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A woman, a gay man, and a Jew banned from speaking at The University of California, Berkeley. Misogyny, homophobia, and anti-semitism. Defund!
A source.
(Guest post by Josh Jordan.)
A woman, a gay man, and a Jew banned from speaking at The University of California, Berkeley. Misogyny, homophobia, and anti-semitism. Defund!
A source.
(Guest post by Josh Jordan.)
Cosplay (e.g. dressing up as anime characters), goth and various other less mainstream fashion hides how naturally beautiful (by our current cultural standards) you are or aren't. Costumes cover you more and divert more attention to your clothes and accessories, and they sometimes include heavy makeup or even a mask. This is attractive to people who'd have less success with mainstream beauty. It's not a coincidence that you get lots of less-pretty people in fringe groups favoring appearance styles which make their physical appearance less relevant. Less-pretty people also decide to be trans at higher rates.
Cosplay also lets you put lots of effort into your appearance. It makes it socially acceptable to try hard. You don't have to pretend, "This old thing? I just threw something on." when you make a costume. That's appealing to people who are less naturally beautiful (by our culture's current standards) and want to put in effort to compensate.
More mainstream fashion has a lot of behind-the-scenes effort where you do subtle makeup and try to look like you didn't put much effort into your appearance (that would be shallow!).
This relates to the "law of least effort" explained by PUA site Girls Chase. The law is clearly explained in the book: whoever appears to put less effort into a social interaction has the social status advantage. Note it's about appearances, not actual effort behind the scenes.
Cosplay is an exception which lets you openly put lots of effort into your appearance in a socially-acceptable way.
So what? I think social dynamics that no one talks about or points out (afaik) are interesting. And mean.
The Final report of the Commission on industrial relations is a large government report from 1915. It has a disturbing section on education [emphasis added]:
All minors entering industry after 14 years of age are entitled to further aid from organized society in order to enable them to complete their vocational and cultural education. This is possible only through the establishment of compulsory daytime continuation schools of at least five hours per week at the expense of employers, and night schools.
This is supposedly about helping people. Why is compulsion the only possible way to help people?
These schools, in order to be of value, must be compulsory upon all minors in industry up to at least 18 years of age.
Why? No reasoning is given.
Our children need to know more as to their economic value, and more of their social duties and responsibilities. The schoolhouse is the place where much of this should be taught, in order that the duties of honorable citizenship shall be appreciated. Real social service is the highest attainment the individual can aspire to reach. All education is of value in life and the State should properly be held responsible for the education of her children, in order that the best possible use shall be made by the greatest possible number of the opportunities of life as they present themselves from year to year.
This says the State owns "her" children and must educate them to appreciate their social duties so the best possible use of their lives can be made.
This is really scary... And lots of it has now been implemented in today's "public" (state) schools which indoctrinate children on a massive scale.
The report also states:
The minimum amount of education which any child should receive is certainly the grammar school course, yet statistics show that only one-third of the children in our public schools complete the grammar school course, and less than 10 per cent finish high school.
How things change in 100 years! Now our society takes k-12 schooling for granted without much thought.
A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even A Republican Can Understand! is Ann Coulter's new article advocating the free market regarding healthcare. It's good. I have a point to add:
INSURANCE COMPANY: That will be $700 a month, the deductible is $35,000, no decent hospital will take it, and you have to pay for doctor's visits yourself. But your plan covers shrinks, infertility treatments, sex change operations, autism spectrum disorder treatment, drug rehab and 67 other things you will never need.
Unfortunately, having coverage of things you will never need isn't merely wasted money (or, essentially, hidden taxes to pay for other people). In some cases it's actively harmful. Rather than paying for zero value, it's paying for negative value.
The main issue is involuntary psychiatry. It's harder to subject people to unwanted "treatments" when you have to find someone to pay for it. The victim doesn't want to pay, the people who don't like the victim usually don't want to pay, and the mental prison won't pay. So who pays? Sometimes the government steps in to pay, but not always. You know what makes it easier to victimize someone? When the victim's insurance company pays. You can have a psychiatric "treatment" you don't want -- such as being imprisoned without a trial -- paid for by your own insurance company, against your will. Sometimes this makes the difference and gets you imprisoned when you wouldn't have been otherwise due to lack of funding.
Unfortunately, millions of Americans are harmed by psychiatrists every year, so this kind of issue is not as rare as one might wish. I provide some details on this in the next section, below.
There's also a milder scenario, which is you're pressured to see a psychiatrist. Or you're pressured to make your kid see a psychiatrist. Pressure can come from a teacher, friend, spouse or boss. Sometimes the pressure is tiny, and sometimes it's heavy pressure. And if you don't have insurance, you can use price as an excuse not to go or not to send your child. But if your insurance (or employer, school, or government) will pay, then you'll have to come up with some other reason to resist the pressure. Losing a particularly convenient, socially-acceptable excuse to say "no" will result in some unwanted trips to psychiatrists for some people.
So it's worth cash not to have psychiatric coverage. It'd be worth paying a higher monthly premium for it to exclude psychiatry coverage, if that were allowed (it's not). How much it's worth to get rid of psychiatric coverage is difficult to judge, but it's something.
