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Many people talk about exercise. For me, it creates a lot of overhead. Five hours a week of exercise is many times more time in terms of thoughts and activities. Looking at it from a distance, it's more about distraction. While the exercise may help in terms of basic physiological levels, lifestyle, etc, I think that's the key factor.

One thing no one else has mentioned: age. You can gain different benefits with age, whether it's finding what's important, sources of confidence, or ways to avoid situations where you're uncomfortable. Using time to find ways to connect with different people is important for what may be the most healthy pathways. Taking a strategic approach with this in mind can help too. I don't like the morbid sounding "this too shall pass," so "it gets better" is a nice mantra for this.
sedulity: diligence, dedication

good word!
There are plenty of people who would do well in science or engineering programs that aren't prodigious enough for a full ride scholarship. Telling those people to go to trade school is a huge waste of their economic potential.

At the same time, there are plenty of extremely bright people who take a scholarship to study a subject with approximately zero real world applicability. That often doesn't matter though, because they made it through and are now able to signal their status to employers.

I happen to own a copy of Caplan's The Case Against Education and I don't buy his arguments for trade schools. People go to school to signal status, mostly because humans engage in assortative mating, and trades offer money rather than status.

Besides that, many trades are very physically taxing and tend to cause injuries which result in chronic pain later in life. Who wants that? The epidemic of suicides and drug overdoses in the US is occurring precisely within the populations of older, injured workers who were essentially forced into retirement.
Its a very sad world if short term personal gain (re-election of Trump) is more important then long term effects for society.
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what's with justifying an existence of a company by having employees? If a company is profitable and you as an owner are doing well financially, does it really matter?
> We keep reducing these complex multivariate social issues to simple cause-effect situations then beating one another up over what the simple cause is.

Twitter is cancer and this is why i keep off it.
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It isn't like 3 or 4 percent though. Starting a startup ranges from a largely risk free career move to impossible. Most people today start at negative. Want to live in a decent sized city? That's at least $2k a month. An education? Might very well be $50k in debt. Job security? Need to put in the hours young.

Otherwise there is a very real chances of getting evicted, not being able to find a decent job, not being able to keep your friends or start a family. Plenty of people who are successful today have their parents pay for university, their first apartment and/or a safety net. And that is just to have a normal career.
I've read a lot of Azimov, including the Foundation series, and nearly all books by the Strugatsky brothers. And I too loved Harry Harrisons's Deathworld when I was a schoolboy :)
Reading Chekhov makes me genuinely sad, maybe I take the lives of his heroes too close to heart.

I am not sure about top 3, but if I had to reread something I've read before, I'd start with Dostoevsky's 'Idiot', continue with "За миллиард лет до конца света" by Strugatsky brothers, and maybe I'll reread the Permutation City by Greg Egan.

As for the Three Body Problem, I find it unique in that it realisticly represents the humanity's place in the galaxy (a fly on the wind shield). Lui Cixin's cosmic sociology [0] rings true to me too. The idea of laws of physics being the result of the activity of advanced civilizations, while not original (see Lem's “The New Cosmogony”), is fascinating nonetheless. The story of how 'right' moral choices in the context of that world lead to the end of humanity is another original bit.

[0] https://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/11/11/the-big-idea-liu-cixi...
It was the prevailing opinion at the time, and many compnies, some state-owned, have and do own patents on plants and their derivitive compounds. While its possible laws and treaties existed then, I am unaware of, I understand it was a literal trade secret, that had been stolen. It would not be hard to interpret that as theft (literal; of seedlings, or monetary; by damages) regardless of precedent. I know contries are still very protective. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-court...
"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
I am sure this will help you

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Alleged misconduct. That's what Googlers seem to have lost sight of.

Take Andy Rubin. One of Google's most valuable executives, he built up Android from nothing. He has a consensual relationship with a woman, but it starts to cool off and fade away. Around this time she accuses him of "pressuring" her into a sexual act, but the whole thing happened behind closed doors and there's no way to know what really happened.

Has he done anything wrong? Who knows? Google can't actually adjudicate this dispute, and Rubin claims innocence. In the ultra-feminist environment Google has accepted internally a woman can't ever be disbelieved so Rubin must be punished. But the situation is deeply unjust and everyone knows it. Rubin did great things for Google, and Google is now rewarding him by stabbing him in the back. So an arrangement is made: everyone stays quiet and the pain of the injustice and betrayal is soothed with a big payment.

