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by koboll 7y ago
God and aliens have a lot in common. People usually interpret the "beings" you "meet" on DMT as one or the other. Almost as if they're two sides of one coin: our mind's tendency to gravitate toward an anthropom
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Or they lost it all in the Mt. Gox hack... sobs quietly
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It's interesting how none of the commenters envisioned Microsoft repositioning itself to adapt to technological and business trends. Everyone seems to have thought they would either fight them and lose, or contract to becoming an IBM
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Sure. But that's begging the question. Clearly, the "back row" of society was once much more mobile than it is today. What's changed?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev The 'Return' section is sickening. Russia has a cancerously warped morality.
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This comment from the above link is worth highlighting: >Last thing: I visited the first location of the California gold rush. It was a tourist town filled with vacation homes set aside a picturesque lake. You know what you did not find
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by koboll 7y ago
This article is, in a way, kind of sickening. One of the women quoted talks about how her son was killed by diabetes complications. Sounds suspiciously like McDonald's is the knife that tears families apart.
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The missing piece probably isn't tools to make remote work better, but whatever's necessary to obsolete in-person networking. The article (strangely) doesn't say this directly, but it alludes to it ("I met so many wonder
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I think people sometimes shy away from this because it's seen as a young, vain person's pursuit; something you do primarily to look good. But past middle age, it becomes critically important. Once your muscles, joints, and bones b
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by koboll 7y ago
Looks like it's based on the Unsplash license ( https://unsplash.com/license ) which is similarly not open source. "Free for commercial use" would be a more accurate description.
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by koboll 7y ago
Yep. Github's mistake in the parent article wasn't overlooking a character casing collision -- it was sending password reset emails to the email provided by the resetter rather than the saved email for that user.
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If there's extra capacity, why would they need to make an acquisition?
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If it's chemically-based, maybe it can be induced. I wonder - and I'm being serious here, although this could certainly be a terrible idea for various reasons - what would happen if, say, a low dose of MDMA or similar were adminis
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>it's still possible to _objectively_ say that many people vote for ideological or sentimental reasons that appeal to them (which is part of democracy!) with - or without - having done (for example) a spreadsheet comparisons of how
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>The law - sensibly enough - didn't allow politicians to interfere in the running of the companies so they were basically unaccountable. I'm not sure how that's sensible. Are you being sarcastic? Sure, there are problems w
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by koboll 7y ago
We don't have the capability or will currently to do much about it in a way that won't devastate the food chain, and thus the environment. So while it's sad and unfortunate, there's not much we can or should do about it,
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by koboll 7y ago
>Consciousness isn't a binary feature you can sort things definitely into have and have-not, it's a spectrum. Of course. But while we can't draw an exact line where it begins, we can certainly categorize some obvious thing
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by koboll 7y ago
The parent comment is not arguing we shouldn't kill any living things, only that we shouldn't kill conscious things. You obviously need to participate in ending life to sustain yourself, but it's not necessary to end li
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Surely the paintings that survived for 44,000 years aren't the only ones that were painted that early. There's no particular reason that art couldn't be older -- much older, even -- but not be able to survive for much lon
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by koboll 7y ago
>Deployment should not be part of, or in any way linked to, code. Why?
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If multiple companies are competing, I'd much rather get services from the market rather than the government, because I can vote with my wallet, and companies respond to that. But if I must use a single monopoly company that provides a
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by koboll 7y ago
Sounds like we need more liability for the sales platform. Or perhaps, a greater distinction in the law between an actual sales platform (i.e. Craigslist) and a sales platform masquerading as a corporate storefront (Amazon). The latter is d
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by koboll 7y ago
If you use a "short, simple" string as a username across various services, the price you pay is that various others are going to be using that same name on other services. You aren't entitled to a certain username on every se
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by koboll 7y ago
There are lots of permanently suspended accounts that have basically been squatting on a useless name for a decade. There's zero downside to releasing those, since their old tweets are already gone.
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I used to do something similar all the time as a designer-- Present the client with 3 options. Two of them were terrible. The third was the one I wanted them to choose. It usually worked. Usually.
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by koboll 7y ago
Yeah this movement shouldn't just be "Save .org" but also specifically "Prosecute Fadi Chehadé", who is a criminal.
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This campaign needs a punchier call to action. It should be something like "Tell the New York state attorney general to prosecute Fadi Chehade for self-dealing if this sale goes through". This movement is lacking stakes. People ne
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There's no point responding with anything other than derision to this kind of deliberately obtuse and bad faith deflection.
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The truly empathetic might be humble about it, whereas sociopaths would seem to be the most concerned at coming across as virtuous in the way they describe themselves
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The movie Annihilation kind of evokes this, albeit without the AI (and a lot more slowly)

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