It's the same with drug rehab. Suppose I took drugs for some reason, and then my friends were all pushing me to go to rehab but I wanted to quit on my own at home. The price of rehab – which my friends wouldn't want to pay – would be a good excuse that would help me resist their pressure and stay home.
I also wouldn't want coverage for any kind of "help" from social workers.
An interesting case is marital counseling. That can have value to people who go voluntarily, but it can also hurt people who are pressured into it. Even surgery depends. It's possible for a sports player to be pressured into a risky, expensive surgery that wouldn't have happened without an insurance company to pay for it.
The big picture is it's actively bad for you to have money readily available to pay for things you don't want. It's easier to avoid harm when finding money to pay for it is an extra obstacle in the way of it happening.
Also: read Thomas Szasz's short article, The Myth Of Health Insurance.
Just in California, there are over 300,000 involuntary psychiatric imprisonment orders per year. Many are converted to "voluntary" status because they will be locked up longer if they don't. Sucking up to one's captors is the standard path to freedom, rather than standing up for yourself. Many people are released quickly if they confess they were in the wrong and take a drug which causes brain damage.
Any time during a 72 hour hold, the doctor may arbitrarily place the victim on a 14 day hold if he wants to. At the end of the 14 day hold, the doctor may add another 30 days if he wants to. Meanwhile, family members are discouraged from showing up at all if a probable cause hearing takes place. And the probable cause "hearings" do not involve standard legal protections like excluding hearsay from counting as evidence. Victims commonly don't even get to wear normal clothes, they are forced to wear a hospital gown which is prejudicial.
In Florida, 194,354 involuntary (Baker Act) examinations were done in one year, and the number has been increasing significantly over time. This count intentionally ignores up to another 5,952 instances where the examiner forgot to write the date on the form. These involuntary examinations can last over 72 hours. This number includes children who were 22% of the victims. Roughly half of time time this is initiated by "mental health professionals", and half the time by law enforcement. Children are more likely to be victimized on school days. 22.7% more men are victimized than women, which the sexist report downplays as "slightly more" men.
The Florida numbers are substantial underestimates about psychiatry's reach. How many people say "no" to an authority when told they can agree to be examined now, and if they hesitate, are told their alternative is a legal order that they be examined anyway by a now-hostile examiner and lose their rights for 72 hours? That's common and documented.
The California Hospital Association says 4.1% of American adults are labelled seriously mentally ill per year and 58.7% of them receive some form of "treatment". After a little math, that means 6 million American adults per year are labelled seriously mentally ill and then have something done to them by psychiatry.
This is scary stuff. And there's a lot more info like it, and plenty that's worse. E.g. look up the present day use of electroshock "therapy" (torture) and lobotomy in the US. The FDA actually came out in favor of electroshock last year.
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My quick thoughts on Trump's missile attack on the Syrian airbase which Assad launched a despicable chemical weapons attack from:
Trump's attack was a pretty moderate, normal, mainstream thing to do.
It was OK, not great.
It's not what Trump said he'd do. E.g. in 2013 Trump wrote a bunch of tweets about staying out of Syria.
I'd prefer if Trump focused on his campaign promises more – destroy ISIS, get out of the Iran deal, build the wall, repeal Obamacare, and move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. None of those issues are going very well so far.
There's a selective attention issue. Why is this the right conflict to intervene in instead of a different one?
Trump and others haven't explained the self-interest of the attack in a clear, convincing way. What are the big-picture goals we're hoping to achieve by intervening? Spending $75,000,000 to help a few foreigners in the short term is bad policy which is contrary to the purpose of the US government and the purpose of our taxes.
Most people believe military actions should be proportional. That's wrong. They should involve whatever force is necessary for effective defense and resolving the problem.
It's bad to get drawn into back-and-forth tit-for-tat conflicts with only minor escalations. Ongoing fighting is awful. Instead, take little or no action until you're ready to go all-out and win. Trump's strike isn't anything like a last warning or second-to-last warning. It was just a response and Trump has threatened to do more small responses if Assad behaves badly again. That's a bad approach. (But note also that it's a moderate, mainstream approach. I'm the one who is out of the mainstream in my views here.)
If you're going to get involved in military conflict at all, there should be a plan to win in a fast, brutal, one-sided, non-proportional manner which is either pursued immediately or else threatened and ready. If you're just bluffing and have no plan for winning, stay out of it.
People are often nervous, defensive and stressed out about flaws they have.
For example: they are short, they have a small dick, their breasts are too small, they weigh too much, they have a blemish...
If everything else goes well, many of these issues frequently wouldn't matter to their date. But people bring up their own flaws and then act weird about them. The social awkwardness of saying, "I know I'm too fat but please don't be a bigot against me" is a much bigger problem than an extra 10 pounds. Saying, "I'm going to warn you in advance that I have a small dick, but I'll be really try-hard to make up for it." is even worse. (They don't say "try-hard" in those words, but they say stuff which has this meaning and is unattractive for this reason.)
It's ironic because people create their own disasters by awkwardly drawing attention to their own flaws. Then they take that as evidence their flaws are a big deal, deal breakers even, and so they're even more worried the next time.
If you don't bring up a flaw, a lot of times it will never be brought up. Relax and focus on stuff that matters, not "flaws" that aren't even a big deal you're just worried the other person will care about. If you don't want someone to care about something, don't start talking about it!
