CaptWillard

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by CaptWillard 2y ago
I'm sure they were. You acknowledge the rise of organized crime in a power vacuum, but doubt the utility of self-defense in that environment?
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by CaptWillard 2y ago
> Not that this should matter in a civilized country. It should be very clear by now that "civilization" is more fragile than we'd like to believe. Society, including the systems that protect you from bad actors, could bre
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by CaptWillard 2y ago
One side: "This material is obscene and shouldn't be included in public school carriculums." The other side: "We have determined this information is false and dangerous, and should be banned from all public discussion.&q
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by CaptWillard 2y ago
After 7-10 years of aggressive censorship and social engineering from the "good guys", this concern (if sincere) is adorable.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
I'm a songwriter with hundreds of melodies and song sections in Garageband and Logic. I would love/pay/kill for an AI tool to help me flesh them out. Is anyone working on this?
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
> rich people buy lab grown versions of endangered/extinct animals This is the first use case I've seen that makes sense.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
I feel like the biggest loss from the days of big record companies is that no one is going to front a promising young band enough to go away together and make their 'Dark Side of the Moon' or 'OK Computer' * I know both
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
On the list of alarming or even questionable things our taxes pay for, this doesn't even make the top 100.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
Their Twitter has been consistently funny. Whoever is making these decisions over there, I'd like to thank them.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
And very silly walks.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
Eh, given the same set of parameters, I have trouble believing a driver who let an ICE car get that low on petrol would've taken the steps necessary to manage the battery charge for that trip. Also, the fuel consumption of an ICE is go
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
I'm sure it is more relaxed. I remember when conspiracy theories were kinda fun but mostly harmless BS. That was before the last 7-10 years, where government and media played whack-a-mole with emerging information, dismissing everythin
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
> Non-Western powers are doing the exact same thing online. Yeah, I'm saying it used to be a clear distinction. Most of what we were told about living in the USSR or China is true here now.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
No, I'm saying the anti-gas, electric cheerleaders seem ... inorganic.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
The hate for Elon is trite, tedious and says more about the weakness of the hater than their virtue.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
Replace 'party' with 'partisan voters' and you're even closer. The Uniparty is evil, but the folks who still buy into their schtick are mostly ignorant or naive.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
I'd say that I regret engaging with you, but that last line is golden. It's not censorship, propaganda and official disinformation, it's "Pasteurized Knowledge®"
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
Alienation from what? People who uncritically parrot fabrications and propaganda on HN? THAT is what shouldn't be "normalized". But since you brought it up, of all the indicators of societal descent over the last 7-10 years,
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
This kind of rhetoric had a good run, but you should understand it is now (solidly) a net loss in persuasion.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
>Almost never do the views of any individual actually represent any field as a whole. Setting aside the many individuals who currently lead their fields, history is filled with groundbreaking heretics. https://informationisbea
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
"The [horse] population peaked in 1910 at 27.5 million, more than 600% higher than in 1840. What does the overall growth of horses and mules during the nineteenth century suggest about the relationship between animal power and the intr
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
They recently put all of them up here: https://wholeearth.info/ Lots of history and related publications, too.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
// It’s a refuge for indoctrination, meaning you aren’t allowed to truly question. The idea that religion has any kind of market cornered on THAT concept in the last 7-10 years is a non-starter.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
// other aspects of homeschooling were just a fig leaf over a whole lot of religious indoctrination. While this may technically fit the definition of "indoctrination", that's a pretty loaded way to describe what par
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
"<noun> scares her because <authoritative source> said that <noun> is very dangerous. And I don't know why there'd be so many people saying it if it's not true." The truly frustrating part is how m
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
I'm out of patience with the continued clutching of pearls re: "misinformation" by the corporate press. It's to the point that I struggle to remember when the word had any relationship to truth or facts.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
One underrated aspect of a real relationship is being on the giving end. I've no doubt that an AI could help me sort things out, but can't imagine a meaningful way to simulate being there for someone. OTOH, it might prove useful i
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is a phrase long associated with the American postal worker. Though not an official creed or motto of the
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
By 1980s standards, maybe. In their wildest dreams, the soviets couldn't have imagined the access and leverage most western governments have today.
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by CaptWillard 3y ago
I'm with you for the most part, but your examples don't seem to represent the type of citizens that the IC has been targeting for at least the last decade. Still, we should never allow the government to do to our opponents what we

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