Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
The subthread was whether the carbon schemes are effective. They are either ineffective because they do not fix the incentive problem, or effective in a context where they are no longer needed
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by Bakary 4y ago
To steelman their argument, I'd say Google has grown so large and so controlling that literally anything that can provide a viable alternative should be cherished. Even if it's entity that is under questionable leadership like Moz
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by Bakary 4y ago
You aren't wrong in a technical sense but the amount of effort to make it work is really overstated here. It shouldn't take more than a few hours tops for everything you are describing, not including the time spent choosing the ph
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by Bakary 4y ago
That's not the point. The fundamental appeal of these carbon schemes is that they can permit a theoretical decrease in greenhouse gases while keeping the current economic model alive and well. But despite being greatly amenable to the
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by Bakary 4y ago
What I don't understand about the TOR feature is how someone might be concerned enough to want to use TOR, while at the same time trusting the usage of TOR as bundled in a non-transparent way by a third party crypto company of all thin
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by Bakary 4y ago
Isn't the fact that they were not implemented part of the definition of their failure? Since it's supposed to be the backbone of the solution that allows the neoliberal model to continue without significant changes, the fact that
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by Bakary 4y ago
No, because no harm is done once I delete the files after looking over the notes, and I am able to perform my job far better than otherwise. It's just that from an outside perspective it is unlikely to sound innocuous despite being so.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's precisely because work-related damage is only semi-necessary that it is so traumatic. Everywhere you look, there are people who have essentially avoided surrendering decades of their lives by being lucky and/or successful in
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by Bakary 4y ago
The idea of looking at a handwritten note and concluding that the company cares about me specifically or that it was an actual social interaction of any significance is just so bizarre. Maybe it's a coconut vs. peach culture thing?
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not a major flaw in the system, it is a primary function and characteristic of the system and its inherent logic
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't think it's just gambling. Gambling is a subset of a larger problem, which is that it's easier than ever for smart but ruthless people to extract money out of the rest of the population. It's probably the case tha
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by Bakary 4y ago
What bothers me about any principle related to work is that work itself is so very contextual. - The same work can be exciting or traumatic depending on whether it's a task you set yourself or got roped into by some other entity. A CEO
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by Bakary 4y ago
The more uncomfortable truth is that I'd rather be able to record on a separate device because I will get in trouble for it if it comes to light. It is legal in my region, but people will be (very rightfully) creeped out by it and are
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by Bakary 4y ago
I wonder if the term 'hyper fixation' isn't a bit misleading when it comes to ADHD. It's often marketed by sufferers as a light superpower, but rather than being able to focus it's more an inability to defocus, whic
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by Bakary 4y ago
Is there such a thing as a simple audio transcribing system that can turn a recording into a text file? I have this problem where I sometimes forget a sentence someone JUST told me. And often my notes aren't sufficient compared to a ve
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by Bakary 4y ago
Their games have had a strong therapeutic effect on me, so was it really a pivot? :)
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by Bakary 4y ago
I already use FAT32 for some USB sticks when I need to be able to use them on various OSes without having to give it any thought, or for long term archiving. This would be extremely niche but would have its audience. Heck, I wouldn't b
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't see how pop culture is a-okay as a naming scheme but this lekker cookie isn't. It is in fact pop-culture in its own way. Sci-fi names tend to be tiresomely similar since they overuse gods names and anglocentric concepts
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by Bakary 4y ago
Thanks. You've just altered my life for the better.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Are there any other websites similar to this? Aggregators of non-sensationalized significant science news
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by Bakary 4y ago
Ironically, the first image makes me think of a dreamy blur when it's in fact a dirty lens, but the author's image makes me think of a dirty lens when it's a calculated attempt at a blur.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's weird because we don't notice the millions of times coincidental real-world follow ups don't happen
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by Bakary 4y ago
Why stop at the art? We'll have unique storylines and characters as well. Possibly even unique gameplay, although at that point we would pretty much be close to some sort of AGI anyway.
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is a post-facto rationalization for two reasons. The first is that the Fahrenheit scale wasn't built around a range of human feeling, but originally around a substance whose temperature is easy to stabilize. Following this, the hu
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by Bakary 4y ago
In some ways, audiophiles are the mirror image of this on the other end of the spectrum. Detectable improvements in sound do not matter and ABX testing is never mentioned in polite company. Why should they have a straightforward setup when
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by Bakary 4y ago
There's an even larger picture than this, which is that the argumentation around speech is gamed by people who have no interest in preserving it overall. What truly matters is which speech ends up being successful and adopted in the br
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by Bakary 4y ago
I understand this concept, but that's not the point. The GP was condescendingly referring to people outside of the US as being unable to understand freedom of speech or slippery legal slopes. We do in fact understand it, it's just
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by Bakary 4y ago
I often hear this argument, but the US is currently on a much clearer trajectory towards increased authoritarianism than most EU countries/CANZUK despite all of this freedom. The situation is more complicated than just straightforward
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by Bakary 4y ago
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your question, but there is an unvote button for this purpose. It does disappear after a while.
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is not an unpopular opinion. Millions of anglophones seem to be unable to grasp or accept that metric measures make intuitive sense to people who use them.

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