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by aeturnum 5y ago
So I don't know if we have reliable numbers for how many people use Google, but it's probably in the billions. 0.01% of 1,000,000,000 people is 100,000. So I see what you're saying but also calling it unused based on a 0.01%
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by aeturnum 5y ago
SnapOn is famously desirable and expensive. I think part of this is that there are very few truly "premium" construction tools because, well, they are used in construction. Your drills and saws and the like are expected to get bea
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I genuinely don't understand concern about workers being paid too much. I get that a particular company may not be possible with the current compensation standards and that's frustrating, but if you are in the position of having r
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Users will just be frustrated for a bit until they train themselves to pick the category that maximizes the effect of their downvote. If each other user can choose what downvote categories they want reflected on their site, this dyna
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Is facebook wrong I think this is an unhelpful framing of the situation, because as you imply Facebook is of course not wrong. If you have one friend and your feed is entirely full of their posts, Facebook is off the hook. But, for m
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The problem is that one of the main differentiating factors of these platforms is selecting which post to present to the user at a particular moment. It's a valuable service - there are lots of posts - but it means the platforms are al
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think for many people, but certainly not all, the wider culture of an escapist work is important. Looking at a fanciful image doesn't automagically distract you, there needs to be some amount of collaboration between your mind and th
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say he believed in traditional gender roles quite strongly, but very little in the societal institutions of the 1950s. Some ideas he promotes in his writing: polyamory, group marriage, distrust of centra
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> This is exactly what reddit told its users to do I'm not on reddit much these days but when I opened it just now I was able to downvote without choosing a reason? So I do not think it is using the system I described. The ability o
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by aeturnum 5y ago
An idea I've been interested in trying is requiring people to downvote for a reason: "unproductive," "inaccurate," "off-topic." The hope is both to increase friction and to allow each person to decide whic
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Compliments are a little tricky, but I've also been trying to get better at giving them out. We've all run into people who use compliments to socially separate people ("thanks for not being overbearing like chris") or to
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It comes from the halting problem. People can be more careful writing code, but it is impossible to be certain about all the things code will or won't do. Even very simple programs can have flaws that get found and fixed years later. I
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The clickbait-y part is that it is possible to retrieve a token from the previous user. Pretty normal as you say. The non-clickbait is that the previous token is still valid as far as Amazon is concerned. They absolutely should have a proce
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I absolutely agree that Blizzard's worlds are weaker than Games Workshop's. GW has a real talent for genre fiction, where Blizzard struggles with the basics of plot structure. The thing I disagree with is that Blizzard's prob
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think people can have narcissistic goals without having narcissistic personality disorder. It is tempting to see our passions as deriving from an objectively correct view of how the world should improve. Jeff likes space and, what do you
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Time to once again post my favorite TED talk "the ghastly tragedy of the Suburbs": https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_the_ghastly_...
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by aeturnum 5y ago
So what you're saying is that we shouldn't respect creative works that are too similar to their inspirations and you think a good example of the creative work we should respect is...Warhammer? "It’s all in here, the neolithic
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> If we're going down this road, why not take it all the way Hunger and war and disease all have the potential to make furthering space exploration impossible. For example, we just had a pandemic that impacted a lot of people? Howev
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> there will always be current challenges that we face on earth To me, climate change seems more existential than our other challenges. The reason we can use earth as a base for interplanetary exploration is because the environment is
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think Starcraft and Warcraft before it are both stellar examples of inventive remixing and borrowing from existing worlds. That is very different from plagiarism. Games Workshop does not own the copyright on nearly-dead-warriors-entombed-
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I don't think we know enough from this to say. It's possible that this bug made it into the wild because the organizational structure made remedies impossible. In that case you probably don't fire anyone, though maybe you rea
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> My point is that they have a fundamental right to act based on their conclusions, even if they are wrong. 100% agree!
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by aeturnum 5y ago
First, I favor space exploration and think we, as a society, should spend more money on it than we do now. Second, calling this 'realistic' is nonsense: > It's not pessimistic, it's realistic. [...] on a 100,000 year
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> I agree that people should have the right to choose death, independent of the rationality of their decision I don't think that that there is an ethical imperative to allow people to carry out irrational decisions. I was trying t
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> people with disorders negatively impacting their cognition and decision making. I think we should be really careful about how we think & talk about this. There are a few situations (like psychotic breaks) where people fully belie
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Software engineering research is immature and, as such, has few (no?) strongly-supported claims that the entire field relies on. I agree this is a frustrating state of the field, but the way this is written makes the author appear to be unf
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> These sad lonely sexless men spend all their money on this shit. It consumes them, until they are out of money, then it destroys them. It warps their expectations of relationships further impacting their datability, driving them even
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> I think your view is skewed I suspect it's more that we have different definitions of how widely a feeling of alarm should spread before saying this. I agree the absolute number of people who are worried about the problem is small
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think people are alarmed, but solutions to these problems are enormously costly and largely fictional. The techniques we have for living in space (or transiting through it) would not sustain us if we lost earth. They are enormously cost
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by aeturnum 5y ago
They are not proposing a 1:1 relationship between use in games and medics being killed. That's not really how the meaning of symbols change. They are saying that using the medical symbol for game or media elements who are appropriate t

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