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idclip··on The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior
They can tell us about their fruit baskets and flat hierarchies.

HR is often a great example of how fucked it all is. (Good humane HR is rare)

idclip··on The Strength of Being Misunderstood
I feel we should talk. Any book advice?
idclip··on The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’
Quit - different job.

Its a management/company culture thing.

Burn out, find something healthy. The fact that most wont since they need the money tells us how nasty this is.

idclip··on Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
Theres a bit of lag In non english speaking spheres =}
idclip··on Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
Not an SJW here, actually a political minority here ... i see a moderate amount of moderation and banning pf groups where i hang. Sure its not china but we are not using that asa standard ..

and mate thats a ton of shaming in your tone .. please consider showing some compassion. I fail to see how his comment provoked yours ..

idclip··on The Pasta King Trusted Us
Lets be more like him
idclip··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
just „The Origins and History of Consciousness“ by Erich Neumann and lots of meditation. i say go fo it =]

also man LOL .. i got it =D yeah it was too much. but it got to a few people. =]

made me smile. thank you!

idclip··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Yeah, soul is matter - and more accurately its field generated by the oscillation of matter. The oscillation itself is basic, its basically „spin“ in physics. Soul doesnt always mean awareness of experience - animals arent as dramatic about death as we are for example (in meditation, awakenning is synchronizing the awareness of experience again back with the body, or maybe its better to call it psycoanalytical process of individuation which integrated persona with self, as Carl Jung and Co put it)

It starts with the tiniest particle, and regenerates the whole tree. Memory and oscilation are even basic to rocks for example. They accumulate matter aswell, just no seeminhg „awareness of experience“ yet.)

With some caution, I really recommend the book „ The Origins and History of Consciousness“ by Erich Neumann. Also meditation is great to move individuation forward.

its truly mind boggling to understand all this, and its a shame this stuff isnt mainstream knowledge. Though i do admit it can get u labeled and make you feel as an outsider as most of us arent aware, and might actively reject the discussion. Like the othet poster said, „scope creep“ - then again, i truly think immortality of experience is impossible. Matter will always re-transform into energy, and viceversa. This is what we essentially are. And the fear of death is why we are violent about it all.

idclip··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
The pattern seems to repeat itself with variation, and information travels between bangs via gravity waves - i forgot who said that but it seems to be an idea at the top of the physics professors. Really too bad i cant pull up that citation.

You wanna know something funny? Immortality is actually an issue of how you look at things. Once you start seeing yourself as the “we” organism, as humanity itself and beyond it .. the sheer absurdity of it all overwhelms you, and a feeling of “i am infinite” fills you. Its sort of the feeling we get when we die, since the ego reveals its nature and yields to the self.

(I had sort of a near death experience, it was quiet eye opening)

So immortality - the one we can actually achieve is a shift in thinking. Non trivial yet trivial since its „the truth of what is“ as the tao would put it

idclip··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
i get you, i am “human” too. The experiencer is one of the persistent thoughts we are having these days, and since we are one, i have an understanding and a certain sympathy towards your struggle.

im just arguing against the immortality of the experiencer.

I say give us longer lives, that may be possible.

An immortal experiencer for /everyone/ opens up the very troublesome issue of the quality of that experience. Actually the first consciousness who was close to what your describing, got really angry because creation allowed for more than one of it - the myth of the fall of the morning star - during that part of genesis consciousness was near immortal and it was happy. It does imply the nullification/sacrifice of all others to maintain that one experience - but thats an argument for murderous madness, essentially

idclip··on The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Read paychoanalysis - immortality is actually inherent to the system as the phenomenon of the self and the primordial ouroboric plemora.

However the “experiencer” as it arises in humans as the adjucant to consciousness isnt, and the problem is in the experiencer identifying itself with the past.

Immortality of experience is impossible, since by definition of the experiencer as memory, living forever requires an infinite amount of matter to preserve the memory (as the body grows older, it loses DNA structure, its cells decay in time, losing information at the molecular level. Keeping that process alive “forever” will need constant “regeneration” - and forever means infinite energy to do so, and we assume here that the universe has finite amount of matter and energy)

Immortality of the plemora also assumes a cyclical nature to the universe as it decays and rises again (big bang, big crunch, but in psychoanalysis the ouroborus is depicted in myth as simply a cyclical organism/structure which is developed into various mythologies and religions)

The larger “self” is infact immortal. Let that sink in.

idclip··on PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
It moves the blame to the victim.
idclip··on Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers
It means corruption is a basic human behavior. Its a self generating phenomena, and is „natural“.

So there is no „illuminati“ to go after to solve this. Studies try and see how problems can be solved - if there was a single organizing entity like a mafia boss, it would be simpler to tackle the issue but there isn't, so its Marder than first expected.

