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by csours 4y ago
As I read it, rationalization is one of the core reasons.
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Am I still on the parody thread?
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Well, it's not very long. This is my best effort summary. Paragraph 1: There's lots of news 2: US Conservatives [*], and other authoritarians around the world identify with and support Putin. Further they identify with and support
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by csours 4y ago
> Why would Twitter be constantly in danger of crashing without human intervention? Isn't it just a bunch of software that just runs? If not, why was it not properly engineered, and who needs to be fired for that? I can write softwa
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by csours 4y ago
Or a chicken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock#Chicken-powered_n...
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by csours 4y ago
They were heavy drinkers - the effects of the heavy drinking may have masked the symptoms of the cobalt poisoning. It almost certainly made people take them less seriously, as evidenced by the laughing in the linked video.
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by csours 4y ago
"Shell Shock" of course being the feeling when you discover that you are not using bash 4+ === End joke section === Shell shock has a genuinely complex and interesting history. It has described different conditions, had different
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How would I find the modern, generally accepted understanding of hypnosis?
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It really depends on the exact framing of the question. Are children safer ALONE with a random stranger or with a family member? Why is the child alone with a random stranger? There are some broad daylight kidnappings, but they are relative
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Japan is extremely culturally homogeneous compared to America. As far as I know, this doesn't actually affect kidnapping statistics all that much, but it does affect perception.
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10 yard penalty, review logical fallacies, other team gets the ball. https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecolo
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by csours 4y ago
Obligatory mention of the Memex and Vannevar Bush's essay 'As We May Think' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think https://www.
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by csours 4y ago
This post does not have a concrete conclusion, it is just some thoughts I had while reading the article. --- EA seems to have a core belief in post-scarcity. I've recently been thinking about post-scarcity. To my knowledge, I have not
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I binge watched these one night until 4 am in High School instead of working on a project.
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Hungry Brain - Guyenet - You're not bad at 'losing weight', your body is exceptionally good at holding onto energy reserves. Managing hunger is at least as important as managing diet. Burn - Pontzer - Similar to above, with m
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by csours 4y ago
Irrational optimism can mean different things (not limited to the choices below) - 1. You have decided to reject rational criticism in favor of cynically taking apparent gains. 2. Your mind has a reduced capacity for rational criticism beca
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I think willpower is a description of the human experience. I don't know if it's a good mechanistic description or not. It does not seem to be taken seriously as a cause by many psychologists. Whatever you think of willpower, I th
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by csours 4y ago
I hear you. Controlling your food environment is so important. It's candy on desks season again. I can usually walk past the candy, but not always.
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I have not, and that's why I didn't say anything about it.
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Sure, and that's why I said: > universal tendency with cultural expression. There is no single "culture of America"
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There are cultural differences - the congregation in many black churches vocalizes during the sermon. I think it's a universal tendency with cultural expression.
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Part of growing up in most modern North American and European cultures is learning to suppress 'childish' tendencies. Stop making noise, stop doing distracting things, stop saying silly things. Stop enjoying inappropriate things.
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"Balance in all things" - Ember Spirit
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Yes, it is a relative thing, not a determinative thing. It's hard to talk about this without tripping on ableism - but - Stephen Hawkins started out with such a great cognitive ability that a deficit later in life would have been less
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I believe that the Brain-Computer analogy has been very harmful. I grew up thinking of myself as a "brain on a stick" - my body didn't really matter and only my brain was important. I think read a bunch of science fiction tha
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The exterior shots are the same building as Star Trek has used for Star Fleet Academy - Tillman Water Reclamation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillman_Water_Reclamation_Plan...
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Don't bet the rent money.
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Hah, that Twitter thing is neat. > not an issue now, but still was 1-2 years ago: some browsers would allow only for 2 or 4kb of text in URL Yes, I had in mind smaller payloads, things that would have been query params on a GET
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I thought this was going to be about base64 encoded json query param(s) - instead of posting base64 or making a bunch of different params, do a GET with one param of base64 encoded json. Easy for the client, easy for the server, easy to sha
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A deeper dive into this is "The Righteous Mind" by Haidt. In brief, the brain seems to have affinity for different types of morality. The actual content of that morality is filled in by people you have respect for. The flavors of

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