So how do you manage to use them as wallpapers? Can you do it on a mac?

I have a bunch of paintings that rotate daily. I wish I had more though, but it's not so easy to find good ones.

http://imgur.com/a/p0btw#13

Just to take a different approach to the more philosophical responses, make sure everything is well with the more concrete aspects of your life. We are made to care, we are made to be motivated and content; I truly believe that when we are not, it's because something else is preventing your body and your mind from working as they are supposed to work.

Are you working too much and over-stressed? Are you sleeping and eating well? Do you make time to let your mind just wander? From personal experience, I cannot stress enough how important these things are, especially having enough sleep.

If all of these are in order, you'll get an idea for a project, or you'll meet someone, or you'll just enjoy one particular moment, and it will have meaning to you. You'll be motivated and encouraged, it will matter. I don't spend much time searching for meaning anymore, I try to work to remove the things that are blocking it.

I don't think Volkswagen is really investing on a hover car, that looks like it was just a funny video. In any case, until we have antigravity, no. We do have helicopters and levitating trains, though.

Shouldn't it be: "I cannot live without her!"?

That sounds a bit over-dramatic to me. But also, don't ever get married if you don't want to! Not because "it is time", or because you've been in a relationship for too long, or because of fear that she'll break up if you don't. Are you living together? In any case, you don't have to break up either. That's her decision to make if she feels its not worth it.

I lived together with my ex for a while before getting married, had a great relationship, and it still didn't work out. Depending on your views about marriage you might think that getting divorced vs. braking up is the same, I did. But it is not. It's not the same for everyone around you, family and friends, and its not the same to you because inevitably the relationship becomes part of where you see yourself going for the rest of your life, and changing that has profound emotional consequences.

No, the whole idea of sites like these is to parse content through the community so that people get to see what they're most interested in. If it can't manage you posting a lot, then the system it's not working well, and we should fix it. So please, post all you want and let us see how hubski deals with it.

Philosophy is an incredibly technical subject. If you grab a book from Heidegger, for example, you won't understand anything; or worse, you'll think you understand and it will seem "deep", but really you won't understand anything.

The main thing to figure out is if you want to do this technical study, or you're more interested in -as you said- expanding your ideas. To read direct, I agree that Nietzsche and Sartre are good options (not so sure about Descartes). Greek classics like Plato or Aristotle are also good reads. I would also add books not written by philosophers, such as Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, pretty much a personal diary collecting thoughts, highly influenced by stoic philosophy.

But for Heidegger, for Hegel, for Kant, for Husserl, get a contemporary book about their philosophy. Or at least a version of their works including good commentary by a contemporary author.

Also, there is a bunch of modern philosophers that are less cryptic, usually focused on more specific topics such as philosophy of science or philosophy of language. Daniel Denett is a good example. These are also great books to read direct, but I don't think they will prepare you much to tackle the rest of philosophy.

If you want to learn about philosophy as an academic discipline, and you haven't read many introductory books before, definitely start there. It will give you an overview from which you can then choose more specific topics or authors to follow. I tend to dislike university textbooks for this; those that have the "key" concepts in bold letters with a short explanation on the side, and are currently in the 16th edition...

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn looks good, but I haven't read it. It doesn't follow the history of philosophy, but rather focuses on the ideas, which I think its a very good way to do it and looks like what you wanted. Hope it helps!

I find Aether's use of peer-to-peer network very interesting, not so much for the anonymity but rather for the non-reliance on servers; which I guess are the most expensive part of running a site like this. Like Tor, it looks like the anonymity thing will lead to a focus on unsavoury stuff.

Maybe one day, when peer-to-peer works better and faster, sites like this will not have to pay for servers anymore. That would be cool.

It might be fear of something I don't understand; but I'm just not a fan of having our world economy depend on an automated system of high-frequency transactions. It's great that they managed to shut this down on time, but a more difficult to identify "bug" could have horrible consequences.

And yet, incredibly, all of these seem to be unrelated.

This should go in #personalfinance as well.

In the Star Force series, by B. V. Larson, there is an alien race of Centaurs. (Larson bases his alien races in animals, it's not very creative, but it's so over the top that it ends up being brilliant.)

They are indeed a herd-like society, that values war, bravery and honor above all else, and are collectivistic to the extreme, happily sacrificing individuality for the common good. They also make long-winded and flowery speeches, and are horrible at obeying any order that doesn't involve a direct attack. Any kind of strategy or tactics are considered cowardly and duplicitous.

I cannot imagine any other culture for the centaurs.

How can you do this in a book? I've been trying to think of examples and the best I can come up with are books that are told from the perspective and the style of the protagonist. A recent example is The slow regard of silent things. Rather than trying to explain what's going on in Auri's head -which is probably impossible- it is written like Auri would write it, using the words Auri would use, and not bothering with explanations for the names or the logic behind her worries or decisions. All the while maintaining a traditional third person narrator.

Also, great music.

Writing, like speech, has a physicality to it. Perhaps the main way this shows is in its serial nature, where ideas are no longer jumbled up in your head but laid out one after the other. This definitely has to do with logical structure; but it also happens in poetry, for example, so its not the same. The cool thing is, you can choose how to order your ideas so that they have the effect you want.

And you can enjoy the process.

