clairity

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811.
by clairity 5y ago
the difference now is that we have practically no limit on the amount and speed of information, such that we can generate fear and garner complicity much quicker. had we not had such a consolidated mediopolitical machine, the mean/medi
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by clairity 5y ago
encouragement rather than mandates were, are, and will always always be better and more effective than the threat of force. it’s the most pro-social option as well as the most ethical, in direct contradiction of the cries of ‘selfishness’ e
813.
by clairity 5y ago
i had a similarly bad flu bout winter 2017-18. the worst of it literally had me at the edge of death one night. would have stopped breathing had i not willfully forced myself to, through all the congestion and soreness (also had a rib issue
814.
by clairity 5y ago
my impression is that 'engineered wood' is a slightly different aggregation than 'mass timber', with engineered wood including things like plywood, while mass timber is focused on the 'timber' aspect (more stru
815.
by clairity 5y ago
> "COVID killed many more because it was particularly severe." no. covid is novel, not appreciably more severe, and that's where mortality rates are coming from. it's following the dynamics of the many cold and flu vi
816.
by clairity 5y ago
yup, i've always made this point as "we're all experiential learners" (the active and constructive). that some folks can get by ok with passive learning (aural, textual, etc.) is just a bonus for them.
817.
by clairity 5y ago
the US also cares because oil is fungible, and as a result, pricing happens at the global margins, not just between north american countries.
818.
by clairity 5y ago
used to be a pilot g-2 user but switched to zebra sarasa about a decade ago. so much better (no smearing). cobalt blue is my fave, though i have all the colors. i’ve tried energel but wasn’t as enthused by it.
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by clairity 5y ago
in a typical wood-frame wall, it's (usually) plywood nailed to the studs that acts to resist shear forces. you shouldn't need diagonal cross-members, unless there's not enough structural plywood cladding or not enough studdin
820.
by clairity 5y ago
gotcha, my bad for misconstruing your point. joint strength relative to span strength is definitely a non-obvious issue to the average home owner-builder. i also vastly prefer wood/mass timber for aesthetic reasons. mass timber has bet
821.
by clairity 5y ago
> "Steel is springy. Tall steel-framed buildings and bridges routinely sway in wind, which is usually harmless to the structure but annoying to occupants." exactly, i recently mentioned my swaying-in-an-earthquake story[0], whi
822.
by clairity 5y ago
cool, thanks for the pointer. there have been a few asian movies like this that i've just not been able to find very easily.
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by clairity 5y ago
> "The New York Times ... FUCK YOU." i'm so glad more and more people are coming to this realization. the nytimes is an awful news source, npr as well, for their unadulterated power bias: they want, and want to support, (d
824.
by clairity 5y ago
> "If you want a great example, "Attack the Gas Station" is a great Korean movie that's almost indecipherable to audiences not familiar with Korean cultural topics and as a result will probably never see export."
825.
by clairity 5y ago
yes, that's price segmentation working as intended. companies (i.e., the price insensitive) can afford to spend an extra $1k, even if the markup is otherwise outrageous. it just doesn't matter relative to the long-run productivity
826.
by clairity 5y ago
that’s not a wild hypothesis, but a commonly used pricing tactic: anchoring. apple does it all the time with the ‘good, better, best’ framing of their product tiers. the ‘best’ tier is to extract surplus from the price insensitive, but also
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by clairity 5y ago
i wasn't denying that madden had a tech tie-in via a video game endorsement deal, but rather, noting that implicit racism plays a role in his memorialization being arbitrarily 'on-topic' and upvoted here as opposed to kobe, w
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by clairity 5y ago
in my admittedly limited experience, korea seems to make great suspense, intrigue, and twist-of-fate romance dramas, while japan seems better at the quirky and the heartwrenching. china seems better at historical/costume dramas (wuxia&
829.
by clairity 5y ago
that's trying to artificially constrain knowledge in a way so that your prior assertion is true (reminiscent of the incompleteness theorem). that's a common way that people become simultaneously self-certain and wrong. scientific
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by clairity 5y ago
no, those are not analogous at all. knowability is literally a subset of all knowledge, which pushes into a void that expands faster than we can enumerate. it's hubris to think otherwise.
831.
by clairity 5y ago
given that knowledge is practically infinite (bounded only by the expanse of the universe), you'd actually expect the correctness of scientific consensus to asymptotically approach 0. that is, we're waaaaaay more wrong than right,
832.
by clairity 5y ago
'field maturity' could perhaps say something about the likeliness of trustworthy information/advice overall, but says nothing about the trustworthiness of the expert themselves. in fact, the nominative 'expert' is a
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by clairity 5y ago
no, it’s because he’s a white guy and kobe was not. note that it doesn’t require explicit racism, just implicit bias, to create such disparities (though it would be statistically unlikely that no explicit racists contributed to this state o
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by clairity 5y ago
what's more odd is that "...locomotion closely resembled that of insects and arthropods, scurrying along faster and faster with no change to the basic step pattern" is completely wrong. many insects and arthropods change gait
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by clairity 5y ago
> "Direct confrontation plays poorly in HN comments, and attempts to do so will be futile." i'd be remiss not to point out how repeating this, the heart of your position, 3 times now comes across as dogmatic, and condescen
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by clairity 5y ago
yah, it usually takes me 1-2 uses of any given atm to have the whole flow memorized for getting cash out, so that the next time i go, it's like speedrun time. even at grocery self-checkout, the quirks of a given checkout machine get em
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by clairity 5y ago
searx or qwant? there isn't an authoritative server for searx, so it can be hit or miss. qwant requires js, so i don't use it. i usually use duckduckgo, though my enthusiasm for it has been waning as it becomes more nakedly commer
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by clairity 5y ago
maybe it's inadvertent, but by hammering on your perspective for how you think change can happen (which i can appreciate but don't agree with), you come off as normative, that we should all think and act the same way. it's br
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by clairity 5y ago
MLK keenly understood that olive branches need backing by a sharp tongue to cut through comfortable stupor, otherwise minds don't change and bodies don't make way. issues of intrinsic identity--race, gender, sexuality, etc.--are c
840.
by clairity 5y ago
i'm squarely with you on this one. the implicit racism and bias is thick here (note the spite and bile spewed in those many kobe posts). while i appreciate didion's work, she's not even a minor blip in literature and history.

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