MrPatan

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by MrPatan 4y ago
Because it was never about solving the problem, it was about absolution. Without suffering they won't feel they deserve the absolution they crave, so every solution has some "problem" - Electric cars still emit particles from
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The DA freeing the criminals right back out.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Yes, but sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistiguishable from malice
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Unencrypted email is not private, never has been, never will be. The real problem is handing over your digital identity to Google, not the content of emails.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Edge has started nagging me about switching to vertical tabs. I haven't tried it, but maybe it's useful?
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Is "obvious trolling" on twitter a bannable offence now?
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Understandable, he doesn't want to see "What have you accomplished this week" replied to him every time he tweeted anything.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Everybody understands economics. Everybody pretends not to when it's in their benefit.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Noob question: doesn't that imply particles with negative mass to cancel out to the "expected" mass? Is that allowed?
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by MrPatan 4y ago
And thanks for engaging with the question. Another problem I have with this is I never see this problems spelled out. It's hard to tell, with such difficult subjects, the difference between "I don't know" and "Nobo
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by MrPatan 4y ago
> what do you mean by "irrevocable"? Very good point, who knows! I guess whatever the universe can't pretend didn't happen, like a photon being absorbed and re-emited by an electron. Which, what does that even mean?
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Why is the cat never assumed to be able to be an observer? Or the flask with poison? I always assumed everybody understood "observer" to be shorthand for "some entity that irrevocably changes state because of the quantum eve
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Very cool! Reminds me of the Thompson compiler hack. Not only they tell us genetics doesn't exist, but we can't say it's shitty science because they're the ones telling us what's shitty science and what's not!
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Why would I tell a childfree friend about the joys of parenthood? Who would do that? To somebody who's just Wrong on the Internet, though, I would happily say that it's not the most important thing. It's the only thing. Goo
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Or the 21st century version: Whichever happens to you, you turn it into a reason why you didn't succeed and you're not to blame.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
> until the Russian invasion of Ukraine The russian invasion of Ukraine happened because Germany is dependant on Russian gas.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
This: > Normalising Layoffs/Firing is how you fix this: > stigma is associated with being laid off
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by MrPatan 4y ago
But exercise increases your muscle mass, which raises your basal metabolism, doesn't it? How big is that effect? Seems like it should be quite big, but I have no data and seldom see it discussed, as if it didn't matter at all. B
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Because land is very easily taken away, so very easy to tax
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You can use FF for everything except your bank.
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What do I need to do to disable this?
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by MrPatan 4y ago
> Genuinely asking: What's the value prop of having the merge-commit in the history for you? Have you ever capitalized on it? And if so, could you share the command-line-fu that's helped you take advantage of having such a comm
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Just always do a merge commit into your main branch, and you have the best of both worlds, don't you? - A straight history of merge commits you can revert or bisect. - Handy pointers to all the branches you merged, in case you ever nee
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by MrPatan 4y ago
A minute seems like a long wait for software that brags about its performance
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by MrPatan 4y ago
> Will we see a similar movement of actors losing out as soon as there's enough of a corpus of digital stand ins? The era of the famous actor is ending. For a while they'll use the likeness of current famous actors, like in TFA
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by MrPatan 4y ago
How about "This app is great! I'm giving it 1 star so people see my review!"
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Didn't they already? It's hard to keep track
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Critical mass is "if enough people would just" Other stuff, like communism, really requires "if everybody would just". An arbitrarily small number of defectors will make the system tip towards collapse.
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Will there be a time when media is "done"? If I say "If tomorrow everybody stopped producing new books, series, music or movies, I could just start catching up to what's already been produced and it'll last me a lif
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by MrPatan 4y ago
Because literally all the knowledge in the world is in your pocket.

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