Uhuhreally

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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
This argument comes up often: "tool X doesn't cause Y, people do" However people _act differently_ when they are using tool X. When we are driving a vehicle, we _become_ the vehicle. When we hold a tool, the tool becomes part
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
with a high voice for "zero"
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
"Wealth is a fluid thing" is quite a euphemism for "tax evasion"
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
interestingly lithium's medicinal properties depend on its isotope
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
expected to read an article about someone 3d-printing their own glasses, was disappointed
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
It says damage resembling chemical burns. And why not ? did lungs evolve in an environment with propylene glycol ? no.
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
yes because programming is exactly like manufacturing cars on an assembly line or playing rugby.
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
imagine that you're so smart that next time you have a great idea for a new technology you simulate in your mind how the world would be affected by that technology and, seeing that overall it would add to the misery of the world, you d
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
all I can think about now is the total surface area of plastic in the world rubbing against something and being ground into microplastic dust
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
nope
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
Imagine you could store the hydrogen (protons) in a convenient, safe form called a "battery"
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
could you (and the parent if possible) comment on the role the canton system plays in direct democracy ?
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
because he has been awarded by the putative meritocratic competition a vast sum of money for his mediocre operating system
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
now let me ask this: is Gates smarter and harder working in proportion to his wealth than Knuth ?
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
"extraordinary things" DOS was shit and so was Windows. Microsoft has always somehow made money in spite of the poor quality of their products. The only exception I can think of is their mouse.
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
are there any social media platforms that don't have metrics like follower counts, karma etc ?
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
this applies to many other instances of systems being adopted and appearing to succeed even though what's really behind the success is something else, but because we don't have the control we associate the system with the success,
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
he downplayed the severity of it with his wording, which is tacitly arguing in favour of it
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
my god the fragility of people who expect their free speech to be consequence-free
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
Bollocks. Like Ricky Gervais said the other day actually you can say anything you like. People might not agree with you and that's fine.
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"harem"
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by Uhuhreally 11y ago
The point of an IQ test is to measure IQ, or "Intelligence Quotient", or how intelligent someone is, except what it really measures is how good people are at doing IQ tests. Nobody agrees what Intelligence is, and people with a hi