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by projektir 6y ago
I went to poke at Wikipedia just for giggles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility Love the [citation needed] and lack of clarity in that second paragraph.
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by projektir 7y ago
Sounds a lot like optimistic nihilism. Not my philosophy of choice but certainly not the worst one, either. :)
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by projektir 7y ago
Wonder why math is such a problem. Growing up in the Ukrainian school system I was doing very well in math for 3 years and was doing double exams in the span of one. Moved to the US, math was easier and it kinda fell off. Was back to Ukrain
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by projektir 7y ago
Yeah I agree but I've been using it for 5 months now and it's great and I can't say I care about the name that much anymore.
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by projektir 7y ago
Yeah, I'm never too impressed by these. Once I have control over my depressive states, I can start looking at things like exercise or diet. But if I'm highly depressed, those things end up on the back burner and I'm much more
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by projektir 7y ago
Hmm, yeah. If I'm sufficiently depressed, things like diet become very negligible. Sense of belonging is much, much more important. I don't recall if anyone ever did a study for that in particular.
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by projektir 7y ago
From what I've seen this attitude often actually creates and reinforces this harsh reality, though. Most of our reality is composed of humans doing things, and if you dig deep enough into why humans are doing various bad things, you&#x
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by projektir 7y ago
It IS a meritocracy problem. If you are unable to measure who has the most merit, if you're not concerned with this problem, how can you possibly be having a meritocracy? Connections and the ability to play politics seem to be much mor
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by projektir 7y ago
Want to chip in here, love Endless Space 2! It takes a bit to get used to but it's so fun to just play even if I'm not winning.
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by projektir 7y ago
Only if your definition of "best developer" is extremely narrow, maybe, since a typical "best developer" would want someone around they could learn from, no? And why would this issue be more common among "best"
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by projektir 7y ago
Being on the other side of the process has only convinced me more of how broken it is. There are lots of baseline errors, biases, and insufficient attention given to the process that are quite obvious but a lot of people either fail to see
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by projektir 7y ago
What if most people are not good at what society currently appears to value? I don't think most people are against doing what they are good at (or even, what they like), it's just that discoverability is poor and in a lot of cases
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by projektir 7y ago
Yeah, if I only ever did things that I rejoice in doing I'd be getting nothing done. Not everyone is a super naturally passionate type.
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by projektir 7y ago
This, to me, sounds personal. There are wonderful games being made and I even found new titles to call my favorites as the years go by. I do not at all believe games are getting worse. That being said, there are a lot more games now and the
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by projektir 7y ago
Generally I'm quite sensitive to that stuff but not really seeing that with this article (besides the phrase 'pool of women' maybe). Can you give some examples?
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by projektir 7y ago
I find things like Leetcode very hard and my memory on it does not keep at all. I have to relearn all the relevant things every single time I start studying for interviews. Don't assume something is easy or straightforward for everyone
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by projektir 7y ago
> The universe is full of puzzles that mean something to solve. Why not work on those instead? Why would those be less interesting than a contrived set of rules? Can you give some examples? Most things I'm aware of that could be cla
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by projektir 7y ago
I have somehow never heard of this and now I feel as if I've missed out.
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by projektir 7y ago
Well, this reaction explains why people don't like to say it.
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by projektir 7y ago
According to what? There are plenty of fairly trivial counterexamples to this. If what you say here is correct, what is mental illness? What is a solid marriage vs a terrible one? What is a good job vs a bad job? For instance, lots of peopl
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by projektir 7y ago
> In a Polish restaurant, i had a starter of lard on bread This sounds like something they could do in Ukraine. Was the large a solid piece, or a spread? Eating solid pieces of pork fat is very normal in Ukraine.
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by projektir 7y ago
Isn't this exactly the problem we currently have? Everyone is so focused on training their BS skills that nobody is real anymore?
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by projektir 7y ago
I'd say that passage says a lot more things than that, and I'm responding to them. It's part of the fairly resilient narrative of "it was better before" that I think is extremely not true. In my view, it is also non
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by projektir 7y ago
> Longer breastfeeding suppresses ovulation and menstruation, so fertility is relatively rare. > Childbirth works better squatting. I would like to see citations indicating that these statements are true to a significant degree that m
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by projektir 7y ago
As I've already said others don't have to approve or tolerate whatever it is you do or are by nature of being authentic. That is not related, why would it be? Being authentic is an end to itself, but it makes no guarantees, and th
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by projektir 7y ago
I am pretty sure menstruation and child birth are not farming age inventions.
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by projektir 7y ago
What are those implications from your perspective?
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by projektir 7y ago
This largely relies on the idea that pre-civilized life was preferable. And, for some groups, it was. All the women enjoying close to 0 sexual freedom and dying in child birth might disagree, though.
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by projektir 7y ago
The danger factor with "be yourself" seems to be similar to the danger factor of "what do you want". These are meant to be interpreted deeply, not shallowly. Most people are neither themselves nor know what they want, in
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by projektir 7y ago
I think this kind of thing really comes down to the situation. You have not provided much detail here. There are cases where something like this can work very well (low scope project, low amount of proprietary information) and cases where i

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