Years later Googlers find out about this situation and instead of being outraged that a successful executive was fired on the basis of nothing more than heresay by someone he was in a relationship with, are outraged that he wasn't treated even more harshly. What message does this send to the future Rubins of the world? It says: don't team up with Google.
This is old news. The former Brexit deadline was may 22nd, and this is what this (slightly misleading, to say the least) website is counting down to.

Not sure what I find funnier - that Brexit was delayed to october 31st, making this invalid, or that it takes 306kb to display a counter ;-)
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Thanks! That's an interesting suggestion. Could you give me more details?
if you are a .net shop Microsoft makes your life a lot easier if you use their products and for the vast majority of .net shops, MS products are good enough.

Not saying that people don't complain about them or that there aren't better things out there, just that they are good enough
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Well they managed to push thru GDPR, which has become an incredibly powerful tool for the elites and government bureaucracy over their people.

I think they've even weaponized it against certain archival websites, a brilliant but obvious move for control of the people. The U.S. has so far stymied attempts at government control and regulation of the internet through tools such as net neutrality, But I fear this is short lived, after all, "the children"..
Yeah, their propensity to random account shutdowns in lieu of resolving whatever issues got them worried is why I've started paying FastMail and am slowly migrating to mail at my own domain. I can live without any other Google service, but having been a heavy GMail user for the past decade, account shutdown is an existential threat.
Hey, I know that in the begin of '00s, CCC (and/or CCCC) were running a VMS cluster on VAX and Alpha machines for fun. You could even peer with them. I don't know if they still do, but you might wanna look into such project(s). As for getting it shipped, old computers get sold regularly on eBay Germany ever since I been doing business there (the last 20 years or so). From Germany to Sweden shouldn't be too difficult.
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Free Open Source Software is easy, Free Open Source Services are harder, not impossible (OpenStreet Maps, Wikipedia, IRC (Freenode specifically)), but it is really hard because the cost increases with users unlike software. And what Google brings is service, very reliable and high quality one at that, though the history of Google search quality is up to debate as of recent.
That sounds like automation in a nutshell. On rails, everything is excellent. Veer off course and there's no recovery!

Usually humans fix those outliers, but if things are just too stuck on rails, there may be no fixing derailment.

It's like even if a CSR individually has excellent intentions and believes there will be a follow-up, it's not actually on any scripted recovery plan, so it just won't happen.
Just opinion... this kind of theft predates current law, though. Think of the silkworm smugglers [1] as well. Some crops an agri/zoo cultures were considered strategic resources and tightly controlled by the state. No idea what current international law says about stuff like this.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_i...
That doesn't solve the problem of name registration, file/picture sharing, group membership/moderation, customization/emoji, planning, etc. that are handled easily with something like Facebook Messenger groups. IRC is super clunky by comparison.
This is one of the best comments I have ever seen on the web. Thank you for writing it.
It's the difference between "a founder can be anyone" and "a founder can come from anywhere" to paraphrase Ratatouille.
"Space in space" is cramped only because we put up too small living quarters. But an inflatable balloon only for growing things in it need not be especially rigid or robust. It wouldn't even have to be rigidly fixed to the living quarters, it could float a bit to the side connected only by flexible tubing.
Jetbrains do as well, they store theirs on bintray.

It's all a bit of a mess tbh and particulary frustrating from the outside where you aren't a full time java dev.
Sure, but we should be thanking you! :3
The cars can work together to reduce riding distances, move faster in tandem when going in a green light, and so on. They virtually make the road much wider by eliminating human inefficiency in driving.
You didn't say cure. I apologize for jumping way too far.

> But if they switched to brown rice it would help a lot.

I don't think changing rice colors is going to help at all if they are eating like crap. That was my point. White/brown rice is the least problematic part of their diet.

If you were implying that cleaning up the rest of their diet and then switching rice would help, then yeah we are in agreement.
Everyone but Tony Stark.

A year from now it won't matter though because Tesla will be bankrupt.
In the novel itself, Ingsoc is said to be similar to the CPSU. Orwell was drawing direct inspiration from the USSR under Stalin, as well as from other real world events.
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
Don't get blinded by the analogy. There's an important difference between it and the problem we're discussing: We can't actually change the fact that woman generally are not as strong as men. We can however as a society change the fact that many people don't have a safety net. I appreciate that Paul G's intended meaning was different, but it's kind of hard not to interpret what he wrote, as no, we don't actually have to change society [which has worked well for me], poor or underprivileged people just have to try harder.
It is probably not actually good for PG, because the majority of such people will fail and end up destitute, casting bad publicity (rightly or wrongly, doesn’t matter) on whatever start-up churner generated that outcome.

