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by burke 8y ago
This is not a thing though. Spin is spin, regardless of reference.
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by burke 8y ago
There's no amusement in yelling "fire!" in a theatre unless you enjoy watching people panic. I can imagine this striking him as "haha, wouldn't it be funny if..." and tweeting it out without thinking. I don&#x2
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by burke 8y ago
On one hand, the $420 tweet was just blatantly obviously a bad idea and he should have known better. On the other hand, it feels... strange somehow that a joke (if a slightly deadpan one) has consequences this severe. It affected the market
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by burke 8y ago
Make groups of `/^\s+> /` lines turn into a `<blockquote>`. Render it slightly indented and italicized. I don't think the major problem is that `/^ {4}/` lines don't wrap in a way that's useful fo
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by burke 8y ago
I really don’t think this is true. I don’t think what’s provided here is better for piano than standard notation, but much of standard notation is optimized to be easy to write by hand. We don’t really need that constraint anymore, and coul
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by burke 8y ago
You can’t just shut down a semantic argument by taking a position, asserting its correctness, and refusing to acknowledge other views, as a premise of your broader argument. The normal way out of a semantic argument is to just acknowledge t
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by burke 8y ago
There is no one true definition of “real” until you bring in your accessory definition of “empirically obserble”. Semantic arguments are typically a waste of time, and by not being clear about your definition and berating everyone for not b
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by burke 8y ago
Suffering is built in but requires attention. By completely focusing attention on other things, or even on the raw pain itself, the suffering doesn’t have a chance to tell you its own story about the pain.
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by burke 8y ago
The issue here is that no one in this thread is being clear about what they mean when they say “real”.
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by burke 8y ago
Not as pithy, but this is (probably) the original source: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.006.th... It's often phrased in terms of the "first arrow" (pain) and the "s
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by burke 8y ago
I think early Buddhism and Stoicism can be cobbled together into a workable philosophy, and I think Vipassana is also complementary with a number of Stoic practices. Like you've identified, a recurring apparent disagreement between the
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by burke 8y ago
In no particular order: • Sapiens • Thinking Fast and Slow • The Mind Illuminated • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
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by burke 8y ago
If I were foolish enough to buy property next to a lot zoned for a 50-storey apartment building, then, yes.
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by burke 8y ago
> blue light that damages your vision Can anyone explain to me how looking at a computer screen is not several times less harmful than spending time outside from a lifetime-blue-light-exposure perspective? The sky is blue and natural lig
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by burke 8y ago
SquashFS is mountable directly as read-only. You can use Overlay just like Docker does to create a read-write layer on top. This combination of SquashFS+Overlay -- plus Xdelta3 for distribution -- has worked extremely well for the internal
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by burke 8y ago
Formaldehyde > “It’s my understanding,” the Massachusetts senator said, “that the EPA has finalized its conclusion that formaldehyde causes leukemia and other cancers and that [the] completed new assessment is ready to be released for pu
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by burke 8y ago
I wish the industry had settled on binary diffs (xdelta3 works well) over squashfs for distribution and storage instead of this overwrought layering paradigm.
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by burke 8y ago
It’s not really a specific use, it’s just terminology that doesn’t overlap in a the way you want it to. Most high rise developments, at least where I am, are condos, as it tends to be more profitable or convenient for a developer to sell al
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by burke 8y ago
No, it doesn't. "Random chance" in this context clearly implies the exclusion of goal-oriented interference from intelligent entities, whether you ascribe any special mystical meaning to "intelligence" or not.
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by burke 8y ago
C is Not a True Scotsman
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by burke 8y ago
I’ve never been able to bring myself to ascend a 3-rune game either. By the time I get to zot, I know I can win — why not go for the bonus round? I don’t think I’ve won (though I cloned my save file one time to try both 3 and 15 one time an
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by burke 8y ago
Presumably a large fraction of the plastic would float at the surface. It would surprise me if some clever device to filter the top 1-2 feet of a large river couldn’t be built without impacting marine life too severely. Or maybe I’m wrong a
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by burke 9y ago
Personal responsibility on a large scale is a systemic factor. It's like quantum and classical mechanics. A single quark has probabilistic behaviour, but a million quarks behave in an aggregate, predictable way. You can tweak personal
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by burke 9y ago
I think my actual position here is a little more nuanced than it came across before, and I pretty much agree with you. I find it silly to blame individuals (if only they would do better!). The law of large numbers applied to these cases gua
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by burke 9y ago
> Americans also need to do better Blaming any problem of this magnitude on individuals is not reasonable. There's a systemic pressure toward overspending through advertising, etc., and we've created a society where many people
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by burke 9y ago
> anything except perfection in self driving cars will lead to more accidents. Only if perfection is defined as "statistically better than humans". I do agree that these "assistive" technologies have the potential to
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by burke 9y ago
Nope, I just didn’t think that through very well.
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by burke 9y ago
There are about 2600 emoji, so it could plausibly be 1 emoji per 3 bytes. I wonder why it was implemented so much less compactly.
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by burke 9y ago
This is, I'm sure, butchering the details to some degree or another, but in brief: Piketty's primary thesis is that as the rate of return on capital grows, so too does inequality between holders of capital and the lower classes. T
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by burke 9y ago
As a non-expert, I still find this exciting. While eBPF may be more powerful, I find it far less approachable than DTrace. Perhaps this is just a failure to discover the right documentation. I use DTrace now and then on macOS and have resen

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