It's pointless because of the hedonic treadmill. Any feel good feeling is neurochemical in nature, and any moment of feeling good will be counterbalanced at one point or another.
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Everything that makes us feel good is neurochemical in nature, including exercise. Exercise can lead to a withdrawal period of feeling shitty and unproductive, and it can be quite addictive.
Really important not to confuse "feeling good" with being good for you. Have seen a lot of people overdo it and lose their lives to pointless exercise while accomplishing very little else. Also important to realize that most things in life that give you a boost in life also give you a debt to pay back at a later time/date.
Always wanted to move to San Fran but starting to feel pretty grateful about being here.
No. Humans have always been afraid of change and skeptical of technology. Books and the printing press were considered destructive inventions that would prevent people from thinking for themselves. There were also extremely negative perceptions of television and the internet.
Huh? He is advocating to blatantly waste the time of employers? And presumably lie to them to get the interview?
I honestly don’t know if this is the greatest troll, or worst article, that I’ve ever seen on HN.
But the idea of “prescribing” an activity that is meant to be intrinsically motivated seems misguided.
It reminds me of those kids growing up who’s parents forced them to do every extra-curricular activity. They ended up -hating- everything they were made to do. And from my anecdotal evidence, kind of miserable.
Creative activities require a real intrinsic desire to participate in them in order to be joyful. Forcing them spoils them, and can make the participant feel even more down on themselves (I’m practicing, why don’t I like it?).
I think the better alternative is for the dr to flesh out what things the person really wants to do already, and continuously encourage them to go for it.
Maybe what I’m missing is that by making it a prescription, medical insurance will cover it? I guess that would be pretty great, as long as the person has an intrinsic desire to do the thing.
The purported uses of gold have no relevance, they're just part of the illusion of gold having value. We value 3 swimming pools of an arbitrary substance at 7 trillion dollars. There is no utility that even justifies 1% of this valuation. It does not produce dividends.
Would you rather speculate on a "shared illusion of value" that has massive room to grow into the digital age, or one that is potentially reaching peak levels of absurdity?
Both assets are illusory bullshit - but you can make a lot of money trading bullshit.
But I did not mean this as an excuse for “non-progress”. Humans will “progress”, it’s their natural instinct and drive. It makes more sense to make our lives easier than to make it harder.
But the shining city doesn’t exist, and there’s nothing that will significantly increase our internal contentment but winning the internal battle of acceptance.
In life, we will always find “shining cities” to chase. The perfect house, the perfect job, the perfect romantic partner, the perfect software team.
But, like a mirage, when we reach these goals it seems that the thing we thought was perfect is actually riddled with flaws.
“The shining city” is purely a mental construct, one that gives us structure and purpose, staving off “existential nausea” - the anxiety that comes from living a directionless existence.
The way to everlasting peace is to be able to acknowledge: “we live in the shining city right now. Everything is operating according to the laws of physics, humans follow human nature and their genetics. Everything is exactly how it should be.”
But this isn’t “giving up”. It’s ok for us to have “shining city goals”. It’s human nature. It’s fun and allows us to experience a journey.
But at the end of the day when you see the mirage fade, smile about the journey and the experiences you had along the way.
The core function of a library, storing physical books, makes little sense anymore. Digital books are far superior in cost and functionality. But those emotionally attached will claim “they’re not the same”.
Our province in Canada has a population of 500,000 and has over 100 libraries. Each of those libraries needs to carry multiple copies of important literature. Many of these libraries go unused. It’s a big waste of money yet people can’t move on because of emotional attachment and emotional reasoning.
I do believe in the reinvisioning of libraries as a more digital space, a place to work, and a place for the public to learn.
But let’s stop the emotional reasoning and use pure logic. “Civil society” is more alive than ever, on the internet.
Everything they do, from their blockchain efforts to Watson, is so embarrassingly driven by oldschool sales/marketing people that they can't be taken seriously by technical decision makers at their customer companies.
Everything they do, from their blockchain efforts to Watson, is so embarrassingly driven by oldschool sales/marketing people that they can't be taken seriously by technical decision makers at their customer companies. They no longer have the ability to lead their customers in technical decisions.
"About a third of men said they had done something at work within the past year that would qualify as objectionable behavior or sexual harassment"
Objectionable behaviour: doing something your boss doesn't like, breaking process, even being an outspoken feminist could be considered objectionable behaviour. If you have not completed one "objectionable" action in a year you must be a robot.
"Made remarks that some might consider sexist or offensive?" - There are so many acceptable remarks that some might consider "offensive". Eg. "God is not real".
Seems like bad research to lump these sets together and then present it strictly as a survey on sexual harassment.
Air, it's time to end your anything-goes paradise. Your medium allows murderers, rapists and my crotchety old neighbor to create vibrations that will reach the ears of others.
Why are we allowing these criminals to vibrate molecules of air? We should be ashamed of ourselves.
I'm happy to announce Airfilter. A new device that uses machine learning-based active noise cancellation (and a blockchain reputation system) to selectively remove offensive vibrations from the entire atmosphere of the earth.
We're hiring!
It takes me at least an hour to cook and eat 3 meals a day. Soylent takes almost no time to cook and consume. If you value your time at all (say, a very minimal $20/hour) that's $600 a month saved right there.
We were also interested in the idea of musicians having an "emotional relationship" with their instruments. That's not something you typically see in digital gear. So we wanted the aesthetic and experience of holding it to be more intimate.
And lastly, as I said in the first comment: we really wanted a musicians cause-and-effect to be obvious to their audience.
We have an app platform called Symphony which runs on your computer. Munes also come with a license for Cycling74's fun visual programming environment which will let people create their own "apps" with little audio programming experience. These apps can easily be uploaded and shared.
In addition the onboard embedded software is open-source, so hackers can have a field day with it!