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I didn't care about getting into a deep squat until about 4 years ago, when I started lifting. I would say it's taken me 2 or 3 years to be able to do it comfortably.

It's a very natural and stable position to be in. Yesterday, I saw my almost one year old, who cannot walk, just falling into the squat position.
The jump from risk-averse to passive and disinterested is absurd. You are tying up unrelated personality traits. Just because you fancy yourself risk-taker does not mean that risk averse people are everything bad. Why people do that?

> And the impermanence of workplace relationships is part of what makes them meaningful and worthwhile.

No impermanence does not makes them relationship worthwhile. I had a lot of impermanent relationships, they are fun because everything is fresh, but not really worth much effort.
In fairness, you don’t need to be able to do it for every person if you can target a few hundred thousand across a few critical states. Even with a relatively low success rate in changing minds or encouraging/discouraging turnout you can yield results - 2016 was only decided by ~70k folks in 3 states.
Tilley do a 3XL 8+ size

https://www.tilley.com/uk_en/size-guide
does amazon, heroku, or google not allow this?
Explicit slavery as punishment for a crime and/or for a fixed term is not uncommon; clearly the slaves in US prisons aren't fee simple property of the state, but fee simple isn't the only kind of property relationship.

None of the elements you mention distinguish US penal slavery from historical institutions hmthst were unambiguously recognized as slavery.
I'm continuously listening to audiobooks while commuting since last couple of years or so. To increase retention, I've done a few things which have helped (I don't have enough time to go through the physical book or ebook though I tried it a few times, so can't comment on comparison there):

1. Driving slowly, so as to still have safety as the most important priority, and so that you miss lesser moments when you have to take your mind away from listening and to the things happening on the road (talking about Bangalore's i.e. India's traffic here). The slight gain in commute time (I think it should be around 10% and definitely not more than 20%) is completely worth it. This actually made my driving safer in general too.

2. I have a 'repeat last 30 seconds' functionality at my fingertips. You'll invariably miss a portion after which (sometimes) the story will stop making sense. The attitude which worked for me here is, it's okay to spend a lot more time to re-listen a part multiple times, than to let laziness take over by thinking it's anyway an unimportant portion and okay to miss.

3. Take out 5-10 minutes after a commute is done, to write notes about what I thought are important learnings and should not be forgotten with time. I believe if the goal is to not let the commute time go waste, then this notes-writing time is also a part of it, without which your learning is incomplete. This is way better than only remembering something like <2-5% of the book after a year. I use Microsoft OneNote (this trumped over using Vim because I can edit/read my notes while on the go without a laptop). One area of improvement is, I need some way to _remind_ myself to read those notes :)

4. Forcing myself to re-listen books which I found too useful to let my mind forget in any way, instead of jumping over to that next interesting book. I read mostly non-fiction books of a specific category (scientific-study-oriented books about humans, their interactions, behaviour and their flaws). Forcing re-learning is partly due to the fact that after a time I thought I'm reading less important books (i.e. I'm running out of extremely good books in this area), and partly due to forgetting to transfer that new book to my phone to listen.

5. I've lately realized that cramming all your free time to reading/learning is not helpful too. You should have a reasonable time to 'ruminate' in the day, each day, i.e. time when you're doing nothing (social network, news, sports, or any screen-time in general, doesn't count)

Feel free to ask questions. Also, feel free to provide suggestions and book recommendations. I'm all ears :)
Agreed! Empire Deluxe is my favorite! Sadly, I've never been satisfied with the Killer Bees "modernization" ports - the UI/UX is odd and deficient.

I just want a good Empire Deluxe for tablet. Polytopia is the closest I've found, but it's not really the same.
Is GDPR retroactive? I doubt so.
Interactions are usually smaller than main effects, the idea that they are half the size is just a convenient size to get a point across. If you allowed the interaction size to vary between 1% to 99% of the main effect then you'd get such a huge range of resulting required sample sizes that it wouldn't be useful to illustrate his point- that interactions require a larger sample size to estimate than just tacking on another main effect. If you wanted to detect a main effect that is half the size of the others you only need (roughly) 4x the sample size, not 16x. Part of this is due to the way Gelman defines "interactions half the size of the main effects" but the idea that interactions are harder to estimate than main effects is true.

