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www.newsweek.com 3y ago

How Fauci Fooled America

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Sam Harris: Trump, Religion, Wokeness

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quillette.com 4y ago

Germany's Energy Catastrophe

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roninblockchain.substack.com 4y ago

Ronin Security Breach Postmortem

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nypost.com 4y ago

Vegan burger hyped for tasting like ‘human meat’ wins award

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9to5mac.com 4y ago

Podcasting 2 and Value4Value usher in a new era of podcasting that’s free

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www.firefly-iii.org 4y ago

Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager

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www.aljazeera.com 4y ago

Shireen Abu Akleh: A trailblazer who gave voice to Palestinians

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www.thankyounorthface.com 4y ago

When Greenswashing Backfires – Thank You North Face

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twitter.com 4y ago

Head of Design at Dropbox descriminates in her hiring based on skin color

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pitt.substack.com 4y ago

Sage of Sage

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dvorak.substack.com 4y ago

Twitter and Elon Musk

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What's the Worst Content on Substack?

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twitter.com 4y ago

Swedish diary producer Arla stops sales of Kefir; fully produced in Sweden

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (2004)

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www.vintag.es 4y ago

Vintage Photographs of People with Their Commodore 64

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twitter.com 4y ago

Cpp Con/fdn protected convicted rapist/posessor of child sexual abuse imagery

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www.thelocal.se 4y ago

Swedish car startup passed off rebadged Chinese EV as its new ‘model Zero’

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www.spiked-online.com 4y ago

The Closing of the Artistic Mind

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phmpt.org 4y ago

Cumulative analysis of post-authorization adverse event reports of Phizer [pdf]

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foreignpolicy.com 4y ago

The West Is Sleepwalking into War in Ukraine

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www.spiked-online.com 4y ago

Ukraine and the New World Disorder

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Solo Along the Ukrainian-Russian Border, One Day Before War

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www.bbc.com 4y ago

Novak Djokovic: I’m not anti-vax but will sacrifice trophies if told to get jab

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medicaldialogues.in 4y ago

HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dies at 89

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twitter.com 4y ago

How Swedish EV car company UNITI fooled governments, companies and journalists

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uu.diva-portal.org 4y ago

Ethical and social implications for use of preconception carrier screening [PDF]

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vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com 4y ago

UK Now Reports Myocarditis Stratified by Age and Sex After Vaccine or SARS-CoV-2

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psmreborn.com 4y ago

The Dark Side of Open Source [Webm]

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www.telegraph.co.uk 4y ago

Europe's new wave of Covid authoritarianism has set a dangerous new precedent

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Never ceases to amaze me how ignorant people continue to make such deranged and wide generations with little or no evidence.

Let me guess, email is dead? RSS is also dead right? Literally no one ever uses them anymore. You probably think that all businesses should just all switch to TikTok and communicate with memes and dance routines.

That’s all fine, but you didn’t need to straight up lie. You cannot really justify it. Good luck to you with it, but know that you don’t need to lie. It’s not a clone.

With Anki, I stop immediately. No real world user is installing software like that on their device, the homepage just screams virus to someone unfamiliar with opensource.

That’s a huge generalization. I’m a really world user and I use it heavily. I know many non-technical friends who use it as well. It screams virus for the ignorant. Don’t appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Quizlet’s killer features is that they have text books that are ready to use, and lots of decks that are ready to use. Your app will break if they stop allowing exporting data.

I know you’re 15, but I’ll talk to you like an adult.

I’m no fan of Quizlet, but to call this a “clone” is outrageous. It’s like sticking four wheels on a wooden board and calling it a Corolla clone.

At best you can say that you made a flash cards toy app that can read data from Quizlet.

Also, take a look at Anki.

Intentionally misleading is not marketing, nor is it “hustle”, it almost always smells like a scam even if that’s not your intention.

That’s because this is not art. Contemporary / modern “art” in general is pure crap, and is absolutely NOT art. It’s formed of a circle jerk of people who pretend like their work has a meaning or that they understand each other’s work. Art reflects the life view of the artist, and we can clearly see that this reflects nothing. All people involved know that it’s BS but they’re all afraid to be the odd one out or are directly profiting from people’s stupidity. It always comes down to pretentious elitist assholes who think they’re too intellectual to work for a living.