The same issue comes up in other contexts. Don't have a lot of work experience when applying for a job? Or maybe you haven't already done work exactly identical to what this job involves. Or you had a 2 month break between jobs. Or you got a B in a relevant university class. Or you and your previous boss didn't get along. In general, don't mention it. Don't start objecting to yourself and telling them reasons not to hire you. Address it briefly if they bring it up, but often they won't.
People go on vacations and enjoy them. But they routinely mix up several different benefits, some of which are unrelated to traveling and staying at a hotel somewhere.
Traveling to a place with something good about it (sunny beaches, museums you want to visit, etc) is one benefit of vacations.
Not working for a while is another benefit. People have more free time while on vacation. You'd still get this benefit if you took the same time off work but stayed home.
Another reason people like vacations is they spend more money. Not just on travel and the hotel, but also on food, spas, massages, entertainment and conveniences (to save time or hassle at the cost of money). They are less frugal about buying luxuries while on vacation. It's a common mistake to attribute some of the fun of this additional purchasing to travel. They could stay home but go to nice restaurants for a week and buy some other stuff they want, like they would on vacation, but without also buying a plane flight and hotel room.
I consider vacations (and travel) overrated. There are some good things about them, but try not to mentally bundle everything together. Recognize that you could do some of the stuff you do on vacation (take time off work, spend more money on your happiness for a week) without traveling, and save a lot of money, and it'd be better and more convenient in some ways. (Your home is nicer to stay in than a hotel room unless it's really expensive, and even then your home has all your stuff. And you have your car if you stay home.)
Alan Forrester wrote in a discussion of multiple universe quantum physics and David Deutsch's books:
The stuff [in the multiverse] doesn't come from anywhere. There is a continuous infinity of fungible frogs, like the real number line. That continuous infinity of fungible frogs differentiates over time. The number of instances of frogs doesn't increase or decrease as a result of the differentiation. You're just taking the set that already exists and dividing it up. The same amount of stuff exists before and after a division.
And Justin Mallone asked:
I've found stuff involving infinity really difficult to wrap my brain around in a way I felt like I could understand and explain and apply. This post reminded me of that fact.
And I don't have trouble understanding complex concepts generally, so I assume I have some systematic mistake or set of mistakes I'm making in my thinking about infinity in particular, but I don't know what it is.
I can easily conceive of some actual set number of universes differentiating many times. Like you have 1024 universes, and they differentiate in some way where something happens in half the universes and something doesn't happen in half the universes (lets call the thing Event A or something). And then you look at the 512 Event A universes and something happens in 3/4 of them (Event B) and so you have 384 Event A + B Universes, 128 Event A Only Universes, and 512 No Event Universes. And on and on.
But the endless differentiation of infinities of universes seems weird to me. I guess cuz one of the things about the sort of differentiation I was just describing is that you can easily assess the ratios of stuff happening in them. You can think of stuff in terms of probability of happening across the set of universes you're considering -- like above you could say it's equally likely that neither Event occurs and that at least 1 Event occurs.
But doing that with infinity seems harder. If you differentiate an infinite set of universes in some way, you still have an infinity after the differentiation, although both are smaller (?!) than the infinity that you had before the differentiation. What??? 🤔
To compare sizes of sets you need ways to measure the sets.
For finite sets a standard measure is the integer number of elements.
It's not the only measure people care about. Another thing you can do is weight the elements of the set and then measure the total weights of the sets and compare that. This kind of comparison can be more useful. E.g. you could look at the total weight of the set if you were looking at carrying sets of tools in a backpack. In that case, volume would be an issue too. And you could come up with measures of the utility of each tool and add up the total utility of each set.
Real scenarios are often more complicated than easy-to-calculate measures. Just because your tools have X total volume, and your backpack has X+1 total volume doesn't mean they will fit. One could be too long, or there could be no way to pack them together without empty space in gaps between some tools. And the utility of a set of tools isn't just the sum of the utilities of the individual tools. If a screwdriver is 4 utility, that doesn't mean 2 of that screwdriver is 8 utility. And nails have more utility if you also have a hammer.
The utility of a set of tools is too complex an issue for people to define a measurement function that's very accurate, so they do critical thinking instead (which may involve some utility measures as loose approximations). The weight and volume issues are both simple enough someone could do a good job defining it and inputting their measurement function into a computer which would accurately calculate it. This isn't trivial but it's doable today and people could get good, useful results with it. Companies like FedEx have computer programs that worry about packing objects into spaces and considering weight and volume. FedEx cares especially about putting boxes into cargo holds of trucks and planes. And there are mathematicians who like to calculate how to tightly pack spheres and other shapes into spaces with the least wasted volume, and they know some stuff about how to do that.
So some facts:
You can define dozens (or trillions) of different measures on one set. You can measure the same set multiple ways.
Some measures are more useful to human concerns than others. Some are harder to measure than others.
There is no canonical single measure for sets provided by the universe's instruction manual. There isn't like the one objective measure. There are often a variety of worthwhile measures for a set, and also many, many more arbitrary and dumb measures.
Some measures help address many different human problems, as well as more important problems. Their reach is a sign of their objective value.
Inches and meters are measures created by humans to help solve human problems. They are relatively useful and objectively valuable compared to many other measures.
