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by jascii 6y ago
I am well aware of the benefits of visualisation which is why this is so disturbing. Driving a car into a crowd is not self-defense, it is mass homicide and mentally training yourself to make that a "valid option" can be extremely
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by jascii 6y ago
The way you are firing yourself up to commit homicide over a hypothetical situation is scary. Please seek help.
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by jascii 6y ago
We should really have laws against commuting, commuters block traffic way more frequently than protests do.. Work is an escalation that could literally cost lives..
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by jascii 6y ago
Do you think this might have something to do with it? https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-16/nations-bigg...
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by jascii 6y ago
I never made any such statement, let alone "keep pushing". I simply asked for counterexamples to some of the examples shown in the media. Do you have any concrete examples in your situation in Sweden?
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by jascii 6y ago
How did blue cities get to this point? An interesting observation here is that while the police forces are supposed to represent the populations they serve, the police unions (FOP) endorses Trump and so clearly takes a stand against that re
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by jascii 6y ago
"Agent Provocateurs" are an old and well documented technique with examples varying from history through the civil rights era to the current day protests.
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by jascii 6y ago
I have never in my life seen an ambulance be stopped by a protest, nor have ever heard of such an incident ever occuring.
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by jascii 6y ago
Deflections are not really a productive discussion tool. That aside, why do you think that is? Could hundreds of years of systemic economic repression have any causual effect on that? Do you have any suggestions how we as society could brin
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by jascii 6y ago
The looters take advantage of the chaos apparently willingly and knowingly created by the police. I'd say holding the protestors responsible for it is a bit missleading.
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by jascii 6y ago
The looters take advantage of the chaos. The chaos seems willingly and knowingly caused by the police. I would at this point consider the police atleast somewhat responsible for the conditions that lead to the looting.
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by jascii 6y ago
Do you have any concrete examples where the protesters instigated the violence? I have not been able to find any.
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by jascii 6y ago
Sorry, for the safety of myself, my fellow demonstrators, and my family I am not going to state the actual events I was at. Others have already shown examples, however here is an news article covering some incidents: https://www.
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by jascii 6y ago
Disclaimer: I am a bleeding heart liberal and this may filter my observations. I have been to a few rallies/vigils/marches lately and all incidences of violence that I have witnessed either in person or through media has been inst
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by jascii 6y ago
One of the most common celestial navigation methods is through a "noon sight" measuring the angle between the sun at its highest point in the day and the horizon. So that already works in the daytime. One of the main reasons to pr
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by jascii 7y ago
I always wondered why teleconferencing systems don't incorporate a workflow where people connecting in need an approval from the organizer before actually entering the meeting.
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by jascii 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. The usability of clicking a link stays equal regardless of the amount of digits in the ID. Adding a password reduces the usability.
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by jascii 7y ago
PS> Your name sounds familiar, did you used to know a Sarah in Portland, OR?
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by jascii 7y ago
Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. Here we have one, almost context-less, statement vs 50+ years of scientific research. Besides, he doesn't really answer the question. Why does he choose to work on x rather than y? That's called
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by jascii 7y ago
Some motivations last a lifetime, I don't think our desire to feed ourselves is going away anytime soon.. A lot of current thinking on the subject is based on Abraham Maslow's 1947 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation". Y
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by jascii 7y ago
That is not really how human beings function. Motivation causes "hard discipline". It does not exist in a vacuum.
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by jascii 7y ago
One of the major but rarely talked about causes of failure for startups is simply the entrepreneur getting demotivated. Gamefication could be an excellent way to deal with that. Beating yourself over the head and giving yourself a guild co
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by jascii 7y ago
I was thinking of the Toots and the Maytals song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw66FA6OTqA Then again, maybe Iain Banks was a fan of one of the various artists who have covered it over the years.
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by jascii 7y ago
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? --They cant, its a hardware problem.
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by jascii 7y ago
I was also thinking its a bit reminiscent of a slow-phosphorous radar crt trace. While not a terminal, its decidedly retro ;)
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by jascii 7y ago
That's some weird pseudo retro: As an old-timer I've seen green-on-black, amber-on-black, later black-on-white. Never white-on-green-black-fade.. Fonts tended to be pixelated rather then blurry (except maybe at 4am..) And yet, aga
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by jascii 7y ago
Not sure I'd trust self-identification to weed out malware..
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by jascii 7y ago
That is a good question, and thanks for asking it with a lot less toxic sarcasm then I would have.
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by jascii 7y ago
Installed apps list is available through IAMS API, Devs use this to profile users.
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by jascii 7y ago
So, I've been going down a rabbit-hole on how environmental change accelerates the evolution of pathogens and our current uptic of zoonotic diseases (covid19, Ebola, etc). The linked article mentions a more computational approach, but

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