As to tax evasion, id posit the question „so why are these people evading? Is it the law itself? Can they be otherwise somehow incentivized to invest in their Communities rather than evade? And how big is the contribution here? Is it worth pursuing?“

idclip··on Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers
Hah.
idclip··on Easily replicate/clone your Linux install
Can you write up a tutorial please?
idclip··on Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
+1

5 times vipassana, ive experienced ALOT of abuse as a child. It did make me raw... my inner child is very hurt ... that is truth.

Sadness is warranted and worthy, that is truth ... sadness is transient, that is truth.

If the world will deny my inner child and dismiss my abuse and rape as depression, i must stay with myself until he finds comfort in my arms.

idclip··on The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all
Doing a mahayasi vipassana helps create a sense for the „thinker“ and other faculties of the mind

Though your argument would honestly just move one dimension up since it takes a certain motivation and condition to go and seek that kind of discipline training.

The ultimate end of the Buddhist meditations is to let go so you’re right but in the beginning there’s a sort of healthy shedding of dealing with delusions and ideas that create Desirees and ice that do not service which is a bit behind incentive incentive itself becomes being free of those desires, A sort of seeking liberation.

idclip··on Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
* hodling intensifies *

They cant honestly beat the motivated masses that hold collectively billions in crypto currency.

idclip··on The Coming Eviction Crisis: ‘It’s Hard to Pay the Bills on Nothing’
Ironic. Were experiencing collective chocking by corporate, both in life, and online.

No where to run. No where to hide.

idclip··on People work longer and different hours under lockdown
I had a similar experience! Did yoga in between, it was even very healing.
idclip··on Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]
Look at how he started, and he wasnt super human. I think youre elivating him to a place he isnt in. I honestly think you him less credit by doing so. He was one of us, which makes his feats even more impressive.

Feynmann ENJOYED working on puzzles. He started with radios, and fiddled with electricity... and learned hid math as a kid from bools written for „working men“ (which i read and workd through) .. their language is not what you see in textbooks.

He also invented his own notation (talking pre-uni, not physics notation hes also known for) and says he finally switched because he realized he wanted people to understand him, and partially due to conventions.

He played, he didnt get taught, he explored. He learned math to pursue his passion, not vice versa

idclip··on Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]
Stanis.jpg :D
idclip··on Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]
But im talking children ... im not against the abstract, i actually infatuated with category theory.

The method, the context id wrong.

Its physics and haskell that made me fall inlove. People like me need context, beyond the aesthetic - math TEACHING is lacking, its not a criticism of math itself.

And also thank you for the balanced reply, i was a bit emotional as i wrote that reply. Ill reread and rethink the parent. Maybe i missed something

idclip··on Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]
I disagree. Mathematics is a tool to practice our hobbies .. see Feynman‘s biography.

Rot mathematics is where it goes wrong. Meta mathematics, abstract, detached from real life, as alot of the academy with its publish pr perish thinking ... that produces pain. Existential voids filled with an exercise that does not help many to move forward optimally.

saying weirdos hate logic is extremely dismissive to a lot of what I would call the human experience.

The same stuff can be taught with soul and purpose If we actually show children how they can apply mathematics to improve and enhance what they’re actually doing whether it is building castles in Lego, Or designing faster toy car, A better school project volcano, etc

idclip··on Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
I much prefer it if we focus on NVidia since its the subject matter, rather than go into a pitless discussion
idclip··on Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python
I must say i havnt done any dependency injection in python. Did so in scala and JS though.

So i assume he means initilize it once in program entry and Pass in the pointer to the object that needs it via including it the constructor or a function call.

Do you think There’s a pythonic way of doing these things?

idclip··on Trump says he will ban TikTok in the US
Why tho

From article: „US security officials have expressed concern that the app, owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, could be used to collect the personal data of Americans.„

/s Fun days ahead. s/

idclip··on What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days
The academy is different. We tend to grow into s job, but a field of study does require more digging into motive beyond „i need money“, where „i need money“ is the main reason most of us look for jobs.

After my toxic 3 years at a job to whom i did send a cover letter they liked (i liked the company before finding out one guy in the department im in had seniority and was doing dodgy stuff to maintain power)

... i quit and eventually I got my job via connecting with people, and i think thats the best way one could get hired.

idclip··on OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub
Its fun for me to say this, but it just goes to show the kind of people behind the project today, i mean, did you see the explosion in versioning ? OJDK/ORACLE duo slowly feeding the hype machine by carefully making moves that all the players look good. You say github, i see a very careful type of microsoft pitch.

That all said ... well good on them, its about time.

idclip··on Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)
Like you, my judgement was very subjective .. the dancing i had in mind was “for fun”, rather than a performance.

How do you feel about the difference between dancing to have fun and dancing to preform or teach? How big is that difference would you say?

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