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I've been using both of them for years and years. Amazing.
You can learn new information, and you can adjust your behavior or habits based on that.
The new things you learn wouldn't have been inside your DNA/genes.
There are people with unusual levels of willpower. I am one of them and I know others. It is what it is.
Completely insane. I can't understand who came up with and spread it around with a straight face.
"hey we better hire predetermined % of <insert any group that is non-white-christian-men> otherwise we are bigots"
Truly remarkable how insane it is.
I haven't seen a single case where the people that ought to be employed are white Christian men.
Why is that so? Does nobody ask this question? Can it be coincidence that nobody, ever, ever raised an issue that not enough white Christian men were employed?
A lot of illogical and improbable things, and IMHO it's just not a coincidence. But I don't have good understanding on why it happens, though.
Why should there be predetermined amount of women or "minorities" in these programs? Who says that's how it should be?
Is this true for all jobs in the world, or just in "these" programs? If so, who chose these particular programs to be "special"?
If not, where is the "fight" for all the other jobs like plumbing, oil drilling, special forces in combat, working on top of 35+ story buildings? Why is nobody counting in those fields?
Those are the things I like to think about whenever I hear something that makes no sense.
Are you actually counting how many of you are woman and conclude based on that, that you are better off than other companies?
It's not low, or high, or medium. It just is. As long as you are not rejecting perfectly capable women/females (just because they are so), you are not doing anything wrong and you are not worse off.
To me, this is just as bad as actively discriminating against certain groups of people.
Why must everyone be absolutely and uniformly represented? It just doesn't make sense, that's not how reality works. It will never be so, and all you end up doing is crunching the numbers to "make it work on paper".
Are women or black or whatever group we discuss equally represented across all jobs across the whole universe, everywhere?
It's a ridiculous concept, I don't understand who came up with it.
It may not be "politically correct" as we've got a culture obsessed with promiscuity and decadence (it seems), but it's definitely not harmful advice.
I can't think of a downside to reducing sexual partners to a minimum. On the other hand, there's a lot of research that promiscuity/increased number of sexual partners are causing a lot of problems. I'll share a few.
It awfully feels like we are rediscovering some things that many, if not all civilizations knew before us.
A book that touches upon this topic is "The Fate of Empires". There's a section about causality between decadence and societal collapse, and the author is of the opinion (based on his research) that civilizations go through very similar steps.
Once a society gets to be "wealthy" enough, sexual perversion and promiscuity is on the rise, fertility drops, shortly followed by general decadence and apathy. Inevitable, it leads to a collapse (or being occupied by a culture that still keeps doing what the (now) decadent society used to do).
In a way, it's an organism. That's how I like to think about it.
Some societies collapse over a span of period, so it's not instantaneous. Therefore, probably, it's difficult to tell that it is happening. The average was found to be around 250 years.
[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-3737....
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752789/
[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fate-Empires-Search-Survival/dp/B00...
Similarly for many other tricks.
I have never used it in real-life development, though.
Interestingly how nonchalantly you mentioned that.
It wasn't the case with me. Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos case opened my eyes that there exist significant amount of people that hold significant capital (millions) and are, hm, not the smartest bunch, as you politely put it.
It still somewhat amazes me. You'd think these people were careful, considerate, etc.
For example, Vienna air was so clean (<= 10 pm10 ug/m^3), that you don't need any purifiers or anything like that.
Is it a safe city?
Can you walk in random directions without fear?
How difficult is to get visa?
Do they speak English?
What kind of expenses are you looking at monthly?
As someone with fully remote job, I am wondering whether I should go couple of months there. I am on the verge about it.
Critical point. Only when people start to think about this topic, they'll realize that shaming was invented for a reason, and a great reason: it works. It kept order into civilizations for millennia.
That's even more depressing (if true) than this abomination of "social networks" that we are seeing right now.
But still, even if your point might be true, we should stop giving people easy ways to be degenerates. There should be repercussions or something, but good luck codifying it into a law :)
It's a difficult problem.
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>They’d damaged the land. They’d stolen the owner’s products. They’d ruined the fields that had been tended to with hard work for months. But even the farmer’s final attempt to put and end to it wasn’t enough – they wanted more.
