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by gilmore606 3y ago
In the ancient times of the year 2000, these same pieces were being written about how the Internet would ruin society and dumb down the population. This is hard to remember now, because the Internet ruined society and dumbed down the popul
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by gilmore606 3y ago
> Risk aversion from immature tech Boy, that Simpsons episode where they make fun of the Newton really burned them bad.
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by gilmore606 3y ago
Calhoun's rat paradise experiment doesn't replicate, as Gwern helpfully discovered for us: https://www.gwern.net/Mouse-Utopia
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by gilmore606 3y ago
> Authoritarian governments don't give their subjects a good civic education This seems to have been untrue in the USSR, and it seems currently untrue in China, the first two big authoritarian governments that came to my mind. Also
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by gilmore606 4y ago
"People far smarter than me often have ideas I can't understand. They must be fucked up somehow. I can't see any other explanation for it."
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> That’ll change when connected to a source of truth, logic and validity. How do I get connected to one of those?
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> as it leads to critical thinking No, it tells you directly what to think about the material. That's the opposite of critical thinking.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Sure, and if I'd been born with Ted Bundy's genetic makeup and lived his life, I'd be Ted Bundy. This isn't the slam dunk you seem to think it is.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Atomization.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
I'm with you, but look at all the people in these threads who say things like "I just want one definitive answer, not a bunch of conflicting gobbldeygook results!" People want to be told what is true and get on with their da
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Squaring the circle here: I love and accept myself right now , with all the flaws I know I have. I'm trying to improve, but who knows what I will and won't ultimately fix. Maybe this old lump of coal never will be a diamond. B
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> Anyone who denies the legitimacy of democratic elections Were you not alive for Bush v. Gore ? All of us on the left denied the legitimacy of that election, loudly, repeatedly, and I don't remember that being considered an "
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by gilmore606 4y ago
I just started another libGDX project a few months ago (2D only), in Kotlin; it still works as well as it ever did. Have had no issues running on Win/Mac/Linux. Could not find any reason not to use openGL. I have a feeling GLSL
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> mildly effective as a mood stabilizer For some of us this is massively understating the case.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> “well I’ll just run that whole historical process in my head, with the various characters and groups recording their legends and myths!” If only Tolkien had lived contemporaneously with Tarn Adams, they could have collaborated and don
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Johnny Mnemonic isn't intended to be goofy and light-hearted, it's just a bad film. I really dig it for the Gibson vibe regardless.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> eroding Twitter's seriousness Oh no!
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> the world's toughest problem. On my HN this is cache invalidation and/or naming things.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> You are just as likely to get a hit from an extremely talented and lucky unknown as you are from Richard fucking Garfield. A title that cost its developer $1 to make can become a #1 App Store game at roughly the same a-priori likelihoo
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Prison fulfills all these requirements, plus toilet wine.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
I like to shorten this to "Yikes. Not a good look."
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> I can recommend going sailing on a tall ship for a few weeks I am very intrigued. How can a person do this?
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Preach brother. More people need to know about this insanity outside /r/mAndroidDev .
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> If you've heard the "NAIMINA" recording of UVB-76, that was something that was originally put on the internet by me. I use this recording as part of a strange personal radio station project, it's one of the burst s
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by gilmore606 4y ago
When I was 13, I checked out Steven Levy's "Hackers" from the public library. Inside I found a handwritten note from a 14 year old boy which said something to the effect of "If you like stuff like this, call me!" S
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by gilmore606 4y ago
I thought this too, but I've also seen speculation that fructose specifically triggers the body to be more inclined to store blood sugar as fat. If you think about it you can imagine an evolutionary just-so story for it. When protohu
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by gilmore606 4y ago
When I'm cutting (like right now) I will sometimes eat 3 McDoubles as my nutrition for the whole day. The macros are excellent.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
What you're talking about (rants that seem like they should be instant classics, which you save for later amusement) are known in chanspeak as 'pasta' (copypasta). There are many, many classic pasta rants (the Navy Seal Past
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Same, I've read Siddhartha once a year for the past 15 years at least. The river always has something to say.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> there’s proof we hunted dinosaurs to extinction Gosh, really?

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