magnifyingglass

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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
Agreed. Logs are for when everything and anything is broken. They aren't supposed to be pretty or highly functional, they are just meant as a starting point for gathering data.
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
It really depends for people. You can keep track of all your thoughts and ideas meticulously, to ensure that none of them are a quantitative exaggeration or minimization of a linguistic translation of your present perceptions of the object
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
I have quit coffee for the last two years, aside from a very rare (once every four months or so) dessert coffee. I used to depend on coffee intellectually, I always had to have a cup next to whatever work I was working on, and a pot brewing
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
I am a 20 something in tech, and I just don't understand the mentality that doesn't value the perspective that age affords. It just seems really stupid, like overwhelmingly stupid. Even if a young person can hold as information as
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
I don't know if many scientists and researchers understand how much harder it becomes to do science when you are surrounded by information chaos. If you have someone tossing the right words at you here and there, and I literally mean l
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
> Epicurus taught that living a simple life with friends, food, exercise and art would make you truly happy He must have never heard of eating disorders and competition between artists. Epictetus taught something that is similar to some
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
> Suddenly everyone is a poet, inclined to the morbid. This is an equally eye-roll inducing over-generalization. Death is a profound topic to many people - the contemporary considerations of immortality may bring what you see as the sup
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
> "Fuck you, I didn't choose this, but I love it." You'll find that most difficult experiences people endure in life don't make sense on a logical level. You'll also probably find it hard to empathize with.
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by magnifyingglass 11y ago
Even if a scientist can legitimately prove depression is different from sadness, you will not believe it, because it requires a degree of subjectivity you will not tolerate. You expect a kind of purity, an objective, emotionless vocabulary