Quantity is a more complex measure than people take for granted, and it's not really a singular measure across all types of sets. In order to measure quantity of iPhones you need a definition of what sets of molecules constitute one iPhone. Then if you want to measure quantity of hammers, you need a totally different definition of what is one hammer. Quantity is only measurable with a supplemental function defining what is "one" of something, and that supplemental function varies for different objects. This complexity is something humans take for granted as common sense
OK now let's talk about numbers.
Different infinite sets can be measured and get different results.
You can look at infinite sets and measure them as "Is it finite or infinite?" and come to the conclusion "infinite" for all of them, and think they're the same.
But there are other measures. The set of all real numbers has more stuff in it than the set of all integers, even though they're both infinite. This fact is then actually used for measuring other infinite sets -- is it the same size as all integers, or all reals, or something else?
The way to compare infinite sets is to consider whether there is a mapping that puts the sets in one-to-one correspondence.
I will show you a mapping from the set of all integers to the set of all odd integers. This shows they are the same size! (Same size according to the normal, useful way mathematicians measure infinite sets.)
The mapping function is: n*2-1
You take an integer, n, and you double it and subtract 1. Now you have an odd number, m.
This is a one-to-one correspondence. No m repeats and no m is left out. You can pick any odd number m and find that there is exactly one integer n which corresponds to it via this mapping function.
The function is also reversible and the reverse gets you a one-to-one complete correspondence from odd integers to integers. You just take an odd integer, add 1 and halve it and boom you've got an integer. And you can get any integer by doing this.
BTW you only need to find one mapping function to make your point. There are other mapping functions which work just as well. Such as n*2-27. That also maps integers to odd integers with complete one-to-one correspondence.
This set mapping stuff is counter-intuitive because people initially feel like there are twice as many integers as odd integers, so the measure should say it's twice as big. But this measure says they are the same size! Yet this is the measure that's actually useful, has reach, has lots of objective value, is used in math a bunch. You could define some measures which assign an integer size to infinite sets and assigns twice as large an integer to the integers as the odds, but that's either not useful or sufficiently obscure/niche that I'm not familiar with it.
And people feel like you would run out of odd integers when trying to have one odd integer for every integer. And you would with finite sets. There are twice as many integers from 1-100 as odd integers in that range. And the same goes for 1 to a trillion.
But you don't run out of numbers with infinite sets. That you're mapping 101 to 50 and 10001 to 5000 is not a problem. You can just keep going up and never run out of odd integers to map to all the integers. I think the best way to look at this is just that you can pick any integer and clearly see there is exactly one odd integer it corresponds to with our mapping.
A complete one-to-one correspondence means sets are the same size in some meaningful sense. It's like putting one set on the left, one on the right, and drawing a line between every element on the to every element on the right. And every single element in each set has exactly one line connecting it to the other set. Just like if I have 4 goats and you have 4 cows and we drew 4 lines and saw our sets of animals were the same size. But if you had 5 cows then we couldn't draw lines in this way, you'd have an extra cow with no line touching it, or else i'd have a goat with 2 lines touching it.
There is no one-to-one correspondence from the integers to the reals, which is why the reals are considered a bigger set. That thing you can do to correspond odds to integers is not possible with integers to reals. That makes reals a bigger set than integers in a way which integers aren't bigger than odds. And this particular way of measuring set size turns out to be valuable, useful, helpful -- it's a good way to think about things for many purposes.
You're having trouble because you're using your intuitions about quantity measures of finite sets, including I presume that there's only one way to measure a set.
Physicists have a measure of infinite sets of universes. The results are fractions like 0.2 or 0.01. And it means what you would expect: e.g. you measure the universes where event A happens, get 0.5, and that means it happened in 50% of universes.
You could measure as a fraction of the whole multiverse but you normally don't want to. You can also measure as a fraction of a region of the multiverse, like the ones where you exist and are doing this experiment at this time and everything else is the same too. Then of those initially identical universes, you end up with 3 sets of universes and one has a measure of .5 and one has a measure of .375 and one has .125 (these are the numbers from Justin's example quoted above for No Event, A Event Only and A+B Events.)
How can an infinite set get a finite measure? Well it's just like if there were hypothetically infinite points in an inch, it could still be measured as one inch. And another distance could be two inches, and they both have infinite points but there's still this useful measure in which one is twice as long as the other. Current physics doesn't say an inch of space is infinitely divisible into infinite points, but that is a familiar classical physics scenario which people's intuitions don't struggle with so much.
Anyway this stuff is really confusing without the right background knowledge: having some general understanding of sets, measures, mappings, infinite sets, etc. So this should help give you some leads to think about and lead to some followup questions.
BTW I don't even know where this stuff is taught or good books explain it. I learned most of this from David Deutsch personally.
PS I am not an expert on math or physics terminology and may have used a technical term a little bit wrong or omitted a technical term that is normally used. And I've focused on important concepts, not mathematical precision (like there may be some other rule for what counts as a 1-to-1 mapping which is common sense but math people like to write it down).
Most people don't like being told "no".
It's common that people ignore a request instead of refusing. They say nothing instead of "no". Especially online. In person sometimes it's hard to say nothing so they change the topic, or some something unclaer, or say "maybe" (then don't do it), rather than clearly saying "no".
