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by canadaduane 4y ago
"addiction" and "just ___" are kind of mutually opposing forces. It can be difficult to understand addiction from the outside, as the solution seems obvious, but the internal world is not straight forward to navigate.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I wonder if this relates to how comfortable people are with silence? Sometimes one or the other person can feel anxious in the presence of silence because it does not fit the profile of "work being done".
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Do you have a Mastodon account yet? I'd like to continue to follow you.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Physical truth is very different from socially constructed truth. It took me 25 years, great pain, and leaving my original Mormon faith to understand this. Money, God, and What's Good are socially constructed truths, for example. You c
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Ask HN: How to Search for Transparent Images?
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by canadaduane 4y ago
"altering" made me laugh a bit. I think you mean "alerting"! :)
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I'm interested in making a "chat with yourself" program I'm calling Soliloquy [1]. The idea is to let you explore different sides of an argument, or different sides of your psyche. For example, you might choose the three
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Does anyone know why the "I" (pronounced 'eye') is an upside-down "T"? I see that "Z" must take what would naturally be an "I" shape on a 3x3 grid, but why not use just a simple vertical lin
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Hiding the article and asking "Want LARB in your inbox?" before I even know what LARB is was a quick way to send me away.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
This is only useful for people who know what a search engine is. (Seriously, many people equate "googling" = "search engine", and don't know there is a general category of this thing). Unless there are two big bold
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Network size on a spectrum from "me and my dog" to "society-wide monopoly" should be taken into account. (Not arguing Discord is at any particular point on that spectrum; only that it matters when considering policy deci
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Agreed. I think we are already in the rebellion / response stage. It takes time to build compelling alternatives, though--especially those that care primarily about human needs and not about ROI. I wrote about our search for happiness
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I've been using looria.com lately, and it seems to be tracking a pretty good "signal" using Reddit and other sources of consumer feedback that are currently more reliable than Amazon ratings.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
It solves the initial problem of "how do I get my money out of the bank" because you ARE the bank (sort of). BTC doesn't directly solve the problem of liquidity, exchange to other currencies, etc. however.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I wonder if we're going through a transformation period where we don't yet have a grasp on the cultural habits and institutions that make our hybrid online-offline worlds fulfill our human needs--like meaning, significance, belong
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by canadaduane 4y ago
By "lowest elements" do you mean elements with lowest atomic number (Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, etc.), or closest to the bottom of a chart hanging on a wall (Rubinium, Strontium, Yttrium, etc.)?
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I think this is an unfair generalization. The core of the DID spec was developed by the folks at the Internet Identity Workshop, who have been discussing identity far longer than blockchain even existed. Some of their members (e.g. Sovrin,
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Both employment and slavery are by degrees. I think they can be compared, but "employment = slavery" is obviously wrong.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
And eat more vegetables.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
It is hinged.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Hey sithlord! It's been a while, but fun to see your page. I'm here: https://tilde.town/~canadaduane I love having a simple page somewhere, hosted within a community that might take a peek every once in a while. F
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by canadaduane 4y ago
This is a good maxim for oneself, but a poor one when trying to understand or improve systems.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I wonder what would happen if we (as a society) took each case of got-rich-through-a-get-rich-quick-scheme and analyzed it like we do post-mortems--with "the social contract failed here, what went wrong?" kind of twist. No one&#x2
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by canadaduane 4y ago
As a software engineer, I wish I had learned stats instead of calculus. Some exposure would have been great, but the high school & university requirements were way off target wrt its usefulness in computer science. It was a painful proc
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Here is a rundown of Linux key remapping software that I wrote a few months ago: https://medium.com/@canadaduane/key-remapping-in-linux-2021-... My favorite is keyd, which allows the sort of hold vs press configuration
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Yes! This is much more interesting. Audience-based cultural & contextual awareness, rather than "assuming one global context" that takes the veneer of moral high ground. The former would be more helpful to a writer.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Good point. A similar lack of clarity also tripped me up when some documentation switched from "master key" to "main key" because there actually was an additional concept called a "standard key" which seems t
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by canadaduane 4y ago
I've always associated motherboards with motherships--the larger thing in charge of making all the other little things behave well together.
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by canadaduane 4y ago
Can you point specifically to what you don't like about it? Personally, my "least favorite feature" is that hovering (with mouse) over any video would auto-play. In other words, just by moving the mouse you would be under thr
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by canadaduane 5y ago
It sounds like you want lower latency?

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