alchemyromcom

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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
I'm 40 right now and just started my first real career-type job this year. At 39 I was still a co-op student. It's honestly fine. The world is changing and it's way more common for "adult learners" to be part of the
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
>Carbon in our souls I think it might be an allusion to alchemy. Basically, the alchemists believed that ash (what was left after burning something) was the soul of all things...And-- this is where my complete lack of understanding about
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
"Ticketmastered" is one heck of a verb! It honestly strikes fear into my heart to think what else might soon be "ticketmastered" in the future. Hopefully it at least affords opportunity to create a counter-resistance tha
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
>taking fixed-window averages and comparing them to one another is effectively useless Is it really that simple? I'll fully admit that most of my understanding of the stock market is based on intuition and reading books with flashy
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
>Their methods are many, varied and wackily named. A “death cross” is when a short-term moving average of an asset’s price falls below a long-term moving average. I think the author is a little overly skeptical here. A moving average is
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
Yes, I had to move for a job this year and the rent is basically unsustainable. I went from paying $500 a month to paying $1500 a month. After taxes, that's half my pay. I know that it's not exactly all the fault of inflation. The
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
This might be true, and I'll admit that I didn't read the article, but I would add that not everything can be explained by economic efficiency. For example: poems--a really bad use of your time (think of the opportunity cost), dra
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
This must be one of the most awful sentences I've ever read. There is so much stink crammed into so few words, that I'm actually slightly in awe of how terrible it is. There are so many ways its bad that it feels like a rich knot
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
>This may be the beginning of the end for what Silicon Valley calls "tech" There's something about the way you phrased this that just made me just realize there's a very real possibility that the internet could turn i
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
I agree. I find the name off-putting too, and they have also embossed the product with name in big bold letters. If they like it, more power to them, but I would honestly be hesitant to own this trackball because of the logo on it.
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
I would say record yourself speaking and then listen back to it. It will take a little bit of time to get over the discomfort of it, but you'll be happy you did once you get used to it. Not only will it improve your ability to speak, b
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
I hope the people implementing all these policies and technologies are seriously weighing the consequences of their actions. I suspect that they are not.
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
I would suggest keeping a good relationship with your current employer and network of business contacts. If you do end up losing your job, a recession is a great time to go back to school for additional training or to get more certification
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
This is a great idea that I had never thought of. Something that might help, if it does actually make a person feel awkward, is to use a numeric code. That way, you could be commercial301@mydomain.com and then 301 could equal Gap, or whatev
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
You know it's kind of funny, because many former Olympic dream teams have famously fallen short from time to time. The most noteworthy is the American basketball team losing early rounds to smaller countries, but also Canadian Hockey &
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
Check out The Kybalion, and also Prometheus Rising.
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
I honestly think there are a lot of people that need some level of human interaction to function properly, and those are likely the people pushing for hybrid or back to office. Keep in mind, also, that not everyone's work from home sit
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
One possible explanation is that he might be experiencing depression. It's probably not the first thing you would think of when you see scattered writing, but since it's an article about how he's unhappy, it could be a reason
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by alchemyromcom 4y ago
There are a lot of things. I'm actually searching out more and more refined pathways to joy each day. One specific thing that has been filling me with joy at the moment is listening to Debussy and then watching videos of art in fast fo
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by alchemyromcom 5y ago
I have a similar freakish ability, but mine has to do with writing. I can basically ~see~ approximately three pages of prose in my mind's eye while writing. It only works under certain conditions, but it feels just like I'm transc
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by alchemyromcom 5y ago
You know what it might be: maybe the person is a niche marketer and is going to pretend to be multiple people to sell their product to the newsletter's audience. That happens all the time. Account 1 will ask for recommendations, then a
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by alchemyromcom 5y ago
I personally found Facebook hard to quit, but not entirely impossible. I would compare it to giving up cigarettes: not easy, but I got through it. I am coming to terms with the fact that I have have a very serious and damaging internet addi
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by alchemyromcom 6y ago
I wish more people, especially tech CEOs, could understand the incredible sacrifice of time, money, and energy it takes to make an album people actually enjoy. Everything you listen to, unless you are willing to listen to raw demos, is a mi
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by alchemyromcom 6y ago
I believe Ardour has an open license and Reaper has a proprietary licence. In terms of functionality and ease of use however, I think Reaper is hard to beat.
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by alchemyromcom 6y ago
This might be a widely known secret by now, but here's an example of musician Aphex Twin hiding his face in a spectrogram of one of his songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xMuPWAZW8
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by alchemyromcom 6y ago
Losing your livelihood can kill you, however. If you are a small business owner, for example, and it's illegal to operate that business, your life is also in danger and your situation deserves empathy. Empathy is not finite resource. W
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by alchemyromcom 6y ago
Yes, for approximately three years. They were some of the happiest, cleanest, and most productive years of my life. I felt happy in the same way I think people felt happy before the technology existed. I eventually came back, because I was
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by alchemyromcom 6y ago
Maybe their AI can whip up something better soon.
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by alchemyromcom 6y ago
Reading about alchemy, especially the concept of transmutation, has inspired my life in numerous ways. I would also suggest reading The Kybalion which, if I recall correctly, is about Gnosticism more than alchemy? Anyway, it has some great