jononomo

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by jononomo 3y ago
I was installing the Discord desktop app on an old MacBook earlier today and I got a prompt along the lines of "Discord would like to monitor every keystroke you enter in every application on this computer -- hit OK to continue."
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You can go further south than Houston and find much nicer weather. Heredia, which is a suburb of San Jose, Costa Rica, is much closer to the equator than Houston, but it is in a much rainier part of the world and it is at an elevation of a
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by jononomo 3y ago
It's a nice story you've convinced yourself of, I guess. People will rationalize anything because they just assume the theory is true. Also a new body part isn't just shapes at the macro level, like wings and noses, but they
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by jononomo 3y ago
Ironically, once I cut all vegetable and, in fact, all plant-based calories, out of my diet, I experience dramatic health and fitness benefits. I expect in this case the conventional wisdom is also exactly backwards and in fact transparenc
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by jononomo 3y ago
1% of wing is actually worse than just not having a wing. And saying "well, it just randomly happened" is not a "mechanism" in any sense whatsoever.
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by jononomo 3y ago
What bothers me about evolutionary theory is that it is a theory without a mechanism (natural selection needs something to select, after all -- and where did that thing come from?). Also, the process can't even get off the ground unti
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by jononomo 3y ago
I suppose all a news writer has to do now is tell the AI what happened and then then the AI can tell everyone else what happened.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Doesn't it seem like this kind of fraud should result in prison sentences? I'm so sick of frauds in academia. I really wish the elites in our society still took the idea of Hell seriously. Also: "will resign effective Augus
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by jononomo 3y ago
I completely agree with this -- no programming language has ever had as much marketing behind it as Java. It was absolutely overwhelming for about 6-8 years from maybe 1997 - 2005. And what a disaster that has been -- a bunch of people now
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by jononomo 3y ago
Well, I'm getting down-voted even though I'm correct. This is one of the problems in our society generally -- people have decided that what they think is just must be correct because they assume that life is fair.
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standardized tests are not biased.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Yeah, I think I'm easily worth $85/hour, maybe even $115/hour. But I don't want to try to negotiate until I have another $10k of savings and I have a couple of leads elsewhere so that I have a bit more bargaining power.
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by jononomo 3y ago
I've been working a consulting contract for the last 4 months or so and I am definitely under-billing and over-delivering big time. I'm charging $58/hour for Django development and I've built these guys a nice backend w
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by jononomo 3y ago
It has been since the introduction of peer review that science has taken a nose-dive. Peer-review is just such a terrible idea. All it does is bring politics and back-stabbing into science.
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I don't think it makes sense to publish the results of clinical trials and other scientific experiments until after they have been independently replicated.
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by jononomo 3y ago
The following is my review on Amazon.com of the M1 MacBook Air: This is a landmark model, a classic, a perfect machine. I've been using the 2020 M1 MacBook Air base model (8 GB Ram, 256 GB HD) for almost 3 years now as a daily driver.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Ecologically damaging? Give me a **** break.
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Why are tomatoes red?
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Well, Costa Rica has a long rainy season with torrential downpours. In fact, they have so much hydropower that they are a net energy exporter. Here is a paragraph I found at https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles&#x2F
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by jononomo 3y ago
No, that was his own objection to it. He ridiculed the theory because he (incorrectly) thought that a theory that implied a God was repugnant to science. It turns out that the science won out, however, and now "The Big Bang" is
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by jononomo 3y ago
You may as well say it implies not-white skin as well. The only thing it implies in regard to skin color is bright yellow.
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by jononomo 3y ago
How can the Signal app "exit the UK market"? Can't people just use the app anyway?
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by jononomo 3y ago
If you go near the equator but go up in altitude then it won't be hot. There are places in Costa Rica and Columbia where it is basically 72-degrees every day all year.
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by jononomo 3y ago
There are only about six emoji's that I ever use, with thumbs up being by far the one I use the most.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Why do you think a yellow emoji represents a white skin color?
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Why was he making fun of it?
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by jononomo 3y ago
You do realize why the term "The Big Bang" was coined, right?
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AI is going to cause human extinction by turning us all into paper clips even though it can't drive a car.
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"Science taught me that it's all just atoms and the void, so there can't be any deeper point or purpose to the whole thing; the kind of meaning most people yearn for — Ultimate Meaning — simply doesn't exist." Shees
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what?

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