annyeonghada

Completely disagree. The "heaviness" of an insult is determined by various factors: how much you value the person holding that opinion, how much you want to be accepted, how many rejections you got through... We are not robots that can automatically choose to not care: in the past I was in the stoic camp, red Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and so on but now I recognize that that philosophy brought me lots of pain: even if I cannot control something, like others opinion, it doesn't mean that I should not try to change it. Humanity get by by dreaming of something better: being through religion, riches, wisdom and so on; stoicism (and in part meditation) destroyed that impulse to improve.

For me it's totally irrelevant how many money I spent in how much I value something. I have numerous overpriced textbook in my shelf that I've never read, on the other end my libgen textbook are used constantly and got me through university.

Is this such a strong component of the American teenager identity? I know exactly one person here (Southern Europe) who plays videogames and nobody talked about it. Sports, music, fashion, movies, politics: that were the things that could make you or break you in high school.

>If you're a self taught programmer you probably didn't learn by finding a university's syllabus and trying to replicate it.

Exactly what I'm doing. I dislike being dumb because I missed something.

Now spend time with career women and realize that a stay at home dad is not even considered a man worth talking. Women want their vake and eat it too but the one baking it should always be the man.

The best check and balances against the government forbidding you to use your money is having cash. No need for a third party intermediary.

I would prefer to be able to pay without my name attached to every payment but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do. I do not want the right to a bank account, I want the right to pay anonimously in cash.

The thing that I noticed, at least in Italy, is that young people seem believe all the propaganda about cashless society: they really think that it is about fighting tax evasion. I am sincerely afraid of an entity that can control all of your money if you're not "good" enough: how not-good I have to be before they forbid me from living.

This is just sexism and if you swapped "man" with "women" you would be rightfully cancelled. Your age is not a justification for suggesting such absurdities. As an example, the majority of teachers are female and so many of them are useless slobs who should have never been allowed near a school.

A really disgusting comment.

Well, I could say the same for your comment. I would be skeptical that anyone who dismisses an observable phenomenon is "open minded".

>cheap shot to score points against woke bogeymen.

Why denouncing something that tries to bring division and aggravate difference is called a bogeymen? Have you considered that it may be a real phenomenon?

>I mean, when I hear people complaining about "woke virtue signaling" I don't know what that means other than "being respectful" and "modeling good behavior".

Come on, it's not that. "Just being respectful" is very different from the coercive tactics of the zealous kind we have seen in the recent years.

Not only that, in a sense it's true that serpent helped "creating" us, al least our visual system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory

Grace Hopper had a PhD in Mathematics from Yale.

>DOers will always come out ahead. Not do it once but acting on your ideas regularly. Yes, some ideas will go wrong but at least you know the out come.

Especially if they are already rich.

>DOers are those we read about all the time.

Because nobody wants to hear about the DOer that failed and ruined his/her life.

>You never hear about those that did nothing. Maybe, we read their name in a grave stone.

And maybe they had a great family and their name will be remembered in the family for generations as the "founder" of the family. Almost a mythological figure.

Same. I had already chosen the date but chickened out. The next time I will try getting drunk first.

The books cited are weird self help-y "non" fiction books that misrepresent research: when you look at the actual articles is nature all the way down.

In high school P.E. I learned how if you're sufficiently athletic teachers will let you bully weaker kids. On the other hand I use calculus everyday and it is fundamental to my understanding of the world.

That's why I've found pomodoro so useful in my day to day life: focus only on the successive 25 minutes, the rest will come.

Incredible how in this threads the comment to such fundamental truths are dismissive. People really want to be more than animals to the point of lying to themselves.

Incredible that the same thing could be said with lots of perceived "inequality" but in such case "systemic forces" are the cause and personal responsibility is to be avoided.

May it last forever.

>western society

Ah, yes, because Eastern countries like South Korea or Japan are not obsessed with achievement and tainted by heavy doses of burnout.

>I'm firmly of the opinion that kids are naturally born geniuses

Well, your opinion goes against the basics of genetics and reality.

>and that our [lack of] child-rearing and educational systems traumatizes them into dullards before they get a chance to grow into their full potential.

Incredible how that only some people get to be traumatized and others do perfectly fine.

>László Polgár

What is never mentioned in László Polgár's story is that he made the sister choose the activity they already enjoyed and were good at (natural talent, in other words), and by doing that he completely invalidates the results he would have liked to obtain: I bet that if he were to force the sister to study Physics or Chemistry or Literature or whatever he would have not achieved the same "extraordinary" results.

Well, in that case you need: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You could stop Math in 3rd grade for everyday life applications.

Never experienced this magical "written thoughts". The only way I can write is if I already have thought the idea through and wroting is for documentation, editing and reference. I've found the same in studying: taking notes has always been a waste of time for me. I wish I had this superpower to make writing moee useful but even 2 years of everyday journaling hasn't given me back the payoff that I expected given my efforts.

No. It just pays more. If I were sufficiently wealthy I would return to physics and never touch programming again as a job.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but deactivating Facebook when I was 19 years old has benefitted me in no ways. I am now 27 years old, I hate Facebook, but the old ways of socializing are basically extinct where I live: even at University everything was organized through Whatsapp/Facebook and various Student/Town Associations do not have a website and use Facebook/Instagram.

Have you ever questioned if 20 years old females are as desirable as they think they are? Because they are not.

Pretty handy to make all the fault of "males" while never ask them what desires they have, what they want in the other person while constantly emphasize females' desires. Have we ever question women about their own standard? Are they too high? Are they what men want? Do they bring something on the table or it's the usual "I'm a passive princess: entertain me, jester!", because if it is I prefer porn, it usually doesn't ask to pay for a date.

>The vast majority of people would rather have a SO with some sort of interest than someone who just sits around passing time while the world moves on without them

Really? Tell me where these people are! The vast, vast majority of couples I know just coast through life and sometimes they "hang out" and sometimes they take some photo and sometimes they partecipate in some friend's celebrations and so on and on. If they asked each other about their interest they would not have any.