
1 points by Cancan82 6y ago|1 comments
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Aren’t they also accelerating the repatriation of the country ?
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Talk about being confused; show up to look at the results and there is just black burn marks all around... haha
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Chris Voss is great. I find if you are having a conversation and you are asking the questions, getting long answers, and then asking related questions, you are doing things right. The other person loves talking about themselves or their opi
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by Cancan82 6y ago
People say this kind of thing a lot. Find the balance between making sure you have what you need and making sure you are not trying to have more than you will ever need. I find it’s people who have more than enough that say that generally.
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by Cancan82 6y ago
“A quasi-experimental study” - love the honesty
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Because that would work actually work? We don’t actually want to have recordings, just say that we have them. But seriously, I would imagine the storage costs aren’t that terrible relative to the costs it would save in lawsuits for the poli
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Love Feynman and his quirks. Wish one of his quirks wasn’t being a little derogatory towards women though to be honest. Has made it harder and harder for me to recommend him to people without being upfront about that caveat...
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by Cancan82 6y ago
This is hard to do. I heard a quote from like 1950 that you should work all out until you have 100k, then relax. Was said by a billionaire in why he didn’t burn out. After that, he was less stressed and did things he enjoyed more, which hap
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Thank you - this is really and the background here is helpful. Appreciate it very much.
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by Cancan82 6y ago
This was a really great explanation. I love smart people who can dumb it down for me. Thank you. Very cool.
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by Cancan82 6y ago
That is an interesting point - to be an expert is much more difficult today. However, I wonder how much of it is survivorship bias? Like the polymaths are generally forgotten because they suck at a lot of things. Every once in a while you g
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Is this different than dark matter? This is actually just normal matter that we think should exist based on evidence but we can’t see? Any physicist bored and want to do a “explain it like I’m five?”
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Is it fear of damage or danger that would keep them from taking it for free?
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The Winner Loser Continuum; and 3 More Lessons from Jordan B. Peterson(hackernoon.com)
6 points by Cancan82 6y ago|0 comments
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Did you get the converter for the Lamh Safari? I actually use the same for cost reasons (and I like the grip) but I use the disposable cartridges, which seems wasteful. I have just heard that the Safari converter is pretty quick to run empt
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by Cancan82 6y ago
I recently switched to a fountain pen - way easier to write with and way less tension. Neil Gaiman suggested it and so I gave it a shot. Never going back - my handwriting is better (but I write cursive) and it is easier to write longer with
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Yes - the dangers of sending a PPT to someone are real... your theme, your logo, someone else’s words. Unless a person is setup specifically to edit PDFs, there are limited tools to do so. Change to many words and spacing and alignment gets
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by Cancan82 6y ago
I find his delivery to be so verbose that you get lost in an almost waterfall-like wall of words bashing you over the head. Maybe he is smart, but it’s odd to me that so many people find him popular when he is so long winded.
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by Cancan82 6y ago
This is 100% true. Almost everyone loves the interested student, but the moment you get a work email address the cold phone calls and emails receive less warm receptions. Take advantage of it while you can.
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by Cancan82 6y ago
This is the way it always goes with innovation - when there is some new technology you can have the small agile firms with outside capital make huge gains. Then one of the big guys notices, consolidates the space, and now that space is basi
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by Cancan82 6y ago
https://torontosun.com/2016/05/12/311-million-vancouver-mans... This was linked further down... a student owns 99% of a $31mm property. A Chinese business person owns the other 1%. That sounds like trying to
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by Cancan82 6y ago
This is insane - feels like something fishy going on... I wonder if business people in China use students and pay them a fee of some sorts to facilitate getting around KYC requirements etc?: “Land title documents list Tian Yu Zhou as having
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by Cancan82 6y ago
Wow this is something I was thinking about... then the money launderer turns around and sells the house they just bought “for quick close” and that sets another precedent in the market... and so the process repeats. “All of a sudden, a mone

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