Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
The unrealistic flaws of the video are fairly obvious and don't really need pointing out, and sometimes the endless nasal pedantry takes its toll on the mind
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'd be interested in hearing the perspective of a video game programmer, because from my own intuition as a layman, it sounds as though making realistic model movement is an order of magnitude harder than working on the environment alo
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by Bakary 4y ago
One analogy I could make is photorealistic pencil drawings of the Joker or other pop culture characters. It takes astounding skill, and you sound like a dick for being critical of the author, but the end result seems... pointless, somehow?
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by Bakary 4y ago
I find this amazing, but I wouldn't want to play a game with graphics that are too realistic because reality has an ugly tinge
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by Bakary 4y ago
The author definitely killed and concealed the body of the "just" that ought to have been in the title. Just kidding. I hope to see more posts that get straight to the point like this.
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by Bakary 4y ago
We took the low-hanging fruit, and by low-hanging I don't mean it was easy to do, just that the next steps are much harder. Preventing most viral disease deaths, reducing the workload of laundry, energy, and food production, increasing
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by Bakary 4y ago
It helps to consider the pretentious artistry as part of the piece. The writing about his experience doing the piece, and the experiences themselves are more interesting than the piece itself and need not be separate criteria. It's oka
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by Bakary 4y ago
If you look at it another way, it's like a lifetime warranty. You can't trust an appliance vendor to provide quality, but you can trust that if they have a warranty they will meet the conditions where it will make financial sense
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by Bakary 4y ago
The classes are dysfunctional and meant as a compromise between various groups in a society. But even in some Montessori paradise, a kid will need to have a natural impulse to get anywhere. It's not so much that a kid is supposed to
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is common in UK universities at least. You can have your entire grade for a year of dense reading at the MSc level be based on three hours of hand-numbing speedwriting. It makes sense while at the same time rewarding and punishing diff
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by Bakary 4y ago
Perhaps you would also have been more confident if you had grown up in privilege and had the resources to pursue various things. An organism with few resources will seek safety and the conservation of energy, whereas one with abundance will
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by Bakary 4y ago
A competing explanation is that the chess masters for whom study is particularly advantageous are also those who happen to be able to dominate their peers. Magnus' capabilities seem to be a testament to that. There is also the aspect o
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by Bakary 4y ago
Pragmatic usually implies a certain down-to-earth personality, but there's no contradiction in being pragmatic about something abstract and long-term. Our goals are all irrational or based on emotion in some way, but we can use "l
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by Bakary 4y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. The artist seems pretentious, but self-aware. Annoying, but a great storyteller. The art and philosophical conclusions involved are dated and cliché but thought provoking at the same time. It's irrita
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by Bakary 4y ago
You could say the same for the horse when the transition to cars happened. We can't just think of the advantages we have now, but what we could get in a more practical system. All of the things you describe could improve in an environm
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by Bakary 4y ago
Most of the 20th century has been a series of attempts to answer this question. We'll have another wave of attempts of a different sort over the coming decades.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I too see the page as a bit pretentious, but life is so short and this small quantity hubris isn't going to lead to the starvation of orphans. Let people deploy some arrogance. Most HN users do more damage to the world through their
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by Bakary 4y ago
Whenever there is this sort of discussion, I can't help but wonder what each person is actually referring to. We typically aren't discussing purely capitalist or socialist economies, but highly specific systems with their own mixt
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm curious about professionals who do actually productive work on a tablet or even phone format. The touch screen or color calibration can be helpful, but you could probably use the money spent on an iPad in getting those extra featur
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't understand the argument proposed here. Americans should ignore what is an enormous (no pun intended) health crisis because other countries are slightly worse? It doesn't matter what Mexico is doing or not doing, the curren
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by Bakary 4y ago
If the kids in question don't approach literature on their own with the intent to understand it they're not going to far well in that metric anyway, no matter how counter-productive the education system is.
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by Bakary 4y ago
We don't just have democracy vs. authoritarianism in a vaccuum, we have specific countries adopting specific ideologies with specific material starting conditions. The UK used to be a massive colonial power that grabbed the world like
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by Bakary 4y ago
Why can't we just skip the virtue signaling and just discuss the ideas presented? Absolutely none of the discussion we have here is going to affect the societal process of justice as described.
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by Bakary 4y ago
One aspect of Stirner's thought that bothers me is that his depiction of the egoist sounds more like a specific outlook on life that is no less sacred and artificial than the systems he rejects. As a way to illustrate this, unmoderated
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by Bakary 4y ago
Most of the dystopian decrease we've had has come in the form of added economic surplus. We won't have a revolution and a new man, just a gradual increase in energy production until cruelty and competition is no longer the default
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by Bakary 4y ago
Their livelihoods are predicated as being part of a complex economic web and having good geopolitical conditions. Norway used to be one of the poorest European countries, now it is one of the wealthiest thanks to large oil reserves.
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by Bakary 4y ago
This quote is meaningless because all mental sickness is entirely defined in relation to the target society
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by Bakary 4y ago
We don't need to understand all of the workings of the human brain. We need to provide a way for patients to be able to deal with their psychological burdens and establish mental self-sufficience.
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by Bakary 4y ago
A wealthy, small, semi-homogeneous population with strong social safety nets.
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by Bakary 4y ago
We already have therapist alternatives in the form of parasocial relationships and pseudo-personalized entertainment. There's even one prominent livestreamer who acts as a collective psychiatrist and does public sessions with other str

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