GLGirty

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by GLGirty 5y ago
> snappy 1 word reduction is generally not a very good idea. It just leads politicization 'Sound byte' reductive labels seem to be a symptom, not a cause, of political tribalism. Or they are both side effects of attention drive
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by GLGirty 5y ago
"Neo Feudalism" is a dumb term... but people say "hold down the fort" O_o I'd love a more nuanced term, but I don't think 'minimal social mobility' is snappy enough to catch on. What's a bette
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by GLGirty 5y ago
You make a good point that hiphop has a misogyny problem, (it also suffers from misogyny's sibling disease, homophobia,) but why keep that issue focused on black music when all music has a misogyny problem[1]. Is Kanye worse than Robin
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Please let's not point fingers at hip hop as if there are not lots of examples of violence in rock, pop, and country. If you suggested "Janie's Got A Gun", "Pumped Up Kicks", and "Goodbye Earl" were m
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by GLGirty 5y ago
> The internet will basically be an extension of your brain. What the internet knows, you'll know. I'll know that the stone masons crashed planes into the world trade center to destroy the studio where they faked the moon landi
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by GLGirty 5y ago
The difference between hero or primadonna can be environmental. When there are multiple experts for a department/tech stack, you get heroes. If the bus number is one, a hero risks converting to a primadonna.
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Do you think software is a medium that can create one-person (or small team) masterworks in any form but games? Candidates that come to my mind are lisp, unix, and visicalc. I wonder if the nature of software means that craft code is destin
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by GLGirty 5y ago
> The people making money knew exactly how dangerous it was and the problems it caused Wow it didn't take long for evidence of that to surface: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-tox...
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Why the downvote? Here is a citation [1] that molten salt reactor was killed for political reasons. Or was I jumping to conclusions to suggest that activists knew or cared about such details? [1] http://moltensalt.org/refere
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by GLGirty 5y ago
The safety concerns of the activists could have been quelled by developing thorium as a fuel. it appears to be very safe, too safe maybe to get funding. Instead, the technology that got developed was the one that created weapons grade mate
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by GLGirty 5y ago
I'm in a similar environment--a very small crew. I'm curious what feature subset you settled with. Ours got as far as aggregate ops, and the complexity of that turned out to be 'hydra'. (Surely I've cut off the last
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by GLGirty 5y ago
> simulating SQL via your languages nestable data structures I've gone down this rabbit hole... you've described the in-house query engine I work with. Instead of sql, queries are nested json representing a dumbest-possible sql
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by GLGirty 5y ago
'How do we power cars' is a red herring question. Cars are a symptom of sprawl, and sprawl is exceeding it's scaling limits. Canada is well past the limits of traffic and noise and death by collisions that are tolerated by na
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Anecdata, but I've witnessed re-melanizing of formerly gray follicles. My wife tried intermittent fasting after reading some health claims about it. (i.e. autophagy). In the beginning I was skeptical. After a month or so of intermitten
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Yes the only thing in the way is a huge international lobby industry that pays politicians to turn a blind eye to systemic labour and environmental exploitation.
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by GLGirty 5y ago
In my travels, I have been to multiple cities where the advice is, NEVER USE UNLICENSED TAXIS. Tourists are grifted or worse by unlicensed drivers. I read a tragic hand written warning at a youth hostel by a victim who was held a knife poin
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by GLGirty 5y ago
> Wasn't Detroit's problem that it Also yes. Also white flight.
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by GLGirty 5y ago
> The fight club defence IIRC that was based on the ford pinto
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by GLGirty 5y ago
Do you have have links for monastery? I have so many questions... how big is it? what does it look like? I love the idea of earth as a building material, and I'd love to see what the state of the art is now. Do we, as a species, posses
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by GLGirty 5y ago
I am surprised they didn't mention whistled turkish, (which in my mind is the closest thing irl to astromec.) https://www.languagemagazine.com/2015/08/17/whistled-turkish...
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by GLGirty 6y ago
I followed up and spent some time on media bias fact check, i found it really informative to see the far-left falsehoods. GMO foods show up a lot in the pseudoscience category. Outside of those, most falsehoods tend to be exaggerated stats
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by GLGirty 6y ago
> It happens to the left too, even on Facebook The researchers said they sampled for this and did not find it was the case. Extreme leftist facebook feed may not be statistically likely, but if it exists screencaps please, i am morbidly
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by GLGirty 6y ago
Being unmasked signals that you distrust ivory tower eggheads. Absurdist beliefs are a strong social signal. It seems like a deep feature of human wetware. It's probably how facebook is so effective at incubating distributed cults. (Se
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by GLGirty 6y ago
This is an essay version of xkcd 'standards'. It's not wrong, but it's not the entire picture. The author is correct, sql does everything they need, cause it's so expressive. (Mysql8 is turing complete with it'
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by GLGirty 6y ago
> They'll also be able to datamine the internet We are such barbarians that I assume that tech will not exist to future generations.
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by GLGirty 6y ago
A had a similar reaction to the article, and I appreciate your cosmic analogy. The metaphor that came to my mind was the long persistence of steam power after electric motors were invented. Initially, 'going electric' meant replac
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by GLGirty 6y ago
> glorification of suicide bombing and the killing of US soldiers on Al Jazeera I've read AJE occasionally for years; I read BBC for the same reason: to get perspective outside of North America. I've NEVER noticed anything so
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by GLGirty 6y ago
user prints docx and scans the paper to pdf....
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by GLGirty 7y ago
I read the title and assumed they were talking about the existence of a parasitic socio-economic class. Seems plausible... I stopped reading when I realized they meant microbiology.