I agree that pain shouldn’t measure how hard you are trying.
However, I feel like grit, while not always particularly enjoyable, is what leads to true greatness. Persevering with a challenge, that is.
Of course, there’s a difference between that and meaningless suffering. I was always at odds with people working very hard on something that can be easily automated / sped up.
I was just wondering why lesswrong posts about constant false alarm rate...
That’s a very interesting approach, I am usually against using google translate but of course it can’t be helped if you’re an absolute beginner. I’m currently learning Italian. I think I’m gonna try your approach.
My English learning journey (I’m not a native speaker): I used some average textbook for self-learners going through the exercises to understand basic grammar structures such as tenses. I was only around a third into it when I quit and started watching movies in (American) English without subtitles. It was tedious at first, but after half a year or so I had managed to fully enjoy the experience. New grammar structures and vocabulary sank into me automatically
When I want to look up an unfamiliar word, I use Cambridge Dictionary to read various meanings as opposed to translating.
I wonder how this method could apply to Italian in my case. It’s somewhat different since I had been exposed to English at school for years (yeah my country is really bad at languages) before embarking on the self-learning adventure.
I have seen mostly a competition of who cries in indignation the loudest.
People are waving the flags and lying in (fake) blood in front of Russian embassies instead of doing something productive.
Yeah I can totally relate to yearning for one thing and wanting to drop everything else. However it’s a luxury I can’t afford :(
How does the job feel? Do you approach it with the same Feynman-like playfulness or does it feel more like a “system”?
I just wonder how things were/are curiosity-wise. Because it seems like conventional education system is a great curiosity killer (that’s why it’s a system).
The measles booster comes a year later. Multiple sources confirm that there is no reason to expect a six-months-later second dose to be any less effective a booster.
About this, strange stuff seems to be happening in Lithuania (that’s Europe). After around 6 months, you get an invitation for a booster. Previously, you could just test for antibodies and if there were high enough, postpone your booster. This seemed reasonable.
Now they are simply canceling green passes (this thing lets you in malls and other non-essential amenities etc etc) for those who are due to get their third shot. This leads many people to justly question their intentions. The trust is at an all-time low here.
There’s also a very curious document which supposedly states that EU is promising to buy enough vaccines to jab everyone around 8 times (disclaimer: I have not read the document deeply enough, so I’m looking for anybody adept at legal language).
Common sense atheism should update on the belief that their website is working.
Here’s the relevant archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20110826004919/http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13156
Question about vaccination: I have seen various sources claiming that to end the pandemic we should have vaccinated over a certain percentage of the population (say, on the scale of a country).
However we have not and now the virus has mutated repeatedly. From this point of view, it sounds as if we will never be over it unless everyone gets bored or something. There is no end in sight as far as I can see. In my country, 61.7% are fully vaccinated, yet the number of daily cases & deaths is indistinguishable from the last fall. Worse, even.
What are your thoughts? I know this is not a rigorous comment (no sources), for this I apologize.
I have picked up a few general tips from YouTube videos:
Significant objects are put on the intersection of the grid (3x3 or other)
You want the horizon to not look like it’s the Inception movie, i.e it has to be horizontal.
It’s better to make them darker than brighter. You can brighten the darker pictures, but the opposite is a worse operation.
Also, what I found from experience is that it pays off to find something to immobilize your phone/camera. That way, the details are not smudged.
All of that is probably obvious or might be incorrect on professional inspection. A grain of salt is required here :)
Doom Emacs is also about Vim’s powerful tools like norm and :%s. It’s basically taking the best from the both world (granted, that’s subjective). Love it!
Is is passwordy-looking enough that somebody might want to search it through published leaks?
In either case, you should check it on haveibeenpwned.com, though I suspect you do that already.
Oh, I loved that example when I read it in his book!
But there is a workaround: start by pointing out that sometimes one does feel ill and this feeling goes naturally away—the body is a healing machine!
Funnily enough, she does use this kind of argument herself when advocating against the Covid vaccines.
I think I tried using it once at some point and it went like this:
-- Our body is a healing machine
-- Yeah
-- So homeopathy might not actually do anything
-- Well, it helps those natural body processes
-- How do you know?
-- It makes you heal faster
-- But why am I not healing faster?
-- Cuz homeopathy is gentler (and therefore slower) than conventional drugs
-- So it doesn’t do anything
-- … the cycle repeats
Hm, valid point I suppose. I just have to be careful to not end up with a bigger issue than I’ve started with.
I believe it will give her more leverage over me the next time. It’s like blackmailing people into doing worse things than the blackmail, and then using those to blackmail further.
Also, you can’t just consult doctors in a few days here. You have to make an appointment and wait for a good deal of time (up to two months usually), so it’s only worth doing if you’ve got a serious issue.
Hm, there’s the classic injection in your butt (widely used in medicine), there are local injections near knees / neck / elbows / spinal cord (sometimes you need the stuff close to the problem). Afaik homeopathy is not administered to veins. That’s about all I can think of / witnessed myself.
Yeah, it seems to have been. Proposed edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20110718032458/http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/steven/?p=3
My strategy of having peace is described in my question. As to how to make peace, there have been a few ways suggested, e.g. setting boundaries. I can’t see any others really. Do what you both agree on together, do the rest separately in your own way.
This is a good strategy, and I agree I need to upgrade my communication skills. Thank you so much!
Have it in your head, and imagine your mother saying whatever would maximally trigger you and how you might respond with emotion communication and boundary setting. (“I feel disrespected” → “it’s not my fault you won’t see the light of homeopathy” → “now I’m feeling like you don’t care that you’re making me feel this way”)
Good call. I lose my cool very rarely, usually I’m just not responding to the triggers like “you’re a coward” which makes me look better in the overall pictures (like I’m not the mean one). Upping my game a little will be for the best.
Butlerian Jihad when?
(Don’t throw stones at me, it’s satire)