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by donw 6y ago
> If we move away from an expectation for year-round availability So, here's a question: do you think you could convince people to give up smartphones? Because I think it'd be about the same level of difficulty. People really,
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by donw 6y ago
Fair warning: I'm going to get a little poetic here. :) Oh, there certainly is a lot of beauty in the world as well. But it comes at a cost. Every year or so, I try and get in at least one overnight backpacking trip, or at least one da
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by donw 6y ago
I think there's a lot of interesting optimization problems that this could lend weight to. There's a lot of small-ish manufacturers out there pushing the limits of materials science, where being able to leverage quantum computing
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by donw 6y ago
But at least you can also feel totally effective at the same time!
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by donw 6y ago
There are a lot of flavors of nihilism, so I'm not sure that having a pessimistic worldview precludes joyfulness. I'd call myself a realist -- and I think there's a lot of overlap with nihilism there, in that I try and see th
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by donw 6y ago
> I guess it's kind of a grass is greener situation as I have recently been missing living in the city with all the services offered there but when I was there I wanted to live in the country. Emotions matter. You're feeling th
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by donw 6y ago
I know boxing is the "Sweet Science", and a quick search seems to indicate that "Gay Science"[1] comes from Nietzsche, and seems to refer to... poetry or song? A better translation from the original German is probably &q
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by donw 6y ago
I've been using Fastmail, on my Mac, for six-plus years now, no problem. Didn't use any sort of auto-configure script, though.
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by donw 6y ago
I'm actively scouting around for my own plot of land, so this resonates with me. > That being said, recently I have been feeling that all my efforts are for not, sure I might be making the world a better place in my own small way bu
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by donw 6y ago
This is actually an area I plan to invest time in after moving back to the US next year. Specifically, on automation-enhanced sustainable microfarming. Crop diversity is a pretty key part of that, as is appropriate fungal and insect managem
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by donw 6y ago
I'd say that problem comes in two parts. One is... maybe the right way to describe it is hormones and experience? Like, the first time you fall in love as a teenager, it's intense . You literally have never felt that way about an
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by donw 6y ago
Stating that "some participants are searching for arguments to validate pre-held beliefs and policy positions" is roughly akin to saying "some participants eat food and breathe air". Confirmation bias is part of the huma
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by donw 6y ago
At some point, it may be possible to leverage this, but I agree: at present, it's a purely theoretical compromise, and you'd be better served by either picking the lock -- which might be as simple as just raking some pins -- or by
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by donw 6y ago
Dimple locks are exceedingly common here in Japan, and German padlocks (Abus, etc.) are generally considered what you want to buy if you're actually trying to secure something. The thing is, those locks are more expensive to produce, b
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by donw 6y ago
I hate to break it to you, but literally all of humanity does that, most of the time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias This includes me. And you. And everybody else here. Changing your mind is actually
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by donw 6y ago
While I totally agree with you, I... have a theory. It might be psychological warfare. I would wager that a surprisingly large number of people think that polygraphs detect lies. An even larger number are probably open to the possibility.
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by donw 6y ago
Polygraphs are a $2 billion industry, and Upton Sinclair said it best: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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by donw 6y ago
It works the other way around: polygraphs need to show that they work in replicated, controlled experiments. That hasn't happened[1]. Lying is a complex behavior. Like, really complex. Even with all of modern technology, we've onl
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by donw 6y ago
> If you're going to dismiss one of the most comprehensive bodies of work on the subject. Creationists have some of the most comprehensive bodies of work on evolution. Doesn't mean that they are right. The NRA is a political or
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by donw 6y ago
I’d be keen to see some supporting links for this?
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by donw 6y ago
Both of the links you provided are to political action groups. It's like linking either the NRA or Everytown/Moms Demand/March For Our Lives (they rebrand a lot) "studies" on gun control. Both have very clear object
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by donw 6y ago
Dave Brubeck — specifically, “Take Five” — will be forever associated in my mind with “The Secret Life of Machines” I’ll add a link once I have a chance to search. It’s a delightfully quirky TV program from the 1970s, and which I thought sh
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by donw 6y ago
That’s fair. Thanks!
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by donw 6y ago
Unless I'm reading this[1] wrong, the California State Assembly has been a Democrat supermajority since 2011, and the Senate has been since 2013. Moreover, Democrats have only been one or two votes short of a supermajority in both hous
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by donw 6y ago
The GOP has no power in California, though, and that’s been true for over a decade.
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by donw 6y ago
Have edited for clarity, thanks! And I do know a frighteningly large number of thirty-odd-year old children. :)
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by donw 6y ago
I think you're both kinda right? Drive is great. Leverage it heavily as a manager. But when it comes to kids, the problems I see are that (a) cognitively speaking, children are not tiny adults; and (b) if you want them to be successful
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by donw 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations
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by donw 6y ago
> Cultural Revolution was not a civil war That's splitting hairs. Mao's Red Guards -- student revolutionaries and young adults -- effected a drastic shift in power, from a more liberal government to Mao (a strong authoritarian)
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by donw 6y ago
Part of the Commonwealth, no?

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