Semirhage

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by Semirhage 8y ago
The activity which is addictive varies, but the underlying physiological mechanism seems to be essentially identical from cocaine abuse to gambling. Defining the disorder by the pathology rather than an obtuse collection of symptoms which h
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by Semirhage 8y ago
It’s not necessarily that, it can also be tacitly referring to external civilian influxes, such as mass migration events. Either way, it’s a grim business that few people seem to grasp the full import of.
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Ok, you go volunteer on a test track then. While you’re at it, you should volunteer for medical testing, do you know how many people die each year from various diseases?! Maybe the needed progress will come soon, or maybe not, but since you
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I still have Descent dreams. If they’re good it’s just an exciting time, but if it’s an anxiety dream then it’s the equivalent of “the brakes on my car don’t work” anxiety dreams in 3D. I may have played those games a biiiit too much.
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Then you and other people like you can volunteer to work at a test track as obstacles. Leave the rest of us out of it. You’re entitled to your utopian fantasy of what might be, and the best way to express that is to put your life on the l
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by Semirhage 8y ago
If a company is playing fast and loose with the false negatives rate, drivers and pedestrians will die needlessly, but if they are too strict the car will be undriveable and erratic. Both Tesla and Uber, when faced with this difficult trad
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Whatever “culture” supposedly created it, that’s not the real use case. The same people who will rant about “fiat” will in the next breath, talk about various measures to centralize crypto through PoW. It’s about making money by any and all
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by Semirhage 8y ago
“Progress was defeating a ruthless and murderous North Korean Communist regime...” “Who, upon victory , mass murdered 10's of thousands of their own citizens...” Proofread! Or at the very least, try not to include outright contradic
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I respect your charitable interpretation, but it turns out to be overly charitable based on subsequent posts. I’m going to take a page out of the “know when to back away slowly” handbook, and back away slowly from this train wreck.
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by Semirhage 8y ago
While possible, this seems like an even more tenuous argument than usual for theoretical work on phys.org. The original paper is an ocean of maybe’s and if’s, all couched in unsupported models that may well have no bearing on reality. I’m a
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by Semirhage 8y ago
And FYI the US handily and clearly won the Vietnam war; the South Vietnamese insurgency was defeated and the North Korean Army was obliterated. That’s a serious, if delusional claim that requires a loooooot of support. “Handily” in partic
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Go to Reddit, then go to Voat. It makes a difference. You can’t completely win, but you can definitely lose.
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If that was ever an option, it isn’t now. It would just be a bot war drowning everyone else out, and that’s not free speech either.
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Entitled or not, a crowd that’s armed is going to shoot back. When police fire tear gas, people throw the canisters back, they use Molotov cocktails, but they tend to be outnumbered and poorly equipped. If police are opening fire on a cro
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by Semirhage 8y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/25/twitter-p... They’re a profitable business, and became one in three years less than Tesla, without the need to tackle a hard problem like manufacturing
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by Semirhage 8y ago
The long irreversible period of a credit charge is not a technical limitation, it’s a feature.
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Mushroom Management(en.wikipedia.org)
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It’s a valid criticism they seem unable to tackle without massive layoffs, which seems problematic. Taking credit for clean energy is good PR though... maybe they’re a PR company?
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"Given that Tesla has never made an annual profit in the almost 15 years since we have existed, profit is obviously not what motivates us." So they’re not a profitable business, and not a charity. What are they exactly?
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by Semirhage 8y ago
It’s worth pointing out that trap choice is critical in terms of efficacy. Ideally you want a trap baited with Octenol and CO2, as traps without the bait are generally ineffective at population control. If you have a large body of standing
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This is just what I was thinking. Make it highly targeted to a few people, and swap it out at two points. Swap it for the hot unit mid-summit, then swap back for a normal unit at the end. If they’re really lucky this could become a normal o
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I'm Japanese-American. I suspect that’s the key right there. From friends who are the same, I get the impression that in Japan if you’re of Japanese descent the expectations had of you are very different than the typical gaikokujin.
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The experience of being a westerner in China is much worse than in Japan IME. I can’t speak for India or the continent of Africa, but in the latter case I’d guess that it varies widely by country.
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Vietnam.
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You can also reach a point where, as you said, they’re not fanatical or cut off from science and objectivity, they just have a lens through which they view it all. It’s a tough life, and a belief in a higher purpose or underlying cause must
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Strive to become comfortable with uncertainty and doubt. At first your instinct is to arrive at certainty, to hang onto “facts” and put things in boxes. It can cause anxiety to leave things in some state of either-or-maybe, but it’s a criti
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by Semirhage 8y ago
In the immortal words of Rob Delaney, “Guns don’t kill people. People who say “Guns don’t kill people” kill people. With guns.” /s/guns/drones
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If you’re going to claim that targeted ads are that kind of improvement over the alternative, you should present some evidence of their relative efficacy. From what I’ve seen, unless you rely solely on marketing claims, you won’t find it be
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Dangerous people are out there. Yes, and psychopaths like your aunt exist, but if we design society around authoritarian ideals designed to totally eliminate their ability to do harm society breaks every time. A balance has to be struck t
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Read the comments here, and it seems like Telegram is being pretty shrewd from PR perspective, since everyone is willing to blame Russia and Apple. Admittedly Russia is a deservedly easy target, and Apple has some vocal critics. If enough p

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