The assumption that interactions are smaller than main effects is generally true in real life. There's an idea in statistical modeling called the hierarchy of effects. Main effects are the largest while second-level effects are smaller and don't appear without the presence of the corresponding main effects. It's possible to construct datasets in which the hierarchy of effects isn't true (synergy only, without any benefit from a single variable), but it's uncommon in real life that you could have an interaction without both corresponding main effects being present.
Yeah, be careful not to conflate snaps in general (the things built by Snapcraft) with Snapcraft the tool. Admittedly both the article and some messaging from Canonical tend to make that mistake, too.
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Makes me think about the Fermi paradox [1] and Great Filters [2]. But for all we know the universe could be full of life at chimpanzee intelligence; no way to know unless we send probes [3] or seriously up our telescopes [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL_(spacecraft)
The fact that you think you need to create a throwaway account speaks to how much the climate has changed for us. There is a real fear considering how totalitarian and intrusive the government has become, that they will target anyone who disagrees even on a benign forum like this.

I'm sure one of the many pro-china robots will cite something liek "THE NSA IS JUST AS BAD" but the reality is China is 1000000 times worse.

Just mention how Taiwan is in reality an independent country and they go full retard.
Yes, some level of detachment can help when advising strangers and caring too much may make people act in counterproductive ways. That holds true in other contexts too. But, that is not the only thing in play.

Some people find it easy to stay calm and patient, some much harder. And some are able to recognize that "I am pissed now, better not respond immediately". Yet others are able to be polite and nice even while pissed - e.g. have above average good emotional control.
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That person lacks some pretty basic development skills. You can roll your eyes or you can teach coding 101.

I actually like teaching coding 101. Not everyone has to, but I do. And I find people generally appreciate someone going back to the basics and explaining the tactics and theory behind a problem, rather than just giving the answer or the steps to find it.

I just think coding is neat, and I love talking about even the most basic ideas. I always find new little improvements on my understanding of fundamentals.

I have had the “even the most experienced programmers spend most of their time having no idea what’s going on. The job isn’t to always know what to do, it’s to always find a way to keep moving even though nothing makes sense” conversation dozens of times. Maybe I’m weird.
It's probably just an issue with athleticism. Balance and flexibility also increase greatly with strength training. I have been strength training 3x/week for 8 years now.

Before that I don't think I could have done this, heck I don't think I could have squatted 95lbs. These days I can hold a squat like that nearly permanently, plus lots of other things you wouldn't expect from strength training like it's much easier for me to fall and than prevent myself from hitting the ground by re-balancing myself if I skip on ice or something like that.

Build might mess up the physics a bit, but I'd guess 99.99% of humans in good physical condition can do this.
The difference is that we have a decent amount of information on the number of catastrophic accidents that occur and the number of people who survive them. Since that number is known to be low, there’s nothing unsurprising about your own survival of such an accident.

But we don’t know the number of times life has emerged in the universe, except that it is at least 1. Every intelligent life form we are aware of are one “survivor,” but we knew very little about the number of total survivors in the universe. Thus it is a little odd for us to claim that our “survival” is surprising.
http://jrnl.sh/ is nice

The low amount effort to add an entry allows me to jot down thoughts, conversations etc easily which makes me actually do it.

Having it save as a plain .txt file is nice for versioning/backup as well.
Are they actually pretending that they give any credence to the personal information that a Facebook app could access? Back years before Facebooks IPO a professor I worked with had an idea to study social networks using Facebook as a dataset. They would make an App that would collect personal data and create conclusions. She looked into what Facebook collected and promptly stopped the data collection system. From my understanding any App that integrates with the Facebook platform has a large amount of data that can be mined. I think they started restricting this but still if you let an app attach to your profile all sorts of wondrous things can be found out
Maybe you could look into moving to Europe. You can even live in a village if you want in Germany, since many of the world market leaders in very specific things have headquarters there.
Not a particularly good article. For example:

> The Soviets had 9380 fighter aircraft and 3380 bombers.

This is deceptive as none of those bombers were strategic, they were primarily twin-engined tactical types ( B-25 or A-26 class ).

In fact until they cloned the B-29 in the late 1940s the Soviets has never had success with long-ranged multi-engined bombers, oddly just like the Germans.

In contrast the Allied fleets were heavily strategically-orientated.

Similarly with 'rockets'. The Soviets used rocket artillery in every operation but it was short-ranged tactical stuff, posing no risk to the UK. Until they could clone the V-2 and get near enough the coast to use it then rocket-bombardment was impossible.

