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by cryoshon 9y ago
centrifugal forces affect countries by tearing them into pieces; the number of pieces depends on how long you run the centrifuge and at what speed. the US has long been subject to many centrifugal forces, one of which was the tension betwee
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>why in the world in 2017 are we so apathetic about something so important? it is not that people do not care; it is that they do not understand how to use force to achieve their goals. they do not understand how to contest the governmen
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by cryoshon 9y ago
agreed entirely. we need to stop thinking of maladaptive institutions as features of society gone askew, but rather as dark patterns that have emerged as a result of historical pressures. what's the best way to stop a dark pattern at t
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by cryoshon 9y ago
the silence you hear is rage, not acceptance
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by cryoshon 9y ago
as soon as we are angry enough to riot, they will find the money to forgive our loans. yes, it has come to this.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
just get a bunch of scientists who have no connection to any of the relevant fields to redirect their attentions to finding out if a thing is fact or fiction and i assure you that you will have an answer that is more honest and more accurat
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by cryoshon 9y ago
how much? i think that with confidence we can say "less than the amount that they have." fourteen individuals control more than half the world's wealth. you mentioned 1400. think about what we could accomplish if we took what
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>One piece of advice that I keep seeing is that I should not worry about things outside of my direct control. this is a typical refrain in totalitarian systems where the common people have no power over their own lives, nevermind things
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>Enjoy the ride and do the best you can some of us aspire to control the ride so that the ride may continue to operate for others.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>It's someone else's job to lead. i suppose it's my western point of view that makes me view this sentiment as blisteringly immature, if that is indeed what most chinese actually think. the stewardship of your country is a
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by cryoshon 9y ago
but when will turks "fight back" rather than continuing to suffer under a petty dictator who arrests them for their app use?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>My graduate advisor told me that I should be designing experiments that had counterintuitive results that were solidly significant. This is the advice of a true scientist. I'm refreshed to see that they're still out there.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
wait for the third party confirmation of their results. papers with findings exactly like this one have been found to be complete and total fabrications numerous times over the last few years.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
it's no secret why this is the case. when society rejects you, it hurts at a tribal and physical level..
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>I published in Science and Nature during my PhD you have my admiration twice, then. it doesn't count for much from me to you, i know. but improving the human body of knowledge is, in a wide sense, its own reward.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
some people can take a break but you become the mask, eventually.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
can you provide any examples? i'm very skeptical because generally any coins that are viable with GPU mining are very quickly made not so by an influx of miners...
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by cryoshon 9y ago
and we can't even get people to agree that there's a problem. and we have no leadership to guide our response. and we can't winnow our way out of this alone. what now?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
this article's conflation of "resilience" with "well fit with corporate values even when those values become disfiguringly distorted" is a bit disturbing
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by cryoshon 9y ago
so, where are the HN commentators who were defending monsanto left right and center during the recent safety debates?
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by cryoshon 9y ago
i'd kill for opportunities like this. but maybe we have to make our own opportunities, so: how about a startup that provides science fiction writing thought leadership as a service? dibs on founder
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by cryoshon 9y ago
pfff, for 50k/year i'd write five books. or ten. these kinds of gigs are too rare for writers to pass up tbh
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by cryoshon 9y ago
yep. vigilantism flourishes when institutional security systems are broken or abusive. i totally agree with both your claims.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>You expect them to prove a negative? How do you propose they do that? they do this all the time in the pharma space. just arrange experiments on mice where they're subjected to higher and higher levels of whatever chemical until th
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>Point being, there is no reason to hold any of these chemicals to a standard higher than that of a strawberry - that is, we can give people a bunch of strawberries and say any negative effect is below some acceptable level. ah yes, the
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>to the extent where it's platform can distort the very perception it's citizens have of themselves yes. and that's why it has to fall. some power can't be used responsibly, and facebook has shown that they don't
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>It took a lot of self-discovery to see myself not as an entrepreneur, but as an artist, and it's frustrating, because it sure took me a while to admit it i'm in the midst of this realization as well, not exactly as an artist t
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by cryoshon 9y ago
a better term than 2X is "blessed but cursed" sugarcoating learning disabilities / other life-ruining disabilities is a trick that people use when they can't confront the excessively negative reality: most geniuses with
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>There are employers that give the best of both worlds. sure, i believe it. i may have even worked for one at some point. but (straying from the original discussion substantially) that just trips other red flags for me, like selling your
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>“I just want to read about things that interest me, have conversations, use it all to inform my understanding of the world, and share what I’ve learned.” yep, this sums up my wants as well. the thing is, people don't pay for that u

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