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by jprete 2y ago
Because it makes one's inner life difficult and intense for no good reason.
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Profit-seeking is just another way of optimizing everything else out of existence, and that's an excellent reason to overrule it.
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The press treat Zuckerberg as the public face of Facebook, while no-one does that with Phil Knight. So they are not similar situations.
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I have both extroversion and social anxiety and I am reasonably sure you're correct. Fear has motivated me at times to act like an introvert, but that's not the same as being one. Whenever I have an excuse to go be around people I
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It sounds like you told them they were wrong first! I think this frequently happens because people aren't making the same assumptions. Ask about assumptions so you find out why two people who are both probably reasonable apparently hav
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I think this is 80% of the problem. I quit gaming as an adult once I had a chance to get real things I actually wanted. I had to take up the hobby again just because it's a useful way to relax. But I can only play for a short time befo
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Final Fantasy in particular was a weird callout, since 90% of the games are themed on a combination of coping with the human condition and the power of friendship.
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Part of the problem is the faster and wider communication of these kinds of incidents. I think people can intuitively understand, at lowest, 5%* odds. Anything below that is either 5% or impossible unless you're mathing it out. Hearing
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I recently read a new idea of why PHP is useful to people - it's the lowest-overhead server-side Web page language available. If you want a tiny amount of functionality, you write a tiny amount of PHP and don't have to do anything
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According to Wikipedia, China actually handed over sovereignty of Kowloon to the British to facilitate demolishing it. They must have really hated the place.
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He's on parole from a felony conviction, so the rules don't apply in quite the same way. I think, legally, he's still in the custody of the government, which is exactly why he has a parole officer to supervise him. And it&#x2
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I think the graphics have numerous sources and mostly/entirely aren't made by the post author. There are five different styles in the first six map images!
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My personal path was first learning to lie about it - then later on understanding that nobody was lying about it per se, but they might appreciate the offer of concern without actually wanting to take advantage of it. Or they might just not
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They do think they mean it, it's just that the meaning they give that phrase in that context is not the same meaning as in other contexts. Human speech isn't a programming language, it's a signaling mechanism, and all signals
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Legally you cannot actually do the first thing without permission. The fact that it was technologically impossible to stop, and the damages would be impossible to prove, didn't make it a legal right.
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The Verge quotes: "I think that with respect to content that’s already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the ‘90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has
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What is special about the red checkboxes?
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I wonder if you're looking for cybernetics? The original meaning from the 1940s, not the corrupted science fiction shibboleth. Wikipedia - "The initial focus of cybernetics was on parallels between regulatory feedback processes in
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If the response was "publish this and we will credibly kill you" then I'm not going to blame Assange for burying it. I'm going to blame whatever country he was in for the fundamental problem of not being able to protect
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I'd assume in practice it would require a school to be accredited, because I think that's the kind of rule that the bureaucracy would instantly put into place, and that a president would never overrule because of the potential for
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Now a bonus round: Can anybody possibly do a long work of fiction only using calculator words? Just this post was difficult after losing just a unitary sound!
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It's much simpler IMO to explain autism as what happens when the brain systematically overreacts to surprising inputs at every level. The reason e.g. stiff faces and list-making would go together is that they're both coping mechan
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I'm not a physicist but 1/r^2 strikes me as conceptually very important, because it's the relative contribution of any fixed area of spherical surface to the total area of that surface. So the total strength of gravitational
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I expect that most ancient people believed that animals were conscious. It's impossible to spend a lot of time with any mammal and think of it as not being aware of anything. For what it's worth, my Googling suggested that the Bib
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OT but maybe peekaboo works on the emotional tension and release of potential threats being revealed as friendly faces.
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Now that you mention it, I don't remember any Biblical support for animals not being conscious. Humans being special, yes - animals being unconscious automata, no. A quick Google search suggests the opposite conclusion can very easily
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There's a spectrum, but some people see nothing at all. It's known as aphantasia.
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IANAL, but as far as I know, the line is "intent", and courts of law are empowered to infer intent from actions. > things that could get someone fired in completely union-unrelated situations, are actually protected if done in
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Baba Is You strikes me as an exceptional game for phones, since one can do a single level at a time and the controls are simple. Thanks for the link.
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That's surprising from today's perspective, but when I imagine the thought process, it seems reasonable, especially for math and science purposes where multiplication and division operators usually get grouped into a series of mul

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