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by blfr 6y ago
The essence of tragedy is a conflict between two equal values. Despite some superficial similarities, we generally don't share ancient Greek values and so we cannot properly experience this conflict. These are beautiful works of art bu
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by blfr 6y ago
Advertisers aren't winning either. They're paying more and more for ads with fewer avenues for unpaid traffic. You could maybe say that they're getting more measurable results than back in the day of TV and press dominance bu
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by blfr 6y ago
The internet of the 90s is still alive if you step outside the walled gardens. It is and it isn't. Sure, you can run a website, forum, blog, whatever and host it yourself much easier than in the 90s. But people look for you and conne
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by blfr 6y ago
I, too, dislike American corporate hegemony. I'm absolutely certain though that I would dislike Chinese Communist Party hegemony much more. So yes, it would be better if Americans weren't meddling around but it's not better i
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by blfr 6y ago
Sending false RSVPs is exactly spreading misinformation to undermine a candidate by making his support seem smaller than it is through crowding out real potential participants. Don't get me wrong. I think it's pretty funny but I d
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by blfr 6y ago
Clearly the US has been meddling in elections around the globe for a decade and needs to be sanctioned! I don't really get the snark. Yes, of course the US has been meddling in elections around the globe for multiple decades up to an
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by blfr 6y ago
Why is it not when Facebook ads purchased by foreigners are considered to be?
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by blfr 6y ago
What is it about our culture (is it mostly a western culture thing?) that is so obsessed with the question of identity? Western people are much more individualistic, we're not defined by our family/clan as much so we seek other
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by blfr 6y ago
They need to somehow make up the engagement for all the interesting content they banned over the years.
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by blfr 6y ago
If you like Ghost but not Ghost.org, you can host it yourself. It's only slightly more difficult than Wordpress. https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/
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by blfr 6y ago
This is his official account. There is a persistent rumour that he had another, pseudonymous one.
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Open Problems in Robotics(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
2 points by blfr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blfr 6y ago
I remember articles here in Poland years and years ago, when I was still reading magazines, about American pain clinics which were supposed to be a humane solution to patients' suffering as opposed to our antiquated system. Still wonde
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by blfr 6y ago
It's not that weird that people pick the first buffet option, or browse Facebook, or whatever the default easy option is. What I do find weird is that they stop there. You don't need some paradigm shifting insight or a leap in the
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by blfr 6y ago
Yeah, politicians share a lot of UMC views because they're UMC. That's not really lobbying though. Either way, we don't need some marginal or even non-marginal improvement in the tax code. We need genuine, honest-to-god inven
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by blfr 6y ago
I have serious doubts whether lobbying has a decent ROI, much like mergers it seems to favour managers over owners. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/01/lo...
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by blfr 6y ago
There's growth through technical innovation, which has pretty sweet positive externalities, and there's growth through through speculation, which is more like gambling really, looking for an edge in the game. I'm not opposed
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by blfr 6y ago
The financial system as we know it today wasn't really designed but rather evolved in an era of genuine technical growth. Since we can't deliver the inputs (real innovation), but desperately try to maintain the outputs (economic g
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by blfr 6y ago
My co-founder and I had successfully launched two of the major web 2.0 services of the Italian web. What are these services?
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by blfr 6y ago
The installer will create an encrypted LVM for you. Zero hassle.
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by blfr 6y ago
You need more than one Yubikey and probably three. Keep at least one somewhere reasonably remote and safe (lockbox, your parents' house, etc).
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Why Derek Chauvin May Get Off His Murder Charge(medium.com)
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by blfr 6y ago
Wrong in the obvious way that it doesn't impede transmission. The recommendation from 2009 was for H1N1 and they stuck to it for corona. If they couldn't figure it out in a decade, they should have been defunded. If not the elites
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by blfr 6y ago
Funding in 2019 isn't the problem. CDC had obviously wrong advice on their website against wearing masks since 2009. The modern day elites have been showing their incompetence time and again lately. This is not because they were a few
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by blfr 6y ago
Before mass adoption of protective equipment for sex people had the social technology to deal with it: monogamy.
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by blfr 6y ago
We've built an entire economy around people doing things they don't really need to do. Yeah, we've moved beyond subsistence. In fact, we've moved so far beyond subsistence that we can put the entire economy on hold for
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by blfr 6y ago
It the casing plastic?
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by blfr 6y ago
We have seen decades of general stagnation compared to decades of new inventions and growth before that. [Just imagine a bunch of quotes from Peter Thiel here. You read or heard the argument already.] Good chunk of it is probably due to our
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by blfr 6y ago
From the article: The FBI memo cites at least two violent incidents or attempts purportedly linked to QAnon: An Arizona man harassed and doxed locals he suspected of participating in the child sex trafficking ring at the heart of the consp
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by blfr 6y ago
They're (correctly) pointing out that communists are worse than nazis. Why would we offer them more protection in any way?

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