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by kough 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Yes, University is the perfect place to confront things that are hard to think about. Discussing gender issues is in vogue right now across the section of society in which I'm a participan
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by kough 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you're joking, but honestly jokes like this hurt the discussion because Poe's Law really does seem to be true. EDIT: also, for the record, I upvoted you and did not flag you.
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I'm happy to hear that you were able to make a series of choices that made you happier! I hope that you didn't feel attacked by my comment -- the "needless/useless" comment was intended to be with regards to my own
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by kough 10y ago
> I find the constant desire to have to self identify on every variable is becoming tiresome. Right? This is super frustrating to me as a current university student. It seems like gender identity is just another way of tribe-association
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by kough 10y ago
Man, I really enjoyed this author's viewpoint. This passage in particular voiced something I've been unable to express: > Yet consider: in order to construct this spectrum, it is necessary first firmly to establish what it mean
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This is actually one situation in which being able to touch type accurately and quickly is extremely useful. I can sit down with an empty buffer and my hands more or less keep up with my thoughts. Still wish I could go faster of course, but
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by kough 10y ago
Wow, that example is really perfect -- I definitely think in a similar way, but I've had a really hard time explaining that to people. Hopefully this helps. Do you ever get frustrated trying to explain this? I've had people refuse
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by kough 10y ago
I feel like the problem with Adam Curtis' work is... well, Adam Curtis. It's very easy to dismiss his entire body of work as "conspiracy theory", because he only writes about these sorts of topics. And it does him and hi
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by kough 11y ago
Seems like whoever should have edited this piece has already been fired. Long, rambling, and surprisingly myopic -- barely any mention of the Times' response, and full of classic "blame Buzzfeed" insight.
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by kough 11y ago
I went through something really similar. I had joined Instagram as a way of meeting other photographers in the Bay Area, and had a great time shooting with lots of cool people, learning new tricks, and getting feedback. But the turning poin
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by kough 11y ago
Definitely don't read any singularity related sci-fi, or watch Ghost In The Shell, then -- there are no answers to these questions to be found there. Only more questions. Entertaining but sometimes disturbing questions.
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by kough 11y ago
There's nothing that's inherently a problem in that. It definitely makes sense that this is the Red Pill viewpoint given their audience and demographics: all male, largely middle aged, many of whom have been "burned" by
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by kough 11y ago
Can't believe someone hasn't written this already: fonts. I've used Debian and Arch and had massive trouble a) figuring out what fonts are installed, b) how to install new fonts, c) getting them to not look like absolute shit
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Very interesting -- thanks for the pointer
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Based on her twitter it seems like she's right on the young side of the NYT's demographic, which is definitely older than HN's demographic.
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by kough 11y ago
Omits one of the most interesting facts about BuzzFeed: it was started by a member of MIT's Media Lab [0]. It all made sense once I started viewing it as the result of research into content virality. Internally I think of it more like
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by kough 11y ago
Like I said, there were a lot of confounding factors that make it hard for me to put the blame solely on the acid. But pretty much I went in to it without taking it seriously. I ended up tripping pretty hard, by myself, from 1 PM - 9 PM, th
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by kough 11y ago
I rather like Camus' treatise of the subject. The wikipedia article serves as a well-written summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
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by kough 11y ago
Sorry to hear about that :( The first time I took LSD (not hallucinogens in general, but LSD) went sort of similarly for me. Of course a life provides many confounding factors, but I ended up depressed and anxious for about three or four mo
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by kough 11y ago
This is a submarine piece for Medium, but I found this paragraph to be poignant: “I’ve been working on publishing systems on the internet for my entire career, which is coming up on 20 years now,” says Williams. “When I stepped back from op
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by kough 11y ago
Damn fascinating -- this finally solves a mystery I've grappled with since elementary school. My 4th grade year (in the mid-early 2000s) was themed heavily around... whales. We watched the first season of "The Voyage of the Mimi&q
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I must be getting jaded - my first thought was that you were being sarcastic, so I was really pleasantly surprised when I browsed through. You're right, this is actually fantastic.
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by kough 11y ago
I do think so; hard to prove if reading the content isn't argument enough. One fact is that TLP is the third link on the left-hand blog roll on SSC's website, so there's at least a one-way relationship. Anecdotally I remember
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by kough 11y ago
Autism often involves strong obsessions, so it's not wrong. Why does this matter? Fantastic article on the whole.
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by kough 11y ago
This writing style is itself a performance of Rationalist culture. Read anything by The Last Psychiatrist or Scott Alexander or Eliezer Yudkowsky for comparison.
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I did it for two years; it became my own little personal idea of hell. Never going back.
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Give it time, you'll manage to think of something.
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Most likely due to the TSA's efforts! Can you imagine how many would be hijacked if there weren't a TSA?
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What a new and interesting opinion! I'm sure there are many Hacker News readers who hold the opposite viewpoint /s
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by kough 11y ago
Exactly. Where's @patio11 with some contract negotiation advice?

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