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by deathlight 3y ago
In science it seems the adage "talk shit get hit" is coming home to roost.
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by deathlight 3y ago
Sine and cosine can take as their input any real number including negatives and including very large positive numbers. Their outputs can also be negative numbers between negative 1 and 1 if they have real inputs. None of this necessarily ma
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by deathlight 4y ago
You still don't get it so it does not surprise me if people pile on.
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by deathlight 4y ago
I knew it. Those crippled children in their wheelchairs were out to get me this whole time!
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by deathlight 5y ago
Most animals are dehuman after all.
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by deathlight 5y ago
There was a young teen girl who was bullied into killing herself which she did by drinking bleach (a quite horrific way to die). I don't remember how much of a hand the 4channers had in the actual bullying but after her death she was r
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by deathlight 5y ago
It seems less simple than that since there is a political angle, which is mentioned in the article.
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by deathlight 5y ago
Don't stop at sci fi. LeGuin's magical fantasy archipelago of Earthsea (starting with "A Wizard of Earthsea") is my favorite set of books from her.
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by deathlight 5y ago
Have you considered the possibility of autism spectrum disorder?
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by deathlight 5y ago
As I understand it Taiwan no longer makes any territorial claims on the mainland (Taiwan still claims ownership of nearby islets). Ball is in the CCP's court to invade before 2049, the centennial of the "peoples revolution".
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by deathlight 6y ago
>neuroatypical It feels wrong to me to squeeze this tiny little "a" in between the words 'neuro' and 'typical' that flips the combined word's meaning around. The "a" usually goes at the front
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by deathlight 6y ago
That's a new one to me, thanks. For anyone who didn't know about the extensive rss features of reddit: https://old.reddit.com/wiki/rss
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by deathlight 6y ago
I've heard this sentiment expressed as "return to monke"
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by deathlight 6y ago
There's still no reason for anyone to carry around a broken watch and no reason to listen to wolf criers who are more wrong than not. Pete Schiff as an anachronistic goldbug is a curious oddity to point out every now and then for amuse
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by deathlight 6y ago
That's a long two weeks.
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by deathlight 6y ago
Serendipitously relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/25/is-everything-a-religi...
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by deathlight 6y ago
>(Is there an open source app that fetches and scrapes sites instead of the subscription model?) App for android Handy news reader does that. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ru.yanus171.feedexfork/ https:
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by deathlight 6y ago
It seems plausible to me that the, ahem, "spread" of the image was greatly increased through the efforts of 4chan.
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by deathlight 6y ago
>When the Director of the CDC asserts an opinion, she has to optimize for two things - being right, and keeping power. If she doesn't optimize for the second, she gets replaced as CDC Director by someone who does. That means she&#x2
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by deathlight 6y ago
But also, isn't criticizing him an example of latent homophobia? Is this a medical condition we can get people labeled with so they can be involuntarily committed for expressing views we don't agree with?
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by deathlight 6y ago
This thread makes me sad because when I was taught and used matlab we had strong pressures to properly comment and document our code to make it legible (if only to our own future selves). It feels almost criminal to not do that in these cir
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by deathlight 6y ago
Toothbrushes are cheaper than fillings. And fillings are cheaper than root canals. I think we need better ways of terrorizing kids about their oral health because it seems like a lot of lessons don't stick.
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by deathlight 6y ago
I always have headphones of some kind when I walk. The bone conduction ones are nice if you want to be able to hear your surroundings. I'm full weeks worth of listen time behind on my podcast collection so I love every time I get to go
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by deathlight 6y ago
The word sheriff is etymologically connected to the word shire as well.
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by deathlight 6y ago
I think violently attacking people falls under a different category than moving money or information in ways that powerful people/institutions don't like.
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by deathlight 6y ago
This was on hn recently: https://hnrss.github.io/ Any youtube channel you like Any subreddit you like: https://old.reddit.com/wiki/rss Nitter allows RSS feeds of twitter accounts, useful for low post v
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by deathlight 6y ago
I switched to QuiteRSS from whatever I was using before awhile back. It works great and it has some niche features like auto tabbing back to the reader after opening a link.
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by deathlight 6y ago
See the anti-legalization effort that just passed in Idaho.
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by deathlight 6y ago
I always come back to this clip in situations like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw
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by deathlight 6y ago
I see you're the author of the blog. This is the first time I've heard of it and it led me down a rabbithole of previous posts. Thank you for all your interesting ruminations. Reminiscent to me of Scott Alexander's old slates

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