dagav

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by dagav 6y ago
Satire isn't dead, it's the distinction between real life and satire that's dead
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by dagav 6y ago
At least if it was someone's "fault" we could push for reparations
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by dagav 6y ago
Yep, of course their solution to that problem is equally terrible
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by dagav 6y ago
Yeah, plus we already know what they had to say because they wrote numerous blog posts before hand. They wanted to cause as much carnage as possible to take revenge against reality.
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by dagav 6y ago
When I installed TikTok, my phone's battery life shortened by 2-3x. That's suspicious enough for me to stay far away from it
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by dagav 6y ago
Just because the filter was removed doesn't mean that people won't continue to discriminate based on race... People have sexual preferences whether you like it or not. Also, by this logic, it's sexist that they're discri
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by dagav 6y ago
There is an endless supply of wide eyed new grads looking to prove themselves at a big 5
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by dagav 6y ago
Crappy managers stress delivery over quality, and then engineers pay for it when they're oncall. The manager doesn't care how much their team gets paged because they'll be sound asleep while their engineer bangs their head ag
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by dagav 6y ago
I highly recommend you listen to these lecture series. I cannot overstate the profound effect they had on my life, by giving me the tools I needed to turn my depression around and give me a sense of balance and control in my life. https:&#
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by dagav 6y ago
Singing to reduce stress is a great exercise because it feels like your voice comes straight from your heart. Find a song that speaks to you, sing it, and see what emotions come up. It can help to uncover some unconscious emotions you'
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by dagav 6y ago
Will this program terminate? > while(true): do nothing A computer cannot tell you that this program will not terminate, short of memorizing this specific set of instructions as a "non-terminating" program. I can read it and kno
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by dagav 6y ago
This is kind of my point, I can do something a computer cannot do because I am conscious. I'm skeptical that a computer could transcend its programming into consciousness to solve a problem that mathematically it should not be able to
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by dagav 6y ago
Yup and yup, but I am not a computer
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by dagav 6y ago
Serious question: How is a computer supposed to become conscious if it cannot even solve the halting problem?
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by dagav 6y ago
Logic is not the highest truth
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by dagav 6y ago
con·de·scen·sion noun an attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain.
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by dagav 7y ago
I also don't appreciate the comparison. The whole magic of being human is our capacity to transcend our "programming", something we haven't been able to achieve with computers (and something I personally don't belie
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by dagav 7y ago
Because some things are worth worrying about, and that anxiety is an impetus to take actions which may improve the situation for you and the people around you.
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by dagav 7y ago
And the 1,048,576 other coins who never tried to flip, because they knew that getting 10 in a row was just luck, will live lives of quiet desperation.
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by dagav 7y ago
1. The only people who can attempt to breach into my home are within driving distance. 2. My home has security systems which can either stop a crime from occurring (security lights, security doors, dogs, alarms, me) or will result in those
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by dagav 7y ago
Time is the non-spatial fourth dimension along which things travel in only one direction. Even if in the three physical dimensions the process could go in reverse, has it really reversed in time? The history of it breaking and being fixed h
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by dagav 7y ago
Things may reverse in an unlikely fashion in the case of the water separation, but your shattered glass will never jump back into your hand and become whole again no matter how long you wait. Some things are truly irreversible because death
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by dagav 7y ago
It does not follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_undistributed_m...
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by dagav 7y ago
I wrote this in a rush so here is my clarified point: "Adama" means "Land", "Earth", or "Ground". "Adam" means "Man" or "Mankind". Adam was created by God from the ground
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by dagav 7y ago
I'm Jewish and my father is Israeli, so I was learning to connect with them and my heritage. I'm no expert on Hebrew but one thing I noticed is it's connection to the Bible: Adam means "Man" or "Mankind" i
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by dagav 7y ago
Hebrew.
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by dagav 7y ago
I've been learning a second language, one that is very different than English, and it has been a complete mind fuck. I can see why knowing two languages would have a positive effect on your brain: another language is an entire other wa
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by dagav 7y ago
How do you think it went?
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by dagav 7y ago
Is this a postmortem postmortem?
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by dagav 7y ago
I don't remember Uber ever asking for my gender, just a phone number. How would they enforce that?

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