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by 3x 8y ago
Just a joke, phrasing it referring to "you" wasn't meant to be personal.
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by 3x 8y ago
> immutable biological trait So now your two SUVs and white McMansion with a picket fence are an "immutable biological trait"?
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by 3x 8y ago
Social mobility doesn't have anything to do with it really. Even if it is easier for the average citizen to become wealthy, that doesn't entail that the ones actually doing meritorious work are being rewarded accordingly. The &quo
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by 3x 8y ago
> One thing is for sure, housing prices would skyrocket! Sure, in the hypothetical of instantaneously doubling the population without any time for the market to adjust for increased demand. But if the population doubles over the course
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by 3x 8y ago
But it's not... the feds will utterly fuck you over for possessing cocaine. Just 5 grams of crack in many states is going to land you in jail for a long time. Maybe you mean for research purposes, but even that I would doubt. Such a sh
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by 3x 8y ago
The difference is that these agencies never even bother with a warrant to store all of our data, and claim to not "collect" anything all while using algorithms to conduct mass surveillance at a scale far beyond the KGB's wild
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by 3x 8y ago
Actually if you check out more of his work it looks quite different from what was chosen for this article. I think the article wants to portray a logical progression from modern art to generative art, or just to show that an algorithm is ca
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by 3x 8y ago
Me too!
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by 3x 8y ago
> Well at any rate, the difference is that nearly anyone can learn to read, whereas there is no evidence to suggest that more than a few percent of people can become a computer programmer. LOL, programmers aren't that special. I w
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by 3x 8y ago
It's a common complaint on HN that too many articles include irrelevant details about the people and scenery of technical fields, but this article really pulls it off perfectly. It is dense in technical information and the personal sto
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by 3x 8y ago
> Sitting alone, staring into a wall while listening to music is not a thing most healthy people do. For most, music is a secondary activity. It's called listening carefully and it's something that every serious musician does
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by 3x 8y ago
Biodiversity loss would be measured in loss of biodiversity, I would think.
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by 3x 8y ago
We're in the middle of a mass extinction, what more indication do you need that this in not going to go well? The immediacy and stern tone of environmental news reporting is totally appropriate as climate change compares only to nuclea
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by 3x 8y ago
That's the whole point, isn't it? That's a good thing, right? Of course society at large should incentivize and facilitate the creation of open source software, but it seems the alternative you're suggesting (that the pe
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by 3x 8y ago
Deal with it, recreational drug users have been under a constant state of threat and abuse since forever. We've had to put up with a lot more than you, so next time you notice the smell of marijuana just be glad that no one is trying t
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by 3x 8y ago
Wheat has a decent protein-to-carbohydrate ratio and you can make seitan from it, which is a great alternative to tofu / tempeh and other legume-based protein sources.
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by 3x 8y ago
Has anyone ever experimented with Calea zacatechichi, Entada rheedii, or any other natural oneirogens to induce lucid dreaming? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calea_ternifolia https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by 3x 8y ago
Overdoses would decrease. Nearly all recreational drugs should be legalized with regulation to promote safe drug use. These substances should be sold in single individually-packaged doses, with clear and explicit labeling. Taxation can be u
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by 3x 8y ago
Eating fresh vegetables and fruits all day is glorious, not miserable. Foods like legumes, seitan, tempeh, tofu, nuts, and mushrooms are all excellent sources of protein and can even be made to taste very similar to meat. Since I stopped e