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by codebolt 7y ago
Agreed. If you look at the actions of either Iran, Saudi Arabia or Israel you can easily find many things that seem morally indefensible from a purely humanistic standpoint. Whatever the mechanism the US has for picking it's allies, it
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Perhaps key personnel off on summer holidays?
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We can't have a discussion about the history of WordPerfect without mentioning this book: https://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml
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by codebolt 7y ago
> Got a source that shows, empirically, you're more likely to be permanently damaged from taking psilocybin than while commuting to work, jogging, swimming, or doing any other normal life activity? https://www.ncbi.nlm.ni
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Fixed
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The perceived value of gold as a store of value comes in part from the fact that humans have been using it as a means of trade/store of value across a vast span of cultures for many millenia. Bitcoin has been around for 8 years. With B
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by codebolt 7y ago
> is this something people get from TV? Well my wife is Nigerian, and she claims they have similar type barbers in her country. But mainly through TV, yes. I recently watched the latest Barbershop movie ( https://www.imdb.com&#
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by codebolt 7y ago
As a white male, the barber shop is one thing I always envied African-Americans. Seems nice to have a place where you can always drop by for some loose banter with the local guys.
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Get some headshots taken with a professional photographer, make sure you dress sharp in your pics, etc. There's many things to do about increasing your attractivenes both online and IRL other than laughing about it and throwing up your
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by codebolt 7y ago
I recently tried to go full vegan for a month and found it surprisingly easy. You can make a lot of variations of beans/lentils and rice (with various other veggies and spicing) that are cheaper than meat-based meals, taste amazing, co
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by codebolt 7y ago
I certainly can't compare myself to this kid in terms of achievement, but I got heavily into physics around 15-16 after an intense psychedelic experience made me start to obsess over the idea of figuring out "what the universe is
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by codebolt 8y ago
The iPhone search has been driving me crazy as well. Another one that always gets me is pressing a number in the recent calls list just after another call was ended.
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by codebolt 8y ago
Pretty sure that was sarcasm. Boeing is basically saying, there is an automated system that causes planes to crash, and to turn it off you need to perform some completely unintuitive sequence of actions. These planes should not be allowed t
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by codebolt 8y ago
As a Norwegian tax payer I do feel a bit like a schmuck for paying Indonesians not to destroy their own country. For one, what's to stop them from cutting these forests once the payouts stop coming? A better endeavor might be to invest
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by codebolt 8y ago
“Nothing matters once you’re dead” seems inescapable until you realize that it’s based on the rather flimsy presupposition that presentism is true and eternalism is false.
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> Unless what you want to run is, for example, "Internet Explorer": "Inte" will auto-complete to nothing useful if you have a bunch of apps, "Interne" will auto-complete to Internet Explorer, but "Inter
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by codebolt 8y ago
The only time I ever saw my father crying was after our dog died. Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwGnCIdHQH0
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by codebolt 8y ago
Co-signing this advice. I was basically in the same shoes as the OP, being the quiet office weirdo for my first few years, usually getting very tense in meetings and so on. These days I'm effortlessly starting discussions, speaking my
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by codebolt 8y ago
You think you had it rough, at 15 I taught myself C/C++ Win32 programming with COM and early DirectX versions from textbooks and online tutorials. I'm thankful now though, as most modern frameworks are a breeze to learn by compari
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by codebolt 8y ago
Getting terribly wasted in general is probably worth avoiding.
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As a Norwegian, I just want to add that Swedish candy shops are insane. I find it strange that your country doesn't have a lot more diabetic/obese people. Somebody has to be keeping those stores in business?
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by codebolt 8y ago
I'm really starting to get tired of all these bloated JavaScript desktop apps. I get that it's more convenient for developing cross-platform apps with modern looking UIs, but I really wish there would be an increased focus on redu
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by codebolt 8y ago
> And also the idea that an automatic driver is easier to improve over time (skewing the trade-off better and better) than human drivers. Which of course will snowball when reliance on automation keeps making drivers worse than better, a
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by codebolt 9y ago
I'm always up for a discussion on this topic, because I find it very interesting and I think there is a major (dare I say it) metaphysical point here that is overlooked by mainstream intellectuals. However I've argued with enough
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by codebolt 9y ago
Alright, I’ll bite. I challenge your assertion that math is without objective meaning. First I want to make an observation. Do you know the history of how the study of complex algebra/calculus came about? If so, I assume you will agree
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Natural philosophers are simply physicists who were too lazy to learn math.
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It just seems absurd that it should be so complicated and expensive to build a system which on a basic level is just about maintaining a large table of numbers (the ledger of bank account balances) and doing simple arithmetic on it. And I s
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by codebolt 9y ago
> I guess I meant added sugar. I think using the term "refined sugar" would also capture what you mean.
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If I wanted a store of value, I would put my money in gold.
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Speaking from personal experience, pushing yourself to socialize more is the way to go. At least it worked wonders from me. In my mid-twenties I changed from being a hermit to going out several times a week and continuously meeting a lot of

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