axguscbklp

8 ms·

31.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Just because mixedCase does not find captcha pictures to be depressing does not necessarily mean that mixedCase has problems with emotional intelligence. I have no major issues with emotional intelligence as far as I can tell and I also do
32.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
It seems to me that Indians on average cared a lot more about independence than Americans on average care about freedom from the government spying on them, so I am not sure that Snowden coming back to America would really change much. I thi
33.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Thanks!
34.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I do not think I have ever seen a Jazz apple here in the states, but I would love to try one.
35.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I can taste the sugar water in Red Delicious and I actually enjoy the texture, but I understand the rest.
36.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Low-censorship forums tend to be 90% idiocy, 10% really interesting and accurate takes on reality that are suppressed elsewhere. Often they also have a lot of brilliant humor. So I would not say that they are purely idiotic, just largely id
37.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I agree that supermarket fruits and vegetables often seem to lack in flavor but to my taste, Red Delicious is not worse than any other supermarket apple. All supermarket apples, even the sour ones, pretty much just taste like slightly diffe
38.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I feel like I should chime in here. I love going out and partying. I love meeting new people face-to-face. Yet I strongly, strongly prefer working remote as opposed to going to an office. I do not need an office to supply me with human cont
39.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Would they still need to publish legalese if they made it so that updates and sending of error reports required the user to click a button every time, and under the button there was some text explaining exactly what data was going to be sen
40.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Why not just drop all that version updating and error reporting functionality?
41.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Maybe I am being uncharitable, but my initial reaction is: What is all this verbiage? Just make software that does not phone home. Audacity does not need to phone home to implement any of the features that people actually use it for, so mak
42.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
>Which classes of society do you deem unworthy of home ownership other than the aforementioned groups and (presumably) every group below them? I do not know where you are getting this from. I have no interest in drawing a line and I do n
43.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
The Economist really misrepresents Turchin's theory by framing it as an issue of there being too many "brainy" people. Turchin's theory has more to do with overproduction of university degree holders, not with overproduc
44.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Sure, but why should someone who goes to university and studies, say, literature for 4 years feel more entitled to owning a house than someone who, say, did not go to university and instead read and studied literature on his own for 4 years
45.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I think that the Economist headline misrepresents Turchin's theory. The issue is not that there are too many smart people, it is that there are too many university graduates who feel entitled to a limited set of niches in the upper str
46.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
There is a huge difference there though. Teaching people to read actually does make them enormously more educated. On the other hand, putting people through university does not necessarily make people even slightly more educated. Most peopl
47.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I think that the native Americans would have managed to learn how to use European technology just fine, but I think that it would have been hard for them to build the necessary infrastructure to mass-produce it in time. Maybe if they had ma
48.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
True, but from what I understand the Europeans would probably have won anyway. In 1500 AD, indigenous Americans had about the same level of technological development that Europeans had had in 1500 BC, so I suspect that unfortunately even ha
49.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
If it is so easy for US companies to hire good remote developers en masse from places where it is cheaper to live than it is in the major US tech hubs, then why did US companies not start doing it years ago? Are the people who run software
50.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
He may have been an office bully, an adulterer, and possibly even someone who had sex with underage girls on Epstein's island. However, as far as I am concerned, opposing diversity efforts is a good thing and should not be mixed up wit
51.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I started using Notes a lot at some point because it is just right there in the Dock, it has an attractive design, and unlike with text files, it is easy to just drop images into it. Problem is, now I have probably thousands of notes in Not
52.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
"rules-based order" is one of those phrases like "rogue state" and "international community" that is usually though not always used by mouthpieces and fellow travelers of the American hegemony for propaganda pu
53.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I think that statements like this are usually written more for political than for scientific reasons. Yes, "races do not exist" is true in the sense that 19th century classifications made by racist Europeans do not do a good job o
54.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Interesting. I do not have aphantasia. Actually it is easy for me to visually imagine. However, trying out this Ganzfield flicker for more than 5 minutes did nothing for me. Maybe I will try again later in a darker room and for a longer dur
55.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
You can actually just click "Next" on the sign-up screen without having entered any email address at all. It works fine, for now at least.
56.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I am surprised that there is even as much coverage as there is. We are still getting basically the same footage of big deserts full of broken rock from Mars that we were in the 1970s, it is just in higher resolution now. There is not much r
57.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
Well yes, that assumption is incorrect, but I am not making that assumption. When I said skimpy outfits I had in mind skimpy outfits worn in the context of the wearer wanting to attract attention. Maybe I should have been more precise, but
58.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I am not limiting it to attractive women, that is just the example I used. I think that extrapolating the idea to attractive men, to unattractive people in skimpy outfits, and so on makes sense.
59.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
By that logic, attractive women who go out in public wearing skimpy outfits are committing theft - but I would not want to make dressing sexily and then going out in public illegal. I think there is something about the airplane banner at th
60.
by axguscbklp 5y ago
The Presidential election popular vote margin has not gone over 10 million votes in over three decades now, in a country that has averaged about 300 million residents over that time span. These are not margins that support the idea that the

More ›