Agamus

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by Agamus 4y ago
I used to love the cyberpunk distopia aesthetic, back in the 90s. Now I want less of all of the things in this article. Less digital money, less cellular telephones, less of all of it. By comparison, if it was depressing to see awesome or i
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by Agamus 4y ago
In all of my amateur studies on physics, the most challenging statement I have encountered was from Bohm, in this clip: https://youtu.be/BFvJOZ51tmc?t=1862 "The world is... not analyzable into parts". If there are
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by Agamus 4y ago
"...so it's not so spooky that the field has a measurable effect." I'm sorry, but everything about forces is wondrously spooky to me. When we arrive at the time when we find fields to be non-spooky, and the idea of mater
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by Agamus 4y ago
As the adage goes, success is all about luck. Oh, and hard work. And the harder you work, the luckier you get.
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by Agamus 4y ago
This is an interesting point. Perhaps chains give a sense of cultural cohesion across the many states, in a geography that encourages a vision of a culture that spans the states. In Europe, are there chains that project a sense of cultural
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by Agamus 4y ago
On the flip side of this issue, I have been rediscovering my love for the sound of old pop tunes on an AM radio. 1008 AM is a great station available through this webSDR service: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
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by Agamus 4y ago
Correct - Burning Man was already lame by 1999 among the contributing counter-culture!
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by Agamus 4y ago
^ This is accurate. And when I saw the William Poundstone "Big Secrets" reference, I knew I was home. For anyone who hasn't played in that series, do yourself the favor! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_
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by Agamus 4y ago
You have described my own situation rather precisely.
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by Agamus 4y ago
In my mind, mathematics assumes that things do not change by saying that anything stays static for long enough to be called a "one thing". The philosophical basis of the concept of "one" is flawed, in my mind. As such, t
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by Agamus 4y ago
Data science is exposing the limits of the paradigm of individuation, on which mathematics is based. It is a flawed simulacrum of a fluxing universe which never stops changing, never solidifies into a value, a digit, an individual thing. Ma
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by Agamus 4y ago
This one took me a moment, and I almost replied that they're a step ahead of you and already have entire departments of auditors!
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by Agamus 4y ago
My apologies, and my mistake - I didn't mean to say that this only happens in Student Services! I worked in a Student Services office for 15 years, but I suspect this happens all over the place. I also suspect that much of this changed
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by Agamus 4y ago
We might conclude that because this kind of thing probably never happened, say, 50 years ago, that, things have changed. Methinks Heraclitus is grinning in our general direction.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is at least partially wrong. Are you only speaking of public universities? I worked at an expensive, private, liberal arts, non-profit college, where I witnessed revolting inefficiency. Do such
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by Agamus 4y ago
When I send my own children to college, it will be exclusively through extension courses. No frills. A long time professor at Harvard did the same thing for his children and gave me this idea. I feel strongly that these expectations could w
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by Agamus 4y ago
"The solution is and always has been to cut the fluff from the academies. For context, go add up the salaries the 'student services' area of the expensive school of your choice. Having worked for one such office for ~15 years
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by Agamus 4y ago
Interesting article, and worth the read. Cheerfulness plays a large role in Nietzsche's alternatives to 19th C German pessimism. It's an uncanny, eerie cheerfulness, though. You can see the seeds of post-modernity in lines from N
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by Agamus 4y ago
I have worked from home for the past two years, and my company has started the return-to-work policy last week. I applied for, and was given, full remote status. If they had not done this, I would have definitely found another job that was
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by Agamus 4y ago
He's teaching this person how to use internet tools to look up the answers to questions. The expression is "Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you will feed him for a lifetime." For t
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by Agamus 4y ago
True Stories is my favorite movie ever. Unique! I absolutely love the covers of Talking Heads songs throughout, especially "People Like Us" and "Papa Legba". Wild Wild Life is my favorite Talking Heads song, and how does
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by Agamus 4y ago
To me, this is clearly a hit piece. The headlines insinuate that this applies to all of DDG. This only affects the DDG mobile app. Just for starters, and not to be snarky, but doesn't the very use of a mobile telephone contradict conce
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by Agamus 4y ago
This reminds me of the Little Liddell and the Big Liddell of classical Greek scholarship fame. The little Liddell is the small version of the famous Greek lexicon, while the Big Liddell is the big version. To make matters weirder, the small
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by Agamus 4y ago
Yes, because internet searching requires general filtration, while filter bubbles do their filtering based on a specific user's previous searches. The former is necessary. The latter is... smelly.
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by Agamus 4y ago
I have never used social media sites like Facebook, and I have not lost touch with any of my friends. Not even kidding, the postal service still works quite efficiently, and email is very useful. Part of the problem here may be generational
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by Agamus 4y ago
After the 2008 economic crash, a lot of US colleges and universities experienced a drastic realignment of their entire core mission and method to focus on career outcomes and ROI. Even without this, graduate programs are one of the biggest
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I would argue with Nietzsche that, "life without music is a mistake".
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By definition, or at least by etymology, "News" is "New things".
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Also agreed - I don't think it would be a threat to the freedom of the internet. Look, no one forces any of us to use the obnoxious websites. For many of them, there are alternatives (email), and for the worst offenders, abstaining is
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by Agamus 4y ago
I like this - a new perspective. I sense this is compatible, but I lean toward Heraclitus, in that I see (the illusion of) order manifesting from decentralized flux - e.g., quantum fluctuations in empty space. Our best bet to understanding

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