kbelder

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by kbelder 1y ago
I wonder if there's any reason we're roughly in the middle.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Statistically, size or quantity is a major part of significance. But that's not really the sense in which 'significant' is being used here... it's being used as a synonym of 'important' or 'meaningful&#x2
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by kbelder 1y ago
That's not any different than it has been.
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by kbelder 1y ago
It's called "Peter Pan Syndrome".
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by kbelder 1y ago
I think a majority, perhaps nearly all, of my daughter's friends have tattoos (early 20s). Not huge ones... a little flower on the ankle, etc. This is in the Pacific Northwest, though. They really got big here, to the point I agree
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by kbelder 1y ago
I don't think you'd be the first.
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by kbelder 1y ago
You're right that it may have, and you're right that it's hard to quantify. But it is thoroughly possible that the increased productivity heightened demand. The ability to create more or better output for the same amount of
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by kbelder 1y ago
And there may be many unrelated programs that fully cut funding at nearly the same level, making it a compounding problem. You might lose several benefits the moment your household income moves from 149% of poverty level to 151%, for insta
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by kbelder 1y ago
I think that this is perhaps the most important point in this whole discussion.
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by kbelder 1y ago
>If you oppose any actual steps to feed kids, then you don't want the kids fed. The rest of this is just you justifying why you don't want the kids fed. Don't be ridiculous. It won't win you any arguments.
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by kbelder 1y ago
I think this is it. Therapists aren't so much curing a past trauma or treating a mental issue; they're fulfilling an ongoing need that isn't being met elsewhere. I do think it can be harmful, because it's a confidant yo
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by kbelder 1y ago
This is true, but attacks on the democratic presidents have been just as moronic.
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by kbelder 1y ago
>In his first term, Trump learned that insiders were good at preventing him from accomplishing his goals when he ‘played by the rules’, so now he’s just ignored ‘the system’. This seems obviously what happened, and it may be because of t
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by kbelder 1y ago
But the randomness doesn't directly translate to a random outcome in results. It may randomly choose from a thousand possible choices, where 90% of the choices are some variant of 'the coin comes up heads'. I think a more us
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by kbelder 1y ago
I'm undecided. I hate these llm summaries, and nearly always downvote them. They're rarely helpful, often unpleasant, and very very lazy. But... I may hate links to videos even more. A summary of a video isn't lazy, it&#x2
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by kbelder 1y ago
Now I think this conversation will happen in my lifetime: Me: "Looks like your tire is a little low." Youth: "How can you tell, where's your phone?"
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by kbelder 1y ago
Sure, but that chance might be 99.7%. 'Random' isn't a pejorative.
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by kbelder 1y ago
There is no cosmic perspective. There's only my perspective, your perspective, and so on. Perhaps there are alien perspectives, and from their perspective, their world is very significant. When you talk about significance, you have t
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by kbelder 2y ago
Wasn't the judge female?
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by kbelder 2y ago
AI?
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by kbelder 2y ago
"It's precisely 21 cm." "Is it 21 cm?" "No."
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by kbelder 2y ago
The examples they give of animals that live for thousands of years are the Shoestring fungus, the Great Basin bristlecone pine, and the Hexactinellid sea sponge. I guess the sea sponge is an animal, but I wouldn't consider the other tw
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by kbelder 2y ago
>€10 / 100 grams Really? That's roughly equivalent to $50/pound! I understand that may change from region to region, but that seems ten times too expensive.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Amiga Basic still seems to me like the pinnacle of the basic language. Line numbers were optional, structured programming with loops and true functions, a graphics library... but still firmly BASIC. Not bits of code embedded in a UX edito
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by kbelder 2y ago
My uncertain guess is that intelligent people often are miserable as a way to protect their self-esteem. By having such a pessimistic and defeatist attitude about the world and other people, they can excuse away any problems as being out o
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by kbelder 2y ago
I'm a big booster of AI, but this doesn't even make sense. Any project using even the very best code generator in existence is going to need to be stewarded and tightly monitored by a competent programmer. AI is miraculous, but
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by kbelder 2y ago
Right. It's front and center; kind of the most obvious talking point about the article. It arguably generates a much stronger visceral reaction than the actual contents. That's why it's such a bad pattern.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I've seen this in some other communities... the idea that any suffering outweighs all the joys of life. That life is a nightmare because pain and suffering exist. I'm personally more inclined to the idea that the joy one experien
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by kbelder 2y ago
That is the key to stopping smoking. Telling them they can't possibly smoke less through willpower is incredibly harmful. Same with eating.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Not maliciousness. Incompetence. Bot traffic is notoriously stupid, reloading the same pages over and over, surging one hour and then gone the next, getting stuck in loops, not understand html response codes... It's only gotten worse

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