SauntSolaire

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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Is this sarcasm?
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
It's not like it's in the url, they could easily change the page title
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
> simply for being one of the last communist countries Well, that plus their 50 nuclear warheads and continued ICBM development, amongst other things.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
E-books supposedly, since the parent explicitly specified paper books.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Perhaps Grimoire? "A grimoire is a textbook of magic and sorcery. Traditionally, it contains instructions for casting spells, performing divination, creating magical objects like talismans, and summoning supernatural entities such
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
For a lot of people, privacy can simply mean not having to share a space with someone else.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
> You should investigate the repeated prisoners dilemma. Well aware. Obviously, the entirety of human civilization is a bit more complicated than a prisoners dilemma, iterated or not. Yet prisoners dilemma's and races to the bottom
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
That's somewhat understandable, what I find more interesting is that people around me won't show up unless it's between 70-80 degrees out.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Also "Sequoyah’s syllabary was not simply a creative triumph, but a new means of self-government and cultural memory"
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
I mean, your proposed logic seems to be quite consistent from a basic game theory perspective. Defecting in a prisoners dilemma and races to the bottom are both well observed phenomena.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
I would be wary of extrapolating too much from the talking buttons. Review the clever hans effect and (the critiques of) Koko the gorilla for examples of people misattributing classical conditioning for intentionality. The fact is that huma
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Or "we'll ship our code as binary blobs so you can't reverse engineer it".. oh, wait
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
I don't think you understand the hypothetical being discussed
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Are you talking about the pixel buds app? They ask you on setup if you want it installed, and you can uninstall it anytime. Seems pretty far from "mandatory".
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
What's being discussed is not at all limited to people experiencing instability
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
The advent of communism was sufficiently long ago that it I'm not sure your critique applies.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
> There's no such thing as an obvious "Perfect" taste. The person you're responding to never claimed there's such a thing as "Perfect taste"; they've only said there's such a thing as "ba
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
I see "Torment Nexus" has completed is evolution into a catch-all term for "things I don't like".
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
I believe they meant humanity.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Is imagine the high pedigree horses are already so genetically similar to each other at this point that they're already vulnerable to that.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
They've already moved on to genetic engineering according to the article; no need to fuss with evolving a better horse when you can directly specify one. At some point breeding programs will mostly be useful for identifying new mutatio
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
The next actual step according to the article is genetically engineering the horse clones. They've already crispr'd five as proof of concept.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Seems to be working pretty well in the case of these horses.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Well it would certainly help to know before they're born which children are going to be Einstein. Maybe with ten thousand of them around we could ask some to help sort the education system out.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
It's mentioned in the parent article.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
> That’s because those two groups study relationships more than non-poly people do, so they have a broader perspective. To nitpick, polyamorous people tend to study relationships through the lens of (shocker) polyamory. Not all such stud
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Then it just has one definition, rather than plenty. You could have said that it's defined in many places. If you want to say that's what you meant, I won't argue semantics.
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
Food deserts are a methodologically fraught concept. The inclusion criteria are basically arbitrary; vary the distance or income thresholds by modest amounts, and the maps change drastically. It also buckets everyone living in a census trac
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
> You'd find plenty of definitions if you looked for them Having a greater number of competing definitions does not generally make a term more meaningful. (Take "art" for example.)
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by SauntSolaire 4mo ago
I took that to mean "addictive drugs are uniquely bad compared to the general category of 'consumer goods'"

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