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12 Assumptions for Extraterrestrial Life(kk.org)
3 points by m_fayer 4y ago|0 comments
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by m_fayer 4y ago
I don’t think the root cause here is excessive trust in preferred sources. What’s actually at play here, is most peoples weakness at perspective taking. Truly understanding a given issue requires the ability to have your own perspective and
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Other than terminal illness, war, abuse etc. there is no age/life-configuration/set-of-limits that cannot be turned around into a satisfying life. It's a failure of imagination that prevents you from figuring out what that sa
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Yep. Along with Musk and Kanye. Those are cases where the poison has fully penetrated. How many of our elites are less noticeably but still significantly impaired though? It's a frightening thought.
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How Silicon Valley bosses see Elon Musk(nytimes.com)
9 points by m_fayer 4y ago|1 comments
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Yep. Poetry that leads to the horrifying realization that many of our elites live in a world surrounded by p-zombies, and somehow, this doesn't give them a moment's pause.
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by m_fayer 4y ago
This is not far from how spectrum-y people see others unless they're motivated to overcome their deficiencies. I don't think that's a coincidence.
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Here it is The first ever Comcast bill negotiated 100% with A.I and LLMs(twitter.com)
2 points by m_fayer 4y ago|0 comments
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Breakthrough battery holds 4x charge of smartphone batteries at fraction cost(independent.co.uk)
5 points by m_fayer 4y ago|2 comments
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by m_fayer 4y ago
You’re right but you’re also wrong. I know of social circles in middle age that have largely locked down. People have their routines and responsibilities and loved ones, and that’s that. They make little effort to clear space for new relati
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by m_fayer 4y ago
The neurodiversity movement is rightfully credited with creating a world that's more tolerant of and accommodating to autistic traits. But what's been lost in that discourse are the victims of autistic people's unintentional
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Find companies with socially relevant and/or idiosyncratic missions. Look for teams that tilt older. Stay away from sv hype and nonsense.
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by m_fayer 4y ago
I am, charitably, a pretty decent developer. I also have what I think most would agree is a pretty successful career. My career is not built on programming. Rather, it's built on my ability to communicate effectively in writing and in
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by m_fayer 4y ago
It says a lot about Musk that he mistook people's desire to work hard for the cool projects he's behind for a desire to work hard for him.
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Agreed. While it's possible with some straining and twisting to make the case that Twitter represents an idealistic change for a better future, it doesn't take any straining at all to see the incredible potential of electrified tr
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Musk tells Twitter: Agree to work “long hours at high intensity” or quit now(arstechnica.com)
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Doctors tell all – and it's bad(theatlantic.com)
2 points by m_fayer 4y ago|1 comments
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Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs over Kyiv(vice.com)
8 points by m_fayer 4y ago|1 comments
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Puberty coming on ever earlier is my pet theory for what's causing this. It might come in a way that's uneven. An adult set of sexual characteristics and drives without the corresponding development in executive function must be d
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Yeah terminal A was quick and easy if everything went perfectly. If security ever got backed up, as happened often with flights to the US, you'd have long lines spilling into the main circular hall. More amusingly, the lack of table sp
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Yep. This is Germany, especially in the East, I've been dismayed to find. The destruction of the "sober and efficient" branding can't come soon enough.
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by m_fayer 4y ago
Schönefeld definitely won the award for most disgusting airport bathrooms in western EU, and most kafka-esque narrow winding hallways that may or may not be taking you where you want to go.
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by m_fayer 4y ago
All you need is a simple formula: Figure out roughly how much time and headspace you need for pleasure/leisure/quality time with people, idleness etc. The rest of your time is spent on providing for you and yours, then bettering t
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by m_fayer 5y ago
Discussion isn't what's needed here. It's reconciliation. This is what it looks like when abuse has built up and trust destroyed. The only way to claw back from that is patient humble hat-in-hands dialogue and persistent incr
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by m_fayer 5y ago
What makes you so sure? Even if there's data showing improvement, this would be data from a supremely untrustworthy source with a long history of manipulation and deception.
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by m_fayer 5y ago
I grew up in the late 90s in NYC, and spent a lot of time hanging out "on the streets". I think on average, I saw an act of gross police misbehavior about once a month. Sometimes it was quite savage. Always racist. I'm white,
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by m_fayer 5y ago
I think this is an excellent point. At the start of my career I would blithely assume that my authority was that which was formally given to me, in the official org chart. I'm still learning how to gauge how much real (formal plus unof
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by m_fayer 5y ago
I'm starting to doubt this advice. I'm a "change it" sort of personality by nature - a reformer. When faced with these 3 options, I've chosen "change it" many times. And more often than not, I've foun
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by m_fayer 5y ago
He's getting downvoted for the retrograde gender attitude. Even if he's making a valid point, casually using language like "men protecting their women" and "any man will..." makes me roll my eyes and reach for
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by m_fayer 5y ago
Same thing here. I rewatched it as an adult a few years ago and suddenly the idealism and professionalism and lowkey-utopianism leapt out at me, and like you I realized that these things had stayed with me since high school. It's given

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