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by afpx 1y ago
Take that thought process to the logical conclusion and you may see why people on the right are justified in being scared of you. I.e. what happens when most people are incapable of following your "reasonable" rules? Virtue Signal
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by afpx 1y ago
Actually, it's exactly that: they completely omit the values or conclusions that they don't agree with or understand. I hear it every day. They dismiss half of the country as 'extremist', 'far-right', 'une
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by afpx 1y ago
NPR is definitely not the same as it was in 2005-2010. I was a heavy listener and donated for many years. But, now most of the time I have to turn it off - too much virtue signaling over critical thinking.
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Everyone is A/B testing everything blind. KPIs without Human feedback leads to dystopia.
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Her books were very popular with the gifted kids I hung out with in the late 80s. Cool kids would carry around hardback copies of Atlas Shrugged, impressive by the sheer physical size and art deco cover. How did that trend begin?
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It's estimated that more people today use amphetamines than people used cocaine in 1910
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Of all the impressive software developers I had pleasure to meet before 2012, I never met one who did it for money. They loved their work, the craft, the science, and sheer joy of the creative process. That culture ended quickly pretty arou
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I was given a programming interview once where the interviewer gave me a DP problem (which I didn't know at the time), and he failed me because I used a cache instead of memoization. Asides from being inelegant, what are the downsides
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by afpx 1y ago
But, it works, right? 12-step type programs are also widely-available and low-cost. Practicing religion yields a lot of net-positive effects, particularly mental anguish and internal turmoil. Otherwise, people wouldn't practice them. W
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Not true. That assumption reflects a dated and oversimplified narrative. Most Evangelicals under 50 give no special status to Israel. No scripture instructs modern Christians to give political Israel special treatment. I'm an Evangelic
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Were you a participant in Stargate? https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate
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Does being fired count?
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You can more easily get ~90% of these from practicing Christianity. And, if you practice it, you won't need the other 10%. And, in Christianity, you don't have to do it alone. You instantly get a loving, supportive community to he
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Which document, and why vague? It's not in the constitution. I checked ngram viewer, and it showed this document from 1937 that first used it in that context: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jews_Jobs_and
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by afpx 1y ago
Very true. I've found there's not much value in arguing or pointing out flaws anymore—it just leads into a rabbit hole. I used to do it, but over time realized they’re mostly operating from emotion, not logic. It reminds me of tha
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by afpx 1y ago
I don't think a lot of them view that as a bad thing. Some feel that 'American culture' is more closely aligned with 'Russian culture' than it is to 'Western systems culture'. Also, a surprising number des
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by afpx 1y ago
Honestly, I sense that they believe it's all part of the game. And, if everyone else is doing it, why should they be at a disadvantage? I'm guessing here, though. If you really want answers, best thing to do is hang out in an area
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by afpx 1y ago
After talking to a bunch of Trump voters over the past 8 years, I have heard a common theme. They view the policies of the past 50 years, driven by the 'uniparty', as they say, leading to eminent catastrophic collapse. To them it&
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by afpx 1y ago
I'm surprised by the reactionary tone from a journal like Nature. I would have much rather liked an appeal to the public showing data and analysis of what all of that science funding has accomplished for the people paying for it. Every
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Oops - I'll update.
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(Edited based on comment below) I recognize the optimism, but realistically, without a strong and strategic leader, coordination will collapse into disorganization and infighting. Historical examples like Occupy Wall Street demonstrate that
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by afpx 1y ago
Yeah, there are some possibilities. For example, if a strong resistance leader emerged. But, are there any good candidates for that role? I can't think of any.
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by afpx 1y ago
Unfortunately, if this follows history, the safest thing to do is to not do anything, blend in, and wait for external help. Afaik, only a handful of Germans who resisted survived. But, I don’t see any help for us coming anytime soon.
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by afpx 1y ago
Wouldn't MiTM be relatively easy for a state actor or even well-coordinated non-state actors? At least, if I was a state, I'd have backdoors in as many open source projects as I could and agents in the orginzations in the supply c
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by afpx 1y ago
In this imagined techno-feudalism future, what will these "monarchs" do? Own and control their entire supply chain?
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by afpx 2y ago
I remember having to use Rational Rose back in the day, and I had to ask my boss why because the software crashed and the files got corrupted all of the time. If it didn’t help them write better software, why were we using it? That said, I
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by afpx 2y ago
Pretty cool. I often wondered if the universe was evolving similar to natural selection via a reinforcement learning process. Wave function collapses to the value that maximizes some objective function. How would you test for it though? I&#
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The power is right there, ready to be taken. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to wait for the “white man” to grant you more power. But, to do so, you will need to risk more than your online reputation.
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by afpx 2y ago
It's just what Trump and his circle allude to. They believe globalism is an existential threat and that without a swift and powerful shift, the US will sink.
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My wife likes to tell me that she'll know when feminism has succeeded when the US Supreme Court is all women. I tell her that I'll know when feminism has succeeded when the military is all women.

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