Skrillex

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by Skrillex 7y ago
For that visual part, I think that that is the case for most people, including those without aphantasia. From what I have gathered from personal experience and by talking to other people, this so-called mind's eye is (somewhat unintuit
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by Skrillex 8y ago
Basically. See US vs Alcoa [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alcoa
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I believe that the usual response to this is that the devices include some kind of unmodifiable time and location stamping, although that argument spirals out of control pretty quickly.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
Maybe they are. I know of one site that had a premade array of "X bought Y" in the source HTML, which I imagine they repopulate after some amount of time.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
Check out Brandolini's Law for a slightly less short examination of this idea, but the tl;dr argument against this is that any effective refutation of a "bad idea" is necessarily more costly to produce and less likely to be r
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by Skrillex 8y ago
By thinking about how it might happen if it were tech companies, I have a possible answer. From that perspective, I am assuming that the top (in hierarchy, not importance) groups from the then-incumbents will be the fastest to raise new com
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I would be willing to choose the latter option for FB money. If it were that lucrative, I'd already be there with my new startup.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
>Worse, showing how obstacles are overcome and not seeing it applied in real world is soul crushing. I think that this is an important consideration. If I am not mistaken, this is part of the reason why the super-geniuses in the larger c
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by Skrillex 8y ago
Calling "they" an ugly or cumbersome construct seems like a reach. I am a native english speaker, and the use of that word to describe people with unknown characteristics (such as criminal suspects and people with obscured feature
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by Skrillex 8y ago
Would you say that your argument is essentially "This person is wrong in such a way that would not be possible without irrationally hating the president"? If that were the case, I would argue that people can be wrong for any reaso
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I do not understand what "the democratic party, their propaganda outlets, and their commisars" have to do with whether or not the president has thought long and hard about his moral positions. I explained why I think that he does
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I do not want this to sound ironic, but the explanation that seems most intuitive to me is that the parent has been informed of some number of the president's actions (likely through the media and/or aquaintances) and came to the
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by Skrillex 8y ago
It seems to me that it is your view of reality that might be distorted if you can and have inferred that the parent has an irrational hatred of the current president of the United States from that particular sentence.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I imagine that most people abstract at the levels above and below assembly languages. E.g. they know about high level languages, and that a CPU cannot directly run that, but their view of the lower level probably does not include any human
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by Skrillex 8y ago
They have probably been to a school at some point though. This guy is on another level.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
That can make it even better, particularly if you can remember why you were making the decisions that you did.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I think that the educational content on YouTube can definitely outweigh any and all of its issues, as long as we are seeing YouTube for what it is. I am incapable of describing the breadth of knowledge that can be accessed on that site, so
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by Skrillex 8y ago
The parent was not being rational, and noted that they were doing the same thing as other people. They later changed their behavior due to exposure to outside information. It seems explicit to me that the parent admits to being wrong here.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
It would be easy to read your question as "wife, deportation, debt, or all together" == nothing, and in doing so dismiss it. It is easy to see it as "you aren't even willing to sacrifice [all or most of these things] for
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by Skrillex 8y ago
Pervasive tracking and unwarranted surveillance via ads are a significant component of the problems that online ads have, but that does not make them worse than the ones you see elsewhere. The ones you see in real life have the distinction
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I have seen it. I do not believe that this test (or others, yet) compared known placebo treatments to unknown placebo treatments.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
My intuition would be that a significant component of the effect is that the patient believes they have been treated. Until we see evidence otherwise, I see no reason to assume that the placebo effect is not weakened by the loss of that com
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by Skrillex 8y ago
>Individual people's income taxes cannot be treated this way, because the closest analogy to "business expenses" for a person's lifestyle is their cost of living. If cost of living were deductible it would be highly g
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by Skrillex 8y ago
That is an excellent summary. It was like an answer that failed to produce any questions from me and I feel like I understand it now.
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I can imagine system with drag and drop sentence fragments and modifiable variables designed for the construction of contracts. When a document is finished, it would produce a summary of the consequences with as few interpretations as possi
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I was about to say that headphones were in the same place as furniture, where any ratings cannot be trusted, and the only way to guarantee a quality product was trial and error. Maybe the problem space is larger than I realized but I just d
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by Skrillex 8y ago
The name is meant to reference an item that serves as an indicator to what stage a task could be at at the time of checking. The word I would have used is "evidence".
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by Skrillex 8y ago
This brought back flashbacks of people asking me to do things that required knowledge that only the requester had, using credentials that only the requester had, with support from people that the requester knows that I did not, and so on. I
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by Skrillex 8y ago
The primary issue with this argument is the imbalance of the situation. There is an enormous difference in the amount of effort it takes to make a false claim (that sounds nice enough for people to believe without evidence) and the amount o
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by Skrillex 8y ago
I can't tell if that's some crazy shit or if I am old now.

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