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7921.
by api 6y ago
Was she abused physically, emotionally, or sexually? The constant low level gaslighting and other things witnessed may count. I have read that children who are abused can develop these traits as a defense mechanism or as a symptom of low gr
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by api 6y ago
Crises like these tend to pop bubbles. The "everyone has to be in one of 5 or 6 cities to have a career" bubble is popping. It's terrible for the inhabitants of these cities as it makes them unaffordable, and it's terrib
7923.
by api 6y ago
It was found written inside the kings chamber of the great pyramid?
7924.
by api 6y ago
Same place as the sorts of Democrats who want infrastructure projects and moon shots: they're not getting elected. A Qanon nut just beat out a former neurosurgeon in a Republican primary in Georgia. We do in fact live in a democracy. I
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by api 6y ago
I don't agree with all of what you're insinuating, but overall I think you're onto something. Even if some of these allegations have legs, it's sad that our politics mostly revolves around an endless search for the next
7926.
by api 6y ago
Are there any good examples of working PoS?
7927.
by api 6y ago
I think easier to monetize explains most of it. Easier to monetize means you can fund all the work required to achieve superior user experience, and user experience is the most important differentiator. People have repeatedly shown that UX
7928.
by api 6y ago
I see the same thing. I've heard lots of non technical people call facebook posts "e-mails" and they never leave the platform. They use a phone or a tablet to launch Facebook.
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by api 6y ago
What a huge driver of inequality this is... I wonder how much of the economic divergence is explainable by down payments alone?
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by api 6y ago
The USSR saved the world from the Nazis and then the US saved the world from the USSR. I like that. Now who will save the world from the lawless international corporatist panopticon birthed from America? Aliens? History seems like "she
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by api 6y ago
From what I have both seen and read, housing costs are the #1 cause of this. They have exploded in the last 25 years. The thing that blows my mind is that the COVID recession shows no sign of slowing down house price growth, though it has t
7932.
by api 6y ago
Sounds like what our own financial sector is doing here.
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by api 6y ago
Years ago when he acquired a cult of personality and could do no wrong, I knew it was going to swing the other way. I never subscribed to either view. He's a brilliant engineer and a talented businessman with some apparently significan
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by api 6y ago
I find myself having binary reactions to virtually all of Thiel's positions: I either strongly agree or strongly disagree. I guess that's what his methodological contrarianism generates. I agree with this one. Not only are college
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by api 6y ago
It may in some ways have helped. It forces deep concentration and prioritizes simple and elegant solutions over needlessly complex ones. Information technology is powerful but I sometimes wonder if we are grossly misusing it.
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by api 6y ago
Hell for some 'holler down in West Virginia or Kentucky a reliable 3mbps would be amazing. Many of those sorts of places have 384kbps-768kbps DSL or even dialup... in 2020. They just don't have the infrastructure and it costs way
7937.
by api 6y ago
Yep. The Internet is now "The Google."
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by api 6y ago
Just in time for the thing for which Oumuamua was a spent deceleration stage... :)
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by api 6y ago
Tech-savvy and power users would hate it. It would represent both a loss of freedom and a loss of capability. Non-technical users would love it. It would offer them an environment much more secure and free of malware where they can install
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by api 6y ago
I think that is the point even if it's overdone. Many people do think the renaissance and enlightenment were smooth upward transitions when in reality they were periods of profound political and social turmoil. While I do think the enl
7941.
by api 6y ago
Android and Chromebooks are usually pretty closed in spite if having a Linux kernel.
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by api 6y ago
Pressure? Water unlike most materials expands when it freezes.
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by api 6y ago
The question is whether there is a source of energy for that subsurface ocean. If it's geologically dead the entire thing could be uniformly quite cold. Unlike some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn it's not headed by gravitation
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by api 6y ago
Yeah, the "woke" vs "based" culture war has destroyed the minds of a generation. These are two sides of the same coin. The underlying anti-intellectualism and biological identitarianism/racism is the same. The only
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by api 6y ago
All these things are used by nerds and have little chance of breaking into the mainstream. They're too labor intensive to use and deploy and impose too much cognitive load. 10% of the work is making it work. The user experience necessa
7946.
by api 6y ago
That works at a small scale. When things get big, people start behaving badly... or alternately you could say that when things get big their surface area becomes sufficient so as to encompass a lot of bad behavior. The problem is that not a
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by api 6y ago
Edit: I rewrote this to add a lot of substance. This was written in 1991. The world was very very different then. The Internet was small. Hardware was commodity. Most of the power in the industry belonged to proprietary software vendors lik
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by api 6y ago
Sufficient gas peaker capacity? The solar might be cheaper, but if it got cut you could fire them up.
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by api 6y ago
It's called Red Dawn and it's awesome.
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by api 6y ago
Analysis happens on either end, not the network or servers. Of course if both ends are "cracked" this doesn't work, but the goal is to stop mass spread of disinformation. Most people won't modify their client.

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