magpi3

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by magpi3 5y ago
Yes, but if nothing is infinite, then when did the universe begin and how? I always struggle with this. Presumably something must have always been, and it is that always that throws a wrench in my secular vision of the universe.
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by magpi3 5y ago
The way I look at it: the year after I die will be just as difficult as the year before I was born. IOW not a care in the world. I understand being afraid of death because self-preservation is built into us, but unless there really is some
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by magpi3 5y ago
He mentioned that he will link the podcast episode when it goes live.
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by magpi3 5y ago
Someone on HN once said, if you want to build a reputation and a brand, do interesting things and talk about it. This is the perfect example. No, this will not make him money because there is not a large market for superior Mario 64 perform
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by magpi3 5y ago
> I remember Trump being suppressed for many months on Twitter, his tweets censored, labelled as misinformation, and information damaging to his opponent was suppressed and labelled as 'disinformation'. By now, many of those cl
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by magpi3 5y ago
Do you remember why Trump was banned on twitter? He was using his social media presence as part of a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and he was banned from both Twitter and Facebook after the U.S. Capitol bui
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by magpi3 5y ago
We live on a finite planet with finite resources. What do you do with children if immortality becomes a thing? Should we sterilize people? Kill the young if it gets too much? Or maybe a good old fashioned war between the "old" and
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by magpi3 5y ago
It would be a catastrophe. I imagine if it became widespread eventually there would be stigma against even having children. And why is there a need for the expense of paying for schools if the working classes never age? Having children or e
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by magpi3 5y ago
I am in China too. In Shenzhen. I think the author is very unkind to the Bao An. I am 100% sure they would treat me the same if there is a similar lockdown here, but I imagine they are under a lot of pressure. My hearts go out to them thoug
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by magpi3 5y ago
This article makes a nice point: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/opinions/china-xi-zero-covid-... TLDR: Xi Jin Ping will soon be up for his third term, and he has staked his legacy at least in part on how
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by magpi3 5y ago
Honest question: is there any chance that this does NOT end in an attempt at climate engineering, i.e. shooting shit into the atmosphere to cool the planet? I just can't imagine world nations are going to accept the catastrophic conseq
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by magpi3 5y ago
I look at statmuse.com and wikipedia: sites that provide DSS (domain specific search) for information as the anti-Googles. No one will replace Google, but a site that focuses on a narrow domain is extremely useful and is the one thing that
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by magpi3 5y ago
Inspiring someone to seek out a certain path is different from being unflawed yourself. If you bash an idea or philosophy because the person who holds it is weak and susceptible to morale or spiritual failures, then you need to bash all ide
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by magpi3 5y ago
I find that car-driven, suburban culture makes this difficult to achieve. I have lived in many different environments: cities, villages, suburbs, even farms. Only in the suburbs was walking actually disincentivized. A comfortable house with
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by magpi3 5y ago
Eventually a single file won't scale. Maybe not in the lifetime of your project, but you never know. If a day comes and you have a 500,000+ line file that must be split into separate files, that could be a nightmare. Why not just follo
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by magpi3 5y ago
> Alternatively, I could also say that the good Samaritan is actually acting in a way that is a detriment to his survival, and only happens because of a bug in his generic and psychological programming or an old beneficial feature that i
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by magpi3 5y ago
From what I remember reading back then, Carmack was already a huge fan of Abrash's tech articles in magazines before Quake, so he had already been learning from Abrash for a long time before they worked together.
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by magpi3 5y ago
I would like to see this happen for other games like the old Inform game Trinity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)
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by magpi3 5y ago
Perhaps he is wrong about many things, but your post comes across as an ad hominem that doesn't respond to any of his points.
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by magpi3 5y ago
That no one in power has cared is less remarkable that the fact that democracy's supposed watchdogs (i.e. the media) don't care, until now that is. At least this is definitely the first I have heard of it. EDIT: After fully readin
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by magpi3 5y ago
From the first mention of "Return of the Jedi": "I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series."
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by magpi3 5y ago
I just realized that more time has passed since the Columbia Shuttle disaster (19 years), then passed between the Columbia and Challenger disasters (17 years). That seems impossible to me. I remember reading each of the astronaut's bio
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by magpi3 5y ago
Well I suppose another "Who watches the watchmen" type site can be built to report on bias issues/irresponsible editors. But ideally Wikipedia itself would build some internal mechanism for dealing with disputes. Has it done
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by magpi3 5y ago
He probably means the students who come out of them. I feel the same about Waldorf schools myself. I have taught in a Waldorf school and have been frustrated by some of the methods (and don't get me started on Rudolph Steiner), but I h
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by magpi3 5y ago
"The Montessori Method" by Maria Montessori is available as a free pdf on the web and is also a free ebook on Google Play.
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by magpi3 5y ago
A nuclear would most likely mean the end of the world. Russia's core interest should be preventing the end of the world. If Putin is rational, he will never initiate a nuclear war. If he is irrational, he will not stop with Ukraine.
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by magpi3 5y ago
Slaves can be bought and sold. Their children can be bought and sold. Slaves can be physically punished and even killed without legal recourse. They have no rights. They are property. And it still exists, so the modern equivalent of slavery
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by magpi3 5y ago
Are you feeling obnoxious?
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by magpi3 5y ago
I think the world has changed in the past twenty years, and I think if the U.S. engages in future foreign wars, maybe they will have to suffer similar consequences from non U.S. companies. I hope so, and I say that as a U.S. citizen. I for
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by magpi3 5y ago
Literally why I took my first CS course. I just had to know how computers worked. Pure curiosity drove me. Loved Jeff's book on x86 assembly back in the day. I still remember him (in the book) introducing a DOS interrupt that I could i

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