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Im sorry about your brother. I never said it was a moral failing. What I did say is that people lack a values system to find meaning in their life. Even if you are poor, you can fi…

Despair is the absence of hope. People have been given an unrealistic view of what life should be and when it is so much worse than their expectations they fall into despair. The m…

political choices are completely irrelevant to your ability to have a happy life. People living in garbage dumps are able to figure out to be happy.

None of those things should have any impact on your daily life. If you didnt plug into the internet (your choice) you wouldnt know about any of those things and they simply wouldnt…

I havent read much about stoicism. But if I had to guess, being serene all the time is not being stoic. You should experience all the emotions, yet simultaneously realize you can b…

Im not a buddhist or a stoic, but from what little I have read I somewhat live that way. My parents once told me that one of my biggest problems is that I was too happy. I have alw…

This seems to be one of the most common logical fallacies, especially in politics. I dont know if it has a name, but I call it "qualification without quantification". It creates a …

Austin is still like this (pop 1M). You can be anywhere in town and still run into people you know. People can still work 9 to 5 and comfortably raise a family. While it is becomin…

we are experimentng with timeular https://timeular.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiA767jBRBqEiwAGdAOryNJfX4e... It is an 8 (or more) sided shape that you flip to change tasks. The jury is still …

that is the opposite of how science is supposed to work. Using the method described you will statistically always find false correlations in data sets. This is because you can find…

there is an infinite amount of work to be done. There are needs unfulfilled today because there arent enough people and therefore the price is too high. There will always be work t…

just buy yogurt with live cultures. back when I used to make my own yogurt I would just put a tablespoon of dannon into a gallon of whole milk.

The path to true happiness is to want for nothing.

uhaul will generally fill propane tanks. When you swap tanks you get substantially less than what uhaul will fill to.

predictit has trump getting impeached by end of 2019 at 36 cents for yes. If mueller finds any "collusion" it is guaranteed impeachment. Old crimes possibly not. So predictit at le…

life is statistics. The more at bats you get, the more likely one of them will be a home run. Tenacity, hard work, risk tolerance, and good decision making give you more at bats. T…

absolutely not. The US has some demographic issues. African americans have a very high infant mortality rate that is irrespective of socioeconomic class. African americans also hav…

Of course none of these might apply to you, but they are a big deal for the people they impact. 1) marijuana enforcement can be a huge deal, getting let go vs going to prison 2) fi…

this isnt really right. Lets assume the product that B makes has a value which allows a 50% gross margin A loans $100K cash to B at 10% markup (total value of system= 100K) B buys …

It does pertain to individual tax payers. Tax payers can either pay ordinary income on dividends or capital gains tax on the sale of share with increased value. Even better is that…

In one case you ban something and penalize people for the behavior in the other case you tax it, which lets people decide whether they want to continue the behavior. For example in…

the only thing that has to happen is that each country that believes in climate change just needs to tax oil (and coal) at a slow, but ever increasing rate. It will incentivize a s…

There are multiple levels of unemployment U1-U6, they go from the most liberal to the most conservative view unemployment. Ultimately the absolute number doesnt matter that much, i…

at my school EE had a full semiconductor fab, nuclear engineering had a nuclear reactor, CS had a full networked computer system with 512x512 UI that predated the internet, super c…