fasterik

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by fasterik 4y ago
Why is it important that our species survive longer than Earth? Honest question. What's nihilistic about liking Earth? All my stuff is here, all my friends are here; the food is good. Whether intentional or not, the first question
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Hackers(invisible-island.net)
1 points by fasterik 4y ago|2 comments
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by fasterik 4y ago
If you like hard and interesting puzzles I recommend Stephen's Sausage Roll. It's the most mind expanding game I have played (with the possible exception of chess). From a simple set of puzzle mechanics it produces many deep, surp
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by fasterik 4y ago
It's the "natural == good" fallacy. Humans have lived with problems like disease, aging, and death for millions of years. If technology can help to alleviate or solve these problems then that is a good thing.
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by fasterik 4y ago
If I recall, you could play Crash Bandicoot in one of the Uncharted games (both made by Naughty Dog).
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by fasterik 4y ago
If "cesspool" means "something you disagree with" then that's not good advice either. Reasons can be evaluated independently of the source of information. Good advice can come from anywhere.
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by fasterik 4y ago
Maybe I was being a bit melodramatic. More realistically, a lot of people hate their job and exist somewhere on a spectrum between accepting it and trying to change it. I just happen to be biased toward making more radical changes when thin
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by fasterik 4y ago
"I hate being an employee. I want to work on my own projects on my own terms." Is there a word for people like this? A philosophy? I feel like most people either don't care about their work and find meaning in other areas of
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by fasterik 4y ago
Evidence? The dictionary disagrees with you. Dictionaries are compiled from the ways that people actually use language in the real world. Also, the etymology of "prove" has nothing to do with indisputable facts: Middle English: fr
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by fasterik 4y ago
You're being prescriptive that we always treat "prove" as if it has the meaning as we use it in math and logic. That's not how language works. Words have different meanings in different contexts. Top definition of "
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by fasterik 4y ago
I agree that pacing and breaks are important and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I was offering an alternative perspective to the claim that "most people only have 4 hours of work in them". I just don't think that&#x27
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by fasterik 4y ago
Or find something to work on that you actually care about. I don't have any trouble working on something for 12 hours a day when I find it intrinsically interesting and meaningful.