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by crtified 3y ago
I'm interested in the etymology, and the detailed reasoning behind the choice of term "autism". Based on what I've read, I consider it to be an imperfect terminology, not just because of its inconsistent, broad brush and
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The (admittedly slow) progress of regulation represents the 'democratic means' you speak of.
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I wonder that we couldn't say similar about the TCP/IP protocol. It's the human behaviour, what our species turns the protocol to, that we're really complaining about.
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It is a lot. "Do coders with ADHD find bloated interfaces annoying?" might be one simplification. And, of course, we know they can be. To varying degrees, depending upon the type of task the person is doing, the nature of the bloa
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"When how people live their lives depends on them shoveling millions of joules s of externalities onto my environment and that of my kids, in addition to propping up a rube goldberg Ponzi scheme that has a non-zero chance of ensnaring
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by crtified 3y ago
The nausea thing is quite a dealbreaker. If someone had told me ~15years ago that one day I'd have the ability to play a VR version of Super Mario Galaxy, but that, when that time came, I wouldn't even bother to try and play it ,
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by crtified 3y ago
Claiming friendliness on one hand while offering a completely closed platform with the other. Doomed to mediocrity and corporate games, just like the others.
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by crtified 3y ago
I'm not a first hand expert in this, but a highly accomplished friend who is, holds the solid opinion that modern Linux (with "WINE" of course - a free, trivial install) is, ironically!, better at running old Windows software
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by crtified 3y ago
Anyone whose lifestyle doesn't have much to do with cellphones-and-apps is excluded from the start. That overarching exclusion puts an immediate mask over a vast range of demographics and minorities.
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It may also be pertinent to note that it's an entirely USA-centric article and study. A distinction the article makes in it's first paragraph: "87% of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangere
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by crtified 3y ago
Love it. Vaguely related and potentially boring ramble, from the perspective of a dinosaur/former geospatial tech : starting in the 2000's, we went through the emergence of the trend where local governments commissioned (part-)dis
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by crtified 3y ago
Hedonism isn't necessarily the enemy, as one can take hedonistic enjoyment from low-impact activities. And indeed many common pastimes are already in that category. Your point about realization is key, I think. The awareness of the con
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And yet the majority of houses from both sides could (language barriers aside) happily and respectfully sit down and have a meal and play games together, under neutral circumstances. Because none of us are that different. Weird, isn't
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by crtified 3y ago
Wherever there's a complex chain of independent workers (a government plan checker, inspector, a planner, a surveyor, an engineer, machine operators, a landscaper, a drain layer, a lawyer, ....) then the reality is that unforeseen nuan
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by crtified 3y ago
They were a few middle-class techy hubristic kids who figured out how to game the crypto system years ago, via leverage and arbitrage opportunities, to make millions during crypto tradings early "easy pickings" years, on crypto pl
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by crtified 3y ago
If we accept that it is possible to raise two similar children from birth with a view to creating vastly different outcomes, regardless of what those children think or will, then we must also accept that the great diversities of the natural
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by crtified 3y ago
That is basically the qualification I included in my later statements within the same post: "..the difference in cost being the literal $4950 more of specialists and testers and monitors and side experts that the rich person is paying
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by crtified 3y ago
It's nice to hear, in principle. Also expensive. The requirement that, for the entire (up to 8-10 hour) duration of the trip, a suitably qualified therapist be on hand, must dictate that each non-trivial dosage under this regime will h
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by crtified 3y ago
That's true. But we already have millions of people globally taking long term SSRI medication for depression - many are prescribed it with barely a thought, and little more diagnostic vigour than "oh, they said they're depres
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by crtified 3y ago
One of the biggest lessons Van Gogh taught us is that social status can be an extremely poor representation of merit. We can walk down the street proud in our suits and high standing, while any beggar on the street might be a Van Gogh (dis
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by crtified 3y ago
Note that, already, "experiencing" the 3 dimensional aspect of the paint thickness - which is something that many in-person viewers comment upon, as one of the most striking parts of the experience - can be done at home by anybody
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by crtified 3y ago
It must be great to see these original works in person. As other accounts have made clear. A rare spectacle. But it's also not viable, resources-wise, for every human being to travel to (say) Amsterdam in person for a viewing, for the
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by crtified 3y ago
I shall nickname it "The Haakinator". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Haake
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In some businesses, a good manager could almost fill out their staffs timesheets a week in advance, by themselves. Conversely a lazy manager sometimes uses timesheets as a substitute for the basic management principle of oversight. A hostil
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I'd be more surprised if he'd managed to reach that point without having operated under weight of great delusion. For the delusion to continue beyond Ground Zero was a given, a fait accompli of self-confirmation bias.
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Despite the catchy article title, Outback Steakhouse did not in fact go "from Down Under", as it was founded by 4 people in Florida who had never been to Australia, and it has zero connection with (or operation within [edit: I st
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He specifically avoided criticising Putin himself, assuming that his long personal ties, friendship and deep trust with Putin would leave his family sacrosanct. His attacks were on underlings. This sort of thing plays out in the corporate w
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by crtified 3y ago
Perhaps at one time I'd have called the entire situation unlikely, on many levels. But we're talking about brinkmanship in a decades-old personal relationship between two individuals (Prig. & Put.) whose senses of context and
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Prigozhin could be threatened with a tactical nuke, in theory. But the far cheaper and easier version is that he was threatened with the fates of his Russian wife and children.
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Prigozhin apparently has a wife and children in Russia. Who, according to standard web sources, are deeply entrenched in Russian society and big business. There need not be complex political chess boards behind this move. Putin could simply

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