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by kbelder 4mo ago
I've always liked both pipe and cigar smoking far better than cigarettes. I don't do either, because I'm not stupid, but I'd have a small desire to do both. Cigarettes just seem lowest-level commodity trash, like becom
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Scientific American in the 80s was almost holy to me as a kid. It felt like a privilege to read the pages, stretching my mind to understand concepts, procedures, and vocabulary. It really affected my life. It was so disappointing when it
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by kbelder 4mo ago
>Anyone who values democracy is automatically an anti-fascist. Sure. None of that has anything to do with Antifa. You can't claim popular support for thuggish behavior by claiming dibs on a name.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
I think that is a better way to look at it, although you then need to compare the 35% to historical trends, or you will just have an emotional "that's a big number" reaction.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
> > There is no such thing as anti-white racism. > If you find yourself wanting to disagree with that then, I'm sorry but you simply don't know what racism is. You are saying that if you think anti-white racism can exist,
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by kbelder 4mo ago
And, in my opinion, a healthy thing for the kids to learn and do.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Well, yeah, I would just give them my code.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
I might try it, then; I liked Total Annihilation, but have absolutely no interest in multiplayer online. I think that the passionate fans, that obviously are the ones that drove the creation of this game, may not realize the abundance of m
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Perhaps simpler in the relevant choices presented to the player? The fact that a specific meta can be found, and victory requires using the meta, means that many important choices have been removed from the player. Chess surely has a meta,
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by kbelder 4mo ago
What? I don't... understand...
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by kbelder 4mo ago
It may not be AI, but it doesn't really sound human.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Yeah, we don't ban harmful speech, and we shouldn't. Harming people can be a legitimate and valuable consequence of speech. We ban a subset of harmful speech with a direct link to clear harms, usually criminal.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
If I was to sum up Jaynes' most relevant idea, I'd say it is that language is a technological advancement that evolved to handle more abstract and powerful concepts over time. Ten thousand years ago, humans were biologically the
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Interesting. Chrome doesn't have this option, but if you have stylebot or other extension it's easy to add a global CSS rule that adds it. I'll try it out for a while and see how it goes.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
That will soon make these sorts of lists more useful, as their usefulness to spammers/seo optimizers diminishes.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Amiga workbench was similar, although cruder, starting in 1985. I think it was just happening all around at that time.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
The specific topic of that blog post aside, any aggregation of 'indy' and 'small' content producers is going to lean kind of weird. Maybe left, maybe right, hopefully a combination of both, but it's going to have a
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by kbelder 4mo ago
I didn't downvote, because the poster had a reasonable opinion stated politely, but I still really hope the OP ignores his opinion.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Most philanthropic spending is from rich people, believe it or not.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
And yet, advancement of civilization depends on that.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
I've read Europa has more water than Earth. Is the idea that it accumulated its water through an entirely different means? Or that it formed with its water, and didn't lose it during the initial coalescence, like the Earth did?
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by kbelder 4mo ago
"make unexpected choices that feel genuinely designed for the context." What is it supposed to do when fed instructions like this?
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Recommendations aren't requirements; you're allowed to violate them.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Minecraft uses several. Different cameras, the console, etc.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
I'm not sure Apple will provide it or not, but I don't see a future that doesn't have nearly ubiquitous smart glasses. The potential usefulness is too great. Obviously it'll be a big cultural conflict for a while. But
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by kbelder 4mo ago
And after looking at the site more, I have to say I'm pretty interested. It is a nice-feeling site. There's a few UI oddities that need to have the rough edges sanded off, but I very much like the main approach.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
I hate that too, of course, but as long as it doesn't creep into the actual product or website itself, it doesn't really matter. At least they aren't using five digit years...
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by kbelder 4mo ago
This may be a stupid question... do cities need to pay state property tax on properties they own?
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by kbelder 4mo ago
It always gets me how the exact proper amount of an ingredient seems to coincidentally round off to an even number of units. You don't often see something that requires 2.07 cups, or 71 grams. If measurements are rounded off for conve
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by kbelder 4mo ago
I think Teams should be renamed Scout Messaging, and Outlook to Scout Messaging: Legacy.

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