lostphilosopher

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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
I was surprised by this line of comments since I recall my feed having gun / hunting / shooting sports related content (including ads) so I looked into it. Facebook has a policy banning private individuals from selling guns to eac
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
Another important factor is not just distance geography, but the population density's impact on taxes and funding for Police/EMS/Fire. Maybe from a geo perspective someone can get there faster, but if there are only a couple
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
I have at least two things I consistently forget, and then relearn from my own Stackoverflow answer. Comes up rarely enough that I chuckle at myself everytime it happens. :-)
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
"Talking throughout their set" is just rude, that's not even heckling, which I don't support/appreciate, but is considered "part of the experience" by some. "Crowd work" however is a very normal
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
Could go either way, right? I've seen folks who have side projects spend most of their work day working on their side projects. They might be "better programmers" (also debatable), but if they don't get their work done -
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
> So I guess leaders have done some things right by listening to the right experts (a form of competence I suppose). This is the most important form of competence for a leader of government. There is no chance any leader would have adequ
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
Why is the relationship sphere separate from the moral sphere? How do you decide what belongs in the moral sphere? Does the relationship sphere overlap with the moral sphere in other areas just not in fidelity? Why doesn't it intersect
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
Mask => Shield (Like many, I think I've got "masks" on the brain...)
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by lostphilosopher 6y ago
The doctor or nurse probably won't be able to do that process everytime they use the mask. Like other reusable hospital supplies it will be collected somewhere to be cleaned in bulk. The point above is that so many will be used in a sh
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
"Always color code your spies." - Sun Tzu
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Scientific papers studying and summarizing the utility of masks, from the article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p... I think part of the issue in this case is that no one knows if the
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Good point. Also, from the site: > "Note: Please do not buy surgical or N95 masks because we need to keep those available for the doctors, nurses and first responders so they can stay healthy and care for the ill."
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> "I think if you think of them as sort of guerrilla warriors fighting an unacknowledged personal battle with those problems and with the systemic issues we have, it maybe helps to see them with real respect and not just view them a
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Wargroove is a solid spiritual successor to Advance Wars. Very similar gameplay in a fantasy/medieval setting. (No affiliation, just had nostalgia for a game like AW and found this one.) https://wargroove.com/
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
I was a Senior Engineer, was promoted to Manager, then to a Manager of Managers role. No MBA. I work for a Fortune 10 company. This is the path almost all of my peers followed. Some version of this track existed in every company I've w
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
This is the power and appeal of virtually every conspiracy theory.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
This is a fundamental question any government or citizenry has to ask itself: Under what circumstances, if any, should the police stand down?
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Not downvoting, but I'll comment on a few assertions: > the world is gynocentric Strange claim. How would anyone objectively refute that? How would you realistically prove it? It sounds along the lines of "everyone does everyth
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> wonder to what extent it has contributed to mistrust of the traditional media. Is anyone's experience that "non traditional media" or news sources are more mathematically rigorous? I understand that all media has bias, l
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
If I use Facebook voice-to-text around you, why is that different from using a traditional recording device without your consent? Isn't that on me, not whomever listens to that recording?
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
My guess is that the T&C grants permission for FB to record the primary user, and then the liability for recording (via FB) _other_ people falls on the primary user for recording while other people were talking?
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> "I think we're reaching a point in history where we can start looking at slavery at its true scope and scale" But are we though? I still encounter a non trivial number of people in the real world with objectively wrong i
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
The original wikipedia article is about their use by the government on public lands, not their use by citizens on private property. The original article also has a list of cases where these devices have accidentally harmed humans and pets.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
(Editing, I wrote from memory and wasn't quite right.) There's evidence that suggests[1] that efforts to control Coyote populations by killing them off are less effective than we thought - as the Coyote population drops in one are
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Not disagreeing, but calling out that if you get a significant lump sum you can easily set aside x% for taxes, but if you get the same amount of debt forgiven there's no pot to "set aside" from. You need to come up with that
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Pattern Trolls
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> When I find myself itching to interrupt someone with my thoughts about a topic I try to ask myself “what am I being asked to be an expert in here?” Often I realize that in my enthusiasm to show my casual knowledge I’m about to correct
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell Perhaps?
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> "The French prisoners included former prime ministers, generals and a tennis star. It is the only known time during the war in which Americans and Germans fought side-by-side. Popular accounts of the battle have called it the stra
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Do report back if you find it! I'll check it out. Part of the premise of the Deus Ex games (thinking specifically of Mankind Divided) is "augmentations" that can make people better in all kinds of ways, but are generally only

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