Gladstone

Decision Engineer.

The Maverick Mathologist. The Anxiety-Driven Shadower. ~rinpel-pilhul

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@futebol_info PQP jogo contra o Haiti em Philadelphia né. Super criativo. (Se der certo vão derrubar a estátua do Rocky pra botar uma do Ney.?)

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I'm actually quite boring as a person, and reading about others is a decent substitute for having an interesting life. It substantially reduces my need to be awesome, at least in some areas. I'm not sure if this bothers me, as it also removes all the hard work, so I might actually be better off.

"That person is cool, let's internet-stalk them and find everything they read/write." is still my most-used technique to find good content.

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Uma vez uma senhora me abordou na rua pra me dizer que tinha tido uma "visão" comigo em que eu era baleado e morria.

Apenas sorri e segui minha vida.

Anos depois, estava fazendo compras e houve uma troca de tiros nas redondezas, uma bala atingiu a loja em que estava, parando numa parede a 2 metros de mim.

Relação entre as duas coisas: nenhuma (ter uma "visão" com gente sendo baleada é um sinal fraquíssimo no Brasil; teria sido melhor dizer que eu iria ser atacado por um tubarão).

Protip: se alguém te abordar com uma profecia, NUNCA tente evitar a situação que te foi "revelada"

Cenário 1: a profecia é verdadeira e você só vai perder seu tempo tentando evitar aquela conclusão (aquilo foi uma tentativa de me converter pra alguma religião?)

Cenário 2: a profecia é falsa e não faz o menor sentido mudar qualquer coisa em você.

Fim.

(Todo modo, esse é um comportamento sério. Lembro de uma mulher que foi abordada assim por uma senhora no estacionamento de um supermercado próximo de mim, pra ouvir que sua bebê ficaria muito doente e morreria. A reação, corretíssima, foi a de chamar a polícia e alegar ameaça física contra um menor de idade.)

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@LucasKneipp2 Não deve ter visto nenhuma dessas finais, muito menos as campanhas.

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Para realizar mudanças estruturais, um sabotador hábil é provavelmente mais importante que uma rede de colaboradores bem intencionados.

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Chegará o dia em que as pessoas verão os sistemas de produtividade pessoal do mesmo modo que vemos hoje os cintos de castidade.

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Today is the anniversary of the birth of the Russian composer Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка (Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka) (1 June 1804–15 February 1857).

Glinka is considered to be the father of Russian classical music.

He was able to incorporate the traditional dissonances of Russian folksong into Western classical forms, and this gives his music a special quality not heard in any other classical music of his time.

He once said, "Music is my soul," a sentiment that many musicians will understand.

His operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan are among his most well-known works, particularly the overtures. I really love his "Патриотическая Песня" ("Patriotic Song"), which was written in 1833 for a national anthem contest. It was originally called "Motif de chant national" (educated Russians all spoke French in those days), and it was written for piano without lyrics. It was adopted as the national anthem of the Russian SFSR and the Russian Federation from 1990 to 2000.

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@LucasKneipp2 3 dos 8

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@coproduto E absolutamente ninguém admite que usou e usa IA.

Com frequência, são eles mesmos vocalmente "anti IA".

É parte do jogo. Todo mundo sabe disso, pra satisfazer as regras basta nunca falar a respeito.

(Se você se negar a participar do jogo, há alguma chance de ser punido.)

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May your incompetence never recognize itself as such; may you remain forever in the dark when it comes to the limits of your abilities. May you never quite understand why you never get the job you believed you were perfect for, but were in fact ludicrously underqualified for.

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The best answer for "what is the meaning of life": persistence hunting.

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Suppose the threat comes from human nature – some obstinate habit woven in our genes. Might science offer a way out, through deliberate self-improvement? First we’d have to admit that we have a nature.

Take the argument over evolutionary psychology. EP claims we all inherit patterns from pre-historic times – that long epoch when domineering males gained extra descendents because they were powerfully competitive, or jealous, or good at deception. Monarchy and feudalism heaped more rewards on any king who could talk thousands of virile men into marching and fighting to protect his seraglio. We’re all descendents from the harems of fellows like Charlemagne and Gengis Khan, who mastered that trick.

Opponents of EP argue we’re more than the sum of our ancestors. They cite our vaunted flexibility, the way we learn and reprogram ourselves, as individuals and cultures. Each sex can do almost anything that the other does, and rules that limited opportunity because of caste, race, or gender, have proved baseless. Indeed, our greatest trait is adapting to new circumstances, attaining improbable dreams.

Only, starting from this truth, critics puritanically claim that evolutionary psychology might be used to excuse bad conduct, letting rapists and oppressors cry “Darwin made me do it!” Hence, for political reasons, they claim people have no hardwired social patterns, or even leanings, at all.

What, none? No matter how contingent or flexible? Are we so perfectly unlike every other species on Earth? Isn’t that what religious fundamentalists claim? That we have nothing in common with nature?

Can we afford simpleminded exaggerations, in either direction? In order to survive, humanity must overcome so many old, bad habits. We must study those ancient patterns – not in order to make excuses, but to better understand the raw material of Homo sapiens.

Only then can we look in the mirror, at evolution’s greatest marvel, and say, “Okay, that’s the hand we’re dealt. Now let’s do better.”

-- David Brim, Existence.