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by fasterik 1y ago
Anti-trust for an industry where there are at least five companies doing well in any given space? That's not called a monopoly, it's called competition. Edit: I wasn't accusing everyone who is critical of tech of being a Ludd
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There's a George Carlin bit about politicians. The punchline is "the problem isn't the politicians, it's the people." His point is that nothing emerges from a vaccuum. Politicians are people just like everyone else,
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Thinking about games along a single axis (2D vs. 3D) is a weird way to measure value. You should compare Factorio with other sandbox/simulation games with procedural generation, deep systems, complex logistics, and large modding commun
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Factorio has deep gameplay. You can spend thousands of hours on it and still have more to learn and experience. If it's your kind of thing, spending $70 for the base game plus the Space Age expansion is really good value; orders of m
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>I don't think we actually even have a good definition of "This is what AGI is, and here are the stationary goal posts that, when these thresholds are met, then we will have AGI". Not only do we not have that, I don&#x27
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It's worth picking up a book like Alfred's "The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences". It has exercises in every major and minor key, with fingerings. Knowing the fingerings is a good start, but you
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I'm all for people doing whatever hobby project they want to do for learning and entertainment purposes. But I don't really understand the appeal of straight porting something from one language to another. For example, I'm a
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The responsible thing to do would be to report the bug to the upstream project and keep the issue open pending the underlying issue's resolution. This is a broader cultural thing. In large organizations there is a tendency toward defle
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I think this depends highly on your mouse skills. Most of the top bullet players I've seen play on stream (Andrew Tang, Hikaru Nakamura, and Daniel Naroditsky) use drag-to-move. A notable exception is Magnus Carlsen. He uses click-to-m
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> "systems programming" is an abbreviation for "operating systems programming" I don't think this is right. Systems programming is a broader term that can include embedded systems, compilers, virtual machines,
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by fasterik 3y ago
The OP was asking for advice dealing with negative emotions. I gave what I consider to be the best advice for dealing with negative emotions. Just because something is a "one-liner" doesn't mean it isn't also a deep trut
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People should already be skeptical of everything they see/read on the internet. I don't think this is going to change my media consumption habits dramatically.
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Sure, I would include a broad set of things under "what you can control", including joining an organization, donating, voting, etc. The OP is excessively worrying about things they truly can't control, like the long-term poli
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>I'm glad a one-time, one-line quip worked for you That's making a lot of assumptions about my personal history that you couldn't possibly know anything about. >but in my experience, positive mental habits are built
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It's not waxing philosophical, it's concrete advice for how to handle negative emotions associated with uncertainty and instability. The way things are going, it's very likely I'll be affected directly by these developme
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It's also easy to attribute bad motives to someone to try and discredit them without making a substantial point. What I posted is what I have personally found to be the most useful advice in overcoming self-destructive mental habits.
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At a physical level, we don't have control over anything, it's all just subatomic particles bumping into each other. That doesn't mean all perspectives are equally helpful for solving problems and functioning in the world. I
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To me, this reflects a perfectionist mindset. Life is better today for billions of people than it has been at any other point in the history of the human species. If you consider it a "bug" that we don't live in some sort of
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>Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Realize that it's a choice to respond to things this way. This feeling comes from a certain set of assumptions and learned responses. Remember
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When is a time in history when everyone had really great jobs? Before the industrial revolution, you had most people doing subsistence farming. During the industrial revolution, you had 14 hour a day exploited laborers working in factories.
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Most of this is just "things were better when I was young". It's nostalgia for a past that might have had some advantages for some people, but was also worse in a lot of ways. 40 years ago if you lived in a small town and had
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by fasterik 3y ago
I wouldn't consider functional alcoholism to be a good thing for anyone. It's especially bad for brain development under age ~25, before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed. https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publicati
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Grids are constantly adding capacity to keep up with demand. It's not going to go from 1% to 25% overnight.
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If you Ctrl+F for my other responses in the thread, you'll see that I'm not advocating for psychs-solve-everything. I think a reasonable interpretation is that gavinray was giving their personal experience, not making a sweeping s
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There are well known risks of psychosis and schizophrenia associated with psychedelics. Just because your friend can drop a tab and go to the bar doesn't mean that it's a good idea for everyone to be doing so. I'm fairly libe
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I don't think that's a charitable interpretation of what they said, and not how I interpreted it, but ok. It seems like I'm not going to convince you otherwise.
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You should go back and re-read gavinray's post. I don't think they were making a claim anywhere near as strong as the claim that LSD is great for dismantling racism.
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I don't think I understand your argument. Your claim was that if someone wasn't already racist and xenophobic, then their epiphanies about that subject on psychedelics is irrelevant. However, a very common experience people have o
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No, that's not what I said at all. I think someone could believe that they're not personally hateful, xenophobic, or racist while still being unconsciously complacent, ignorant, or subtly enabling of those attitudes in themselve
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I think we actually did learn things that we didn't know the first time around. We know that it's dangerous when influential researchers go around promoting psychedelics as a panacea like Timothy Leary did. The current wave of res

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