So I can see why Churchill thought it was a good moment to strike; hardened strategic forces against a tactically-organised opponent.
Yup! It does try to match with stuff it already knows, but things which aren't on the service it'll upload.
If you can't see whether there's a large object in your path within time to stop, you're going too fast. There could be a fallen or slow bicyclist in the lane.
Wait. The very same Ted Cruz who is now president of the United States of America?

Impressive.
If there is video evidence of the offence that can be brought to court, is this a concern for you?

If there is a chronic disregard for particular laws due to the fact they cannot be enforced on a large scale by humans, then what do you propose as a solution if we're discarding video surveillance?
It's really not hard to reconcile the fact that someone is no longer performing the usual job duties of a minister with the fact that some of his personal values may have been shaped by his time at the Seminary and those values may have formed a part of his teachings to children on his show.

I wouldn't call that a hole in basic details unless you are thinking literally like a computer.
It appears to be that Airtable stores data in relational database, perhaps MySQL or PostGres. Not 100% sure.
> Does providing job security at the expense of pay increase or decrease loneliness?

Hmm. I am thinking kind of orthogonal (independent) of it mostly. On one hand with high turnover, you might lose connections quicker so it's harder. On the other, the person in question might be the one moving on to a better company and thus be less lonely as a result.

> Will it make it worse by highlighting things, or will it encourage everyone to eat in the [company provided] dining area, sparking new relationships? If both, what's the distribution?

Could make it worse, definitely. I like think of it as a necessary thing -- if the person is the only one eating at their desk then they are probably missing out on important gossip. And gossip can be important - what's coming up next in projects, who is leaving. Some stuff is boring, some stupid but some important. Unfortunately it's probably better to think of it as part of the job duty but it's also kind of a forced socialization and it might help with loneliness.

> If measures to reduce loneliness results in the formation of cliques, is that a positive outcome if those left out feel alienated?

The article touches on that. It's the part about some managers just organizing Christmas parties for example, it provides for a chance for interaction but doesn't increase necessarily the chance of forming relationships.

I'd say a better way to form relationships is to get people to work together on ... actual work stuff. Problems they can think through, solve and ship together as a team.
Then you should shop elsewhere and accept the cost.
How much was it before?
sure, but it does require physical access for at least a couple hours, up to multiple days, if you don't use a predictable pincode. And from what I gather it doesn't even threaten a passphrase.
Uh..but aren't Japanese prisons horrid? Why are they a haven?
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This is one is my favorite comments of all time, simply because while I was familiar with the Fermi Paradox, the rest of the links were new and unexpected. Thank you!
I was really pleasantly surprised with LAStools. It's mostly closed source, Windows only, and the free version is subtly crippled - but it works really well.

Getting it running under Wine was dead-simple. There's a significant community around it, and the author fights for open formats.

Checking out PDAL is on my todo list for sure.
Classic article on undoing the Damage of Sitting. It includes squats and six other relevant exercises. After following most this for a month, I'm able to squat pretty darn well. I don't use weights or spend suspended time squatting.

When I started my knees and feet twisted outward as I went down. I couldn't go down all the way without pain.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/08/05/undo-the-damage-of...
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I've had an instance where the author was reading his book himself, and his accent was so difficult that only then I started to realize the effort professional readers must have put into to make the book listenable. Had to read that book at .9X to be able to follow it.
A personal automobile is the single most expensive form of transportation (except for a private jet, of course) on a per mile basis. Reasons around palatability (it's also the most dangerous form of transportation) aside, it doesn't matter how "affordable" housing is in a driving-only neighborhood when you're talking about people who don't have enough money to afford a car in the first place.
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Airtable is more than just project management as Howie put it that the goal of Airtable was to go after all potential business cases right away by creating a one size fits all platform, a horizontal approach. Project management market is already too crowded IMO.
In Melbourne AU, we have these issues too (actually, more cars driving in Bus lanes), that police don't seem to bother enforcing. However, I see much more frequently other traffic violations that would benefit from a similar analysis on a large scale - two examples that come to mind are tailgating, and cars stopped in the middle of an intersection on a red light blocking cross traffic from going through. Both cases are so prevalent that even some (human) enforcement action wouldn't make a dint at this stage - it's become a cultural issue I suspect (probably due to lack of enforcement over the years as the roads get more congested and people more stressed/hurried).