In Overwatch, people commonly ask you to switch to a different hero. If you reply, "no" you're giving them useful information. You aren't going to change, so maybe someone else should consider changing. Knowing what you're going to do lets people synergize with it better. But people get angry if you say "no" and take it better if you silently ignore them. If you refuse them they feel challenged and confronted and try to fight with you. But if you're silent then you haven't challenged their right to order you around, and haven't confronted them socially, and they don't have anything to fight over. You appear the coward. And what happened is ambiguous. Maybe you're having problems with your headphones and didn't even hear them.
I prefer the type of people who say "no" instead of being silent. But most people are the silent coward types, and most people dislike it if you say "no" as if you have a right to say it and it's a valid, reasonable decision. People want conflict to be hidden in general. If I say "no" it's obvious we disagree, you want me to do X and I refuse. Silence hides the conflict better.
Passivity is immoral but normal. Asserting yourself stands out more. Communicating provides useful information, and silence is ambiguous – but people don't care much about that, they care about social status and interaction.
People are frequently silent because it's easier. Why go to the trouble of saying "no" – even if it's useful information – when people will hassle you for it? This is unfortunate. It'd be better if people communicated more honestly and weren't punished for it.
I've been playing Overwatch, a team-based (6 vs 6) first person shooter game. This raises a variety of interesting problems.
There are 23 heroes. To learn best, do you specialize in one or two heroes? Or do you play a wide variety and try to pick whatever is the optimal hero at any time? (You can switch heroes mid game to handle different situations. Hero switching is part of the game.)
Do you practice by playing the game, or do you do something else to practice like target practice shooting or 1v1ing a friend? Do you play more or do you read guides and watch gameplay footage from top players or tournaments? Do you spend time on test experiments to learn details about the game physics?
Do you do your best to try to win every game, or do you sometimes do something for learning purposes which you think can help you win future games?
How much attention do you spend on your mouse settings, your mouse pad, your hardware and frame rate, etc? Or just don't worry about it and play a lot?
Voice chat is integrated into the game and very important for coordinating better teamwork. How do you deal with mean people who insult you? People on your team who get angry and try to lose on purpose for revenge? People who are passive, quiet, and non-communicative? People who don't listen and don't follow team strategies? People who disagree about strategy?
Some of my answers:
Don't get into arguments with your team. Ignore assholes and mute them if they're persistent. (Sometimes I ask people to stop flaming and just focus on playing the game. Sometimes this works but sometimes they just keep at it and respond to the request with more flaming. If I ask someone to stop and they continue then I definitely mute them.) And if you really want to win, it's better not to trigger these people since they're really common. If I play Ana (healer) then basically no one gets mad at me ever, but if I play Widowmaker (sniper) then I get complaints in the majority of games (often there are complaints in the setup phase before the game even starts, so it's not even based on my quality of play). So it's easier to win games with Ana just because my team is happier.
Focus on one hero at a time until you're comfortable with them. It's really hard to learn much if you play a hero for one or two games then switch. It really helps to play at least 100 games in a row with one hero (play them at least 90% of the time, you can't realistically use them 100%), and more is better. (Games take like 10-15 minutes typically.) Once you get a good handle on one hero, then you can learn a second hero. Then a third. And keep going back to the heroes you're good with regularly to stay fresh with them. You learn more by understanding several heroes to see the game from multiple perspectives, but focused practice on one hero at a time is really valuable to learn them initially. Playing all the heroes is a bad idea which will spread you too thin, but playing several is a good goal to work towards. (It's a good idea try all the heroes a little bit at first to see which you want to learn and to learn the very basics of what they do.)
Don't just play the game. Watch a few tournaments to see what good, organized teams do. That's worth being familiar with to get a better idea of optimal play. Watch some pro streams who play heroes you play to see gameplay from the perspective of one really good individual. Try to find streamers who explain what they are doing and talk a lot so you can learn more. Make sure the streamer is a very good and serious player, not a casual "fun" streamer, but it's fine if they are like #1000 in the world, not #5, that's plenty good enough. Read and watch some guides until they get repetitive. Each different information source offers some value and you should try them all, each has its own strengths.
Playing to learn is good (like playing a hero you're less good at but want to practice). But try your best to win sometimes too. Do both. I bought a second account so I can practice on one and try my best on the other.
Playing a lot is important but it's also good to practice specific stuff like aim and 1v1s at least a little bit. It's another information source with its own strengths, so try it a bit. I do recommend focusing on playing the most, but try everything else a bit and see what value it offers.
Focusing on playing and not setup is important, especially when you're new. But mouse settings are legitimately a big deal. Many new players have their mouse move way too fast. Not like 20% too fast. Like 10 times too fast or more. I started out that way because it works fine in other types of games and for regular computer use. I lowered my mouse speed many times. Over time I improved other aspects of my setup, but the rest weren't urgent and could be done gradually so it's never very much of the time spent on Overwatch. (Like play for 20 hours, than spend half an hour improving your setup. Repeat. That's a reasonable ratio. It's worth optimizing stuff if you play a lot, but you don't want to get distracted from actually playing.)
