Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
It's more the case that the software world is absurdly generous to labor compared to the rest.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I've noticed that the good subs tend to feature least two of the following traits (or at least minimum overall parameters): active moderation with a clear focus, a relatively low population, and topics that are inherently less motivati
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by Bakary 4y ago
Could you please expand on this?
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by Bakary 4y ago
The answer usually comes from experience. Once you've learned a language through immersion and deliberate practice, you can never go back to the classroom setting. Language learning gets obfuscated by the profitable industry that has s
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by Bakary 4y ago
What you describe still exists, and with much more variety than what Old Reddit offered. All it takes is the time to seek out the right subreddits for your interests. Places like /r/askhistorians have no equivalent anywhere else o
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by Bakary 4y ago
Another suggestion in the same vein is Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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by Bakary 4y ago
A few thoughts: - Do you actually want to do all that engineering, or do you just want to be like Carmack, having done all that engineering? Would you be okay with having been similarly productive as him, but not having the commensura
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by Bakary 4y ago
We have to consider the system as a whole. If the industry in question provides a clear social good, such as medicine or energy production, then there is a moral duty to snitch or perhaps confront the person and give them a chance to reform
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by Bakary 4y ago
Türkiye you mean? Diacritics are half the fun.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'd say each language has pockets of playfulness that aren't found in others. Sometimes you find pockets that coincide to a surprising extent. It's like stacking layers of Swiss cheese. For instance, Gad mentions in the artic
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by Bakary 4y ago
If that were true, we would likely see a greater variety of discourse and testimonies from people who use hallucinogens. On the contrary, they tend to sound surprisingly similar in terms of world-view to each other. Once you experience hall
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by Bakary 4y ago
You can't. That's why I made the distinction between the ethical and aesthetic aspect, and concluded that the GP was most definitely entitled to a refund. Since the legal and financial framework supports this logic as I do, they w
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by Bakary 4y ago
I wonder if that is the case outside of the English-language world.
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by Bakary 4y ago
In an ethical, commercial and legal sense, you are definitely entitled to a refund in these circumstances. But in a philosophical and aesthetic sense, if you can't fix the screen yourself, you might not be the target audience for this
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by Bakary 4y ago
In Mandarin you can just say "one nine seven five"! Though you usually have to add "year" after that.
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by Bakary 4y ago
One way to "solve" the tonality issue with Mandarin would be to increase the number of permitted phonemes or phoneme pairs and turn as many monosyllabic words as possible into polysyllabic ones. To some extent, the latter process
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by Bakary 6y ago
History never repeats quite the same way. There are some low-hanging parallels to 1984, but if we limit ourselves to that frame of reference we miss a large range of elements that might prove to be enormously important. There's stuff l
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by Bakary 6y ago
Some time ago, this topic prompted me to rethink how I used smartphones in general. Once you get more intentional with the way you use your devices, it's often the case that you can discover habitual patterns that took over without you
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by Bakary 6y ago
I'm not criticizing Orwell or the quote itself. I'm pointing out the irony of seeing this quote and others by the same author get regularly popped out following the very same gramophone mindset he warns about. People just pop an O
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by Bakary 6y ago
The looming elephant in the room here is that the marketplace of ideas is extremely crowded. Universities becoming job training centers and/or finishing schools is one thing, but even if that were not the case you'd still have to
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by Bakary 6y ago
I don't meant this as a personal attack but there is something faintly ironic about this statement Orwell is pretty the much the one-stop gramophone record for quotes when someone wants to express concern about censorship or authoritar
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by Bakary 6y ago
If the dollar loses that much in 5 years, getting a salary will be the least of our worries
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by Bakary 6y ago
I'm not singling out bitcoin. In fact the London real estate is a good analogy to crypto. You have people with London properties getting super excited and people with no such properties not getting excited at all. Both are right. A han
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by Bakary 6y ago
That would involve confronting the end of the podcast, which is the sort of emotional thing that people typically procrastinate on. It's hard for us to visualize since having such an audience sounds like a responsibility we'd take
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by Bakary 6y ago
To clarify, the low-skill "persuasive bullshit" artists (as categorized in the article in opposition to the evasive type) you mentioned respond well to that sort of thing, and so do the various members of the public that they are
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by Bakary 6y ago
>They’re just not aware of how transparent they are. Conversely, we might not actually be aware of the true masters at work precisely because of their skill and the fact that we can catch the novices >How would you convince those peop
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by Bakary 6y ago
The motivational quotes can be bs in a practical sense, but they are not bs in a literal sense: the sentences have meaning in and of themselves. In this case, the rewording of the example you cited actually grants meaning to the sentence th
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by Bakary 6y ago
In both art and love, the person who experiences them perceives links between their own identity or characteristics and the art/object of love, or sees these characteristics projected back at them through the art/process of loving
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by Bakary 6y ago
These arguments often take the form of [complaint about Bitcoin not working] → [sardonic counter about Bitcoin working despite the nay-sayers] A better way to frame the problem IMO is that if Bitcoin works as intended, it will only serve to
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by Bakary 6y ago
The best liars tend to be able to believe their own lies in a live setting

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