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by ex3xu 3y ago
UPS drivers, like it or not, produce that much value. Bankers don't, and are instead holding the economy hostage through abuse of insider information [0], regulatory arbitrage [1], and capturing short-term value via liquidity mismanage
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by ex3xu 3y ago
> The core idea is trying my best to not kid myself: when my engagement with a piece of content is active and effortful then it’s learning, when it’s passive it’s entertainment. When I create I learn. When I consume I just relax. This
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by ex3xu 3y ago
If a doctor told you to stop smoking and lower your blood pressure, would you berate him for pushing to make your life miserable? Our collective addiction to the conveniences of modern life is leading to the proliferation of carcinogenic ma
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by ex3xu 4y ago
These are fair and valid points and I wish I had used more consideration in my attempt to convey the rhetorical usage. The proselytization component is probably a more significant reason behind the word choice than any other aspect of catec
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by ex3xu 4y ago
I think your understanding will improve if you view the content of this link as nothing but a scathing review of the book in question. I get the sense that your confusion comes from thinking that the linked article is trying to make points
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by ex3xu 4y ago
I think it's a portmanteau of susurrus and torrential, which serves to invoke the force and volume of a torrential downpour to the description.
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by ex3xu 4y ago
Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and
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by ex3xu 4y ago
Matlab files on Github: https://github.com/Layton-Lab/Kregulation
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by ex3xu 4y ago
I found KC Davis's 2022 book How to Keep House While Drowning to be a nice complementary update to Kondo's techniques. On a practical level Davis focuses on accumulated mess as 5 things: (1) trash, (2) dishes, (3) laundry, (4) t
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by ex3xu 4y ago
Sure, I can understand your skepticism. The church was skeptical of Galileo when he made new claims about the nature of the earth as well, since it contradicted their own previous anecdotal perceptions and private ideology. If only we had d
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by ex3xu 4y ago
Two weeks from the anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death, I'm wishing he could have lived long enough to see Sci-Hub. Rest in peace.
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by ex3xu 4y ago
Google in 1998: Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives from the original paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine [0] "Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertisi
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by ex3xu 4y ago
I am a subscriber to the microbiome inflammasome hypothesis for major depression [0], so I wouldn't be surprised if a treatment course for depression in many people could be as simple as better dental hygiene + magnesium orotate + prob
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by ex3xu 4y ago
Goethe and Hegel both get some character-driven exposition in this book, but Hegel is about twenty years younger than Goethe, so the interactions focus more on the contemporaneous groupings of Goethe-Schiller-Fichte and later Schelling-Hege
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by ex3xu 4y ago
Wulf is an unconventional historian with an unconventional background, and her work reads much more like a narrative-driven piece of New Journalism than a theoretical entry from the Cambridge Studies series on philosophy. As revealed by the
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by ex3xu 4y ago
I took some tips from a book titled How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk - they suggest to try to help kids label their emotions, and then reaffirm those emotions are valid (even if they can't get what they wa
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by ex3xu 4y ago
My internal picture of Schillerian Spieltrieb is basically a bunch of 1960s pie-in-the-sky Woodstock hippies making art, music, and free love all day in a post-work, self-governing society. The OP is juxtaposing this utopic vision of games
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by ex3xu 5y ago
Thanks to the ScummVM team for a truly amazing project. I second the adventure game recommendations people have been listing, and for those with young children I'll add the Living Books series as an amazing set of experiences to enjoy
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by ex3xu 5y ago
I'd say that chess fundamentals is three things: Endgames, tactics, and positional strategy. OP's strategy of studying openings and tactics is a very fun and accessible improvement path for intelligent new players, but it is very
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by ex3xu 5y ago
If you want to examine the analysis directly, the paper links the algorithm as part of the Baydem R package [0] and the R dataset used is available in its own repository [1] (docker recommended): [0]: https://github.com/eehh
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by ex3xu 5y ago
FDA approval for transcranial electric/magnetic stimulation has been around since 2008 for major depression, 2013 for migraines, and 2018 for OCD [0], so it wouldn't surprise me if they hold some therapeutic value for sleep disord
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by ex3xu 5y ago
(2019) What a strange post. This guy namedrops Scott Adams and writes a few lines referencing Adams' 2013 book How to Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big , but it's pretty unclear to me if he understood the point that Ada
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by ex3xu 5y ago
My approach to dealing with this comes from Neil Fiore's The Now Habit [0] and Stephen Pressfield's The War of Art . Fiore -- decouple any self-judgment or self-validation from your work and its results, and stay focused on the
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by ex3xu 5y ago
> And generally speaking, in life, I feel like I'm pretty bad at having my own unique take/opinion on things, even though I'm trying. Most of my "controversial" thoughts and opinions came from the controversial&
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by ex3xu 5y ago
"death": losing player called to greater things, one hopes. An inspiringly optimistic spiritual outlook from the PGN standard, so thank you for that. Technically, over the board one could just wait until their deceased opponent
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by ex3xu 5y ago
The warnings against the CIA came as early as the Doolittle report [0] during the Eisenhower administration (see Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes ), and Peter Kornbluh's Bay of Pigs Declassified documents the intention of Kennedy&#
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by ex3xu 5y ago
Sounds like you're looking to go on sabbatical? A lot of bigger companies have active sabbatical leave policies. If you're happy with your current company, you could talk to HR and see their position on it, as I think it's be
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by ex3xu 5y ago
Pretty cool. They note that they are inspired by Go by Example [0] and Rust by Example [1], and this book seems stylistically similar to the community-driven Learn X in Y minutes site [2] which covers quick syntax/conceptual overvi
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by ex3xu 5y ago
I agree with this take. If anything, I think the father should be applauded for helping him access the opportunities that have helped him reach his potential, because it's clear the kid has the discipline and drive to be great.
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by ex3xu 5y ago
Very interesting player, looking at a few of his wins it seems like he often emulates the Carlsen water-from-a-stone style of grinding out "boring", equal endgames until his opponent cracks. A young player with the willingness to

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