harpersealtako

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by harpersealtako 4y ago
That just sounds like old people talking to each other, I don't see the problem. That kind of small-talk would be commonplace in any small-town diner. In a quiet neighborhood where nothing happens, literally anything is gossip-worthy
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
My impression of nextdoor based on my admittedly very limited usage was that maybe 5% of people (the usual paranoid types) used it as a sort of unofficial neighborhood crime watch, and 95% of everybody else used it to share pictures of loca
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
This is so contrary to my experiences living in suburbs/exurbs most of my life that I'm honestly not exactly sure how we came to such polar opposite beliefs. The most alienating, dehumanizing, isolated environments I've ever
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
One thing I think about a lot is that in a lot of artistic fields, there's often a niche for "art loved by artists". Poetry that mostly people who write poetry like. Architecture that mostly architects like. Painters that
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
That's one of the big appeals of LVT: in theory it works incrementally. You try e.g. a 5% LVT and you should notice 5% of the effects.
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
So the "killed gently and instantly" is the main one I think is wrong about these documentaries and the part that is certainly the easiest to construct a false narrative with. Largely IMO the horrors of industrialized animal husb
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Admittedly I only skimmed through through it, but it looks like yet another vegan documentary (e.g. Dominion, which I watched all the way through and wasn't convinced at all by) where the worst examples of the worst excesses of industr
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
This is why I'm not an urbanist even though I support in theory a lot of urbanist policies. The motte: "There is great demand for dense, walkable, affordable, towns/cities/neighborhoods in the US, and not enough supply
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
If I lived in one of those houses, would I be able to paint it whatever color I wanted (e.g. pink and yellow stripes)? Or is there some sort of coordination to make sure they all look appealing as a set?
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
>Is there a standards body for HOAs? Are they regulated? Each state generally sets its own standards for HOAs. There are legal frameworks, insurance laws, etc. which are fairly similar across the country. >If they have equivalent leg
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I was similarly skeptical until I read it (ever since the first part appeared on HN) and it convinced me on many points. That said, I think you're half right? SMTM's environmental contagion hypothesis is an explanation for popul
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I don't think "refined carbs are bad for you" is correct. Consider that many of the healthiest, least obese, longest lived societies on earth (e.g. Japan) have diets heavy in refined carbs (e.g. white rice).
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
This is absolutely true. Look at text prediction models as an example (e.g. GPT-3). One of the biggest (if not the biggest) applications was story-generation tools like AI Dungeon. Guess what most people actually used AI Dungeon for?
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I'm...a good deal more anti-China than the average person, but from what I've seen of that channel it doesn't seem very credible. Most of their takes seem correct on the broader level (e.g. yes, China in the next few decades
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
I honestly see more CCP apologists on here than I usually see on reddit (though I don't hang around the places where I'd assume they usually comment I guess, with the exception of a certain popular gacha game subreddit). For exam
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Yeah, I was surprised at how in a story about the benefits and challenges of fitting nature into modern lifestyles, one of the four points was "don't forget about colonialism" and another was "try segregating into identi
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
UC has tons of classes and workshops on farming/gardening you can take, ranging from weekend workshops to apprenticeships to online courses to hands on training. Or honestly there are tons of forums and internet communities that have
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Is an inner monologue supposed to be completely intelligible, or at the same speed as spoken conversation, or in complete sentences, or always on by default? Because I can, e.g. look at the painting on my wall and summon a voice and think
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
Yeah, they usually kept as predator alerts for mixed flocks. They are also known to kill/scare away snakes, which is nice because I live where there are poisonous rattlesnakes
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by harpersealtako 4y ago
that's what the guard dogs and guinea fowl are for
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It's the usual pattern of AI safety experts who justify their existence by the "risk of runaway superintelligence", but all they actually do in practice is find out how to stop their models from generating non-advertiser-frie
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Many already do to some extent, they're just incremental, narrow changes designed to solve the most pressing issues rather than full "free, universal healthcare". For example, Massachusetts's mandatory health insurance,
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
From that wiki page: >Although the L4 and L5 points are found at the top of a "hill", as in the effective potential contour plot above, they are nonetheless stable. The reason for the stability is a second-order effect: as a bo
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
The solution is to braise it (e.g. red braised pork belly) until it becomes tender enough to melt in your mouth. Usually you add some soy sauce and spices to the braising liquid to give it the saltiness and flavor.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
One specific example might be recent panics over "misinformation" (e.g. covid misinformation), what I would call the idea that incorrect, contrarian, or offensive speech online isn't just bad, but fundamentally dangerous. Ev
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "Ukraine is nuclear country"?
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
did you vet Dr. Stephen Schneider as well?
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I wouldn't personally call it "balanced" either (unless "balanced" counts anything between extreme climate change alarmism and extreme climate change denial). That said, I do think it's a valuable contrarian pe
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I find the opposite is true. Knowing a lot of hunters (and being one myself), I can say that they are intensely interested in their prey's thoughts, behavior, and feelings, certainly more so than the average person. I increasingly see
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
What led you to believe those things (the idea that the Biden Administration's claims of an imminent invasion were war mongering, and the idea that Canada has aligned itself with Russia)?

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