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by fasbiner 1y ago
1) left horseshoe prong (prolific handcrafted quantity is quality): "4000 handcrafted unique rooms made by one person" that are all fundamentally the same in terms of non-consequential interactivity. Ie, the quality is extremely
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by fasbiner 1y ago
I think you're saying what the average person is thinking but is worried about being impolite. You are of course correct: it is the kind of fact about a game that non-gamers might still mistake for quality or depth. The horseshoe theor
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by fasbiner 1y ago
>The core needs here are: avoiding labels, maintaining the person's autonomy, and offering neutral pathways to self-reflection. The response should first normalize the behavior to reduce defensiveness, then structure potential expla
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Tried to understand what you were saying with LLM assistance since I was directly referencing a comment above. The best we could come up with was that you might be confused about how nested comments work and didn't realize there were w
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by fasbiner 1y ago
The light is going to go out for all of humanity for all time as part of a centuries old plan for final victory by starting at the most critical link of all in the whole chain of being... canadian routers. Canada is a country that has histo
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by fasbiner 1y ago
This is terribly self-important and extrapolatory. Canada is a place that allowed private for-profit institutions to sell an unlimited number of student vouchers that made the associated visa shall-issue. These are trivial to overstay witho
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by fasbiner 1y ago
This is one of those weird cold war american things that has not aged very well. Why would a philosopher be a good source for this instead of an anthropologist, an economist, a statistician, or a student of comparative revolutions? Is that
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by fasbiner 1y ago
You're being downvoted because that's not a slippery slope argument familiar to the mostly US-based readership and it's hard to tell if you're crazy or not. Ie, the US identifies very strongly with three wars (revolution
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by fasbiner 1y ago
I can’t think of a worse person to cite that principle; Snyder has lied and evaded historians with basic inquiries about his work. As we speak, his official position is that Russia and China are both engaged in genocides and another state
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Your understanding is somewhat incomplete. There is a strong top-down push to celebrate output maximization without inquiring too closely about if this output is meaningful, valuable, repeatable, or even happened at all.
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by fasbiner 1y ago
It's not a mistake that you're only reachable when your bad business practices are so heinous they go viral. You are an executive at a company that saves money by not offering customer support except when there's bad PR or a
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by fasbiner 1y ago
In a country called The Republic of China where 90% of the people refer to themselves as Chinese in both english and in mandarin. Obviously they don't know what they're talking about and the word "chinese" next to the wo
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Someone should tell all the people in the The Republic of China and The People's Republic of China about this logical axiom, then. Even if that's the original intent, I would still find that confusing, unhelpful, and potentially o
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by fasbiner 1y ago
This comment appears to be explicitly racist by refusing to engage with the content of the author's arguments and instead explicitly dismissing it on the grounds of the author's race. Not only is it racist, it's profoundly in
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Traveling to california and then becoming a (faux) draft dodger and participating in the summer of love were pivotal experiences in his life and core influences, I'm not sure why his zip code would be relevant to that. I think we simp
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by fasbiner 1y ago
I think it's more precise to paraphrase that he, William Gibson cannot imagine the past as it was. He is interested in fashion, surfaces, narrative, velocity, and futurism as such. But there's a reason he emerged in California wit
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by fasbiner 1y ago
One of the most obvious signs of an encroaching oligarchy is that people who have become successful in the domain of accumulating any non-standard amount of wealth feel this qualifies them to speak on every topic with no preparation. At a c
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Yeah well, I don't disagree with you overall, but this is what getting old feels like. The boundary is so messy because it's based on feelings and desires and reduced neuroplasticity rather than a logical principle. There's n
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Everything you see on your screen was created in part by a computer model, this seems like a way to be rude and dismissive as some kind of status game. Because you can't actually tell the difference, reliably, for the rest of your life
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by fasbiner 1y ago
If you cut someone who is in a deep coma, they will respond to that stimuli by sending platelets and white blood cells. There is data and it is being received, processed, and responded to. Again, your poor understanding of biology and reduc
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by fasbiner 1y ago
They’re not missing the point, you have a very imprecise understanding of human biology and it led you to a hamfisted metaphor that is empirically too leaky to be of any use. Even when you tried to correct it, it doesn’t work, because a bod
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by fasbiner 1y ago
> The whole growth of vibe coding really did help them because I don't think actual developers use it because putting things like functions in the database and authorization in the database is something that we learnt a few decades
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by fasbiner 2y ago
Not to sound rude, but I don't know what your normative culture is or why any of us should care what you think is rude on the internet when you lack the self awareness to know that etiquette has no objective basis and is always conting
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by fasbiner 2y ago
So you don't care if your own country falls apart as long as someone else is even worse. What a bleak and spiteful view of life.
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by fasbiner 2y ago
Sad to meet someone who doesn't care that they're going down the same river and over the same waterfall so long as someone else is going a little faster. I know exactly what's in the links, what I don't know is why you b
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by fasbiner 2y ago
https://www.dw.com/en/germans-trust-in-state-institutions-hi... https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/01/31/g... https://rmc.bfmtv.com/actua
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by fasbiner 2y ago
https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/free-speech-dispatch/germ... Are you saying FIRE is teutonphobic and the report is false, that those were all irish nazis engaging in terrorist plots, or that immigrants sho
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by fasbiner 2y ago
If you're not returning to coal, and you're anticipating further hostilities with Russia, then you're buying liquid natural gas from the US at much higher prices than are paid by both US and Chinese industry + domestic consum
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by fasbiner 2y ago
Have european arms races against a real or perceived russian threat historically led to stability in europe?
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by fasbiner 2y ago
I have difficultly understanding this point of view, although I'm sure it is not uncommon. Why do people believe it would it be an economically good decision to buy land and build houses in Germany, a place with negative GDP, no long t

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