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by Bodell 6y ago
"Why am I telling you this? Because I think that people who do not understand that free will is an illusion underestimate how much their decisions are influenced by the information they are exposed to." I find this sort of ultra
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by Bodell 6y ago
That's because the black hole sucked all the information out of it. Haha.
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by Bodell 6y ago
I'd have to give it serious thought, but if I were to agree, I'd also have to add that: The last two millennia of physics were also blindsided by it's own implications of it's discoveries in the 20th century. Philosophy
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by Bodell 6y ago
I think this fairly well points out that we do not actually mean the same thing when we say “high” and “low”. Although, I will concede that the two terms are often interchangeable and often misused. Correct me if I’m reading you wrongly, bu
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by Bodell 6y ago
Logic is a field of philosophy [1]. As most inductive reasoning is. It would be impossible to separate philosophy from math, and in turn math from physics. Philosophy is not intended to be a high level view but a low level one, willing to e
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by Bodell 6y ago
I often quote this line from Nabokov “Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.” [1] Also, these books mentioned, as all non-fiction books d
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by Bodell 6y ago
I killed it a few days after this post as I am working on submitting for publishing. Which is to say, I am a glutton for punishment and rejection, haha. However, thank you for looking up the archive link. If you do read it please email me w
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by Bodell 6y ago
I agree completely. If we pander to the lowest common denominator we only serve in lowing that denominator even farther. A “race to the bottom” where the bottom is never ending. We should instead approach issues in our lives with this “how
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by Bodell 6y ago
Just wanted to say that I love this website. It’s a static site that’s been maintained by one person for 20+ years. For me it’s like a campfire, a great spot to come and find discussions, communion, and information in general on all thing D
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by Bodell 6y ago
I completely respect your opinion on this and would agree that Zero K is jarring if your a fan of his earlier work. However, I quite enjoyed it. It was short and to the point. It also reminded me quite a bit of my own experience walking thr
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by Bodell 6y ago
I wrote finished a short story this year that explores some of these ideas heavy-handedly. It is placed in a Universal Library setting, a continuation of Borges' Library of Babel. In a sense it is both for and against the idea of compr
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by Bodell 6y ago
Yes a friend of mine said exactly the same thing and sent me a torrented copy of The Dreamers. I looked awful. So bad I ordered the dvd. Which had some of its own issues with quality I’ll admit, but at least it wasn’t full of digital compre
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by Bodell 6y ago
This reeks of literal illiteracy, as well as a lack of visual aesthetic literacy. I'm not trying to sling mud here but I'd be really embarrassed by this if I were you. This is near saying that jazz music is just noise, despite who
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by Bodell 6y ago
"Did you see that painting what Rothko did?, Looks like it was painted by a two year old kid, Hot air, Hot air, Ignorance is bliss, yeah?, Well I'm not pleased, Because you spread your opinion like a rectal disease, Hot air, Hot a
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by Bodell 6y ago
To add to your point, I recently tried to pick up some of my favorite movies from when I was younger, only to find that they were “out of print”. Some of these may not be lost to people searching around online because the directors are well
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A Return to the Library of Babel(medium.com)
1 points by Bodell 6y ago|0 comments
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by Bodell 6y ago
"Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of." The Circus Animal's Desertion, W. B. Yeats
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by Bodell 7y ago
So I have not watched this yet (as I have never heard of it before today) but will do so soon. However based on the description of the movie, it's hard not to view it as a major source of inspiration for the character Tchitcherine from
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by Bodell 7y ago
This is definitely something I had to work on a lot (and am still working on) as I've gotten older. Some time After 25 it became apparent to me that I was leaving the house with full armor on. This was getting in the way of my being ap
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by Bodell 7y ago
To agree on this inside of a broader context: I would argue that there are so many abstractions in language (“good”, “evil”, “god”, even less lofty things such as “color”, “heat”, “weather”), science ("gravity" would probably an a
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by Bodell 8y ago
These "pull yourself up by your bootstraps” comments, always seem to reek of the Munchhausen Trilemma[0]. Take that to mean whatever you will, however I'd say from my own personal experience most of the bootstrap pulling seems onl
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by Bodell 8y ago
After downloading the dictionary from libreOffice, it seems there are only ~53,000 entries. Compared to the OED's second edition of nearly 300,000 entries, I would say that is staggeringly small.
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Ask HN: What's with the state of open-source dictionaries?
22 points by Bodell 8y ago|13 comments
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by Bodell 8y ago
I cant remember the exact years, but I won two state championships in Idaho somewhere between 12-14 years of age (so early 2000’s I think. I would love to find some correlating information about this, but it seems the online records don’t
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by Bodell 8y ago
Wow, I haven't heard "Job for a Cowboy" since I was in high school. HN was definitely last place I would have expected the reminder. I will say I saw my fair share of fights at shows between the typical crowd and Neo-Nazi ty
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by Bodell 8y ago
I would only add the caveat that you should ONLY invest in 401K IF you company is matching. Otherwise look into a vanguard fund or something on the like. I think the automatic opting in on 401k is of course better than no investing, but may
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by Bodell 9y ago
Just read snow crash for the fist time last year. Is fun as the book is, I don't want to live in that world and am most definitely scared now.
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[1996] Brave.Net.World: disinformation superhighway(academia.edu)
2 points by Bodell 9y ago|0 comments
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by Bodell 9y ago
Just to play devils advocate for a moment :) 1) The video showed that you could receive a chicken sandwich now. That you were only paying more to receive only ,specifically, a whooper faster. This I thought shows preferential treatment over
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by Bodell 9y ago
Honestly, I'm tired of the race for games to just 'look' better. Most of the time it seems as if it is a detriment to actual gameplay and frame rate. I would definitely prefer games to look bad (or preferably stylized in a wa

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