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by defen 7y ago
You can't really assess someone's capability of becoming a president/CEO/famous author based on their achievements before age 18. It's also really hard to determine whether people achieved those things because the
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by defen 7y ago
Basketball is zero-sum, undergrad college admissions mostly aren't. As long as Harvard lets in enough students who are "good enough" to not fail out or besmirch their reputation, it can continue indefinitely as a prestige-gen
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by defen 7y ago
Ideas don't just appear out of the ether, so for any given idea, it's possible to point to influences and declare the idea therefore "not new". So, by "new", perhaps what I really mean is "newly considered
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by defen 7y ago
> Google has worked this way since time immemorial. Do internal Google services exclusively use the Google Cloud Platform APIs? The implication is that internal Amazon services exclusively use AWS APIs. I've never worked at either c
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by defen 7y ago
"Heretical" is not an objective measure - it's used in reference to an existing belief system. I suspect most "normies" would be shocked or at least suspicious of those ideas.
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by defen 7y ago
It sounds like they're going for new, potentially-interesting heretical ideas, not stupid old ones.
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by defen 7y ago
I'm also reading Suttree. It's much funnier than I expected, especially the parts with Harrogate.
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by defen 7y ago
> I'm not sure if Cormac teaches out of necessity or the goodness of his heart, but count me even more despondent if he needs the salary despite his commercial and critical success. He's always been indifferent or even hostile
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by defen 7y ago
Right, so that would be a good thing if you're "involuntarily" celibate and that is causing you severe emotional distress. Just have to be careful not to marry the first girl you meet in a bar the first time you're on le
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by defen 7y ago
> As a Swedish speaker, I get this deeply rooted feeling of righteous indignation about not understanding spoken Danish. I'm only half-joking. I have a Swedish friend who described Danish speakers as sounding "like they'r
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by defen 7y ago
> removing a named right is more difficult than removing an unnamed right. That doesn't immediately strike me as obviously true. Many states attempted to remove the unnamed right to an abortion (by which I mean, abortion is not exp
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by defen 7y ago
> likely parasite detected, avoid this person Definitely the case for this guy https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19216620/0...
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by defen 7y ago
> there isn’t generally speaking a right to play football Just curious, are you American? Because this comes across as a totally alien way of thinking - why would there be or why would you need a "right" to play football? Do I,
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by defen 7y ago
Reading those chats (and knowing absolutely nothing about Lamo other than what's in the NPR article) I can't really blame him for turning Manning in. A stranger reaches out to you over the internet and offers you free reign on cla
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by defen 7y ago
> Once upon a time there was a tiger Finished as: that lived in a tree, and the other tigers had been fighting against him for years! And one day , a lion saw a tiger eating a squirrel . So, he chased the tiger away and said, "No mo
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by defen 7y ago
How much leverage? You can’t compare an unlevered equities portfolio against a 5x (or more) levered real estate portfolio.
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by defen 7y ago
Unions, organized crime, greedy capitalists, environmental and worker safety regulations, and/or Baumol's cost disease, depending on who's answering the question
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by defen 7y ago
Using his position for his own personal enrichment is also, at the very least, ethically shady as hell, right?
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by defen 7y ago
"White flight" is when you leave because minorities are moving in. The people interviewed in the article were moving for economic reasons.
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by defen 7y ago
Epstein also donated 50k to another staple of the “rationalist” community, MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute, then known as Singularity Institute of Artificial Intelligence) in 2009, after his conviction https://www.d
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by defen 7y ago
> Room and The Road — two novels about single parents in difficult circumstances... Early contender for understatement of the year. One experiment I've been trying out for the past year or so is only reading "old" nove
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by defen 7y ago
Not a criminal, but another very influential person, Ken Kesey, was involved with MKULTRA as well.
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by defen 7y ago
In retrospect a better argument may have been the millions of people killed... according to Wikipedia there have been 3,740,769 motor vehicle fatalities in the US in the past century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor
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by defen 7y ago
> I would never ever share any views that are non-liberal because when I've seen anyone else do it it didn't go well for them at all. And I'm not at work to change people's political views so there's no reason to
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by defen 7y ago
The problem with your selection is that it's interpreted as the most outlandishly fringe extreme religious/conservative viewpoint, and thus it has a political angle. I would have gone with something like the government being run b
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by defen 7y ago
"You" in this case are a hacker / social engineer trying to break into someone's account. If your target puts gibberish as the answer to that question, here's how the conversation will go: Operator: What is your mot
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by defen 7y ago
There is a documentary on Netflix about it called Wild Wild Country that's almost entirely primary-source video (they recorded everything) and modern-day interviews with former members and government officials. It's fascinatin
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by defen 7y ago
Which episode? There are 635 of them...
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by defen 7y ago
I grew up near Millville / Vineland in South Jersey in the 90s and the kids on my soccer team (we're talking from the age of like 13 up to 18) would say "jawn" at least 100 times a day. Never heard it from adults though.
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by defen 7y ago
I’ve probably created at least 50 reddit throwaways in the past 5 years...the platform encourages it. No way I’d be able to remember them all, and I’m sure lots of other people are in the same boat.

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