Additionally, founders who already come from wealth or have political connections, etc., are probably much more likely to succees in the financial senses that PG wants.

The only limited sense in which it’s good for PG is if there is a lottery winner he can claim credit for, a rags-to-riches story to whip up blind support for some ludicrous tech millionaire idealism.
I don't see the comparison at all - "science" is saying that it is not the why in that context.

It is saying that it does and we have reason to think that. It isn't religion to say that it is stupid to deny that the blue footed booby exists. Even if it is wrong and asseerts the piltdown man is real it is markedly different from religion.
It is unfortunate that many smart people go through their life without being truly challenged to work hard and develop these skills. It is often too easy for us (excuse my pride) to coast by on our ability to grasp material quickly and intuitively, yet ultimately feel dissatisfied as we know we didn’t work that hard at it. The only way I have found to overcome this is to engage in rigorous study with those who are better than you. In some ways I think many of the elite schools in the US do a disservice to their students by coddling them with inflated grades and subjective assessments. Having experienced both, I far prefer the brutal and objective assessments of difficult midterms and finals found at large public universities. If you don’t have access to such an education, then start by reading the original works of great thinkers. Take courses at the best school you can find. Online is ok, but don’t neglect the work. Find professional work with peers that challenge you. Being surrounded by smart people who work hard will change your perspective on what is possible. Procrastination is just one form of self-sabotage which allows us avoid confronting our own limitations. There’s no shame in turning in a crap project because you did it the night before, but it would be a catastrophe to spend weeks pouring your heart and soul into a piece and still have it be garbage! The reality is that many hard things require lots of practice, and you won’t always nail it. Laugh at your mistakes, throw it away, start over, iterate and improve. It’s ok to fail, it’s not an indictment of your potential. Great projects may start with inspiration from a long walk, but they also require lots of editing and refactoring. The important thing is to start the thing and keep working at it, keep chipping away at the small pieces until you get there.
How do you know he neglected his wife? I found that they did not had children, but could not find anything else about his personal life.
Why on earth would you walk a couple of blocks to cross the street?

Why on earth would you commend this behaviour?

I appreciate that my judgement of this behaviour depends on the street, but from my experience of Tokyo, the streets are not particularly wide, or busy.
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Mindful Design by Scott Riley.

Super accessible despite delving deep into the psychology and ethics of design.

https://mindfuldesign.xyz/
My anecdote is from a Finnish perspective: First things first, some people make more money being unemployed than working (though for only short periods of times, to my knowledge max. couple months). This is related to entrepreneurship because owning a company, whether it makes any money or not, labels you to the workforce. This is problematic because it obliterates your unemployment aids. In some circumstances, this can be extended into your close family. Now, if you own a company, you (and in some cases your close family) do not get the same social safety net as others! Bad! This also extends (to the entrepreneur) to other class of social safety net, which is living aid. For entrepreneurs, the living aid is calculated from the (mandatory!) retirement account (which are a mess by itself, the public sector chooses private companies which handle this money, with no control of the individual to seize the money before government defined retirement age) contributions. If you have little to no contributions (e.g., your company makes little money and you rather pay yourself salary), you cannot get living aids. Further, taxes are higher. First, entrepreneurs pay 5% more taxes than the same bracket in income as an employee. Next, if your company becomes profitable, the system incentivizes you to increase your personal income hence the tax bracket, because otherwise, the company gets taxed 20% of the money left into the company.

The reality is much like pictured here https://imgur.com/a/o5MGARc for entrepreneurs. That is, in Finland, we do not need to have this Twitter discussion, because by default entrepreneurship is a viable option for the ones who can patch up the holes in the safety net that the government has removed.
> class may be a more powerful organizing discourse

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Other things contribute to class, but it remains a class issue.

I'm reminded of this: "If your feminism isn’t intersectional, it isn't feminism.".

We need something similar for those who think the issue is one-dimensional - "the poor".

Because why someone is poor, and what conditions and circumstances result from being poor... poverty (which includes the psychological impact of being poor)... deeply affect the individuals affected, and some of those factors have wider societal causes (racism, homophobia, xenophobia, perceived sex, sexual identity, etc).
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Right, I think a vast majority of “really good” engineers will know minimal vi skills.

