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I didn't mean to imply Rogan is some underdog, but that Rogan and the NYT represent different approaches to the ambiguity of modernity. The NYT aims for worldview solidarity while Rogan accepts and embraces the ambiguity.

I also suspect his topics just appeal to young men (fitness, comedians, Elon Musk) and that accounts for a portion of his base.

Modernity is marked by the requirement to choose a worldview as technology increases our interactions with others who's alternative perspectives of reality challenge and conflict with our own. This is the basic conclusion Sociologists of religion came to in the 90's when they saw the rest of the world wasn't modernizing like Europe did by secularizing.

The challenge of competing worldviews is really one of the central sociological challenges today. The natural tendency seems to be to try to push the contaminating thoughts to the margins of society - and all groups (left, right, religious, secular, etc) engage in this basic tendency. Its disturbing to live with people who's basic view of reality challenges your own.

The NYT represents mainstream left's attempt maintain worldview solidarity (and again, each group engages in this activity) so it seems natural they take issue with Joe Rogan as he represents the other choice in responding to the smorgasbord of modernity: engage with all the alternatives openly. Rogan states several times the format of his podcast is designed for this - 4 hour conversations. Not scripted, not planned, just conversation. Such conversations are apparently deeply interesting to people who'd rather not spend their time in parochial attempts to shore up their own worldview across society.

I do find it hard to tell (sometimes) whether Rogan's guests are on the level, but maybe that reflects the inherent ambiguity of life. I mean relativity in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics has been mainstream for decades, if not generations. I expect the attempt to turn back the clock on modernity from conservative religious groups, but its always seems strangely inconsistent when coming from the NYT.

I enjoy several languages but Ruby definitely ruined python for me. I used to think python seemed elegant, but everytime I've had to work with it lately I just wish it was Ruby.

I always love a fresh perspective, but I would temper the enthusiasm around a redacted edition of a biblical text from 1919. German higher criticism (and thus all biblical scholarship at the time due to its influence prior to WW1 & WW2) was obsessed with "rescuing" the works of antiquity, especially the Bible, from their scribal traditions. This turned out to be basically a dead end, and not least with the discovery of the dead scrolls in 1947.

That said, Ecclesiastes feels less strange the more time you spend with Hebrew poetry (Job, Psalm, chunks of the Prophets) but does give a lot more attention to the theme of vanity in life.

Fission is a chain reaction, Fusion is not. A fusion reaction is so unstable that if the reactor failed the conditions for sustaining fusion would immediately stop.

It's basically the hottest plasma we can make suspended in a magnetic donut surrounding by near absolute zero temperatures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak

It's in his book "How to think seriously about the planet: a case for environmental conservatism"

Dont have the page, but the book is good enough that it's worth reading

It's in his book "How to think seriously about the planet: a case for environmental conservatism"

The book itself is worth the read on its own. He has a very specific meaning of conservatism that doesn't map well to political landscapes. The book doesn't dispute climate change, and seems to basically accept it, but creates a framework for dealing with it from a grassroots bottom up perspective rather than an international top down perspective.

I think the problem "de-risking" childhood is only an instance of the bigger problem of what Roger Scruton calls "Risk De-aggregation". Risk Deaggregation is taking a single point of risk (and its associated metric), and optimizing to reduce that risk as if it exists in isolation from other risks. I.e. Risk occurs in aggregate, not as individual threats. Risk deaggregation happens everywhere from Climate Change policy, to Covid, to children.

I think this type of risk deaggregation arises from the fact that in a sufficiently complicated space (climate, economy, children, etc) there are really only two heuristics:

1) Ignore all but a manageable number of variables and optimize for them

2) Recognize a larger number of necessary variable, acknowledge there is no optimal solution, and balance the trade offs between those variables. [0]

Heuristic 1 is the easiest, requires no nuance, and seems the type of thing our political and media class love to latch onto. Heuristic 2 actually requires admitting you don't get everything you want, or at least the things you want will cost you something you dont.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

Don't get too excited. Labor laws were passed forcing workers to take their pre-plague and limiting their mobility.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351

Oddly enough, you'd have better results if you asked the person to help you out instead. I'm missing the research but hand-wavy explanation is that you justify having done something for someone by becoming more attached to them. I also think asking for help is a sign of vulnerability and signals trust

My favourite is idiot and idiomatic, both coming from the word ἴδιος - literally meaning one's own. While idiot usually implies someone lacking intelligence, an ῐ̓δῐώτης (idiotes) is a person who lacks perspective, namely, one that is not their own.

In other words, an idiot is someone so caught up in their own perspective they are incapable of engaging in fruitful public conversation. Don't know what Plato would think of Twitter then . . .

The distinction between "hallow" and "sacred" is a distinction that arises only due to the traditional of English translations. Sacere is the Latin. Lord's prayer is written in Koine Greek and uses ἁγιάζω (hagiadzo), the verbal form of ἅγιος (hagios). Hagios is the by far the most common word for "holy".

While modern translations are extremely good, publishers are apparently hesitant to modify verses prone to memorization or used in liturgies (such as the Lord's prayer),

Do you have sources to support your idea is more than just conjecture? I just finished an engineering risk management course and transporting oil by rail was unambiguously riskier.

Every discipline (academic, artistic, practical, even athletic) deal with certain types of problems and have develop their own heuristics for dealing with those problems. And because most discipline involve not a single skill but a set of skills, some disciplines will have skill overlap.

