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by _yb2s 2y ago
Ah yes, the libertarian utopia of North Korea
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by _yb2s 2y ago
That was exactly my point
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by _yb2s 2y ago
What I mean is that it is an attempt to make a high level domain specific language, but is not my modern standards
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> we wouldn't need programmers anymore This blows my mind, since it seems like a fairly low level/terse language compared to more modern domain specific languages. But in some sense they were dead right... since (I assume) that
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Weight training has been life changing for me, as a middle aged dad with a sedentary job. I take it very seriously- I hired a professional online coach, lift 4x/week for 1-2 hours, do strength competitions several times per year, and c
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I would like to reiterate that, like I said, people were specifically spreading the misinformation that she was a trans person that was allowed to compete only under some new policies coming from their political enemies- as part of a broade
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by _yb2s 2y ago
pretty much all research grants are federal, so the state has no real leverage there
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by _yb2s 2y ago
There doesn't seem to be any single food that is alone nutritionally complete, but potatoes are certainly one of the closest... many people seem to do well with just potatoes for a month or two. A few supplements (B12, etc.) would like
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Many of us aren't even doing things above (or below) ground on Earth.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It's neither anti-capitalist nor anti-communist, just anti-authoritarian.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I didn't claim Orwell had universally eliminated all traces authoritarianism... it is rising in popularity right now. Only that it may have shifted things enough to keep us from literally living in a 1984-esque society nowadays... enou
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by _yb2s 2y ago
As someone who has done offshore sailing… the waves also look unnaturally steep/tall/pointy to me. It’s very cool, but needs some tweaking still.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I briefly spent some time on Twitter a few months ago, and it was almost entirely widespread hysteria over things that were easily verifiable as trivially false. For example, at the time people were enraged about a supposed trans woman winn
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by _yb2s 2y ago
That’s hilariously ironic
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Also… maybe he achieved his purpose? Most people have read his books, and it helped generate a widespread aversion to authoritarianism… actually preventing it from happening in the USA and Britain. Many countries nowadays do have societies
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It seems like this could have some awful unintended consequences... e.g. you setup an alarm that can only be deactivated by scanning a QR code in the next room to force yourself out of bed, but forget to disable it on a business trip- and i
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Thanks for sharing all of the interesting history. Yes, a book is not a one time pad, but in practice is probably more practical for a real spy in historical times, and probably "good enough." But the possibility of retroactively
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Cool article. They are saying to use a regular book as a way of numerically referencing your message, but then aren't you limited to some generic phrase from that book? It seems to me, at least in pre-computer times, that a regular boo
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Like when they shut down The Pirate Bay in 2006 (and again every year since)?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Sigh… when this happens I often feel like I’m done talking to people on here, but then end up coming back anyways
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Except in that trained scuba situation, both divers ascend together while still breathing. If you are freediving it is possible to forget to do this, after getting air from a scuba diver.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
As an experienced scuba diver and freediver, I would never mix the two and take air from a scuba diver while freediving…. The habit of holding my breath on ascent while freediving is really ingrained, and I think it is very likely to forget
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Yes, the fractional pressure change is greatest near the surface, so shallow water is the most dangerous region for lung damage if you hold your breath on ascent.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Yes, you can but people that can afford vacation homes often let them sit empty and lose a lot of money because they don’t want anyone messing with it- it is expensive, and loses a ton of money but they can afford it.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Indeed… the gullible have been pre-selected for them.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
They’re certainly scammy and overpriced, but probably still a better deal than owning a full vacation home that sits empty most of the year….
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Scientism isn’t just a misunderstanding of science- but idolization and worship of it without practicing it… turning it into a sort of religion replacement, which serves some of the same psychological roles- giving them absolute confidence&
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> Isn't this just an anti-science term adopted by religious people and postmodernists? Not at all, as a scientist, I find scientism to be very common and the biggest obstacle to the general public understanding science- more so than
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Even the cheapest 3D printers have generally gotten really good recently... I have a new (lower end) Creality Ender V3 SE printer, and it makes perfectly clean prints like this out of the box if you use their own brand of filament and setti
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Aren't those roughly equivalent in a cpu which dynamically varies its clock speed and power consumption in response to compute demand?

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