Gormo

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by Gormo 2y ago
Neither did TMBG. It's a cover of a song from an album of educational music from the late '50s. And the melody is a variation of the traditional song "The Girl I Left Behind" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Gormo 2y ago
Could it, in fact, be possible that engaging in social interaction can reduce one's feelings of loneliness? Perhaps we'll need a multi-million-dollar research study to know for sure.
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by Gormo 2y ago
"Loneliness epidemic" is a funny turn of phrase. I know it's common today to use the word "epidemic" as a hyperbolic way of referring to any phenomenon that seems to be increasing in occurrence, but its literal mean
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by Gormo 2y ago
Sure, and no one is saying that people should stop experimenting and testing out alternative approaches. But we wouldn't expect to see experimental approaches displacing established conventions in mature use cases unless they actually
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by Gormo 2y ago
Every example in the article suffers from excessive visual complexity and a lack of clarity as to what's being quantified and how values relate to each other. The best one is the "four ways to slice the budget" visualization,
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by Gormo 2y ago
Any visualization that represents variation around a baseline value should use the baseline value as its axis, whether the baseline is zero or not.
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by Gormo 2y ago
It's strange to expect continuous innovation in anything where outputs are measurable against clear, stable targets. Once you've achieved the target, what further effort is necessary? It's like asking what killed innovation
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by Gormo 2y ago
> etiquette has no objective basis and is always contingent But what it's contingent on is what's actually manifest rather than some speculative hypothetical that seems a contrivance to nullify the applicability of any etiquett
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by Gormo 2y ago
Thorium ( https://thorium.rocks/ ) is a fork of Chromium that maintains a patchset that reverses functional and UI regressions introduced by Google (such as the tabs and menu styling from the 2023 refresh). The author has co
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by Gormo 2y ago
Reminds me of the old days of StumbleUpon.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> RSS and Atom are nice, but they aren’t mainstream enough. That's a feature, not a bug. "Mainstream" is where the corporate shills and spammers you want to avoid are.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> The real question is do we want historical city centers to become attraction parks only for tourists or do we still want people to live there. Why not both?
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I see it the other way around. This is real conservatism. It's really not. > Conservatism as an actual movement was formed after the French Revolution when monarchists found that “deus vult” was no longer sufficient justificati
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by Gormo 2y ago
Everyone would agree they'd like to pay less for health care. Much fewer would agree with specific proposals purporting to achieve that. Many people understand that the accumulation of political interventions over the past ~60 years
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by Gormo 2y ago
> But there as many libertarians that matter as there are antifa that matter. Various surveys have indicated that 20-30% of the US population broadly align with libertarian principles, regardless of party affiliation or nominal identific
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I think Sanders would have unified No, Sanders would never be a unifying figure. Libertarians see him as being essentially equivalent to Trump: a demagogue who makes emotional appeals to build a cult of personality, deeply misundersta
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Present day conservatives are just awful people in general in my experience. I don't think I've seen any conservatives involved in mainstream politics in the past 15 to 20 years. I see people using the word "conservat
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by Gormo 2y ago
I miss conservatives.
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by Gormo 2y ago
I assume they're doing fine, since that isn't really happening.
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by Gormo 2y ago
It doesn't say "birthday" twice. It says "Happy Birthday Bithiday". The second word is gibberish.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> The question is: does the First Amendment apply to an algorithm? No. The first amendment explicitly applies to Congress; by extension it applies to the policy-making authority of the federal government generally, and via the 14th amen
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Slander and fighting words are exceptions to the first amendment that were determined through the legislative process. The legislative process can't make exceptions to constitutional provisions. These were recognized as not cover
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by Gormo 2y ago
How can a provision in the base text of the constitution take precedence over an amendment?
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by Gormo 2y ago
> As much as I dislike it sometimes, language absolutely does evolve. Pointing out that language evolves helps to explain how the current established conventions came to be, but it is not an argument that there are (or should be) no esta
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by Gormo 2y ago
Kids also pee in their pants at a rate vastly exceeding that of adults, but they usually stop doing it before they hit 30.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> He's adopting the native culture rather than setting a trend. Maybe he should consider there are different registers of language, and code-switching is a thing. This now increasingly applies to written language, not just spoken l
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by Gormo 2y ago
Capitalization and punctuation are to written language what pronunciation and stress are to spoken language. If someone was mispronouncing every word, using incorrect vowels, stressing the wrong syllables, etc., you'd have a really ha
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by Gormo 2y ago
You needed this: http://mainbyte.com/ti99/software/s_carts/editor.html Or this: http://mainbyte.com/ti99/software/s_carts/mini.html I was in the same boat as you. Games like M
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by Gormo 2y ago
If you're afraid of exposure to harmful microbes, it's generally a bad idea to live on Earth.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Bureaucracy doesn't have to be to the detriment of society. Bureaucracy is an organizational model that reflects human intentions and choices, just like every other organizational model in society. Attributing specific moral incli

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