Pelic4n

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by Pelic4n 5y ago
Welcome to identity politics, where you don't have a crippling mental illness, you're just neurologically diverse, you're not morbidly obese and dying of diabetes, you're just body-size diverse, and so on. Everything abo
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by Pelic4n 5y ago
This is a quote I stumbled more than 10 years ago and that stuck with me since. Then I read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, where he unequivocally explains how skill/job specialization is simply a product of demography. I still ag
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by Pelic4n 5y ago
Yes, exactly. It was done that way to isolate common attributes of encounters which did not have circulated in the media or the general UFO lore yet. J. Allen Hynek, the lead of project Blue Book, encountered the contamination issue very ea
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by Pelic4n 5y ago
I encourage anyone with enough interest in this matter to read "Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact" and "The Invisible College" by Jacques Vallée. Vallée is an astrophysicist and computer scienti
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by Pelic4n 5y ago
I hope you realize that meeting that no doubt standard is going to cost a lot of money. The judiciary procedures for death penalty is extremely high, as are all the related costs for death rows & execution. In fact death penalty costs a
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by Pelic4n 5y ago
That's a sophism, sorry.
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by Pelic4n 5y ago
Oh yes, my favorite tool by far is actually a small hatchet. You can do almost every life-or-death things a knife do with one. Properly sharpened, the head absolutely can be used for roughly cutting veggies and shaving very thin timber from
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by Pelic4n 5y ago
Let me tell you about my knives: -A swiss army knife that I always carry, for small fixes, opening packages & bottles (the scissors are amazing). -A small foldable knife for slightly heavier duty or eating on the go. -A bigger foldable
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
The worldwide median anual household income per capita is about $3000: https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo... Which means most humans won't make $200K in their entire lives. Consideri
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
>I'm not a he, I'm an it! If it causes serious distress to you (just like misgendering trans people do), complying is absolutely the correct and human thing to do, regardless of my beliefs and opinions. It is not a good faith a
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
>I find it ridiculous that everyone is now expected to use they/them pronouns for non-binaries etc. Why? Choosing not to use someone's prefered pronouns is just hurtful and disrespectful. You might choose to ignore the scientif
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
shhhh
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
It's really not about sophistication, it's about approaching these movies from the wrong angle. I'm pretty plebeian in my taste myself!
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
My thesis is that people have troubles connecting with Stalker because they are accustomed to movies being a very voyeuristic and pornographic experience, with in-your-face exposition at every corner and the producers making sure there is n
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
There is a non-standard compiler extension supporting them for GCC, but that's all. Also, I seriously hope they won't. The whole point of C in this day and age is extreme simplicity and portability. The latest standard, C17, has o
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
Delphi is as old as Python, damn.
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
The GC and the GIL.
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
Absolute cringe, thanks you for this.
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
A big reason that little dogs tends to be more violent is that they have to compensate their size by agression and appear larger than they are to fend off predators. My bodeguero (spanish terrier) is the most cuddly animal I have ever met b
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
>at least 10-15 years between builds or upgrades. That wasn't realistic until very recently, after Moore's law completely died off, but I hope it becomes the standard. I have an X220 from 2011, i7 processor & 8 gigs of RAM.
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
Nobody is sarcarstic on the internet, ever.
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
droning pakistanis children
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
We should tell the kids mining cobalt in congo that Elon Musk's family wealth is in fact, not from an emerald mine and that Elon is a good guy after all! I wonder why his family got out of South Africa as soon as the apartheid ended an
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
Absolutely no irony. That's how Elon Musk happened. If you want more Elon Musk that's how you can get them I guess. Soon you'll have an army of geniuses building that cool space utopia for billionaires while the rest of us ca
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
>And more importantly, how do we make more Elon Musks? You take rich families from apartheid states that made their wealth of gems trade & slavery, get the kids excited about space, and give them a world-class education and a huge su
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
From a french to another, a glass of red wine spiced up with benzos absolutely is substance use, and an extremely dangerous kind.
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
It was for me too ! I ended up doing a lot more maths than writing code, so it wasn't that good of a project.
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
I know what you are talking about, I went through the same things learning how to paint and color theory. But it is not the same with the effects of the mushrooms. My visual perception has significantly changed. The day after, the tree I se
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
I have benzos as a safety net during my trips, and it occured to me that it may be a really bad idea to take them. During a trip I lived what people describe as an "ego death", where I saw myself disappearing and dying, and it was
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by Pelic4n 6y ago
>The two others are in a living hell and will never have a normal life again. With that degree of seriousness it can be not HPPD but underlying psychosis or schizophrenia that has been activated by the drug. It happens with cannabis too.

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