Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
The GP was framing the school as particularly toxic because it constrains people who really ought to be considered adults as if they were cattle. In my view, an adult ought to be able to leap at the chance for agency as soon as they emerge
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What made Albanian education so harsh?
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Isn't there a contradiction between wanting that freedom but then taking a decade to redevelop agency?
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This is very enlightening, thanks. I can definitely see how there would be good use cases there.
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For the sake of discussion, let's imagine you had zero chance of ever profiting or making any money from NFTs. In that scenario, how much interest would you have about NFTs, and what topics would you talk about regarding them?
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Depression and anxiety are complicated because we still know so little about these conditions, as evidenced by the recent serotonin kerfuffle. That means we are left to solve an urgent and life-altering problem with relatively artisanal tec
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What's the density of the Québec-Windsor corridor?
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What I find odd about Twitter is that the toxicity level is off the charts. It's not as bad as say, the wilder 4chan boards or Kiwifarms, but it's worse than almost anything else.
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Any technology that enables us to do more things tends to be a good thing. But we are suspicious of it because we know it remains to be seen whether the tech will actually be used to improve our lives
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The Warren Buffet story bothers me a bit, especially since him and his pal Munger are cited all the time in HN-approved material. He's definitely one of the richest men in history, and his ability to achieve that is worthy of respect.
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I suggest reading the Chronoliths as well.
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This book is a bit like Guns, Germs and Steel or Sapiens . Very popular, very quotable, but tends to give the false impression that the theory contained within is uncontroversially correct.
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I'll be honest, I lack the scientific literacy to understanding much of what Scott Aaronson is saying in that essay. But I will take your word for it that he has some surprising insights. The Catholic egg question is pretty fascinating
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Those are two very bold claims: that Google pulled out of China for purely ideological reasons, and that the Chinese tech industry would have otherwise failed if they had stayed. We are dealing with hypotheticals here, so it's not like
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Refuting propaganda does not mean that the demographic trend ceases to exist. It's true that there is a cottage industry of doomsayers, and nation-based agendas that criticize Japan and praise China, but we still have the raw numbers i
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Right now we are seeing the dawn of the automation of creative work. Or at least a change in its barriers to access that will decrease the ability of creative professions to make a living. It's still early days but the writing is on th
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The information obtained is so fragmented and imprecise that it's not really that useful beyond testifying to the the length of aboriginal history.
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We aren't heading to extinction just on account of birthrates, it's the transition phase with a large number of elderly dependents and a small number of workers that is going to be the real problem.
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So far the fines have been laughable compared to their revenue
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Money is just one aspect of it. It's the perceived availability of the person as a resource. Support staff are treated poorly because they're seen as available in that you can not only contact them whenever but they're techni
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I wasn't making a reference to American election fraud, but rather the notion that even in nominally democratic countries you are often voting for different sides of the same political structure with little fundamental change
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The first step is to acknowledge that just because a comment or message exists, doesn't mean you have to consider or respond to it. Bob is just one user amongst many, but the fact that he manifested himself through an issue means that
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This article touches upon a very important part of human nature that becomes increasingly counter-intuitive as you go along. First of all, people will define things as valuable if they bring utility to their lives. But the perception of val
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Huxley is to me a curious example because many of the themes written about on that page is quite mainstream if we ignore the specific dated references, even amongst "normies". The idea that we are more like Brave New World than 19
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There's a certain type of Westerner that really likes Japan so perhaps it mistakenly identified you as this based on your other interests.
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The ballot box as well. Only half joking here.
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If we expand the argument a bit, we might say that we're okay with some bathtubs but not others. If there is a slight chill or the water is ice cold, we feel trapped, but if we like the temperature we're fine not plunging into the
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I think it's alarming in the sense that it highlights the Google monopoly. But what do you find odd about it?
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https://www.nand2tetris.org/ I would also start with Code by Charles Petzold
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I stand corrected!

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