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by davesque 8y ago
It works by pointing out how that state of affairs is untenable. One thing that helps a person who supports their arguments with good evidence is that their ideas eventually turn out to be more consistent than those of a person who would d
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by davesque 8y ago
I feel like this tweet sums up the situation: https://twitter.com/dogetard/status/1111110061768822784?s=20
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by davesque 8y ago
Could be. Although I bet it would be just as surprising (and in the same way) to find out how much activity in the "conventional" financial system is due to speculation.
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by davesque 8y ago
I suppose my wording implied otherwise but I do to, at 38.
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by davesque 8y ago
I still remember this one seemed very intellectual to me when I was 11: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/19/
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by davesque 8y ago
The NVC system has some useful insights but suffers from a fatal flaw. It punts on the question of where the universal needs come from and the important task of distinguishing between true needs and simple desires. For example, an NVC p
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by davesque 8y ago
I went through a phase where I was pretty interested in NVC. I learned some useful things mostly have to do with the distinction between observation and evaluation and emotion and thought. However, I feel the system can't justify its p
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by davesque 8y ago
I've generally felt that open office plans are just a cost cutting move that has been heavily disguised as some kind of ingenious workplace innovation. Times are tight. Companies don't have as much money lying around as they did i
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by davesque 8y ago
Well, a neutral network is a neutral network of neutral networks.
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by davesque 8y ago
My anecdotal experience with this comes from learning musical instruments. I've come to believe that the brain does a fair bit of rewiring when you're not paying attention to something you're trying to learn. This happens whe
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by davesque 8y ago
It's just too easy to find counter examples to this claim. Hard to take it seriously. I think the author was just very good at finding data points to fit his theory. Take the movie "Shine", for example, from 1996. The stor
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by davesque 8y ago
As other people have pointed out, there term FOSS that we know had not yet entered the lexicon at that time.
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by davesque 8y ago
You mean that they cut ethical corners to get ahead in our competitive free market economy? Someone stop these mad lads!
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by davesque 8y ago
Honestly, I know people often jump in here with technical comments on stories like these, but posting this stuff on HN always just feels like rubbernecking to me.
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by davesque 8y ago
It's really interesting to hear someone else say this. I too have suffered occasionally from intense, violent nightmares. They don't necessarily continue all night, but the imagery is extremely disturbing, like a Hellraiser movi
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by davesque 8y ago
How is that identity politics?
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by davesque 8y ago
This assumes the offenders are in the same country as you.
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by davesque 8y ago
I recently turned on "do not disturb" mode on my pixel phone once I started getting about 400% more robocalls than real calls per day. It's actually nice because now my phone only rings for people in my contacts list. So I&
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by davesque 8y ago
Why would someone wear a GPS watch when committing an assassination?
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by davesque 8y ago
Sometimes, I feel like the Facebook hate train is just too much and then stuff like this comes along.
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by davesque 8y ago
Indeed. It's sadly not that hard to imagine them doing it.
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by davesque 8y ago
I've hired C players because I thought they could grow into A players. I've passed on other C players because they didn't seem like they could grow.
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by davesque 8y ago
Part of OP's point though is that CEO pay is apparently not tied to performance because CEOs still get astronomical pay really regardless of whether or not their company/division performs well. So CEOs just get paid more period.
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by davesque 8y ago
Useless comment. I paid all my student debt and I don't feel like I gained any self-respect from it.
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by davesque 8y ago
I do seem to recall AV getting flooded with spam --- porn spam to be exact. I remember myself and all the nerd kids in my high school computer lab would joke that you could search for something completely innocuous like "yarn" and
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by davesque 8y ago
Thank god. It's getting ridiculous. I get 3 or 4 of these every day now. That's something like 90% of the calls I get.
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by davesque 8y ago
1e-10 cents.
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by davesque 8y ago
What will be the effect on humanity when we lose a constant source of stimulation for our immune systems? Perhaps it will actually set us up for a pandemic of apocalyptic proportions.
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by davesque 8y ago
He has a number of good points. He's applied his model of trust in society, which includes four major incarnations of trust (morals, reputation, institutions, and security systems), to the topic of blockchain. This is a useful way of
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by davesque 8y ago
Related: Am I wrong that Facebook's apps cannot access random conversation without having been granted microphone access on Android?

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