ilugaslifk

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Links for December(astralcodexten.substack.com)
1 points by ilugaslifk 5y ago|0 comments
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by ilugaslifk 5y ago
> Joel run yon Nominative determinism
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by ilugaslifk 5y ago
That exact video changed my life in exactly the same way. Thank you for putting it so well. RIP LiveLeak. Its loss is a tragedy that is hard to quantify. Perhaps a catastrophe, that nobody will ever understand the full invisible scale of.
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by ilugaslifk 6y ago
Some existing discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/mh8ebs/econ...
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Economies and Empires Are Artificial General Intelligences(apxhard.com)
3 points by ilugaslifk 6y ago|1 comments
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Y2K strikes again: Spain counted centenarian Covid deaths as infant Covid deaths(twitter.com)
4 points by ilugaslifk 6y ago|0 comments
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by ilugaslifk 6y ago
"Once we kill all the terrorists, there won't be any more terrorists" Please put a little more fucking thought into this than "why don't we just get rid of them, then they'll go away". Completely aside
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by ilugaslifk 6y ago
Despite its name, half the value of `youtube-dl` is that it Just Works on every (free-as-in-beer, and non-DRMed) video site known to man. Every obscure Youtube alternative, every local news station's dogshit CMS, every porn site, Twit
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by ilugaslifk 6y ago
I don't know enough about the history of microtransactions and loot boxes to evaluate your charge that they "pioneered" them, and that indeed could be quite important to any calculation of how much goodwill they deserve. But
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by ilugaslifk 6y ago
There are some fantastic TDs that allow you to build your own walls in an open field, they just need to be explicitly balanced around that. Besides Desktop TD, the other main classic of that subgenre is Bubble Tanks TD: https://a
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by ilugaslifk 6y ago
Thank you for reminding me of the magic of all of this stuff. For whatever reason it's been lost to me for a long time. This is history that deserves to be remembered.
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by ilugaslifk 6y ago
Regarding other things "never smokers" may not understand: Before I started smoking (relatively late in life), I didn't really grasp that smoking is non-trivially immediately psychoactive. Like I thought it was something that
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by ilugaslifk 7y ago
It seems a little silly to talk about how some particular instance of desperate measures will effect some particular polity, without considering the context of that these measures and the devastation that's tied to them will be presen
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by ilugaslifk 7y ago
Yeah, the "this one spreads through eyes!!!!!!!" shit I keep seeing pop up is actually helping to moderate my panic, somewhat. It reminds me how much of the "panic!" signal I've been really starting to see explode i
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by ilugaslifk 7y ago
1. "Hot"-style ranking 2. Non-dogshit UI
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by ilugaslifk 7y ago
TIL: https://mfafinski.github.io/Turboslavs/ We wuz, etc
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by ilugaslifk 8y ago
I know this is not quite on topic, but: Giving some particular construct in your language the official name "Concepts" is just unbelievably fucking atrociously stupid. Inexplicably greedy and needlessly destructive. Say what yo
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by ilugaslifk 8y ago
The tyranny of the rocket equation has done an order of magnitude less damage to the progress of human space exploration than the mind-blowing waste of the Shuttle program.
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by ilugaslifk 8y ago
KSP's stock career mode does have missions involving retrieving individual pieces of debris. Though it's not framed or incentivized as "removing space junk" in exactly the way you mean. There's also an anime series
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
There's a lot of confusion out there due to a relatively brief appropriation of the term "alt-right" by a political tendency that is now more commonly termed "alt-lite". https://www.google.com/search
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
I'm already on extremely high alert for an apparently rapidly-growing political movement whose primary demand is that I be forcibly expelled from my home and society for the crime of sharing an ethnic heritage with people who, it is
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
There's an absolutely incredible amount of overt white nationalism and calls for violence and even mass ethnic cleansing on Reddit today. I would highlight https://reddit.com/r/europeannationalism/ as the ver
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
How is this significantly different than any other publicly extremely wealthy person? ... I guess liquidity?
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
What does "(m/f)" mean? Surely not "male/female"...
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
Oh please. This is an extremely vapid "stop liking things I don't like"/"not liking things I like" take. And an accusation of "nothing but loser nerds signaling their knowledge in public" is particu
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
> due to efforts of people who love the language Extremely tangential, but does anybody actually love javascript? We've been in a captive situation with this deeply flawed hack for 20 years. Once WebAssembly is mature enough to f
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by ilugaslifk 9y ago
> pay a tax out of your returns that wealthy investors don't have to pay Can you expand on this?