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by aynsof 9y ago
There's a political correctness movement away from the use of master/slave: https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/822093922549764096
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by aynsof 9y ago
It went far beyond what some of the other commenters are suggesting. It wasn't merely a conscious realisation that the sensation of pain could be reframed as mere sensation; it was a deep reconceptualization of the pain as 'vibrat
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I did a ten-day silent retreat (Vipassana) and the effects were profound. I was far calmer, far more able to focus. It's hard to explain, but physical pain was also reframed from negative 'pain' to simply neutral sensation. I
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by aynsof 9y ago
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by aynsof 9y ago
Hello from GA! If this sort of stuff is interesting to you, keep an eye out at: http://eos.ga.gov.au And we've just started an engineering blog which might be of interest to the HN crowd: https://tech.ga.gov.au
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by aynsof 9y ago
I'm sure this isn't what you meant, but how about something like movement? I've met doctors who know anatomy like the (ahem) back of their hand, but they couldn't perform coordinated physical tasks to save their life.
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by aynsof 10y ago
According to his website (bottom of the pdf), Ken Silverman's favourite optimisation is: sub eax 128, add eax -128 Can anyone explain this to an assembly rookie?
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by aynsof 10y ago
I did exactly this a few years back. I took a pay cut to around 30% of my previous salary to work for a health care sector non-profit. The main attractions were flexible work hours (including some work from home), being fed up with working
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by aynsof 10y ago
Some of the specific ideas for demonstrating high status included not moving your head when speaking, speaking and moving slowly, beginning statements with a long 'uhhhh' (a short 'uh' sound, however, demonstrated low st
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by aynsof 10y ago
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by aynsof 10y ago
>>Everything I'm typing below is completely made up, but is based on real events It sounds like personal experience with the names and other small details changed.
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by aynsof 10y ago
Do you find that having so much positivity in your retros silences voices that might be going against the status quo? Serious question. We've been struggling in our recent retros to find any negatives to talk about, and I've been
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by aynsof 11y ago
So you're suggesting instead that 'superforecasters' exist, but that they haven't been discovered by finance? It'd be a pretty lucrative market for people able to predict the future. I think it's far more lik
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by aynsof 11y ago
You're right - that was a terrible example. Thanks for doing the math to prove me wrong!
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Here's an experiment: get a million people to guess the results of a thousand coin-tosses. By the end, a miraculous few will have a 100% record and will be hailed as geniuses. Books will be written about this incredible group. These