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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I find this classical viewpoint of "create only for yourself" to be essentially suited to only the most individualistic of people. Many, if not most people want to have value to others. Including introverts. We want to behave in a
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Here’s a delightfully pessimistic answer: The moment I reached 10 years in the field, unhappy with every development job I’ve had. I realised I’m built for it because I don’t have the capacity to escape from it.
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
From my perspective, you really are stuck in a bubble of old music, whether or not those takes are "new". Modern art music is old music. Jazz, even the most forward-thinking of forms, is old music. I don't think you're a
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
This is a great counterpoint! Sadly, I've been unable to find any data on whether young people use Google less. Do you know of any indication of this?
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
It's a logical leap to suggest that indirectly benefitting from something means one is indifferent to that thing. We're all beneficiaries of child labour in the third world; it doesn't mean we're all indifferent to it. M
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Prove it. Let's look at some data: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0... Even from 2004, when Brad Pitt was arguably less popular than in the 1990s, we can see that Tom Holland has ne
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Whatever the internet tells you about what is "standard"... as someone who has spent his life in New Zealand, I can assure you the majority of under-30s usually use "zee". "Zed" is on its way out. It probably s
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I can’t relate to this “three Ps” thing at all. I just want a partner who is deep thinking (most important), reasonably kind, and reasonably good looking. I couldn’t give two shits about some weird notion of being a provider or a protector.
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
It's actually interesting to look at reviews of disco music on RateYourMusic going past the last decade. You might notice a pattern of the older reviews criticizing it as vapid and cheesy, while the newer reviews praise it as danceable
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I would argue that people with ADHD noticed this problem before anyone else, simply because they were the first to suffer from it.
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Perhaps just to shatter the illusion that one will instantly become an enlightened productive person, this is what I did when I got rid of screens and books[^]: * Sat around philosophising about what to do with my life * Walked around
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I'll add to this that having subtitles next to the person one is speaking to is completely transformative for hearing-impaired people. The only way you could replicate this with a 2D screen is by having them either (a) avert eye cont
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
This is a semantic distortion of what most people mean when they say something is political. Yes, a painting of fruit can be discussed within a political context. But when we say a piece of art is political, we don't mean it can be s
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
A smartphone is merely a dumbphone with better UI. Look how transformative that was. None of these things are achievable in the same way with a 2D screen because by definition a 2D screen lacks the ability to literally display along the Z a
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
> It doesn't really make anything new possible How are you actually defining "new" here? Have you considered that you are defining "new" in an amorphous way that allows you to reject everything new that VR/A
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I wonder if the reason this community embraced innovation in the early days is because only those who embrace new things are going to be attracted to a site in its early days. In other words, even the act of using Hacker News was an embrace
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I guess the spirit of what you're saying is that I reacted with excessive condemnation. Yeah, you're right. Truth is important and I don't regret the information I gave out, but I agree that I should have taken it easier. On
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Your hypothesis is that myopia is primarily caused by the lack of focus on far-field objects. In a lab environment, wherein there is a lack of focus on far-field objects, myopia does not occur when there is sufficient light intensity. On
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
> I strongly suspect the amount of light outdoors is NOT really the issue. If you're always focused on things close at hand (as the above mentioned folks on wall street), you never allow the eyes to focus on the far horizon for an
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
"I would just fck off and improvise and try to teach myself popular songs instead of actually practicing" I did the exact same thing, except now I'm a skilled keyboardist (and multi-instrumentalist) who gets paid for gigs. I
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
> When Europeans or Americans hunt boar, ducks, wild pigs, dear etc is it called "bush meat"? It'd be called "game meat" or "wild meat". "The bush" is a synonymous term for the wild, and has n
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I didn't say that every thing being laughed at is the next big thing to redefine the industry. I only predicted that augmented reality really is one of those things. Further, the person I was replying to claimed that the next big t
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
The comment doesn't assert that aesthetics is separate from design. If I say "the world was not the most important aspect of the policy, _USA_ was", then that does not imply that USA is not part of the world.
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
> Whatever will redefine the industry will probably be laughed at and only adopted by nerds for a while. I suspect that virtual reality and augmented reality are in this classic position. Laughed at, but totally adored by a group of nerd
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
A few things: 1. I do apologize specifically to you for jumping to the conclusion of schizophrenia when I don't have sufficient evidence nor qualification to say so. Sorry. 2. To be clear, I created this account because your idea inspi
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
I am genuinely interested to hear your reasoning for how someone can be an "utterly inept businessman" and also become the richest man in the world. How is that possible?
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by bigmealbigmeal 4y ago
Bernie Sanders is an immediate and obvious counterexample to your assertion that people only do this for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. There's also Jeb Bush, Pete Buttigieg, Marco Rubio, and many others. The exclusion of these fai
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by bigmealbigmeal 5y ago
Thanks for sharing these. From what I can see, the criticism here is coming entirely from journalists/activists. It makes me wonder: how many of the opinions that we are exposed to originate from journalists/activists? How much ar
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by bigmealbigmeal 5y ago
Do you have any sources that indicate anti-censorship is “hugely unpopular” with the mainstream intellectual community? For example, esteemed scientists speaking out against it? It may be important here to separate journalists and political
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by bigmealbigmeal 5y ago
These are some pretty damning issues, but I don’t think it’s fair to conclude that it makes the technology a dead end. For example, implantable contact lenses are commonly used to treat myopia. The lens is implanted in the eye over the lon

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