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Meditation on the Buddhist tradition is more like 'leaning in' or becoming immersed in your experience. It's certainly not at all about achieving a blank state, or detachment. Not …

Just believe you can believe, and you will believe.

Who likes their cable company? Come on now.

Definitely don't come to the West and try to talk with the upper classes with your current English level.

I think the jobs listed are simply ephemera of the current state of the internet, technology, and media rather than a reflection of 'the future'. Although, I do agree that with the…

I wonder how many of these comments are made by Apple's legal or PR team posing as normal people... Certainly they have the reach and resources for this kind of thing too. Rarely d…

Of course, because he's so find of power structures in general. *Queue eye rolling

Will keep this in mind

Definitely worth more research into possible mechanisms, but until studies account for the numerous contamination issues (lead, etc.) that many different home supplements carry, th…

Depends on who programmed the AI.

I literally just started this combo. I've been on Vyvanse but just added Lexapro to address other issues. My psych seems to think med vacations are a bad idea due to instability. A…

Yeah, I guess the Head of the Department of Economics at Oxford must have missed out on that classical training somehow.

There is, he didn't read the introduction to the book lol

You clearly don't know what it's like to live on minimum wage right now. It's extremely difficult to live anywhere even close to the Bay area on minimum wage, which let's be real, …

Not to go tin hat here either, but it seems very weird that just a few hours after this was submitted, it has by far the most upvotes and comments on hacker news, yet is near the b…

Wow. That's really disturbing actually...The layers of power and control are so mind bogglingly intricate. Eric Schmidt just demonstrated how finely tuned and detailed power actual…

Good point. From the outside it does appear Travis go caught up in himself more than focusing on his real role.

At the end of all the complicated business cycle explanations above, yep this is pretty much it. I would add that we have allowed the elite to design the economic system we all liv…

There is no single path to happiness.

There's a really big difference between leftists and liberals, actually. A larger difference than between mainstream Republicans and the tea party, I'd say. Most leftists camouflag…

Approaching with math and large amounts of data are actually really great because you can start to account for variability and the flaws of traditional theoretical economics. Hard …

Idk... He admits upfront that the standard critiques have merit, but that recent shifts to hard data are a positive upheaval(thank you, you hackers you).

The biggest problem I run into with this is that I believe the bounds of rationality for different individuals had far more variability than is accounted for. I suppose it's still …

So... We're centralizing the production of the currency that's supposed to decentralize everything?

Actually, how many low cognitive load, high paying jobs will allow people to work a casual 20 hour work week, and take days off or call in sick with little repercussions? Most midd…