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by kbelder 3y ago
Shouldn't be a dead comment; this is exactly what happened.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Horrendous, but the nice side effect... the more China, Russia, and other totalitarian states double down on these efforts, the easier it is to argue against them in the West.
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by kbelder 3y ago
This is one of those theories that may not have a lot of strong evidence, but I can't help but believe is true. I expect there were humans here 20, 30, 50k years ago. That's just what humans do.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Yeah, I think there's all sorts of reasons to avoid Twitter/X for emotional and psychological health, or even because you just have some standards of good taste. But the big exodus after Musk just seems like people outraged that
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by kbelder 3y ago
But the expression of the brain as it grows is very dynamic, influenced by many factors outside the genetic, including itself, self-referentially. You could pretty easily raise one twin as an imbecile and the other as competent, purely by t
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by kbelder 3y ago
There was an article in Byte back in the day that recommended that define, along with several other to make C a more sane, pascal-like, language. I wouldn't say it was common, but it was not that rare.
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by kbelder 3y ago
>As a civilian, your duty is to weigh your personal sense of discomfort against the societal benefits of improved child abuse detection. No. Not your personal sense of discomfort... this isn't a case of privileging one person'
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by kbelder 3y ago
Test it. Pick a medical condition, randomly. From the musty pages of an old-fashioned book, so there's no digital connection. Then mention that disease a few times in the presence of your Alexa, Siri, or Google whatever. Talk about
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by kbelder 3y ago
I think it's very possible there ARE occasional life-long consequences of the flu and other such infections that are so normalized we don't even notice.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Atari BASIC tokenized source a bit more thoroughly... eliminated spaces, parsed constants into their floating point representation, etc. It did enforce formatting to a degree. I was always surprised that it did all that, but wasn't an
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by kbelder 3y ago
I know a family who still wears masks in public because their daughter is very sick, very weak, and they don't want to risk her getting covid. Perfectly sensible. I also know people who wear masks in public because they're a lit
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by kbelder 3y ago
By allowing more than one children? What a generous State.
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by kbelder 3y ago
That leaves Facebook.
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by kbelder 3y ago
I buy a phone as big as I can still manage to fit in my pockets. I'd also appreciate it if it was twice as thick, if they would fill up the extra space with batteries and more ports. 200 more grams won't break me.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Which reaction is more likely: Oh, we better mask up and start distancing like in the 2020's Oh, I guess we overreacted to Covid in the 2020's.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Long before that. I heard that advice as a child in the 70's. Had the impression is was what my parents learned in the 40's.
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by kbelder 3y ago
And it would be great to put those two demographics together, and keep them away from the rest of us. Kind of a red light district.
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by kbelder 3y ago
How much lifting are dumbbells sapping the world of?
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by kbelder 3y ago
Presumably it's just a coincidence we are pretty close to the middle?
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by kbelder 3y ago
>How was transferring the security function from private industry to the federal government a jobs program? By making it much less efficient.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Right. It's still the same amount of houses, and the same amount of people wanting a house, so the price is not going to shift much.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Maybe they need to classify the need to be classified with a mental disorder as a mental disorder, and then everybody would be happy, and the book would be thinner.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Didn't read the study, but from the article: "In the study, a group of nearly 20 participants attended two lab sessions where they smoked both a traditional cigarette and a pod-based e-cigarette. To measure the effects of the vapi
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by kbelder 3y ago
But following proper administrative procedure is a key component of a fair justice system. It's not all that's necessary, but it is necessary, otherwise you have rules being bent on whims of justices, prosecutors, or public senti
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by kbelder 3y ago
All of those are prone to highly emotionally charged reactions. Whether she is right or wrong, there would have been strong reactions, and therefore (in a bayesian sense) the strong reactions give you no information about whether she'
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by kbelder 3y ago
>Depending on whether the person being challenged is a scientist Has no bearing whatsoever.
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by kbelder 3y ago
And yet, somehow, the thought of being ruled by mostly young people is even more nightmarish than the gerontocracy we currently have.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Villain? Watch it again.
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by kbelder 3y ago
I said this not long ago in a different thread, but after reading this article I want to say it again. I'm very impressed with the management of the Godot project. They seem to be avoiding all the common mistakes and drama that so ma
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by kbelder 3y ago
Slow transition to electric cars coupled with a large investment in nuclear energy.

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