Tycho

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by Tycho 4y ago
Knowledge is necessary but in some cases not sufficient, I’d say. Nobody is going to give you a job where you don’t know what you’re doing, except maybe in politics.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Can you do a dev-adjacent job like SCRUM-master or Agile coach? Corporations seem to be big into that the days.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Hmm but when people use the term “evil” they’re usually not referring to petty political grievances du jour .
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by Tycho 4y ago
Facebook is evil? Paypal? How?
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by Tycho 4y ago
What’s an example of a company that could be so widely considered as evil?
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by Tycho 4y ago
So for people who choose careers where it’s important to live in a hub city, housing is increasingly unaffordable, but what about everyone else who is content with a career/job with no such restrictions? Most cities have a trendy, expe
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by Tycho 4y ago
Is housing unaffordable, or is it just that everyone wants to live in the same few places? That’s the impression I get in the UK. Of course the houses/neighbourhoods that everyone wants to live in will be unaffordable to most. That wil
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by Tycho 4y ago
“What happened to it” - as far as I can tell it has passed into common acknowledgement.
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by Tycho 4y ago
But what is useful about this “illusion.” In a purely deterministic world, any sense of illusion is completely irrelevant. You might as well say “pebbles on the beach don’t really have a sense of community, it’s just a useful illusion that
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by Tycho 4y ago
> My personal experience is that consciousness, like free will, is a useful illusion. I always find this such a strange statement. Free will doesn’t exist but it’s a useful illusion… like… in that case… useful to who??
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by Tycho 4y ago
Selling your user information/attention for ad revenue is quite a scummy business model when it comes down to it. I quite enjoy the fact that Apple could pull the plug on Google, FB etc. any time it wanted to by announcing steps to mak
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by Tycho 4y ago
The nation voted No in 2014 so they should probably leave it a bit before angling for another referendum. 20 years perhaps.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Careers are about opportunity. Come into the office less, and you’ll come across fewer opportunities. As someone said, “eighty percent of success is just showing up.”
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by Tycho 4y ago
I wasn’t proposing anything, just expressing surprise that corporations are able to conspire against members of the public in this manner. That someone can just go and find out your personal history and sell it to parties you’re trying to t
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by Tycho 4y ago
If I wanted to start a business that would involve collating the private financial transactions/history of individuals and then sharing it (via a summary statistic) with clients in a context where there might be adverse consequences fo
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by Tycho 4y ago
I’m surprised that credit scores are even legal, to be honest. I wonder if there’s been any class action lawsuits.
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by Tycho 4y ago
What you need to understand is that the towering achievements of (historical) European culture are simply a constant thorn in the sides of the woke. The more they think about it, the more it drives them insane.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Why not just quit and do something else that interests you. A different industry, or your own project or startup. Sounds like you’ll easily be able to get re-employed if things don’t work out. Or even do consulting for your current employer
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by Tycho 4y ago
This takeover attempt carries a similar world historical significance to the Girardian interpretation of the Crucifixion. Jesus exposed the underlying collective violence, the scapegoat mechanism, that holds society together. Exposing the h
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by Tycho 4y ago
Isn’t it a good thing that these coastal hubs become too expensive eventually and stop growing. Doesn’t it force the economy to re-centre on hubs in other locations and give the rest of the country a chance to flourish. Do we really want mo
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by Tycho 5y ago
Well they mobilized their nuclear forces and defences and enacted a blockade of the entire island until the threat was withdrawn, ready to launch air strikes and and/or an invasion if it did not. I hardly think this bolsters the case t
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by Tycho 5y ago
They would take any action to stop that from happening, including bombing, invasion, and regime change if necessary.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Venezuela is 3000km away from America. And still they’ve been plotting to overthrow the current government. Cuba is an island, and still the US was ready to start WW3 rather than let Russia put missiles there.
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by Tycho 5y ago
The US or UK governments would take drastic military action before allowing a hostile nuclear power to deploy military assets on its borders. This is relevant to Ukraine because obviously it was allowing America to expand its military reach
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by Tycho 5y ago
I mean, everyone knows what would happen if Mexico or Republic of Ireland announced an agreement with Russia to let them send in weapons and military personnel and set up military bases, right? I just ask that we don’t kid ourselves.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Our entire legal system rests on the (rather obvious) principle of hearing both sides in order to find the truth, but the brain rot has somehow progressed to the point where in the media this is considered some sort of fallacy (“both-sidesi
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by Tycho 5y ago
Independence of the media seems to be rapidly deteriorating. Once some idiots decided that “misinformation” caused things like Brexit, they acquiesced to the state’s desire to arrogate all media reporting, because, after all, letting people
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by Tycho 5y ago
I definitely construct scenes from a few noted details plus general context. Like what colour is my neighbour’s front door? Not sure, even though I pass it every day. However if I mentally retrace my steps within a short timespan, it seems
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by Tycho 5y ago
Photographic memory is not a real phenomenon though. But eidetic memory is real, some people can remember almost everything they read. But they don’t remember photographic images.
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by Tycho 5y ago
The score was actually quite thoughtful, attempting to use rhythm and harmony and vocal style that was fitting for the universe, ie. very far removed from our current styles.

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