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by blast 3y ago
Looks like a plaid of Plaids
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by blast 3y ago
Could you say more about why?
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by blast 3y ago
Here's Philip Weiss's classic 1989 article from Spy Magazine about going undercover at Bohemian Grove. As I recall, it is hilarious and there is much public urination. https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/bo
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by blast 3y ago
Chomsky does a good job in the video linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36367082
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by blast 3y ago
> Kissinger was a war criminal so I tend to regard this kind of verbatim report as reflecting two criminally minded geniuses shooting the breeze together. Of course he was / they were. But guilt v. innocence is too crude a distincti
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by blast 3y ago
His brilliant short about polishing a car is rather hard to forget. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7Dk4z2oiQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kustom_Kar_Kommandos
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by blast 3y ago
The article is obviously about postwar art.
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by blast 3y ago
The next obvious question is who funds it.
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by blast 3y ago
Is https://www.engine.is/ an industry lobbying group? That's what it looks like.
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by blast 3y ago
There's no single definition of addiction. Gabor Mate's sense of the term seems serious enough, and screentime/socialmedia habit certainly fits: a behavior that gives relief or pleasure but in the long run causes harm, and y
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by blast 3y ago
Yes, but that general sense is not how the word is used there. If it were, it would be redundant. He's talking about a specific subgroup (budding Ivy League entrepreneurs?) that he finds annoying in a specific way. It's a class di
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by blast 3y ago
Agreed. The tell is the word "annoying" in this sentence: "Nor does Hsieh’s time at Harvard prove to be particularly illuminating: he, like many annoying undergraduates there, tested out his entrepreneurial chops in his dorm
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by blast 3y ago
"We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data" - Peter Norvig
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by blast 3y ago
The author describes his learning process in detail and explains what's exciting: he got a basic understanding of the subject within minutes, after being frustrated by Wikipedia, a physics education site, and some other site. Getting t
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by blast 3y ago
OpenAI may have those internally though.
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by blast 4y ago
This reminds me of the church scene in "They Live".
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by blast 4y ago
You've got a good point. I'm not sure. I guess if I met someone who didn't seem religious in their way of being non-religious, that would interest me.
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by blast 4y ago
He's brilliant and how he comes up with that stuff is beyond me. At the same time, he's creepily aggressive with guests, I find him excruciating to watch. (Not because of the speech mannerisms.) If they don't do what he wants
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by blast 4y ago
They're probably doing it unconsciously.
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by blast 4y ago
Didn't you know that when you took the money?
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by blast 4y ago
That's the charlatans' fault, not Kent's.
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by blast 4y ago
"more agreeable authors" sounds normative to me, and "they were replaced with more agreeable authors" sounds menacing
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by blast 4y ago
Poutine isn't spicy.
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by blast 4y ago
jgrahamc responded directly to the point. Replying before it made the front page means this post didn't need to go viral or win the front page lottery in order to get support, making it a counterexample to the GP.
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by blast 4y ago
How do you know that? I know singular they goes a long way back, but this is an extreme claim that I've never heard before.
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by blast 4y ago
Finding ways to overcome the effects of childhood and ancestral trauma, so we can stop perpetuating it. Although there are lots of therapies which claim to do this, I don't believe that most of them work very well. We've hardly be
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by blast 4y ago
Historians and novelists take different approaches to the truth.
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by blast 4y ago
There's more than one way to communicate truth.
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by blast 4y ago
The article isn't really about banning the use of Airbnbs for sex work. It's about banning people who do that work from using any Airbnb at all, for any purpose.
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by blast 4y ago
"Users who have turned on" implies that they opted in. Is this behavior opt-in or opt-out?

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