Two options:

- You really are not familiar with Sam or the topic, didn’t read the thread or watch any of the clips, in which case you shouldn’t have commented with the “yelling into the wind” comment that made it seem like you just don’t agree.

- You are familiar and just trying to find a way out of your comment which you wrote just to stir people up, a basic trolling tactic, expecting a reply such as mine so that you can pretend like you’re taking the high road with the “get better” comment. In which case I think you’re just projecting and it’s you who needs help and you know it, so please -for your own sake- do get some help.

“The individual is in a dilemma: either he decides to safeguard his freedom of choice, chooses to use traditional , personal, moral, or empirical means, thereby entering into competition with a power against which there is no efficacious defense and before which he must suffer defeat; or he decides to accept technical necessity, in which case he will himself by the victor, but only by submitting irreparably to technical slavery. In effect he has no freedom of choice.”

― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

Don’t waste your time reading comments. Each pontification is shittier than the other. People on HN can be extremely stupid sometimes.

Note to author: please for fuck sake, stop with the false click bait promises. “I wrote a note every day” … then … “Ok, that’s a lie; it’s on weekdays and not everyday”… what the hell? You do you you’re writing and not speaking right? ie. go back and edit your text if you’ve lied, otherwise it’s just clickbait.

Against Discipline 4 years ago

You just answered the question yourself.

there _isn't_ any delayed gratification in kids taking a bath, as she said, kids love it once they're in there

Keyword here is "once", kids love it _once_ they're there. The point is that -at the time when the parent is asking the kid to stop what they're doing and shower- they (don't want to / don't understand why they should / etc...) stop what they're doing. Take a look at the Stanford marshmallow experiment[1].

I don't see why it discipline can't be about both though, delayed gratification _and_ routine and requirement as you said. I'd add that routine can help (mainly for kids) in establishing a pattern where the value of delayed gratification can be harnessed.

discipline is about doing things that need doing,

There's nothing inherent in what the word discipline means that signifies anything regarding doing what needs to be done. It's more about doing what you understand to be good for you later, even if you don't fully (or irrationally) don't want to do now, specifically if it's a small sacrifice now for a greater reward later.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...

Against Discipline 4 years ago

Discipline has nothing to do with whether you think chocolate is good or not, or if you should eat it or not.

Against Discipline 4 years ago

That's something totally different. Delay of gratification, the act of resisting an impulse to take an immediately available reward in the hope of obtaining a more-valued reward in the future. The ability to delay gratification is essential to self-regulation, or self-control, aka discipline.

Against Discipline 4 years ago

Well, discipline is nothing more really than a delayed gratification rule set. Kids refuse a bath usually not because they’re rebelling against themselves or the parents, but because they don’t get the concept of delayed gratification yet. You make little sacrifices in the present to ensure better future.

This is going to sound slightly harsh, and by no means it’s an invitation to stop thinking or pondering, I think it’s kind of good to be skeptical and think of possible major oversights in the way we live our life, but this kind of hairsplitting wordsmithing is useless, and possibly what is causing this person to neglect that discipline is just a helpful concept. Reading “an embarrassing amount” of self-help books is not a good sign either, but yes, the majority of that crap is just that; crap.

No one can teach you or force you to like exercise, until you do it and like it, then you understand, then you’ll probably fall off the wagon a couple of times, but at least you’ll know that you’re just being lazy, and that’s fine sometimes, but mostly you’ll have to gain experience in fighting laziness tendencies, and it’s probably harder for some people than others depending on many variables I can’t even list.

Biggest factor for people not having discipline (or not wanting to have it, not liking it, etc…) is that they want a quick solution that makes sense, where the answer is that it’s always difficult, you just have to learn to enjoy it and find ways to come to terms with it. Practice more and do it again.

The author is not rebelling against discipline, but really against the self help industry.

The biggest thing cypher wanted was to forget first, that’s the only way he could handle it after knowing the truth. Unreal can never be as good as real.

Dev shops aren't broken, and this idea does not make sense. No quality work can come out of it, and honestly it sounds more like a trap or a funnel for scammers to front as entrepreneurs.