drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
If you don't understand, then seek the places that do that. Colleges like Reed.
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> the outrage machine results in mass self-radicalization I would think that radicalization is more likely caused by the center being more and more obviously fascist or corporatist or anti-people or whatever term you prefer.
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>> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself). > Then learning to program is therapy. Are you trying to say that learning to program is not learning logic?
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> The concept of "good therapist" That way of thinking treats therapy almost like medicine.
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This used to be a forum for startup-folk, not wanna-be-FAANG-employees. There's a lot of sense in this post. There's not a lot of sense in the reaction here.
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Alice: I have an urge. Bob: Oh yeah? I have a demiurge! Alice: I feel we're not really communicating.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
CMG isn't small or little-known. It's just apparently not your industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_Enterprises
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The whole wiki notion is decentralized and free . . . everyone adding things as needed. That conflicts with things like known governments and corporations: authoritarian, if not also bureaucratic. The attempts to control wikis make people m
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I hope everyone knows that "think of the children" is code for "I have a fact-free moral argument." I expect no better from Krugman while speaking outside his expertise (economics). He later devolves into "Trump, Tr
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I wish YouTube would show me something radicalizing. I mostly get cooking and woodworking recommendations. Maybe I'm not interacting with it correctly. Do you watch all or most of a video then downvote to get more content like that?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Where I live we require a license for barbering and cosmetology. Apparently there are illegal haircuts. I have never heard of the hair police but I'm sure that people complain about it in fora.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> quests to create something complicated with rigid adherence to pure/dogmatic/'perfect' abstraction end up this way Never been a gamemaster, then? A GM/DM/whatever-M would know how to deal with that. It&#x2
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> that still a mock It's a fake, not a mock. Mocks and fakes are both test doubles. > And thr point is to structure your code in such a way that Sometimes it's not your code. Sometimes you want to change legacy code and wan
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> Why interview solely the grognards When D&D players are described as grogs, Eurotrash has won.
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> And you think I posted that, expecting "hero treatment"? Seemed more masochistic to me. Different strokes for different folks.
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> Attaching medical insurance to one's job is a market distortion caused by government tax policy Here in the US, FDR had a wage freeze as part of his policies [1] to deal with the continuing Great Depression that WWII had not stopp
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Has the meaning of "straw man" shifted to mean "defeating an idea?" I've noticed this trend lately in comments.
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That's not how (good) radio plays work either. Through good use of dialog and foley, they could avoid such ham-handed writing.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Well, people that want to half-watch TV deserve stuff made for them too. The Muzak-ification of film? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> be able to quickly reference other parts of the text in order to understand That implies a nonlinearity that non-books may handle better. Books (tomes) are better at that than scrolls because of flippy pages and indices, but hypertext
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by drewcoo 2y ago
So everything from classified material to office memos and personnel records? That's not gonna happen. If you, at home, pay someone to do work, what exactly do you own beyond the end product?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
"Post-empathy" seems to me like "the dark ages." It's not really a thing. It's something invented by people who want to claim they are the ones who truly hold the empathy mantel or who are truly enlightened.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> opening the floor to input from broader sections of the populace I'm not arguing with you, but I'd like to understand that lay interest better. Is it just people pissing everywhere to mark territory? Is it an expression of cu
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Correctness may not exist even though evidence and falsifiability are present. Accuracy is meaningless without precision. For some precisions, it is entirely accurate to say that the earth is flat. Truth and Falsehood don't really exis
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by drewcoo 2y ago
What about Thucydides implies a default history telling? There is no such thing as "just the facts." There is always a human hand in selecting the facts and how they are presented. That is bias. That is intent. Subjectivity. Human
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> Think of all the mentally unstable people, with access to firearms, who believe the most ridiculous propaganda that's being shoveled to them, about being under existential threat from domestic enemies. Anyone who assassinates is c
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All TV series have bibles. For the sake of continuity, writers follow it. https://www.startrek.com/news/a-look-inside-star-trek-series... It makes sense to consider a set of interlocking bibles a canon. The fans are ju
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> The question worth asking is what should we do when it's too much for us to handle. We kept going because future technology would surely solve any problems we had created.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Mine are right twice a day!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Flagged this because shitposts about other sites just oughta be flagged. Tell me otherwise and prove it!

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