Play the heroes you want to play as long as they are reasonably good. Which heroes are really good changes over time as the game gets new patches. Don't chase what's currently considered the very best heroes. As long as your hero choices that you like are pretty good, just stick with them. And don't play a hero you're bad at just because it's the right hero pick in the situation. You can do that to practice, but don't do it to win. A lot of players pick heroes they suck at in an attempt to win the game because they think the hero is needed in the situation. But having that player on a hero they are good at is way more important than having the optimal heroes.
If people don't communicate and don't do teamwork, you have to try to work with them. Watch what they do and help them with it. It's better that the whole team follows him and does an inferior plan than he just does something alone and dies. It's possible to win if you work together even if it's not the strategy you would choose. But if people are doing different things separately against a full enemy team, you'll basically never win. It's very hard to win any fights against a full team of 6 players without also having your own 6 players all fighting. So if someone attacks at the wrong time, go attack with him too. If you die, so what, you'll just respawn at the same time as him, so it doesn't really matter. (What else are you going to do, stay alive and wait for him to respawn? That will take the same amount of time. You might as well go try since everyone has equal respawn times, there's often no harm in dying at the same time your ally dies. If you lose a fight you lose the fight, it doesn't matter that much if you wait for one guy to respawn or everyone.)
meta discussion isn't a problem. DD was wrong.
the actual problem is parochial content that isn't of general interest. that includes stuff about specific people, events, times, places, activities (including conversations) that lack objective importance and value.
say a confused idiot is arguing boring, wrong details about a sub-point of a sub-point of a sub-point, and every single sub-point is totally misconceived and he's gone way down the rabbit hole.
it's equally boring if you then reply with parochial meta ("here is where your discussion methodology went wrong when going from sub-point 2 to 3, you should have...") or parochial non-meta (specific, detailed arguments about sub-point 3 that no one cares about because no one else has the same idea you're criticizing because they don't make that exact sequence of errors to get to that bad idea).
you want to say something interesting and important that a third party who doesn't know anyone involved in the conversation could care about. it doesn't matter if this is meta (great tips on writing, on communication, on how to discuss like Paths Forward stuff, thinking methodology content, talking about methodological errors people make, talking about error-correcting methods) or non-meta (talking about parenting, dating, politics, economics, art, programming, gaming). what matters is if it's general-interest or parochial. being about one specific person or conversation is a way to make things parochial, whether it's meta (discussing the conversation directly) or not (the detailed sub-points themselves of the parochial conversation that no one cares about).
another aspect of meta discussion is it's frequently off topic. suppose originally the conversation was about schools, and now it's about discussion methods. that's a topic change. topic changes aren't a bad thing in general. conversations shouldn't be limited to the original topic. tangents should be allowed. however, topic changes can be problematic when people are disorganized which is common. disorganized people can't deal with a branching, unbounded conversation that covers many issues and deals with sub-issues, connections to other fields, etc. the problem here isn't really meta discussion, it's some people lacking the skills to deal with multi-topic conversations at all, whether the second topic is a meta-topic or not. (they'd have equal trouble talking about both school and liberalism at once, because they'd lose track of the big picture and how the two topics are connected.)
do not consider "is what i'm about to write meta discussion?"
consider "is what I'm about to write parochial? is what I'm about to write of general, objective interest to strangers?" also if you're changing the topic or adding an additional topic to the conversation, consider if you and others involved have the organizational skill to deal with it.
People often think something they do is bad and then try to stop right away. Like smoking or spending lots of time on Facebook.
Often they don't do anything at all about it for a long time. Then they abruptly try to quit their "habit". (Peeing isn't call a "habit". People usually only call something a "habit" if they think it's bad.)
First they didn't judge their activity. They weren't thoughtful. Then they get super judgey. They think of a reason it's bad and now view it as totally unacceptable.
If something is a significant part of your life, or you otherwise find it difficult to stop, then don't try to quit abruptly.
Pay attention to what you do. Pay attention to how you feel about it. Try to understand why you do it. Try to learn more things about it, both good and bad. Write down factual notes about what you do including thoughts and feelings you have as part of the activity. Think of it as an information-gathering phase.
Don't threaten the activity. Then that part of you will get defensive. Do introspection. Be more thoughtful, present and mindful about it. That isn't an attack. Don't attack that part of yourself.
Once you understand yourself better (gather information for longer than you think is enough) then you can calmly analyze what you learned and consider if you'd like to make any changes and what problems you could run into.
What's good about the activity that maybe you don't want to give up? Maybe you can find another way to get it, and get that working first, and then after that's already successful then you could quit the original activity since you don't need it anymore.
When you quit it should be easy. If you have a good solution then you won't have much temptation, relapses, mixed feelings, etc. If you're running into those kinds of issues then stop trying to quit and go back to the learning-but-not-changing phase.
This all fits with the general pattern I advocate of powering up first (especially by learning) and then doing things when they're easy. Trying to do things when they're hard is inefficient and you'd be better off learning more instead of putting so much effort into doing this one thing early.


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Irene Green says training needs to prepare students to perform in the real world
With a lot of scrutiny recently being placed on the standard of training real estate professionals currently receive in Australia, Irene Green, Head of Academy at Harcourts Group Australia says in-house training needs to prepare students for the real world.
"It's not just about equipping students with the knowledge they need, but also giving them the confidence and the ability to perform out in the world", says Mrs Green.