Oh, can't wait the day when we are going to look back at "social media" platforms and go: "what the hell were these creatures thinking?"
I really think social media is one of the worst tools for the human psyche ever conceived. It's a net loss for sure.
It's addictive and also messes up with dopamine generation. Not to mention the vanity/envy aspect of it: people comparing to selective representation of other people. It's remarkably insane when you think about it.
Maybe it's best not to think about it :)
Same thing for women - they prefer physically strong, tall men. It's also due to evolution. It boils down to survival of the fittest - the fittest had the most resources, and a mother needs resources to reproduce (mother's can't hunt while breastfeeding, so that's out of the question). Yes, it's that simple.
Same thing for men - they prefer young, sexually attractive, fertile females.
Those are our instincts anyway. We can and we do influence them consciously.
Those two sentences seem fine with one another, until you think about what "natural human process" means. It's aging. It's getting old. It's getting out of reproductive phase.
It's completely normal to be devastated for males (and especially females) when they start losing hair. It has been linked with numerous health problems (so it's just not for vanity reasons).
It's very rare the case where bald looks better than full head of hair. Almost never, I would say.
Full head of hair = indicates youth and good health.
And another thing: he was right about many "controversial" things, and was ahead of his time.
I really think that him asking people to call the software GNU/Linux isn't that much to ask.
Seriously, once you understand the amount of work GNU has done.. and it's all open and free.
But when you need to do more than that, you'll realize jQuery is still useful (assuming you don't use a framework or whatever). Either you will use something like jQuery or you'll reinvent by writing the methods yourself.
IMO it's still relevant, despite the hype of other frameworks.
I don't agree with this. It's generally easy and straightforward to put mass fast: do hypertrophy, sleep 8+ hours a day, eat 2g protein per kg of body weight. That's all it takes. You'll see results very quickly, even with subpar training.
Learning new motor patterns (especially firing many muscles/full body at once), improving tendon strength, potentially increasing muscle density, improving physical awareness (say, handstand, or anything inverted, or anything with balance, or splits/pancake/perfect shoulder mobility), cardiovascular fitness - all extremely difficult to achieve (compared to just getting muscle mass).
I can tell you for a fact that weight training will not significantly improve aerobic fitness. However, it will improve it up somewhat.
Just an example, you will never run 5km under 20 minutes just by weight training. But you can run 5km on the first try (say.. ~30 minutes) if you are into weight training (so your cardiovascular fitness is okay-ish, it's just not great).
Almost the same exact thing happened to me, as someone in supreme physical shape.
Long story short: you get great results in the things that you directly train; some things overlap, but the overlaps are never significant.
Not sure if I understand you right, so I'll just ask.
Did you just spend your millions? And you still presumably have to work?
Not a fan of these notes, but that's highly subjective - maybe someone will find them useful.
I got the most of this book by reading it simultaneously with "Linux Kernel Development" (also by Robert Love). Yes, it is somewhat outdated, but still worth the read IMO.
Sometimes I wish I worked on the kernel or something low level near it :) but sadly, high-level languages are paying my bills.
Does it matter with whom?
How about people openly disrespecting you under the guise of friendship? (I've seen this happen thousands of times, never understood why people tolerate it)
How about backstabbers? How about people envious of you?
My point is - does it really have the same effect on you, regardless of the quality of relationship?
I don't agree with the rest of your points, but the quoted one is key.
No studies to back this up, but I would say that you are decidedly better off being alone than being with (for lack of better word) evil people.
These are degrees of evil that seem to be tolerated but that's another topic.
In the end, it's literally all in our minds. It's technically in our control (balance of chemicals). Maybe we should devise a way to control them sentiently.
Mental health - ok, that might be something that you can deduce based on examples (grumpy old solo grandpa that yells in the air - mental issues).
But can you really conclude just from common sense that human relationships have effect on your _physical health_?
Imagine, happiness on a click. Something like quick dopamine release without side effects.
Do you understand how much money that is? Compared to the rest of the world population, I mean.
Please don't tell me these people cannot food and rent.
It's amazing; it's like they are under some kind of spell and can't see right before their eyes, just when it comes to this.
Frugality and being content with what you have goes a long way. People should stop comparing themselves to other people.
That explosive emotional combination of greed and envy is behind so many bad financial decisions.