My point is that you can be a perfectly nice programmer with a full career without being really good.
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Believe it or not, majority of the people actually like the CCP and the system, they just hate corrupt officials.
Would they set reasonable benchmarks, like market share and revenue? That is what matters in strategy decisions.
> As a New Zealander, I think there are very good reasons to trust the US government a lot more.

As an EU citizen, idk, China seems more locally focused, the U.S reaches everywhere. Speaking of NZ, the whole Kim Dotcom situation makes it look like a U.S.vassal state, honestly.
They did the same to GDS over here and USDS is modelled in part on GDS.

I can't chalk it up to stupidity any more I think at this point it has to be malicious.

If a gov dept is well run then their mates can't sell the same service at a massive markup.
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Unless you really upset the ruling elite, like Julian Assange, in which case the west will make your life a living hell.
1. Most startups either don't have HR departments, or have HR departments with no power at all, so sexual harassment scenario you describe can and does happen with no recourse. (Recent example: CEO harasses employee. Company does nothing, so employee leaves. Two other employees realize this happened, complain, get fired.)

2. Overall, though, yes, it's a much much worse working environment in minimum wage jobs. But the point isn't "my work environment as a programmer is bad", cause overall it isn't. The point is "my work environment is a lot better than minimum wage workers only because my skills are in demand".

So it's not about shared working conditions, it's about a shared inherent conflict with employers. And this is especially visible in companies that have both categories of workers, e.g. Amazon. Amazon isn't treating software engineers well because of some inherent goodness of their heart.

Since we'd all be treated the way minimum wage workers are given the chance, it's important to realize this, take advantage of the bargaining power we currently have, and actually negotiate (individually and collectively).
> Culture matters. When I go to Tokyo and see people walking a couple of blocks to cross the street (there isn’t necessarily a cross walk on every block), or carrying their litter with them

Which they do without the threat of a “social credit system.”
Responsible people with good planning get rewarded for it constantly. People rarely complain about it. You certainly could, and should, make the same argument about them, because the argument also applies to them.
Siding as in not morally but practically - doing/willing to do things that favor someone, not necessarily liking someone.

> But I see two people wanting to sell me something, and one of them is trying to stop me from buying the better product.

This willingness to compromise on global security for a little profit is siding to me. Exactly the same willingness as in Gazprom/NordStream case if you follow the topic.

> Everything (?) the US accuses China, the EU could accuse the US of as well.

It could, but what the author seems to propose is tolerating China's violations, not opposing these of US (which EU couldn't realistically do anyway).
I guess they could provide their own implementations of the Google Play Services API's?
From my personal experience, I feel that I lacked objectivity in looking at my successes and failures. I felt that the failures overshadowed the successes. I realised that it helped to keep track of successes (minor and major) and failures too. Whenever I felt very low, I would look at the list. It helped me gain the confidence that I wasn't a failure :-). Try it and let us know. Godspeed!
The problem with some of these European initiatives is that they sound more like a political project than a technical one. Lots of "values" being discussed – granted, decent values to support – but very little technology.

Perhaps I'm too jaded an engineer, but if a solid product or technical idea isn't at the base of a project, no amount of values and goodwill is going to glue it together into a reliable working whole.
The Chinese credit system is a relationship of those in power controlling those without power. The relationship has no checks and balances, and therefore will only become more controlling over time. This is just day 1, what do you think day 10,000 will look like? You are confusing that with relationships among peers, this is not the same at all.
No those aren't progress toward AGI at all. They are tremendously impressive technical achievements, but from an AGI perspective they're basically just parlor tricks.

The reality is that for AGI we don't even know which direction to go yet so it's literally impossible to determine whether we're making forward progress toward the goal. Show me a computer as smart as mouse and then I'll believe we're making progress toward AGI.
Assuming it was a few restored (maybe not show quality but complete and driveable) cars and probably ten more in parts and parts cars (most "collections" are like this) I'm betting kids sold it for pennies on the dollar when he croaked (regardless of whether they all wanted to or not). Unless you are active in that kind of hobby it's hard to find someone who wants it.

As unfortunate as it may be that's what usually happens when there isn't a particular kid that's got the same hobby AND has the means to take over the collection (which is the case the majority of the time). Hobbies that don't require lots of equipment and space to house one's collection (basically anything where the flagship if your collection could be displayed in the living room) tend to fare better.

Edit: Why is this flagged? Apparently reality is too inconvenient for some people. I guess we are incapable of having discussion about what happens to people's possessions after they die.