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by gilrain 6mo ago
“Rhetoric” is your search term, should you choose to accept it.
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by gilrain 6mo ago
It’s a pretty bog standard observation. Not deep, not interesting; just true. A 14 year old might indeed accurately observe this, or a 54 year old.
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by gilrain 6mo ago
Gmail is profitable. How much harm should profitable services be allowed to perpetuate in the world to enable their profit?
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by gilrain 6mo ago
> To use your own words, I fear its you who doesn't know what a backup is Feel free to use my reputation, instead: when I say a system is backed up, data cannot be lost by that system being destroyed, because an independent copy a
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by gilrain 6mo ago
> You are using it to mean "maintaining full version history", I believe? No, they are using it to mean “backed up”. Like, “if this data gets deleted or is in any way lost locally, it’s still backed remotely (even years later,
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by gilrain 6mo ago
> Have a bit more faith in the employees Have you been asleep for a decade?
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by gilrain 6mo ago
Better kill the same civilian population they did, as perverse punishment, then? We have to kill them, or else Iran will kill them? The logic of this war doesn’t.
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by gilrain 6mo ago
Let’s force them to be obligated to do that, then. “Just let them hurt people, and then let them hide that hurt” kind of sucks for society.
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by gilrain 6mo ago
And all hidden in the comments of a niche forum, while the actual issue is closed and whitewashed? You got played.
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by gilrain 6mo ago
> The data points at adaptive thinking under-allocating reasoning on certain turns Will you reopen the issue you incorrectly closed, then…? Or are you just playacting concern?
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by gilrain 6mo ago
I can remember what past presidents Tweeted, and it was civil. Were you born yesterday?
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by gilrain 6mo ago
You haven’t internalized what “the fertilizer the world uses to grow food is missing, this spring, because of a needless war” actually means, have you?
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by gilrain 6mo ago
> Pop music was already to some extent a commodity. And as everyone knows, some commodification of some thing means we must go ahead and totally commodify all the things.
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by gilrain 6mo ago
As someone who’s compared spreadsheet feature sets, though: it’s also very much the feature set.
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by gilrain 7mo ago
> connect various dots without going all dry As long as you keep in mind that what you come away with are shallow, incomplete views of nuanced topics. Unfortunately, many come away from these popular summaries believing 101-level knowled
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by gilrain 7mo ago
> threw their hard-won reputational gains off a cliff for _nothing_ I imagine some executive’s ego was spared by not telling them their idea was bad. Priceless.
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by gilrain 7mo ago
Zocchi retired, but his company charmingly continues. https://www.gamescience.com/about-1 (Note: the sprue left by his sharp-edged process has since been proven to result in more bias than the tumbling undergone by the roun
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by gilrain 7mo ago
The cooperation of allies is more powerful than all of that, and the US is woodchipping their allies as fast as possible. Their power will disappear astonishingly quickly.
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by gilrain 7mo ago
There’s just absolutely no comparison between one senile president who maintained our democracy and another senile president who loudly, proudly, and rapidly destroyed it. No comparison, folks. What can you do?
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by gilrain 8mo ago
It was bought by Microsoft and declined, yes.
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by gilrain 8mo ago
“I would argue that…” is a weaker statement, because it ends with an implied “…but since I don’t care that much, I’m not ‘seriously’ arguing that.” It’s not at all equivalent to the strong statement “I argue that…”, which has no such qualif
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by gilrain 8mo ago
In my view, another example would be Gautama Buddha, with Dependent Origination. It’s basically a super early realisation of Process Philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da https:/&#
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by gilrain 8mo ago
If it tried to play Balatro using knowledge of, e.g., poker, it would lose badly rather than win. Have you played?
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by gilrain 8mo ago
> Your comment is rather incoherent; I recommend prompting an LLM to generate comments with impeccable grammar and coherent lines of reasoning. It seems your reading comprehension has fallen below average. I recommend challenging your sk
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by gilrain 8mo ago
It’s a lot easier to keep your values when you aren’t literally waiting for and counting on the billion dollar check, though.
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by gilrain 8mo ago
And who gets to decide the membership of those groups? You?
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by gilrain 8mo ago
Isn’t Telegram at least plausibly a tool of Russian surveillance? My understanding was that its attempts to distance itself from the regime were laughable and only made the relationship more obvious. I think that’s why it’s rarely mentioned
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by gilrain 9mo ago
To be fair, the British invented and innovated that style of tea. You should only look east if you’re interested in the many other styles.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
This is like claiming everyone is making coffee wrong and then describing how to make a cappucino with city roast Nigerian dry-process beans. Yep, cool. That’s a recipe. For one type of preparation. With one type of bean. And one style of r
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by gilrain 9mo ago
It depends on the tea you’re brewing, what you want to make with it, and your personal taste. How could there possibly be an objective answer?

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