greenhearth

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by greenhearth 2y ago
You could do much more damage than that. In poetry and Shakespeare especially, each word is used very carefully as a unit of very dense information. You could make Hamlet not related to his own father and fundamentally change any structural
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by greenhearth 3y ago
I'm sorry but the article employs the "Star Trek" method of wrapping complex phenomena into simple metaphors ("explosive decompression is like putting too much air into a balloon") But any truthful explanations of w
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Yes, death rates too
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Bring on telepathy and telekinesis!
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by greenhearth 3y ago
It's good that the free press is collapsing? Zeig heil mein Hungarian freund
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Who knows.. some friends of mine are happily married from the apps. You're right though about the perversity of it, the sweatshop conveyer belt matchmaking.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
This has been happening since the EFnet irc days.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Really idiotic stance, with all due respect.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
lol You know that it rains from the sky - https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/clouds-pla...
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by greenhearth 3y ago
I hate it. It just feels like a one-up attempt. Keep your shit to yourself, this is not a competition.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Very nice article and very relatable. But I think for this to work, a person practicing must have a capacity for empathy, or at least some degree of it, in the first place.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
BS
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by greenhearth 3y ago
You'd have to go to his source to decipher this. He was inspired by Beowulf, and the dragon in that story is based in general dragon mythology of its times. These could be read (in a non-Christian, pagan frame, which is where Tolkien w
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by greenhearth 3y ago
The evolutionary aspect is very interesting, but probably an incomplete picture. Guitar playing and music, all art really, are spaces of the impossible pleasure/fantasy complex and are ripe with psychological nuance. And yeah, just bec
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by greenhearth 3y ago
We all should know machine learning algos? They're cool and I've learned a bunch in school, but this is the crux of programming now?
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by greenhearth 3y ago
The alternative is a workers' union, by which this kind of thing could be mitigated for the actual people who do the work.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Are there actual jobs in Rust? This is not snark, btw. I love Rust and I am currently learning it. Genuinely curious, since I have not seen a lot of listings for it, if any.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
I don't think cavemen exterminated entire jungles and poisoned plankton with plastic.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Believe it or not, the agrarian state predates China by thousands of years. It goes back 10k years to the early farmer migration into Southern Europe from the Middle East. And yes, I am very well aware of the Great Wall of China lol
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by greenhearth 3y ago
This makes sense as nomads transformed by agriculture would probably be more interested in organized defense than offense (before prosperity, population booms and eventual land grab attempts.) Do you remember if this was a book?
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Controlling the mind? Are you completely mental? American public education system came out of the labor rights movement and the need to combat juvenile delinquency. It has its faults at the moment but only because it is continuously being d
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Um, they can regulate finance. Ask Bernie Madoff and that crypto guy lol
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by greenhearth 3y ago
What do they mean by "neural input?" Do they mean a voluntary, willful mode of making the sound, as opposed to involuntary process, like breathing?
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by greenhearth 3y ago
No
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by greenhearth 3y ago
How would this be amazing? It just sounds stupid and a waste of time.
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Cheese is not rancid. Cheese is fermented, which is a completely different, harmless process
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by greenhearth 3y ago
wtf, why would someone downvote this? This is prime hacker News shit and why I come here!
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by greenhearth 3y ago
The sense of the word "luddite" (I guess until this recent rethought) has always been pejorative, and has zero dependency on political ideology. Why even bring it into the conversation, unless you're trying to stir some shit
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Pretty awesome stuff. This is what Hacker News is for!
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by greenhearth 3y ago
Philosophizing and trying to figure things out is "keeping busy." Philosophy, when coupled with writing and teaching, is a very active pursuit. It has nothing to do with depression and depends on soberness of the mind and cultivat

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