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by axblount 3y ago
Also, "worse is better" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by axblount 3y ago
"Somehow, Lucasfilm is struggling."
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by axblount 3y ago
If you feel that way (not saying you shouldn't), why don't you just stop using Reddit?
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Architecture Astronomy(indieweb.org)
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by axblount 4y ago
Why is cold a commodity? Isn't the vast vast majority of the universe extremely cold?
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by axblount 4y ago
We are manipulating human attention and emotion in an unprecendented way. Algorthmic content/advertising is having a profound effect on human behavior that I dont think will be understood for 50+ years.
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by axblount 4y ago
The western world gets cheap food because it exploits the labor and resources of the less fourtunate. Real estate investment is a direct example of wealth concentration. The less wealthy pay a richer individuals rent plus a little profit on
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by axblount 4y ago
I'm not sure where you're from, but in the US, literacy rates are definitely not near 100%. In the report below 8.2% we're functionally illiterate and unable to participate in the survey. https://nces.ed.gov/p
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by axblount 4y ago
Their website is `dion.systems`.
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by axblount 4y ago
Then how do you explain common transhumanist ideas like nootropics and biohacking? I think the line you've drawn is a bit arbitrary.
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by axblount 4y ago
I appreciate the thought, but there's no way a request to remove the Bible would have any impact. The request would be discarded immediately.
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by axblount 4y ago
Right. But being able to live as your authentic self is a good thing, unlike your examples. Opposing good modifications is anti-transhumanist.
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by axblount 4y ago
Maybe this is apocryphal, but I think I remember hearing that Reddit was originally written in some kind of lisp. Not to say it doesn't owe its success to python.
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by axblount 4y ago
So why add the destruction and suffering caused by animal agriculture on top of that?
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by axblount 4y ago
Not to mention we've bred many species beyond what nature would ever allow. Many broiler chickens can't support their own body weight. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... >
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by axblount 4y ago
I think she's very clear that "We don't do that here." shouldn't be the first line of defense or used in every situation. > When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and incl
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by axblount 4y ago
I think Tariq Fancy does a good job of breaking down why ESG and sustainable investing as a whole is bunk: https://medium.com/@sosofancy/the-secret-diary-of-a-sustaina... He also summarizes his thoughts on Doug Henwood
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by axblount 4y ago
Quote from the article: > When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. But I don’t always have the time and energy to do that.
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by axblount 4y ago
I think the author clearly addresses this: > When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. But I don’t always have the time and
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by axblount 4y ago
From the essay: > “We don’t do that here” should be a statement of fact and nothing more. It clearly and concisely sets a boundary, and also makes it easy to disengage with any possible rebuttals. Of course it cuts both ways. Any method
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by axblount 4y ago
Do you see Brave as more private and secure? Or do you think it gives a false sense of security relative to Firefox?
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by axblount 4y ago
> I think it’s part of my responsibility to help take care of them. You clearly think the working people can't take care of themselves. I don't know how to read that as anything other than contempt.
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by axblount 4y ago
Such naked contempt for working people. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Ideally, no one group is in charge of everything. But given a choice, I would pick bus drivers over billionaires.
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by axblount 4y ago
"Democracy for me, but not for thee." Not a good look whether you call it fascism, oligarchy, or technocracy. The "educated elite" do not understand or advocate for the interests of the working class.
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by axblount 4y ago
US resident here. To me, a "pan" is usually a shallow cooking container usually for frying/sauteeing. Not something you would boil pasta in for instance. For pasta/beans/soup i eould use a "pot."
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by axblount 4y ago
The attrition is not imaginary. From https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/surve... : According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were approximately 10.6 million educators working
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by axblount 4y ago
I hope Sam Gross's no-GIL changes are adopted. It would be amazing to have full multithreaded concurrency in python. https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...
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by axblount 4y ago
Sam Gross has been working on a branch that removes the GIL and has a few other performance improvements. More details are here on the python mailing list: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.or
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by axblount 4y ago
I'm confused by the Borg pattern. It seems like a singleton that tricks the user into believing there are multiple instances (very bad imo). Is there any advantage over singleton? Maybe some kind of `__dict__` behavior I'm not awa
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by axblount 4y ago
I taught high school math for 2 years. Which really isn't really enough to diagnose (much less solve) the system's problems. But it did give me a sense of how intractable the problem is. I find it enormously frustrating when peopl

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