montyf

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by montyf 8y ago
Yeah, you can play whatever game you want in life. However, playing the money game is dangerous, and can easily create attachment and greed. I'm not necessarily preaching about his choice of game -- more about his lack of perspective,
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by montyf 8y ago
I see what you mean as well. But, I don't think this kind of thing should impact your well being. The guy said in other posts that he can't get into those better companies and is considering suicide. It sounds so odd to me that I
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by montyf 8y ago
Sorry, but is this a serious post? Honest question. > My total comp for the first year is only $145k out of undergrad with a base of $106k. My friends at places like Google, FB and Cruise are making more like $180k-$230k by comparison. H
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by montyf 8y ago
Is central control necessary? I know it's a tough pill to swallow, but I encourage you to think about it some more. And don't think in terms of subsystems but rather real entities.
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by montyf 8y ago
> Otherwise though, I found that his personas largely reflected his current emotional state. One persona would almost always be "out" when he was upset with a friend, or struggling with some stress. Another was more childlike a
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by montyf 8y ago
> There are other things like adrenal hyperplasia which are really common and results in developing secondary sexual characteristics of both genders. "Really common" is people bullshitting. Most of this stuff is in their heads.
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by montyf 8y ago
> To suggest that people can't or shouldn't advocate for acceptance of their conceptual identity is pretty misguided. I'm sorry, but made-up genders simply do not find their way into my model of the world. I never encounte
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by montyf 8y ago
> Simply not having XX nor XY chromosomes happens about in one in every 1666 people. Surely you have met at least two thousand people in your life. That's a disease, not a gender. What makes people with such a disease think they are
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by montyf 8y ago
I understand now, though I would argue that nothing you call "objective" is actually so. These goals you listed are just the formulation of a game, which a lot of Westerners choose to play (though not all global citizens, which al
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by montyf 8y ago
Because we're humans, not asset-collection algorithms. I'm sorry that this is an honest question.
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by montyf 8y ago
Do you view everything in life in terms of investing and value extraction? If so, that is deeply, incredibly sad. > you have several multi-decade goals to work towards Why do you think the goals you listed are worthwhile? Who made these
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by montyf 8y ago
> I deleted the comment in case there is some sort of HN 404 taboo I'm not aware of. Never do this. If someone doesn't like your comment, then you are just letting them win by removing it. That's exactly what they want: fo
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by montyf 8y ago
That's not true at all. Overtime can most definitely be unpaid, and usually is.
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by montyf 8y ago
Sounds like something I'd be good at. All I have to do is stroll through the woods and I have 20 ticks on my person.
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by montyf 8y ago
I enjoyed your comment despite it being light gray. I never considered Google to be particularly rich in "opinions". Some buy into the culture more than others, but the workers are mostly left-wing. I also think a better term than
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by montyf 8y ago
> I'm not into new age / whatever stuff but I like to think of it as night time meditation as while it's still not as good as sleep it's still a great deal better than full blown insomnia! There's a reason advanc
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by montyf 8y ago
Or the US using Agent Orange and inflicting shocking health effects to millions of Vietnamese. Hiroshima/Nagasaki pale in comparison.
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by montyf 8y ago
> they belong in the same category as French or Japanese Huh? French food I can understand, though I don't have much of a taste for it, but Japanese food is terrible -- I was there for two weeks. A lot of foreigners are deeply disap
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by montyf 8y ago
> I also remember a time when human decency wasn't shrouded in the pejorative "political correctness". Not sure what you're getting at with this rhetoric (no wonder you're a fan of vague, politically-correct stat
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by montyf 8y ago
You're absolutely right, but HN users don't realize that most of America exists outside of their ideological bubble. > For example, if child of meth heads grows up to be president, he's yet another privileged white preside
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by montyf 8y ago
Air Asia is the worst airline I've ever flown with. Unfortunately, it's hard to avoid them when flying in Asia.
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by montyf 8y ago
Japanese people seem to be in a pretty good place emotionally. They are pretty closed-off, as I expected, but they're more laid back than people in many Western countries and definitely much less stressed than Americans. I'm speak
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by montyf 8y ago
I thought it wouldn't be so bad, but now that I have seen the screenshots... it's pretty bad. The thing is, a lot of developers seem to have no anesthetic sense whatsoever. I realized this when I noticed that almost all Emacs them
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by montyf 8y ago
I wrote a blog post on tool mastery a few days ago, mostly in response to an egregious article named "You are not your tools"[0], but also to write down some of my recent thoughts on this topic[1]. I agree with the OP that interna
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by montyf 8y ago
I liked the irony in this post, considering that the main draw of Electron apps is that they are supposed to be cross-platform. (To be fair though, FreeBSD is pretty niche.)
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by montyf 9y ago
> There have been far too many false stories about Russian hacking published for them to carry weight. They never carried weight for me. The "evil Russians" angle has always been about disinforming and misdirecting the public.
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by montyf 9y ago
That's good, you're not the same person from day to day after all. As we all should know by now the continuity of the Self is mostly an illusion. Most people, however, decide once during their lives that they are, for example, &qu
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by montyf 9y ago
> I'm actually up in arms now against people who insist that mediation/yoga/SSRIs/most therapists can make a damn bit of difference in the case of actual depression. I wasted 20 years of my life listening to them, whe
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by montyf 9y ago
> Before anyone suggests it, I'm experienced enough to know I wasn't 'doing it wrong'. Hello, Walter's ego! You were meditating incorrectly because everyone does in the west. It's not a mindfulness life hack
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by montyf 9y ago
> I've got a lot of thoughts on meditation now... Oh man, I love the delicious irony of this statement. I wonder if meditation actually helped with your ego problem or just made it stronger. Have you taken psychedelics or started a

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