One way to ensure students are equipped to hit the ground running is to introduce training requirements within agencies, for sales agents and property managers in practical skills such as business planning, time management, personal leadership skills and wealth creation.
Harcourts also mandates that training doesn't begin and end when someone first enters the industry.
"We have a strong culture of growing our people, no matter how far along in your real estate career you are, you are always encouraged to keep learning with a variety of courses designed for the more experienced consultant", says Mrs Green.
Harcourts is one of the only real estate groups in Australia to also double as a Registered Training Organisation, offering mandatory sales training programmes for sales consultants who are new to the industry to help them become registered real estate salespersons.
"Because our Academy is a Registered Training Organisation, our courses must be comprehensive and meet the requirements for accreditation, but I do believe that learning goes beyond accreditation, it's something you can benefit from throughout your career.
"I also believe that our industry can benefit from openly sharing best practice with others. The way I see it, sharing knowledge with our peers in the real estate industry can only lift the calibre of real estate agents in Australia, which is a great outcome for everybody," says Mrs Green.
Mrs Green believes this is about supporting your state's real estate institute and getting involved.
"Participate in industry events and offer to speak on panels, and take the time to write and share blogs through industry publications like REB", says Mrs Green.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President.
Now Im beginning to believe it.
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Miss You SMS – My Maths teacher…
My Maths teacher told me
1 Hour=60 Mins
1 Min = 60 secs.
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1 sec without a FRIEND like you is equal to 100 years.
Miss You…
Tamil SMS Joke – 3 FRIENDS going…
3 FRIENDS going to their room at 110 floor of the building!
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They start to walk in steps!
1st person told the action story upto 50th floor!
2nd person told the comedy story upto 109th floor!
3rd person told one sentiment story!
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Thought SMS – The ones who say…
The ones who say
"You can't"
"You won't"
are probably the ones that are scared that you will..
Thought SMS – There is nothing…
There is nothing like returning to a place that
remains unchanged to find the ways in which
you yourself have altered..!
– Nelson Mandela
Thought SMS – When we say…
When we say we trust "God",
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not being distracted by all that's around us.
Keep your eyes no "God".
Thought SMS – There is always…
There is always a hope and an end.
It depends on us how we deal with them.
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an Endless Hope.
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Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Stine's writing. Goosebumps comprised about a fourth of my childhood reading time--I couldn't get enough of those creepy, chill-raising books. And I can't WAIT to read Red Rain, his first adult horror novel. So...is it just me? Am I growing up? Is writing horror myself alerting me to the tricks the genre and spoiling the suspense? Or are vampires just so totally overdone at this point that any book concerning them makes me roll my eyes.
I'm about halfway through Temptation. I've blown past the first death and hardly blinked at it. But I'll save my final verdict on the novel for the last page.
Have you read R. L. Stine's new horror novel? What were your thoughts on it? And what are your thoughts on the horror genre in general?


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5.7: Slope
Casey's family is trying new things on their adventure vacation. Casey is excited about riding a zipline for the very first time. The beginning point is 20 meters higher than the end point, and the length of the zipline is 200 meters. What is the slope of the line?
In this concept, you will learn about slopes and how to graph them.
A slope can be defined as the steepness of a straight line. It is the ratio of the change in vertical measure to the change in horizontal measure. This is also referred to as the ratio of "rise" to "run" or the change in y to the change in x.
Slopes can be positive or negative. Regardless of the quadrant, or point values, slopes are based on the change of y (increase or decrease) as the x value moves from left to right.
A line that slants up from left to right has a positive slope.
A line that slants down from left to right has a negative slope.
Horizontal and vertical lines also have a slope. A horizontal line has a change in x, but it does not have a change in y.
The slope of a horizontal line is 0.
A vertical line has a change in y, but it does not have a change in x.
Division by zero is undefined.
The slope of a vertical line is undefined.
Example 1
Earlier, you were given a problem about Casey and the zip line.
The change in elevation, vertical distance, was 20m, and the change in horizontal distance was 200m. What is the slope?
First, write the equation.
Next, substitute in the given values.
Then, reduce.
Example 2
Determine if the slope of the line below is positive or negative. What is its value?
First, determine if the line rises or falls as it moves from left to right.
The line falls as it moves from left to right. The slope is negative.
Next, use the equation to find the value of the slope.
Then, reduce to lowest terms.
Next, remember that the slope is negative.
Example 3
Determine the slope:
First, determine if the slope is positive or negative.
The line rises as it moves from left to right. The slope is positive.
Next, use the formula.
Example 4
Identify the slope of each line shown below.
The line is vertical.
Next, remember that a vertical line has a slope that is undefined.
The answer is that the slope of line a is undefined.
The line is horizontal.
Next, remember that a horizontal line has a slope equal to zero.
The answer is that the slope of line b equals 0.
Example 5
Murray broke his arm and could not use the rope to climb into his treehouse. Instead, he got a ladder from the garage and set it up against the structure. The treehouse is 15 feet off the ground, and Murray set it 3 feet away from the side. What is the slope of the ladder? Is it positive or negative?
First write the formula.
Whether the slope is positive or negative can only be determined if there is a diagram or graphing coordinates given.
For each graph, tell if the slope of the line shown is positive, negative, zero, or undefined.
Answer each question.
- Does a positive slope have to contain positive numbers?