In that sense writing feels more like creating something tangible, choosing words and ways to express yourself that will convey what you want. And choosing the right order to express those ideas. Doing an outline can certainly help, but personally I find that preparing a very detailed outline can be counter-productive for this, making my writing too mechanic.

When you're writing, or when you're telling a story, the main thing is to focus on what you're trying to express now and have in the back of your mind a general idea of where you're going with this. Typical examples of bad writing involve people getting ahead of themselves and getting to the conclusions before developing important parts of the argument or story. This can make people repeat themselves over and over again, getting their big points washed out in a disorganised mess.

The thing with DE is that you can very easily try them all. And you should!

I actually like Gnome 3, a lot. It's a desktop environment that's uniquely linux, that moves beyond the usual windows 95 paradigm and it's stylish and well thought-out. I think much of the negativity it gets is because they made a very big change from the previous version, and its just not what people who used the previous version wanted.

Also, i3 is just great, especially if you use the command line a lot (yes, I know it's not a DE, but really whatever. It serves the same function).

July also has way more searches for hubski, and we're only about a week in.

I've been fairly successful getting the people I interact with to install it, it's not like they have to uninstall the other things. The option to use the same chat on the computer and the phone has been my main selling point (though Facebook messenger does that too I guess).

I think its self-indulgent and a bit much for people here to say that. There are some really great discussions on reddit, for example. But there are a couple of things that work well with this system in my opinion. 1. The focus on users and the small size makes me care more about what I write, because I feel I'm building relationships somewhat. And 2. The lack of "downvotes" (and probably also the smaller size of the site) makes me care less if people don't like what I'm writing (i.e. it's less risky for my self-esteem), or feel that it's not worth posting my thoughts.

Shower before bed is great, but I do need the shower in the morning because it wakes me up. I used to do some exercise in the evenings, and that was a great excuse to get two showers in... uh, maybe should start doing it again.

Short answer: I have a kindle. Seriously though, I'm amazed at how complicated some of these systems are. For me, the main thing has been to simply stop watching tv! Most of it is crap anyway. Besides reading, I do have an apple tv where I watch movies and series once in a while. For sports, I just don't follow everything anymore. If there is an important game, well that's a great opportunity to go to someone else's house :) I also have spotify and sometimes I just put on some music when previously I would have watched tv.

I don't see how this is such a threat to the existence of Wikipedia. The decline in editors is most likely based on the difficulties involved in editing, both technical and procedural, but this is an enciclopedia. Most of the important content is already there.

These problems can be solved, but the challenge and constant threat is how to deal with the governance of such an organisation. I think both Wikipedia and Linux are pioneers in this issue, and what they do will determine the development of the internet we want.

Source? reverse image search only gives an imgur link :/

I finished The Three-Body Problem a few days ago, it was pretty good! (but it's a best-seller, so not really a very brave recommendation).

Also, I had to look up the three-body problem in wikipedia, it's fascinating that such a basic system can be so complicated.

In 1887, mathematicians Heinrich Bruns and Henri Poincaré showed that there is no general analytical solution for the three-body problem given by algebraic expressions and integrals. The motion of three bodies is generally non-repeating, except in special cases.

Not sure I can say just one. But I listened to No Code, by Pearl Jam a millions times walking by the beach after getting my first walkman. Good old days.

I know what you mean, but people take chess way too seriously. It's just a fun board game, or it should be.

Easy can also be slow. One meal I love to make is chicken with baked potatoes, which is great if you're looking for proteins and calories :)

The potatoes take a bit longer (45-60 minutes) than the chicken (30 min). So you put the potatoes in the oven first, wait about 15 min. put the chicken, wait 30 min, and then you're done! No need to peel the potatoes - to complicated - and you can cut them in half and put some butter in them.

If you put some oil and salt on the potatoes they get crispy like this: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-bake-a-potato-in-the-oven-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-165615 Oh I'm hungry now.

I'm a social psychologist working on informal segregation and intergroup contact. I mostly do multilevel analyses to study contextual effects of segregation in cities, schools or universities, and I'm also running a project studying actual conversations between members of different groups vs. people from the same social group.

One that I read many years ago, when I was an undergrad, called The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse. I think it was very influential for deciding to get into academia... it's a very strange view of academia though.

Here is a relevant description from Wikipedia.

The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, which was reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum. Castalia is home to an austere order of intellectuals with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools for boys, and to nurture and play the Glass Bead Game, whose exact nature remains elusive and whose devotees occupy a special school within Castalia known as Waldzell. The rules of the game are only alluded to—they are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics.

The Foundation Trilogy and War and Peace were both very influential in me getting into Social Psychology, perhaps even more than studying the thing. It's like literature gives a nice background for my motivations and intuitions about the field, and the rest is just technical stuff.

Two recommendations for science fiction then. Hyperion, because it's far-future over the top science fiction, with a metal-made teleporting time traveling monster and a poet that likes to swear a lot. And the Vorkosigan Saga (start with the Warrior's Apprentice) because Miles its one of the wittiest heroes ever written.

But yeah, use samples!

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What do you like to read? That's pretty important for making recommendations!

In any case, one of the very best things about a kindle is that you can get a sample before buying the book. I would say they usually include about three chapters, plenty enough to figure out if you want to keep reading. Unless you're reading an author you are very familiar with, it makes sense to read the sample first.

The system is great because when you get to the end of the sample, a dialog shows up where you can buy the book and just keep reading from where you left off.