If you play music, run your own business, study (or practice) engineering, or become involved in an academic discipline you develop a set of skills you can carry to other domains. Don't really see how the dispute here

Yes, ancient greek. And I think the connections are mostly indirect. In interpreting literature in another language (Latin, Greek, etc) you spend time analyzing syntax and grammar looking for the idea or intention. Programming is very different, but code does still express and idea or intention.

Also, really helps with reading and written communication.

The issue is (only slightly) more nuanced: while the executives collected bonuses, they did go for a few months without pay and their overall bonus' for 2020 were lower than in previous years.

It does reveals the reality of our managerial class--in a sort of distributed, quasi-feudalism they are entitled (legally and practically) to extract massive amounts of wealth from large corporate entities regardless of any negative impact on the company.

- Running the business into the ground (Target Canada)

- Running the business into the ground while underfunding the company pension (Sears)

- Lobbying for billions of dollars of tax dollars while cutting thousands of jobs (Bombardier, Air Canada)

The best parts of education is not primarily the material you remember. It's the effect on your thinking patterns as a result of studying and the familiarity with a school of thought.

For example, I studied Greek before software engineering. I've forgotten quite a bit, but theres an entirely different set of thought processes I have access to while doing software engineering because of it.

"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Art of War 3:2

Commute time is one of the biggest factors on your quality of life. Increasing your commute time has been to shown to:

- decrease your number of friends

- increase your likelihood of divorce

- increase your over all mortality

And then with kids the reality is you have this 3-4 hour window when you can see them each day. Not to mention the struggles for shared and single parenting.

The curtain has been pulled back and it's going to be a lot harder to justify the kind of rigidity that existed before the pandemic.

I think it's at least possible these drones may actually reduce collateral damage. Some combatants work amongst civilian populations, using the potential for collateral damage in their favour. Smaller, highly targeted drones could reduce the effectiveness of using civilians as shields.

Obviously some scary as hell scenarios as well, but just pointing out there might be some benefits.

As a junior, the best I've seen is surfacing the complexity appropriately:

1) Readable Interfaces usable by juniors when parts of the code will be used by lots of devs and will almost certainly change

2) Higher complexity behind the interface for parts of the code that change less often and require more skilled engineers

I don't see why this is downvoted. It's a sincere and humourous mistake

1) Main is a standing desk with a wobble board. The wobble board allows for constant micro-adjustments and also a few good 'steady' position for focusing

2) Ikea Nilserik wobble stool. This lets me "perch" in a semi standing position and, again, make lots of movement throughout the day. I also reposition myself on this regularly.

3) Kneeling chair

4) normal office chair for little breaks (30 minutes in the morning and 30 in the afternoon)

I would never go back to just sitting in a chair all day. I've never seen anyone who can maintain good posture for 8 hours a day. And even if you do, your still weakening your glutes and abs while tightening your hips and calves.

Why isn't Canada or Russia, the two largest countries by land mass, included?

"Mastering your emotions" if you mean, controlling your emotions, is not balanced or healthy. Mastering your emotions means listening to them as a critical feedback to your environment and then rationally controlling your response.

Rational thought is complimentary to emotional thought. Rational thought is slow, reflexive, and highly focused. Emotional thought is affective; it is your mind telling you how something is affecting you.

E.g. Anger tells you some boundary has been violated. It's the rational part that allows you to analyze that feeling and respond appropriately (telling someone to back off or getting a snack because your blood sugars are low)

They also prevent children from deleting messages.

Messenger kids has been great for my family, especially the times when we've had to self isolate and couldn't meet friends outside.

I think its intentionally mixing messages. It combines sincere insight into the benefits of mindfulness. However, the world the narrator speaks in is clearly a fantasy world detached from reality. The video both makes a profound case for mindfulness while satirizing its own arguments.

Having seen this for the first time, it seems the video is some kind of absurdist double entendre: it combines insightful comments about mindfulness while seemingly satirizing the entire enterprise of it at the same time.

Some supportive points for mindfulness:

- Treating everyday things like works leads you not enjoying them and doing them poorly. Yet the bulk amount of time in your life is spent doing these very activities.'

- Finding enjoyment in perfecting simple things actually makes a lot sense, as its presented.

- If you stub your toe, drop a dish, etc, and don't practise doing the movement properly you are likely to make the mistake again.

Support in Absurdist:

- He puts the radio, with its neatly wrapped cord, under a sink.

- "Gentle old cop making a soft arrest"

- the contrast between 'gentle' and 'soft' with arrest is clearly absurd.

- 10 month year with 26 days

- Taking your time in a gun fight.

Support for Satirizing (comical critique):

- The objects are clearly magical.

- The utensils instantly drop exactly where they need to without sorting.

- The toothpaste cup basically cleans itself.

- The chair actually does move in front of him.

- The contrast between the do-easy mindfulness and the ignorant way of living are infomercial-level exaggerated.

The ending summarizes the absurd double-entendre: a gun-fight is a simple movement done very well in a zen sort of way (the trick to moving fast is to practice slowly), but at the same time its clearly absurd. Its also a gun-fight. You don't have time.

Really great video. I'll be watching it again

>>> In social media era, everyday our adversaries are running very effective military-inspired psyops campaigns to sow division and polarization within the body politic.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a 2 way street and our governments are actively doing the same to our adversaries?

Take some classes towards some kind of counseling certificate, specifically ones where you can observe experienced counselors. You'll see people with expert listening skills use them to help people.

That's what I did and it changed my perspective permanently. Before becoming an engineer I studied theology, which is actually a pretty technical discipline that requires insane amounts of reading (i.e. not people oriented). Afterwards, I took a counseling degree. Digging into people's lives, their struggles, and watching my professors help people really opened my eyes. It helped me see where I was being rigid and taught me some amazing listening skills.