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Goedel's completeness and incompleteness only apply if the initial set of axioms is powerful enough to express addition over all the integers.

The article misstates what 'sanitizing inputs' means. I agree with posters who recommend passing data as parameters to methods that don't require sanitized input (e.g. stored proce…

While at Amazon, I started a mailing list that sends one curated software engineering tip each day. It still persists, last I heard. While working there I noticed that other people…

And thank you, atum47, for sharing this story! You'll encourage more people to develop and share their ideas in a virtuous cycle.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is blowing my mind.

Meditation. Download a free 20-minute guided meditation and do it every day. Maybe at some point read "The Miracle of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hanh. I can provide a good guided b…

Hi FSK, I'm part of a project to increase loving-kindness in the world through meditation and other techniques; we'd love to hear your thoughts on what practices/mindset/experience…

THIS! This was exactly my Main Problem for decades. For me, it took psychedelics to see past it. I could see meditation getting me there (I meditate now), but it would take a LOT o…

I second this. I exercise almost daily, and it makes a difference. I do a combination of low-impact HIIT (because I can watch TV while I do it :-) ) and push-ups + laying garhammer…

I'm reading The Procrastination Equation right now, and it has the following (excellent, IMO) advice: Find tasks of any sort at all that you can do. Do them, noting your success. D…

Aristoi is my favorite of Walter Jon Williams's work. I reread it every few years, just like Diamond Age, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Fire Upon the Deep.