I get the fears of big brother and all that, but how do you solve these kinds of problems without mass automated surveillance?
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About 3-4 months of doing this[1] has gotten me to a point where I can sit in the squat position without any effort.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opw9G1qKCcM
This is just a rant. I don't particularly care for OOP (Kotlin was too OO for me) and it still felt full of strawmen. Strongly agree with a lot of these comments from the first time this piece made the rounds.[1]

1. https://lobste.rs/s/6z7xnt/object_oriented_programming_is_an...
Trump's scandals and corruption goes back decades, at least to the 90s. He has clear ties to elements of the criminal world and money laundering enterprises. His business empire shows up in the panama papers.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trum...

You literally shine a light on almost anything he's done and something criminally suspicious shows up. The more you look into it, the more unbelievable it becomes that he isn't knee deep in something illegal.

Exactly what, no one is sure, but if your business empire is run in a shady manner, why on earth would you want to be one of the most scrutinized person on the planet?

Only logical conclusion is that he never intended to win.
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The ResEdit days! I changed every sound in Marathon to the point it was unplayable. I had no idea what I was doing but I was fascinated.
What was the 'ah ha' concept from that video? What was the difference it made in your perception?
To the untrained eye, there may not be any difference between the Slav and the Asian one. But if you look closely the Slav squat has the legs spread wider and toes pointing quite a bit outwards as compared to the Asian squat
There needs to be enough money to purchase the goods and services produced. Yes, there is some multiplier from monetary velocity (one persons expenditure is another’s income, so the same money can be spent multiple times), but the supply still needs to grow to not experience deflation, and that can only come from a trade surplus, bank created money (private debt) or Government deficit spending, by the definitions above. And since lending in the private sector must create debt too, the private sector cannot increase its own net financial assets.

Zimbabwe is well understood by modern monetary theory. If you look at what actually happened, it’s not an argument against the mathematical fact that a Government must spend somewhat more than it taxes to have a stable economy in the presence of a trade deficit (don’t make the mistake that many do when confronted with the fact that a currency issuing Governmment is not fiscally limited - of course that doesn’t mean that the Government should spend unlimited money. Of course if its spending pushes aggregate demand enough above the supply of goods and services produced in the economy you’ll have inflation, and even hyperinflation if you push enough - but on the other side, some of the most successful Government surpluses (apparently ‘responsible’ Government budgeting) without trade surpluses have preceded many financial crises).

Zimbawbe’s economic woes started when farms were confiscated, leading to huge unemployment (80%!) and a huge supply shock with food production reduced by a massive 35%. The Government then depleted foreign reserves by using it to import food. In response, the Government overspent domestically, partially in an attempt to buy political favours - and not investing in productive capacity. Of course hyperinflation happened!

Venezuela has similar issues (big supply shock due to Government policy), as well as the added problem of attempting to keep up a fixed exchange rate to the US dollar (fixed exchange rates always fail eventually).
Well, there are lumpers and splitters, and I tend to be a splitter.

But anyway, should one judge China based on Western principles and values. If so, what would be the basis for that?

And if not, should one judge China based on principles and values of <some other Asian nation>? I don't see the basis for that, either.

However, it is of course valid for Chinese to judge their own country, based on whatever principles and values they might hold. And to work for change. But that's a very different thing from random Westerners judging China.

Personally, I can't imagine living in China. I have a hard enough time tolerating the US. But it's for sure better than where I came from. Although, I must admit, far from what I had imagined. But so it goes.
I hope our era will be remembered for something other than the abject failure of liberal democracy. The US and Europe are struggling/sabotaging themselves, while Russia and China just consolidate their power. Africa keeps burning. India will take the Sino-Russian path no doubt.
We all do think in nominal terms.

Spending stops when you run out of things to buy at a price worth paying.

Zimbabwe was caused by destruction of production power - giving land to people that can't farm.

productive assets have nothing to do with nominal stock market entries or gold bars either.
There's this analogy. It's a bridge representing species progress. If you fall off of it, you are extinct. All life that we know of has fallen off and it is certain that we will too. AI is impressive in this scenario because it exists outside of nature, it might fall "upwards" (towards immortality). This is why I am a proponent of SAI; I would let SAI out of the box. In the larger scheme of things, humans will go extinct, but there is an ever so slight chance that SAI would take pity and take us with to immortality. However infinitesimally possible, it is more possible than impossible that it will take us with it.

Roll the dice. You can't win the lottery if you don't enter it. If it wipes us out, then that is merely the pre-emptive inevitability.
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Crossing a bike lane isn't the same as stopping in it. You can check that there aren't any bikes in the bike lane before crossing it to park. You can't check that there won't be any bikes in the lane for the next 30 seconds before stopping to load some groceries.