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by jholman 4y ago
You sound like you've never played Eve Online
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by jholman 4y ago
Off-topic, but learning about classic examples of operationalization is when I realized that mostly psychology isn't a real science (yet). I believe the canonical example involved me learning the phrase "bobo doll".
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by jholman 4y ago
Yeah, the insistence on SILTBness seems baffling, especially since he clearly understands the idea of the p-zombie. There are clearly agents in the world more capable than myself, and some of those agents have names like Coca Cola or Gener
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by jholman 4y ago
As a post-secondary teacher, I spend more mental energy on babysitting than on teaching. It's definitely the harder part for me. I hesitate to imagine how bad it must be in primary or secondary education. Though, it's not real
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by jholman 4y ago
As a matter of legality, that's wrong, of course. This is copyright violation. For whatever that's worth. But I think the bigger point is, if you're a fan of WTLS, it seems very odd to be so disrespectful of WTLS's d
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by jholman 4y ago
I'm not the person you've been replying to, but I note that your replies in this chain are getting more and more acrimonious. If you're going to repeatedly accuse the other commenter of bad faith, it's probably best to
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by jholman 4y ago
But we did have to invent the (social) technology that enabled us to transition to a post-feudal society. And we did so without fully understanding feudal society. For another technological example, we didn't fully understand bronze w
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by jholman 4y ago
> To become transhuman or posthuman, you'd first have to understand what it is to be human What? Why? I'm post-adolescent (at least biologically, please don't bring up all of my emotional immaturity), and I still don'
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by jholman 4y ago
You think that smallpox, plague, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases were major killers of pre-technological hunter-gatherers? I don't think that's correct. But you're certainly right about the problems with child mo
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by jholman 4y ago
My understanding of the research is that the "horrible, pain and misery" is mostly wrong. My understanding is that pre-tech hunter-gatherers lived fairly pleasant lives, without a lot of pain and misery, with less work, less stre
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by jholman 4y ago
You appear to think that "conservationist", "endangered species advocate" and "environmentalist" are all synonyms for "climate activist"? Your previous comment claimed there was opposition from &quot
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by jholman 4y ago
Purely a function of liability culture? That seems like an extraordinary claim, your claim that there are no other causes. Do you have extraordinary evidence? I'll note that I do have a few different bits of modest evidence to the
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by jholman 4y ago
Regarding (A) and (C), this is the obligatory reminder that: * The US spends more public money on health care, per capita, than other wealthy nations, while also spending much much more private money than other wealthy nations * By many
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by jholman 4y ago
Because we're writing in English, "viola" is neither rape nor lawbreaking, though "violate" can mean either of those. In English, "viola" is the name of a stringed instrument. Voila, behold a viola! One
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by jholman 4y ago
> that's by definition exploitation I think you're just factually wrong about this particular part. If I understand you correctly, you're claiming that the definition of "exploit" is "derive net profit from
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by jholman 4y ago
Wow, thank you for linking that. I've been meaning to buy this game, and in fact I just about bought it today (it's on sale right now). Now I'm not sure I want to. If I understand correctly, this is a game in which great pai
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by jholman 4y ago
I definitely played Dark Souls 1 on PC ("Prepare to Die Edition") from start to finish and did not at that time own a controller. I have my AutoHotKey script around for it somewhere. It did not "flat out require" a c
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by jholman 4y ago
A markedly-incomplete list of a few countries that do not require you to carry an ID outside your home: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerl
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by jholman 4y ago
What W3C resources have you been using?
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by jholman 4y ago
I think there's some value in most of what you're saying. Your overall proposal, etc etc. But when you say "You could say you are suffering addiction withdrawal when you are away from somebody or some place you love", y
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by jholman 4y ago
Whoa, whoa, what kind of conspiracy theory are you trying to force, here?
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by jholman 4y ago
The game I'm playing is "read articles that HN users found interesting, and then see what other HN users had to say about that topic". I guess I can conclude that davidkuennen is playing is some other game. They're prob
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by jholman 4y ago
I'm confused. There are people with fossil fuels. They want to make money from their access to fossil fuels. They will strive to do so, and some of them will strive without concern for the collective good. I think those things are c
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by jholman 4y ago
Paid vs not-paid is not an important distinction. People who think that money is the only thing that other people want are doomed to be repeatedly exploited by people who understand that there are more forms of exploitation than directly mo
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by jholman 4y ago
Okay, I see what you're saying about the timer. That isn't in TFA, agreed. But I still don't understand, because.... (NB: I'm not a GC expert, just a curious amateur, so my apologies if there are errors in the following
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by jholman 4y ago
I don't understand.... isn't this idea (triggering GC more often) explicitly discussed in the article?
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by jholman 4y ago
Okay, so my citation is, I was there, I was a (fringe) participant in pre-internet piracy culture, starting in 1990. Pirate BBSes would have various "goods" (in the sense you and GP mean) available for download, including images
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by jholman 4y ago
It's not a synonym for "goods", because only one type of thing was ever "wares"; software. It's just for dividing up the sections of your piracy BBS into, like "filez" (files, multi-kilobyte textfile
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by jholman 5y ago
I agree. Separately.... I never know if the following sort of pedantry is welcome or unwelcome. I can only say that I would want it. I think you're using "circumspect" incorrectly. My understanding is that it means to only
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by jholman 5y ago
My read was, he was saying something like: "If the VKS had the large-scale organizational capabilities we'd previously assumed, then they'd have a straightforward SEAD approach (involving strength in numbers and some moderate

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