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Re: Fuck Your Miracle Year

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Post by jriot »

dorchadas wrote: post #139
jriot wrote: post #33

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Seven Years War (The Crucible of War, that is not actually an Oxford history book) - 1974. I don't have the volume from 1945-1974 yet. I have a few other history books covering that period to present. Penguin has a similar series on European history from the Romans to 2017; I currently have three volumes covering 1814-2017.

Do you have a link to the Penguin series? That seems interesting as well, especially given the time range.

Sorry for the delay in the answer, here is the link to the European History - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/PHE/the-penguin-hi....

Given the delay here is a bonus link to the Lost Civilizations Series by Chicago Press - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/RB-LC.html

Re: Fuck Your Miracle Year

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Post by ironmagma »

redisman wrote: post #130
ironmagma wrote: post #64

> Also, stop meditation and trying to optimize your mental and physical performance. Has anyone who’s ever had a miracle year cared about any of this shit? I’d say Lex Fridman is in his equivalent of a miracle year, or was last year anyway. Keeping the body tuned is important for mental ability which is important if you’re trying to be productive at all, much more to achieve a miracle year.

What miracles did he do? I’m genuinely confused. Seems like he’s just doing podcast interviews these days. And he moved to Austin? Hardly a Newtonian miracle year. I think he’s just getting mentored by Rogan which is why he’s doing a bit better

What miracles did Einstein do? We all know miracles aren’t possible, all you can have is a breakthrough / absurdly productive year. That’s what I meant.

Re: Fuck Your Miracle Year

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Post by Tao331 »

nanidin wrote: post #157
Tao331 wrote: post #156

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I suspect these are people who think you're an actor for a nation state who accidentally let slip something s/he knows about Einstein being an alien. I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word "Boomer" while referring to a model of car that only that generation would have remembered. There's a smattering of extra crispy ESR-style hackers on here that occasionally trips over somet…

The fact is that this person did not use the word alien in their original "joke" - they wrote "That's assuming Einstein was even human." They then proceeded to act like a bully or abuser would act - "Oh, it was a joke! I meant it as a joke and I forgot to drop the punchline until almost an hour later! You are so dumb for thinking otherwise!" As an older sibling, this is something straight out of older sibling 101 and…

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Re: Fuck Your Miracle Year

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Post by nsxwolf »

nerdponx wrote: post #159
nsxwolf wrote: post #136

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OP didn’t say it but an overarching theme in the comments here is that traditional public education is ineffective. So if teachers are overworked, they’ve got energy to expend but they’re expending it ineffectively. You took this a little far with the personal attack.

When you phrase it like this, you are implying that somehow the teachers directly are at fault for misdirecting their labor. So even if you are "technically correct" in some sense, you are phrasing it in an inflammatory way. Don't be a troll.

I didn’t mean to say it was their fault. I’m assuming they’re operating within the parameters required of them by their administrations.

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Post by oldstrangers »

nanidin wrote: post #157
Tao331 wrote: post #156

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I suspect these are people who think you're an actor for a nation state who accidentally let slip something s/he knows about Einstein being an alien. I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word "Boomer" while referring to a model of car that only that generation would have remembered. There's a smattering of extra crispy ESR-style hackers on here that occasionally trips over somet…

The fact is that this person did not use the word alien in their original "joke" - they wrote "That's assuming Einstein was even human." They then proceeded to act like a bully or abuser would act - "Oh, it was a joke! I meant it as a joke and I forgot to drop the punchline until almost an hour later! You are so dumb for thinking otherwise!" As an older sibling, this is something straight out of older sibling 101 and…

"That's assuming Einstein was even human."

If English is your native language and you interpret that literally, then yeah, I don't know what to tell you.

The downvotes for you and the rest of the people that took that literally should also probably indicate that the majority of people thought you were being ridiculous. Yet... you continue on.

Re: Fuck Your Miracle Year

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Post by oldstrangers »

Tao331 wrote: post #156
oldstrangers wrote: post #113

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The joke police are ruthless today. Just let me pay the fine, surely it's easier than having to convince people I don't actually think Einstein was an alien. Tesla? Actually an alien. (I'm kidding please stop).

I suspect these are people who think you're an actor for a nation state who accidentally let slip something s/he knows about Einstein being an alien. I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word "Boomer" while referring to a model of car that only that generation would have remembered. There's a smattering of extra crispy ESR-style hackers on here that occasionally trips over somet…

That's pretty impressive. I wish I knew if Einstein was actually an alien.

Also I forget that a lot of engineer types take a very rigid approach to language.

Re: Fuck Your Miracle Year

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Post by Tao331 »

oldstrangers wrote: post #166
Tao331 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect these are people who think you're an actor for a nation state who accidentally let slip something s/he knows about Einstein being an alien. I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word "Boomer" while referring to a model of car that only that generation would have remembered. There's a smattering of extra crispy ESR-style hackers on here that occasionally trips over somet…

That's pretty impressive. I wish I knew if Einstein was actually an alien. Also I forget that a lot of engineer types take a very rigid approach to language.

"Get eggs while you're at the store!"

He's still there to this day...

Re: Fuck Your Miracle Year

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Post by olivertaylor »

queuebert wrote: post #91
apples_oranges wrote: post #13

The miracle year will be when we will stop obsessing about success so much. Must be a perceived lack of love. So: Love your kids better, that's how you produce future miracle years.

I thought raising kids in dysfunctional households was how you imbue them with an insatiable thirst for validation that leads them to found companies and become billionaires.

Don’t forget creating great works of art!
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