TRcontrarian

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by TRcontrarian 5y ago
Vernor Vinge is usually fantastic.
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by TRcontrarian 5y ago
The founding text is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992). It's short, funny, entertaining, and full of new ideas in a freewheeling early 90's spirit. The list in the comment you are replying to is not bad, since most interactions
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by TRcontrarian 5y ago
Obsidian is the closest thing I've found to the Pensive from Harry Potter. It's a data recording format good enough for me to extract thoughts from my mind, represent them with enough fidelity to reconstruct later, connect them to
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by TRcontrarian 5y ago
Bee genetics are wild. When I was a beekeeper we learned that queens lay two types of eggs - normal fertilized eggs, which will hatch into females and grow into workers if fed pollen, and queens if fed royal jelly, and unfertilized eggs, wh
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by TRcontrarian 5y ago
I've had the misfortune of several alcoholic roommates, and it's disturbing. They'll yell at you, threaten you, get emotional, violent, cry, the whole works, and then deny it all the next morning. In contrast, every regular m
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by TRcontrarian 5y ago
I've been to a few antiques stores where they have a blacklight case to show off the fluorescent uranium glass teacups and candlesticks. If you don't have a blacklight with you, it's tough to tell the difference between truly
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by TRcontrarian 5y ago
Is it better to live in a world where the future is unknown, and the best we can do is guess where value will be, or one where the future is known, and the prices of all investments are stable and already priced at their exact values? In wh
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before that becomes an astroturfing target as well. At least there's account history associated with it, so there is some effort associated with creating or purchasing accounts with belie
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
The funding model is extremely sus. I used to trust them but your criticisms are right on, and their 'the best x' lists have a curious tendency to prioritize brands that already have high ad spend, rather than surface little known
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
I've heard that Stephen King considers the Dark Tower series his greatest work[1][2], but almost none of his fans do[3][4]. The intent of a work can be far divorced from the public reception of it. [1] https://darktower.fand
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Interesting. When I took modern foil fencing classes, it wasn't dangerous in the slightest. The training foils (the long thin bendy swords that people usually think of when they think of fencing) are extremely flexible and have a butto
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
I feel the exact same way about sampling 'alien' ad culture. It's fun to switch on the local TV station in a new city and see what ads are being shown to people there. It's like a form of social calibration that shows wh
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Putting hockey stick shaped lines on graphs with buzzwords on the x axis and dollars on the y axis does not a big idea make. I am disappointed to see ideas that have failed to deliver for a decade like drone delivery ( https://www
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Someone might find it hilarious to put that sign in their front yard to mess with passers by
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Can confirm this is real. It happens with the tiger salamander subspecies we have here blocking developments.
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
I cook costco basmati in my zoji on the 'white' and 'harder' setting and it comes out fine. Less aromatic than my preferred jasmine rice but still great, distinct firm grains.
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Oh the Places You Go was first published in 1990 and is protected by US copyright for the life of the author plus 70 years. Dr. Seuss died in 1991 (OtPYG was the last book published in his lifetime) and so the book will remain under copyrig
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
My parents tried to make me do treatment for video game addiction. I was appalled by the simplistic portrayal that the entire older generation had of my habits, because although they were unhealthy, they were a far cry from addiction. There
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Hi Eric
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
No way, you were on the team? Congrats.
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
I never paid for Pasta King pasta like that, but when I lived down the road from him my roommate slaughtered chickens and sold them with an identical honor system. People just left a @$20 bill on the kitchen table and took their chicken.
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Volpi's has killer gnocchi to boot
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Fear of job losses to automation in ancient Rome(arsendarnay.blogspot.com)
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
This is true, but although the devs made a great effort to keep the game playable with time dilation (colloquially known as "TiDi" by the players), in practice the game will never slow down below 10% of "realtime", even
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by TRcontrarian 6y ago
Facebook Messenger is blocking me from sending any string containing the attacker's wallet address bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh. I'm trying to send blockchain explorer URL's to friends and it's failing.