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by jmts 7y ago
The difficulty people have with treating the source of a feeling is probably because a lot of the time it's difficult to identify the source. I think many people often go with what their body tells them about what might resolve a sympt
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by jmts 7y ago
The biggest hurdle to conversation I find in my experience is that people who have never been there find it difficult to comprehend the mental state you're in when you're depressed. At least in my experience, social media would ha
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by jmts 8y ago
Reread their post. They said their action was bad enough for them to be sent home. Not that it was a bad decision for them to be sent home.
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by jmts 8y ago
Whoops. I think this was supposed to be a reply to jnbiche [1], though I can't confirm if the reply makes sense anymore. Not sure how that happened. Sorry for the confusion. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953
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by jmts 8y ago
I understand that we might now feel obliged to intervene. I think the weirdness for me comes from the fact that we are watching them, and the paradoxes it introduces. If we weren't watching them, they would potentially go to war, some
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by jmts 8y ago
They are their own nation(s). That's what I said. The question is if they have (or should have) a monopoly on violence [2] in their own territory and/or are self-governing in other aspects of life. That's up to their nati
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by jmts 8y ago
Ironically, I wouldn't mind if aliens came down and told us we were being stupid some time soon... We would still have to listen, however.
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by jmts 8y ago
Murder is wrong because murder has a specific definition, and the society that we live in has defined that as wrong. A soldier killing a soldier is allowed during wartime (generally). We have judged that differently. There are a number of r
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by jmts 8y ago
Which nation should they belong to? They likely consider themselves to be their own 'nation', and have for a long time. Simply because Brazil is now a thing, does not necessarily mean that Brazil should own these people and that t
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by jmts 8y ago
The dynamics of this situation are weird. Leave them uncontacted for however long out of principle, monitor them from above, commit to preserving their culture, but then intervene and try to manufacture a truce between tribes (thereby inter
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by jmts 8y ago
People who bend the rules like that are a problem to be fixed, not one to be accomodated. I would train the self driving cars to wait until the appropriate conditions are met, and if that means until that person stops waving and continues a
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by jmts 8y ago
I'm aware of that. I also noted that they mention multiple cancers are not unlikely over time (I'm unable to access the article at this time so I can't quote directly), and they specifically pick the $5M figure as a value tha
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by jmts 8y ago
I've considered this issue before. How much is 'enough'? It certainly depends on what your preference is (are you okay with second hand cars, or do you want to try a Lamborghini for size?), but $5M in the bank is 50 years at
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by jmts 8y ago
This is physics, so it is best to assume an infinite cupcake.
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by jmts 8y ago
Then one day you come back and resize the array to a multiple of the memory alignment, and BAM! Off-by-one errors, or even vulnerabilities. Or you enable more strict build settings and BAM! You have to go back and deal with all the places y
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by jmts 8y ago
Exactly. The boundaries aren't disrespected - they change as relationships change. Disrespect for boundaries is a disrespect of the person whose boundary you are crossing. If you do it out of ignorance then it can often be forgiven and
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by jmts 8y ago
Pete's in on it too!
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by jmts 8y ago
Recently I was curious why so much big cloud software is written in Java. Cassandra, Kafka, and Neo4j are some examples. I don't have a lot of experience in the area myself (embedded software engineer) so I put it down the JVM providin
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by jmts 8y ago
Rather a significant number of characters in that series that based on real people, to the point that many characters use the real person's actual name. The cast section of the Wikipedia page shows the extent: https://en.wik
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by jmts 8y ago
I think it is a bit strange to ask "could science 'discover' meditation completely independently of a religious context?". Given that meditation is so common in eastern practices it seems unlikely that science would ever
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by jmts 8y ago
The article containing the quote from Richard Dawkins can be found here: https://uktech.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/dawkins-on-theology/ To paraphrase, he's arguing that very little beyond the obvious
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by jmts 8y ago
Overachievers should not be able to raise the bar. If they can, then the system is broken. Grades should be relative to the course content, not the abilities of the students. When I started university, it was clear that I had much more expe
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by jmts 8y ago
I think there are a couple of issues here. If we shift toward paying for content, is there not going to be a market for subscriptions to fake news as well as subscriptions to real news? Paying for content alone doesn't solve the proble
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by jmts 8y ago
Though I have absolutely no evidence to support this, I suspect that gambling doesn't suffer the same, uh.. stamina issues, that porn probably does. I assume that the sustained stream of small amounts of currency would easily add up to
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Common Errors in English Usage(brians.wsu.edu)
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by jmts 8y ago
Difficulty developing for multiple differing implementations of a standard is an argument for better adherence to standards, not an argument for reduced numbers of implementations.
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by jmts 8y ago
I find it jarring and it makes me less likely to want to read whatever it was I clicked the link for. In some cases I find it so annoying that I consider my options for avoiding that site again altogether. Then again I seem to be pickier th
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by jmts 8y ago
I have 'worked' both a 19 hour day and a 21 hour day on separate occasions. The latter coming shortly after joking about 'that time we worked 19 hours'. I assume you're suggesting it is impossible to do it regularly
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by jmts 8y ago
I'd love to see that bill! Most hotel laundry services I've encountered seem to be priced for one or two critical items. Cleaning a week's worth of items would be prohibitively expensive for most people, and I would be surpri
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by jmts 8y ago
Quick search turned up 5 unique wallets for me :\ 1EaqpQL5AoCb6iuPhiRx1urzDV1MUo9AWd 1PTGiBdKsZdHxBm4961tTToqiA7B8fy3ZN 15ZHnf1MPn6ybb8yUeAoCQ1AJtiKhg3NrP 1DtNv1T1RUwjTCdSjNmmosbpCvBQ4shgVz 1MAM6oPcycTrfiLPS9tjtAR8t6KD

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