martopix

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by martopix 3mo ago
There's a big missing point in this argument: it says "better" or "worse", "it works" or "it doesn't work", but does not specify how this is tested. If we test students with standardized tes
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by martopix 7mo ago
> There’s an entire generation of mostly childless adults who are shocked to find they enjoy contributing to others’ happiness. This is very well put. I think the culture today is what pushes us towards that: we have a very individualist
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by martopix 7mo ago
I think this is an oversimplification of a much more general social phenomenon. In much of the world, the mainstream social message is still that kids are what you should get your life's purpose and fulfillment from. Maybe not so much
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by martopix 7mo ago
I've quit my career in academia three years ago and teach high school kids instead. I can totally relate, I'm just so much happier: I love those four things he listed, except the fourth for me is physics instead of basketball.
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by martopix 1y ago
I recommend trying Antarctica! It's tiny compared to the Pacific. I didn't expect it to fit into the Indian ocean.
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by martopix 1y ago
No, for me knowing certain mind-blowing scientific facts is, personally, as cool as listening to Beethoven.
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by martopix 1y ago
Writing the address on the envelope was awkward, as I haven’t used a pen in several years; Really??
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by martopix 1y ago
It depends on what you mean by "preference". If you show me a pic of a hot guy and the picture that a friend took while hiking, I'll probably look at the hot guy for longer, so one could claim I prefer it. But that doesn&#x
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by martopix 1y ago
Instagram actually used to be quite nice when it was pics of friends. Now I find it scary .
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by martopix 1y ago
What's the practical benefit of Beethoven?
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by martopix 1y ago
It depends what you mean by "civilization building". I think we gloss over that a bit too much. We're not the largest population, not the largest total mass, not the only one that builds large structures. We're the only
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by martopix 2y ago
Not the poster, but I don't understand the downvotes: this is exactly right. Higgs was awarded the Nobel after the mechanism he theorized was experimentally confirmed, and that is 100% the reason it took so long.
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by martopix 2y ago
Same here.
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"Spirituality is not the same as being happy"(theguardian.com)
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by martopix 2y ago
St Kitts and Nevis is notorious for giving out citizenships to those who can afford to 'invest'
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by martopix 2y ago
I would say the _majority_ of people would not reach that speed on a bike in normal situations
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by martopix 2y ago
> Crowdstrike is finished Boeing is still there... we'll see
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by martopix 2y ago
Small government => big corporations (claim of the previous comment) is not the same thing as Big corporations => small goverment (the argument you're trying to disprove)
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by martopix 2y ago
This makes a point against the "CEO morning routine" kind of approach, but from my point of view, it is not that different from that perspective on life. It still talks about "proactively moving towards #1 or top 25%", &
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by martopix 2y ago
At some point I had a post-it that said "happily unsatisfied" next to my desk. My bf had told me to think of making the changes I needed, with a timespan of five years, not "asap". That helped a lot.
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by martopix 2y ago
The amount of cabin luggage we bring is too much anyway. You can impose small bags only, the rest in the hold.
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by martopix 2y ago
If the problem was balance, why were tricycles not widespread, then? There must have been other factors.
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by martopix 3y ago
I remember an app that was a calculator where you could pen-in your calculations, so it was called Ink-ulator. They later changed the name profusely apologizing to Italian users.
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by martopix 3y ago
I'm neither a pilot nor even a player of flight simulators, however I have a deep geeky fascination for ATC and radio communication. I would have liked to get into vatsim, but the process seems a bit daunting. For what I could tell, no
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by martopix 3y ago
Or maybe it simply means that it's a service offered by another company
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by martopix 3y ago
I spent 5 years of high school writing in a fountain pen as a leftie. For me, with good ink and good paper, it smudges LESS than a ballpen: the ballpen ink is thicker and takes a while to dry, so it doesn't quite smudge, but still leav
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by martopix 3y ago
The world changes.
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by martopix 3y ago
It's not quite the same. I, a responsible adult, find myself fiddling with my phone when attending talks, even when I'm supposedly interested in the talk. Once I start, I missed the beginning and don't understand the rest of
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by martopix 3y ago
One of the most surreal moments of my life was walking in the bush in Tanzania near a village, two maasais passed by on a motorbike, stopped, took out a mobile phone from the folds of their red garment, took a picture of me without saying a
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by martopix 3y ago
"The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder"

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