Perennial questions studied with the methods of our times.

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"Let's get it done!" Timothée Chalamet is in San Antonio for Game 5 to potentially watch Knicks history 🔥
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as a Spaniard this is such a culture shock at events, we talk about food, rent, football, where someone's from... then you move to SF and people are like “what problem are you obsessed with?” brother I am obsessed with dinner
Been in SF for almost 2.5 years. And figured two types of people: Camp 1: Stanford or Berkeley? Which company? How much equity? Know any VCs? Camp 2: What’s the last thing that changed how you think? What problem are you obsessed with? What did you read last? One exhausts me. The other reminds me why I moved here. 😅
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The streets will never forget
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If the Knicks can come back from being down 30 points, your portfolio can come back from being down 30%.
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is x part of spacex?
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What dreams are made of
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Until the age of 32, every single able-minded man believes given sufficient time to prepare he could get a job at OAI or Anthropic.
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the ai slop is starting to win me over
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Otro nivel el teatro japonés One Piece
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is it weird that i have a partial fondness for therapists.
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lowk feels like all these jobs will be clawdcoded away
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Just remembered the world sauna championship. Was one of the most interesting things I've read about It used to be hosted in Finland every year until the incident in 2010. Rules were that it started at 110°C (230F). Then 1 litre of water was poured onto the stove every 2 minutes The last person to walk out under their own power won In 2010, both finalists had to be dragged out The russian finalist died, burned all over, and the reigning Finnish champ went into a coma and woke up 6 weeks later with 70% of his skin burned, kidney failure and his airways completely roasted One peculiar thing about it was there were no prizes. Only in one particular year did the winner get 1 small prize, some special heat resistant speakers that could be used in a sauna But despite this, participants went to the edge of death every year and would do insane stuff like grow their hair out long specifically to cover their ears so it didn't get burned by the boiling water vapor It was interesting to me because it's another piece of evidence that as soon as you create a ruleset... no matter how ridiculous it is, no matter how small the group of participants, no matter the extremely chance of death, and no matter a total lack of prizes. There will always be men willing to compete to the point of actually killing themselves The male brain enters a kind of hypnotic trance where it will completely convince itself of the worthwhileness of the task, so long as it begins to venture seriously down the path of a competitive interest It's kind of like a hijacking of the programming evolutionary mind, where no incentive makes sense but it happens anyway. You can find a million examples of this for every male interest on the planet. Just the simple act starting down a path confers it meaning to the person, and the more they are surrounded by other men who care about the same thing, the more they learn and compete, the more entranced by it they are, until their identity is fully subsumed by it and stuff like these sauna deaths happen Seeing lots of things like this taught me to be very careful when I start down the path of any competitive interest or business, because getting hypnotized by what you are doing is essentially guaranteed. So it's good to assume it'll happen and be totally sure the outcome is worth your potential self-destruction
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I dont understand what people mean by ‘nicotine is addictive’ I just take the gums whenever I want
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hsastore.com/ literally changed my life like this backpack is eligible?
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the letters and numbers h, b, m, 4 were in my captcha. The gods have spoken. Calls it is $MU
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I’ve listened to thousands of hours of great music since. What an awesome streaming service.
Shopify launched to the public 20 years ago today
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