bykovich2

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by bykovich2 9y ago
I didn't read this as an investment thesis. I don't think he's trying to prescribe an investment strategy.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
> Doing nothing can be as equally energising as time out spent with people, and is in fact necessary in order to recharge, says Pedro Diaz, CEO of the Workplace Mental Health Institute in Sydney. Hmm, who's this guy? > Driven by
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Weakness of will.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
> There can be 'unlimited growth' - as long as there is innovation. How's that work, bud?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
> Life is a complicated symphony of events, it isn't easy to arrange a perfect solution on your own. Implicit here is the assumption that there is a problem (life itself?) to which a solution can be arranged, and that "arrangin
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by bykovich2 9y ago
One might go so far as to say that substance and sustenance of life dwells in those holes. I won't go so far, but someone (not me, of course) might.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Not exactly: Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson did not, in fact, have sex. Tom rebuffed Mayella's advances, and Bob Ewell concocted a rape as retribution for Mayella's attraction to a black man. However, the book strongly implies tha
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by bykovich2 9y ago
If you run an online store that doesn't validate credit cards correctly you will become an API for fraudsters to check the validity of Visa numbers.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Isn't this explicitly not a theory of consciousness?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
"Calorie restriction is proven to help you live a longer life." Flatly untrue. The article linked to "in proof" is about primate studies that suggest -- perhaps even strongly suggest -- that caloric restriction can slow
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by bykovich2 9y ago
I believe the point was that selling a kid to pay for the others is a suggestion similarly (if not identically) indifferent to emotional realities as suggesting that a committedly-married couple get a divorce to change their tax status.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
How do you figure that "besides for housing, cost of living does not need to be particularly higher in SV than elsewhere"? While housing is undeniably the most wildly out-of-control expense in Silicon Valley, the rest of the essen
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by bykovich2 9y ago
That's the point, dude.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
The cost of living in the Bay Area is -- and I say this with no figuration -- frightening. It provokes genuine fear in me.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
The linked article is much, much better, much more nuanced and insightful, than the Wikipedia page.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
You know how much players on professional sports teams make?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Does anyone still drink this stuff?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Do you take David Benatar seriously?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Funny, it seems increasingly apt to me.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
When I was in college, my school was disposing of their card catalog by providing the cards as scratch paper for catalog numbers -- next to the computer terminals that had replaced them. I spirited dozens, maybe hundreds, of them out. I was
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by bykovich2 9y ago
This is bonkers logic. It's wrong to coerce someone into providing the cure, but it's right to coerce someone out of forming a monopoly?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
What is the selective pressure /for/ cancer-predisposing genes? And it's not as if most cancers act as a reproductive filter -- the majority of them emerge well after the onset of reproductive ability, drastically reducing, i
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Well, a certain sort of therapy. It's pretty insightful to connect the increased interest in stoicism to the boom-and-bust cycle. As the specter of a bust looms larger (hallucinatory or not), I can imagine that people who would be aff
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by bykovich2 9y ago
hahahahahaha
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Is CBT seeing significantly increased interest amongst people in tech? I haven't noticed that, but I also haven't been looking.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Me. It's actually Nietzsche -- "Beyond Good and Evil," Part 1, §9. I have very serious reservations about Nietzsche, but he doesn't pull his punches.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
So you want to live “according to nature?” Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure, indifferent without measure, without purpose and regard, without mercy and justice,
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Why, though? What has produced that effect?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Because being in tech is life-ruining and only can only be propped up by ascetic myth-making, lol. I suspect stoicism also appeals strongly to a personality that enters tech at a disproportionate rate -- like bodybuilding, nootropics, hacka
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Glad to see that JSTOR made open-access 600 books that will each be read by exactly three people who already have institutional subscriptions.

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