NateEag

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by NateEag 5y ago
Human nature being what it is, anything that can be extended will be extended in monstrous ways. It is no coincidence that "hack" means both "abuse of a system's intended design" and "clever trick that we a
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by NateEag 5y ago
Sure, you can criticize other people's values. They don't have to listen, though. Maybe their values even dictate that they shouldn't. You're right that I'm not answering a lot of questions about my own perspective.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Thank you for trying to clarify your thoughts. I understand that you think ethics exist inside human minds and not anywhere else. I still don't see why Stalin, Pol Pot, and company don't get to decide that they value mass murder t
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by NateEag 5y ago
I suspect it would, at least until the dependency on Middle Eastern oil is gone. Humans are amazing at justifying actions. There's a whole school of ethical thought devoted to it (utilitarianism).
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by NateEag 5y ago
Okay, you're right - I can use any basis I want. There's no shared basis I can legitimately use to argue with them, though, if they don't happen to share my chosen values.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Sure, but if someone doesn't grant that they want to reduce suffering for others, you have no legitimate way to argue to them that they should. You get to pick your meaning and they get to pick theirs. It's "do what you want&
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by NateEag 5y ago
I'm not trying to say others have to accept anyone's chosen meaning. I'm saying you could not legitimately argue to them that their choices are wrong, philosophically speaking. You can say "tons of us hate this", b
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by NateEag 5y ago
In this framework, Stalin and Kim Jong-Il created their own meaning and no one has a basis for saying what they chose is worse than anyone else's choice. To many of us, that is horribly demoralizing.
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by NateEag 5y ago
I think it's a reference to the fact that NZ looks like a great place to ride out a nuclear exchange. Most of the nuclear powers are in the northern hemisphere, so you want to be southern. Obviously you want to be somewhere that's
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by NateEag 5y ago
It's a hard thing to get good data on, but Gallup estimated in 2017 that 4.5% of the US population was gay or lesbian: https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population... That would shift the numb
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by NateEag 5y ago
Maybe that to accept payments the porn company has to publish wallet IDs, so payments can in fact be traced back to them?
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by NateEag 5y ago
I'm not a hardcore vimmer, but I use evil-mode religiously and use vim for my sysadmin work on remote servers. I've never noticed a difference between evil-mode's behavior and vim's, while I usually get extremely frustra
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by NateEag 5y ago
Interesting. So far I've not encountered that effect. I wonder if it's a result of applying the formula mechanically rather than actually listening to and empathizing with the person the NVCer is talking to. Regardless, thanks for
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by NateEag 5y ago
The US public school system is "no additional charge" - you have to pay taxes to help fund it regardless of whether you use it, but you do not have to pay anything beyond those taxes for your children to attend. It may not be much
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by NateEag 5y ago
For sure. Malicious actions will always be malicious, no matter how you talk about them. I see Nonviolent Communication as a useful tool for people who genuinely want to be kinder and more empathic but don't know how. It's not goi
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by NateEag 5y ago
Right there with you. I think it's an attempt to make the text 'feel' chipper, optimistic, and newbie-friendly. Julia writes some really good stuff, but that particular quirk in her writing has annoyed me for a long time.
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by NateEag 5y ago
That does happen, but the StackOverflow people aren't wrong. If there's a good, general answer to the question, then it's on the asker to expand their knowledge as they need to in order to understand that general answer.
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by NateEag 5y ago
As one who doesn't natively have a lot of EQ, my experience has been that people have been able to explain it to me. It's not an easy or pleasant process, though. I strongly recommend Marshall Rosenberg's book Nonviolent Co
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by NateEag 5y ago
Spider Robinson's "Variable Star" is not hard sci-fi, but relativistic speeds and time dilation are relevant to the plot.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Thanks for explaining your perspective. I guess I was too elliptical, because I mostly already understood what you've explained here - I thought the OP was making way too strong a claim. Instead of just saying that, I asked why he thou
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by NateEag 5y ago
How does being required to track data about taxation challenge the existence of the builders you mention? I can see how it might for the companies - people who use crypto for tax and authority avoidance seem likely to stop using any service
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by NateEag 5y ago
> I feel like a whole lot of people are trying to help, they're just really bad at it and they need help themselves. Yes. This is exactly what I was trying to get across. Thanks.
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by NateEag 5y ago
In my experience, people who focus on laziness are NOT saying the lazy person is irredeemable - they're usually saying precisely "You're choosing to be lazy and you don't have to. Choose to be different!" Granted, t
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by NateEag 5y ago
Your point would be more widely listened to if you used the less condemnatory label "The uninformed" instead of "idiots."
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by NateEag 5y ago
Which actually makes sense. When you're risking your own life, you'll likely be at least somewhat careful. When you're just flying an empty test vehicle you'll be much more reckless, and thus way more likely to crash it
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by NateEag 5y ago
People often try to eliminate emotions from their lives, whether some specific ones or all of them. It's called "repression" and it can really mess you up. I don't mean that emotional responses are automatically good - I
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by NateEag 5y ago
Okay, I'll phrase it more strongly: Emotions as such are good, from sorrow to rage to joy. Each one is a good response to some situations, as far as I can tell. Your emotional response can be misplaced, so that you experience an inappr
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yup, I agree with all of that. I didn't say anything about behaviors, because it was emotions that were labeled as shitty. I didn't bother to go into the distinction between emotions and the bad behavior they often give rise to, s
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by NateEag 5y ago
Fifteen years ago it was not feasible for a random person with an axe to grind to publish a convincing video of a specific person doing something they did not actually do. It's about to become pretty low-effort for a random person with
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by NateEag 5y ago
Tangent, but: Emotions can't be shitty. You can miscalibrate your emotional responses to situations, much as you can sear your conscience. But the emotions themselves - the full range are valid human feelings, from fury to transcendent

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