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Are they truly happier, in the sense of being more content? Or are they just deriving more temporary pleasure from the hedonic treadmill they're on?
You can probably tell which one it is, by how long their happiness with their house / car / TV / fill-in-the-blank lasts, before they start thinking about trading up to an even nicer fill-in-the-blank.
Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard wrote a great book on happiness, here's an excerpt I enjoy which talks about the difference between pleasure and happiness, in two parts. [1] [2]
1. https://www.matthieuricard.org/en/pleasure-and-happiness-the...
2. https://www.matthieuricard.org/en/pleasure-and-happiness-the...
"Lawnmower" refers to this. [1] And I'm guessing "acronym" refers to the joke that "Oracle" is an acronym for "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison".
Apparently there's a name for this: the Lucretian symmetry argument. And I recently learned there are philosophers who argue the asymmetry in our attitudes is actually rational, and that fearing death while not fearing pre-natal nonexistence makes sense [1].
I find comfort in treating the two as being equal, and I'd be lying if I said I'm not a little hesitant to read their case.
[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-015-9868-2_...
Quite possibly (and quite unfortunately) to the Ellisons.
“Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee” [1]
1. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/password-louvres-vi...
> A Jew, for obvious reasons, isn't going to be an antisemite let alone a particularly virulent one.
There have been multiple instances of Jewish Nazis:
- The father of Field Marshal Erhard Milch (2nd-highest rank in the Luftwaffe) was Jewish. Hermann Göring arranged falsified documents declaring his mother’s husband (non-Jewish) to be his "real" father. [1]
- Helmut Wilberg was a half-Jewish Luftwaffe general who was declared an "Honorary Aryan" by Hitler himself. [2]
- Back in the 1960s, a guy named Dan Burros was the 3rd-highest-ranking member of the American Nazi Party, yet went to Hebrew school and had his bar mitzvah. When the New York Times published an article about him and his background, he shot himself that same day. [3]
- Frank Collin (born Francis Cohen) was the founder of the National Socialist Party of America and led the planning of the 1977 Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois (which had a largely Jewish community). [4]. His grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust and his dad was a survivor of Dachau.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Milch
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_Wilberg
At this point, asking whether Miller is a card-carrying Nazi, or just pals around with them and espouses their beliefs, is a distinction without a difference. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
1. https://www.businessinsider.com/richard-spencer-says-he-knew...
2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/12/trump-adviser-...
3. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/bigoted-belief...
You’re right that it should be. And in a sane world it would be. Yet here we are anyway.
I ask because, when I do a Google search, the two most common meanings for that term are “Global Capacity Center” and “Gulf Cooperation Council”.
After being downsized twice in two years from senior engineering roles, I realized how painful it is to reconstruct what you actually accomplished at a job once you’ve lost access to your repos.
Each time, I had to dig through memory and scraps of old PRs to remember what I’d built. The first time, I lost GitHub access immediately after the layoff notice. This time, at least we got 90 days of paid transition work. But even with just 5 months in the role, I’d already made hundreds of commits. For engineers who’ve been around for years, that’s an impossible amount of history to summarize manually.
So I’m building CommitKit, a command-line tool that scans your repo for your commits, groups them by feature or theme using embeddings, and generates professional CV bullet points or behavioral interview summaries. It runs locally using Ollama, so your commit messages and diffs never leave your machine. The goal is to help people quickly turn real engineering work into clear narratives of impact, especially when time or access is limited.
It’s still early: the clustering isn’t grouping commits quite as I’d hoped, possibly due to sparse commit messages or embedding quirks. But it’s been a great learning project: my first CLI tool, my first deployment on Render, and my first serious use of Ollama for local LLM inference.
Again, genuinely curious as an outsider.
If Republican voters were capable of being disgusted enough, it would have happened by now.
> it's shit advice
Those two statements seem to contradict each other.