Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
In the case of Von Neumann, his contributions are so extensive that he ends up flanderized even though the flanderization in question still pegs him as a multifaceted person
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't think they ran out of sci-fi tropes so much as they ran out on the core idea of the show. They took two established characters (Marty and Doc Brown) and explored/deconstructed the inherent absurdity and great dynamic betwe
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by Bakary 4y ago
Sadly, I don't recall the exact words or source, but it was 'improving' in the sense of continually experimenting. I agree that a lot of late Asimov isn't as great as some of his foundational (heh) works.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Authentic people exist and always will; you just have to work to find them and support them. If all you see are the click-optimized, by definition you are looking in the clicking arena where they will be the most present.
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by Bakary 4y ago
As you age, the rewards you get from social conformity become less and less important because your social role starts to be squeezed in general. Pop culture stops catering to you as much, you are less likely to multiply intimate partners or
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by Bakary 4y ago
The last part is indeed hyperbolic, but I don't see how you can witness the last few years of American political life and conclude the equivalent of "it can't happen here."
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm not referring to the actual animals. To clarify what I meant: both Orwell and the ideas we have about civil rights tend to focus too much on the individual human's perspective of seeing rights evolve or the moral and emotional
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by Bakary 4y ago
I really enjoyed the next to last panel with the young then old couple. Crazy how a single image can say so many things.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm intrigued by those choices and can't tell if you are making a subtle joke about life itself (building, writing, fucking?).
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by Bakary 4y ago
The 21st century humanist understanding was always predicated on a world order of massive inequality and international power balances. Now that non-Western countries are providing more competition, and Western countries are seeing their rel
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by Bakary 4y ago
The cat is already out of the bag. What GDPR is doing is just providing a counterweight to the siphoning power of American tech.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Ironically books like those of Orwell aren't particularly helpful, because they anthropomorphize too much. The idea of a downward trend of civil rights is also misleading, because it implies a separation of these rights from all the ot
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by Bakary 4y ago
The Russian economy was also supposed to collapse months ago based on how the sanctions were portrayed. It makes more sense to not assume too much too soon.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Aren't we talking about something AGI-like with this last sentence?
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's definitely a cliché to point it out but... religions themselves are pretty scammy and money-oriented in their own right.
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by Bakary 4y ago
My bad. A supernatural force actually caused me to misread your previous comment.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Common decency is a concept most often wielded to increase social control and to stifle challenges to social norms. Where was decency when the monarchy was plundering and altering the lives of millions? Westerners are generally able to unde
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by Bakary 4y ago
Compared to actual poverty that is experienced by billions, that doesn't seem nearly as terrible.
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by Bakary 4y ago
There's so much American-centric content in the anglo internet that literally anything else is most welcome
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by Bakary 4y ago
As someone who needs to cycle between multiple languages I fully recommend the use of the "US international" layout in this scenario
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by Bakary 4y ago
You can say the Earth is shaped like a cube, or like a sphere. Both are hot takes because it is in fact shaped like something we circularily (no pun intended) called a geoid. Yet wouldn't you be more interested in listening to the &quo
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by Bakary 4y ago
That prompted me to read the guidelines for the first time, and I'm seeing multiple relevant rules, such as asking not to fulminate, eschewing flamebait, avoiding ideological battlegrounds etc.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Not exactly. Contributions that imply or explicitly mention martyrdom are met with suspicion, because they also imply unproductive flamewars are soon to follow.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Since it's a closed system, that is pretty much to be expected
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm not seeing a meaningful difference since the boundary between a passive or active supernatural force is not always clear in any regional belief system. Christians will pray to Saints, which appear to be beings, but the rituals havi
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by Bakary 4y ago
Mormonism is in a transitionary phase between Scientology and more established religions. It is taken seriously but still has a aura of non-seriousness about it. Scientology will probably reach that stage once it matures, but it will take a
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by Bakary 4y ago
Does a ritual, if performed with some expectation of it having an effect on your life beyond the act of its own doing, not also imply a belief in supernatural entities?
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by Bakary 4y ago
These rules mostly exist not because there is a grand plan to stifle discussion, but because time and time again you see these sort of arguments devolve into low quality material that takes over the entire space.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I understand the idea but what are you proposing we do?
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by Bakary 4y ago
She probably is used to applications like the Office suite that are going to be a pain and a half to use on Linux and no don't tell me about Libreoffice we all know it's much worse except if you just want to type a bakesale advert

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