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by dpig_ 2y ago
That's a really good point. I think it's even possible that my personal experience of lack/grief/loss is 0% present-moment and 100% reflective. Noting of course that this includes reflection on the super-recent past &#x2
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by dpig_ 2y ago
I had two cats, siblings, growing up. One died unexpectedly. We thought about showing it to the other cat for closure, but decided instead that the cat might interpret it as a Mafia-type threat.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
I kind of love the idea that Waymo sees the world as an RPG, and that mundane objects have damage statistics. I hope Tesla knows I do poision damage.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Sony's PSVR2 is essentially just a display, is incredibly lightweight and comfortable, and sends everything down the cable to the console. I think it's possible.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
The 'inverted pyramid' - in some ways, its value is emphasised by how we consume media these days. In others (dark patterns, attention economy), it's deliberately ignored.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
And alluded to by Marquez.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
You're hired!
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Democracy and socialism aren't categories of a kind.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Took me longer than it should have to find the API! Cool detail.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Source: Nicolas Cage
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by dpig_ 2y ago
The use of two fingers represents the dual natures of Disney Channel and Disney Plus.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
People don't run over pedestrians because they smoked a cigarette, either, but church people view smoking in a similar way.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Caricaturing progressive ideas as some linear scale of 0 - Not Woke, 10 - Wokest is such a lame way to avoid the real points being made on a given subject.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
"We offered housing to people with complex pyscho-social circumstances on the condition that they will stop having those circumstances. And yet they continued to have them - this was unacceptable."
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by dpig_ 2y ago
A whole generation has grown up on CinemaSins et al, and takes hermeneutics to mean finding continuity errors or plotholes.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Saw this recently as the 'Toilet theory of the internet.' [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409671
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Top Story: HN users are scrambling to complain about article headlines.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
> skill issue "To each according to his ability. Everyone else suck shit."
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by dpig_ 2y ago
ShowHN: Automate your group-chat banter with ChatShitGPT.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
It predicted that ripping off this reddit comment would be really, really funny.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
You can develop it later in life from head injuries.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
I think at some point you either keep the eleven herbs and spices a secret or you don't. This source-available half-in and half-out thing feels pretty flimsy. If your little brother is screen-cheating in Halo, you tape a cardboard divi
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Isn't it the point of human technologies to bring things as close to zero-effort as possible? Not sure why you need that to sound like an indictment.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
It's even better with paragraph breaks!
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by dpig_ 2y ago
The cameras at the entrance to the building run some sentiment analysis on your face at 8am.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
I used to do this. But be prepared for others to read your marginalia if you lend the book in the future.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Just on a hunch I'd have to guess that being-on-phone isn't cleaving the hemispheres of kids' brains apart.
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by dpig_ 2y ago
As Tim Cook famously said, why don't you buy your mom an iPhone and tell her to tell it "Hey AI, I'm going out for a while, please keep track of the speed and distance and watt-hours while I'm riding my e-bike and give m
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by dpig_ 2y ago
> culture ... is in denial about death. We hide it away,... Karl Ove Knausgaard starts one of his books off by talking about this exact thing. He made an interesting observation about how we seem to try to keep death at or below ground l
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by dpig_ 2y ago
Yeah the first-person subjectivity has to arise before second and third persons can arise. But with some further investigation, one can find that the things they take to be their subject are in fact object to them, too.

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