- True or false. A horizontal line is undefined.
- True or false. A negative slope goes down from right to left.
- True or false. A vertical line has an undefined slope.
- True or false. You can figure out any slope as long as the line has some slant to it.
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Trina Lorraine (Wingo) Martin, 98, passed away on January 10, 2013. Trina was born to Harvey and Neetice McIntosh Wingo in Pawnee, Oklahoma, on November 19, 1914. She graduated from Pawnee High School and entered Nurses training at Oklahoma General Hospital (now called Mercy). She graduated with an R.N. degree in 1937. In 1939, she met and married Dr. Howard Martin. After his service in WW II, they settled in Oklahoma City, where he was in private practice. The couple had two children, Sheila Martin Harris Taylor and Keith Martin. Trina loved her church, was a 50-year member, and belonged to several circles and UMCW. Trina was also an avid Oklahoma University Football fan. She loved talking about OU Football with her grandchildren. Trina left Oklahoma City in 2010 to be closer to her daughter in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Trina is survived by her daughter, Sheila, her husband Jim, living in Bartlesville; and her son, Dr. Keith Martin and his wife, Susan, of Orange, California. She is also survived by grandchildren: Jeff Harris and his wife Kim, of Dewey, Oklahoma; Lacie Harris Troxell and her husband Mark, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Whitney Martin Wilkes, of California; and Natalie Martin, of New York; great-grandchildren: Scott Harris and his wife Audrey, of Bartlesville; David Harris and his wife Deidre, of Dewey; J.D. Brooks, Megan Troxell and Tim Troxell, all of Tulsa; and Hunter Wilkes, of California; great-great-granddaughters: Jaydyn Farmer and Kyleigh Harris, of Dewey; and Lily Harris, of Bartlesville. Trina was preceded in death by her parents and by her husband. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Trina's name to Comforting Hands Hospice, 2450 SE Washington Blvd, Ste A, Bartlesville, OK 74006. Memorial Services will be held on Thursday, January 17, 2013, at 11 a.m. at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.
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The politicians, including Edward Kennedy and John Kerry, wrote to Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to insist Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi serves his full jail term in Scotland.
Terminally-ill Al-Megrahi, the Libyan found guilty of the bombing, today formally dropped his second appeal against his conviction. He is serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2001 of the 1988 bombing, which killed 270 people.
The Libyan government applied in May for al-Megrahi to be transferred home to serve the rest of his sentence, but no transfer can be made if there are outstanding legal proceedings.
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Country Environmental Analysis: The Philippines PEP 13: Manila June 9, 2008 Jan Bojö World Bank
2 Outline CEA objective & approach The process Preview of results Take home messages
3 Objective & Approach To assist rational decision-making to enhance the environment by: Building on best quantitative analysis Synthesizing in accessible, credible, consistent format Capturing economic magnitudes of problems Proposing priority interventions Fitting into institutional framework Wrapping into consultative process
4 Scoping Priority Problems Assess environmental damage in $ –Human health: establish exposure, impact –Monetary translation: loss of income, treatment costs, premature death –Loss of ecosystem productivity: net income impact on crops, forests, marine life…
5 Finding Priority Solutions For each major problem area, selective: Cost-benefit or cost-efficiency analysis Effectiveness Administrative cost & feasibility Political acceptability
6 The Process (1) Launch January 2008 Seven studies underway: –Environmental institutions –Environmental management success stories –Environmental health –Coastal & marine ecosystems –Forestry –Land Management –Climate change
7 The Process (2) 1st workshop, Manila June 16-17 Discovery Suites, Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com 2nd workshop October Delivery layered outputs: January 2009
8 General Caveats Preview of preliminary results from consultant studies, under peer review Not official World Bank estimates Considerable simplification necessary here Interventions identified, but cost-benefit analysis not completed
9 Preview of Results (1) Water & Sanitation: Strong disease links, particularly diarrhea Income loss + treatment costs + premature death = about $0.6 billion/year Source: Adapted from Arcenas (2008)
10 Preview of Results (2) Air pollution costs: Indoor: $300 m/year Outdoor: $30 m/year Source: Adapted from Arcenas (2008)
11 Preview of Results (3) Coastal & marine life: Estimates gross value of ecosystems Distributional analysis Degradation cost = $0.6 bn (2006) –Potential less actual fish yld. (80%) –Coastal development opp. cost & reclam. (15%) –Marine pollution (4%) –Climate change: minimal cost so far Source: Adapted from Padilla (2008)
12 Preview of Results (4) Re-thinking environmental institutions: Comprehensive policy & legislation in place Bias towards economic growth The key environment dept. should realign to sustainability mandate Local Gov. Units role should expand Enhance public information, participation & access to justice Source: Adapted from La Vina (2008)
13 Preview of Results (5) Climate change: Highly vulnerable – esp. typhoons Increase in temperature Changing precipitation Sea level rise
14 Climate Change Responses Strong institutional & legislative response on mitigation Weaker response to adaptation, but new GEF project Way forward: mainstreaming of adaptation Source: Adapted from Garcia-Rincon & Virtucio
15 Take Home Messages The CEA aims to make an economic case for the environment Damages to human health and productivity of ecosystems are significant Cost-effective solutions are available It pays to take care of the environment!
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