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I don't usually like to recommend books, unless it's with respect to a specific problem.

But if you want to understand how your mind works and how it sees the world, especially from the perspective of someone who suffered a lot or is suffering, this is a pretty good book.
It's a philosophical wandering about the nature of mind and what it means to suffer.

And it can help you understand yourself in a way you might not have previously.

It can rewire your preconceptions of what you think is valuable or real in a useful way.
And it can give you a set of cognitive tools for understanding the trajectory of your life, especially if you really tremendously suffered.

Like deep, deep mental anguish on the verge of suicide

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Bret Weinstein once said every civilization comes to a point where it runs into finite resources.

In that world, the worst in people is brought out and winner-take-all strategies unfold.

Bret says we can look at ancient civilizations as examples for dealing with scarcity.
He points out that the Mayans built pyramids and were an unusually old civilization.

As soon as one was finished, they’d begin work on another layer.

The work never stopped.

In this way, the Mayans funded large-scale, non-zero sum games that fed people and gave them meaning.
Bret says humanity needs a new kind of fourth frontier, to avoid the pathological biological tendencies that activate in times of scarcity.

To give people a sense of abundance.

And I wonder, whether video games will become our Mayan pyramid.

They are limitless digital domains.
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Social media has probably accelerated prostitution by a considerable amount.

Young women be out there hustlin’
And men be paying for it when they can’t get it anywhere else.
I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing, but it’s certainly interesting.
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For the most part, I don’t understand Nassim Taleb’s arguments against IQ.

All I know is that nobody has actually addressed the points he’s made.
I wonder how many years and classes and books it would take before I could develop an intuition for the statistics and probability he knows.

5 years? 6 years of intense study?
More importantly, I don’t suppose it would be interesting to me, unless it has some utility in my life.

I don’t find puzzles interesting unless they have a purpose.
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See a few tweets discussing the EURO at 20. Reminds me of a blog post I wrote about central banking in the EU, the power of central banking, and the relationship of "central bank independence" in regard to Brexit. So I will tweet a few things from it.
urunu.com/blog/2017-12-0…
1/ When the 1992 Treaty on The European Union was signed, giving unprecedented power to a new independent European Central Bank. Article 107 was of incredible importance & significance but of course politicians just signed-away.

PDF of Maastricht Treaty: europa.eu/european-union…
2/ After the failed ratification of the EU Constitution, The Treaty of Lisbon was smuggled in by-the-backdoor as new rules for the EU using the 'amendments' legal loophole.
PDF of Consolidated version of the Treaty on European Union: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
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> Day 1 | Class subject -Graphics designing

Hello everyone, this is the first section of my Masterclass and today I'll be making a thread on Graphics designing, if you're online kindly retweet for others to participate in this educative section 😊🙏🏻

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#MasterClassByLeo
Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography and illustration.

Graphic designers create and combine symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages (Wikipedia)...
First thing you need to understand about Graphics designing is that it's not just about you learning the basics but also being able to combine ideas and make your own creative designs.

In other words, for you to be efficient in graphics designing, you need to be very creative...
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Mauritania election day: the incident happened in Boutlimit where the ruling party's campaign boss was caught printing ballots - the citizens sized it along with the printer
Mauritania election day: Mauritanians are asked to elect MP's, regional council reps in lieu of the dissolved Senate, and mayors. Unlike past elections, there's a flood of candidates. The voting ballot is a few dozen centimeters long
Mauritania election day: the context is tense because the current President's term end by June '19, he's said many times he's leaving, but given his history, few believe he's leaving.
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There are many things I would have loved to share with you about my life’s journey but the time allotted is not enough to do justice. Let me just share with you the story of my self discovery for those who may be driven to think I got here overnight. #BreakingBarriers
I was a peculiar child right from my formative years. At first my parents thought it was stubbornness, then later concluded I was damn right rebellious. In those days you do as you are told without having any other ideas. You simply obey. #BreakingBarriers
I wasn’t wired to simply obey & my parents would have none of that. I was the last born of 4 with enough gaps between myself and siblings to fit generational civilizations. So there was no excuse for my parents not to try to break me based on past successes. #BreakingBarriers
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Meet #Israel's #Hasbara, which means #Propaganda, MSM Censorship Application👇🤨
This app came out about last year, and it is still on the iTunes store.
The app posts daily missions & TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHAT TO SAY
#Trolls #Palestine #Gaza #BDS #JeremyCorbyn #JC4PM
6yrs ago #Jerusalem, #IDF Rep:
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How #Israel-i Propaganda (#Hasbara) Works: #TheLuntzDocument
If you want to understand how the #propaganda works you need to read the Luntz document -- "The Key," Luntz says, "is the Claim that the Fight is Over Ideology, Not Land. About Terror, & Not Territory."
#Palestine #BDS
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If you want to find out how science works, you have to watch scientists doing it. (Not make plausible stuff up and rationalizing it.)

Learning an embodied know-how skill: getting the right amount of alcohol on the Q-tip used to clean a microscopy sample.

fupress.net/index.php/smp/…
You can also go into the lab and try doing science yourself. It’s not as easy as it looks!

When I developed robotics and analysis software for chemists and biologists, I insisted on doing some wet experiments myself, to get a *felt sense* of what their needs were.
Statistician @betanalpha, consulting for malaria vaccine development project, dissected salivary glands of mosquitos under a microscope and counted the parasites, to make sure he understood what the data he was analyzing meant. #respect

h/t Matt Simpson

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