QualityReboot

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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Repulsive is absolutely the right word for this effect. Edit for one more thought on this: it also gave me an appreciation for vegans and vegetarians. I was eating chicken while tripping once and really had some inner conflict over if it w
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Just as another data point, I actually love weed with no desire to quit, and I too found myself questioning if it's even something I want to keep in my life after a psychedelic experience. One of the weird things about psychedelics is
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Found the vim user ;) That remote control is how I explain modal interfaces to people when they can't understand how my editor works.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
That tone tells me that the conversation is now in lawyer-mode. If I'm using it, it's because I'm no longer willing or able to communicate normally. If I cared about you, you'd see me angry. If I don't care about
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
What's wrong with saying "hey dude, no need to get angry, let's figure out how to get you better requirements. how about we try xyz and you come back to us in 2 weeks and tell us if we're doing better"? If he apol
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Please no. That reads like a cheat sheet for sociopaths. Conversations between good actors don't need to be engineered. These techniques are probably great if you're a police officer, lawyer, executive, or salesperson, but let&#
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
If you want another attempt at Herzog, I'd recommend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroszek
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, when I block ads, does that decrease your CPM? I'm doing it either way, I'm wondering how they count adblock views.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Right, that's historically been true for humans because we are pattern recognition workhorses. We have some other examples worth considering though, like literal workhorses. Once the engine came around, horses became inefficient and w
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Your attitude is the difference between a junior developer and an experienced one.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Found the libertarian! I kid, but I think most people do have the view that the government really owns everything. In practice, control means ownership, so it's not an unreasonable view.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
It's because of the other stuff in the tobacco plant. There's a whole host of addictive things that aren't nicotine in there. If you can switch from many addictive things to just nicotine, then you can get off the nicotine a
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Maybe that's still true, but it's a big market. Any time I look at remote job listings, I see lots of good companies to choose from. Whenever a friend tries to recruit me, I ask them if they hire remote and they mostly do.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
> It still costs them the same for a day of my work, whether they slow me down or not. Yes, and they know it too. People often value your attention more than your productivity, and with good reason. Think about how many meetings you&#x
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
I'm having the exact same experience. It took me about 10 years to figure it out. I'm still kind of a workaholic, but I could do way less and it'd be fine. It's also super nice to have a safety net of more and more rem
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
True, but you're not supposed to say trans women have biological traits of men, because trans men are also a thing, and they're still "men". So really, trans women have biological traits of genetic males, which is fine.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
The distinction is supposed to be that "biological facts" no longer include gender. Gender is now fluid psychological term, not a biological one. In other words, you said "advantages of a man" instead of "advanta
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
I made my attempt to explain it upthread for cis folks who haven't got it sorted yet. I'm surprised that my understanding is already out of date or was wrong in the first place. Maybe 5 years ago or so, the rule I learned was tha
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
I think you mean well, but are maybe a little out of touch with how things have changed in the last few years. Wikipedia does a good job of analyzing this topic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender The way I read i
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
You're exactly right, and maybe I should just be happy that YouTube is going to enforce political views that I mostly agree with, but the whole thing is a bit unsettling and definitely going to have unintended consequences.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
My understanding is that most trans women don't want to be identified as such, and that "passing" is a really big deal. "Tall" is an acceptable descriptor for a person, obvious to all and not usually very sensitive.
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
What about the calls to boycott Hobby Lobby or Chick-fil-A for what they've argued are their religious positions? That's certainly exclusionary. Or preachers telling the world that gays are evil sinners that need to be saved by c
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
> Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Just mail a letter to this PO box and we'll have your information removed in 8-12 weeks with no way to verify we did it!
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Even easier now with https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
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by QualityReboot 7y ago
Yeah, it's super annoying that fb knows everything about me even though I don't use their service. There's nothing I can do about it.
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by QualityReboot 8y ago
Just so you know, because it sound like nobody told you... you really need to taper those drugs or the chance of seizure goes way up. It's not like other addictions, you can't just cold turkey benzos or alcohol if you've bee
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by QualityReboot 8y ago
Yeah, people feel uneasy with this. It seems that amphetamines work for pretty much everyone at the right dose, and they have very few side effects. I've had a prescription for about 15 years and while I don't take it daily, it&
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by QualityReboot 8y ago
I think your feeling is pretty rational. It's pretty annoying for no benefit. I wish they also offered flights with lower security. I'm fine getting on a plane if everyone went through a metal detector and kept their shoes on.
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by QualityReboot 8y ago
I think email works really well as a federated solution. Mastodon is trying to make a Twitter clone that works more like email. That's the logical evolution here IMO. Eventually, we probably arrive at something truly decentralized o

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