mariodiana

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by mariodiana 4y ago
Just yesterday I was rewatching an old Star Trek episode, "The Menagerie," where the story centers around this poor victim of an accident ("delta rays") who is confined to a wheelchair, in a near-vegetable state, with on
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by mariodiana 4y ago
So, I watched the clip, and honestly that sounds more Norm MacDonald than Jerry Seinfeld.
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I'll tell you when I lost faith in The New Yorker. I was a subscriber for many years. I get that the people over at The New Yorker could not stand Donald Trump. But during the four years he was president (and even before, during th
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by mariodiana 4y ago
This piece did not seem to be written by a human. The writing style would arguably escape notice, though it was an even a little too twee for a children's book. But the plot was so far out there that it's hard to argue that it see
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There is something else that points to. Not everything is measurable.
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My understand is that a dog's psychology is that of a pack animal, and that the stress of being put alone in a room every night is the stress of being separated from "the pack." Being separated from the pack equals the loomin
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Was it on Slashdot that the custom began of posting a warning along with links to TV Tropes—a warning that you risked losing anywhere between 2 and 5 hours of hour life, clicking your way down the rabbit hole?
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I understand "ossification of systems consolidation of power" as centralized planning, which is socialism, as opposed to laissez-faire capitalism. But, I'm guessing you mean something else. What do you mean?
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Essentially, yes—they're both examples of centralized planning, where the conceit of politicians drives complex economic systems arbitrarily, resulting in chaos.
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The purpose of Newspeak was to bypass the rational faculty and trigger an emotional reaction in the listener (as well as confining the speaker to the appropriate emotional state). The purpose of Nicespeak is the same.
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Anyone else remember learning about the "Five Year Plans" of the old Soviet Union?
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I also recommend Lost Moon (which is sometimes published as Apollo 13 ). I've joked with people it's the same story, except in outer space. If by "story" you mean getting the feeling every 20 pages or so of "they
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I basically didn't secure reliable, gainful employment until age 40. Prior to that I had, depending on how you count, two or three false starts at a career. But, I had become a hobbyist programmer in my early 30's. Briefly, in my
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I used to read it years ago when it was run by the editor who promoted ending every article with a witticism. I missed that when they killed it off and stopped reading it around that time. Did they ever bring it back?
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I think you're right, now that I think about it again.
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I feel like it is a mistake to bring what is effectively React to native development. Browser-based web apps are basically punching above their weight class. Compared to the power of native UI's, the browser is broken. React understood
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> [Y]our post reads like an apology for the behaviour. I wager you are unable to explain how, because it doesn’t.
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I don't see people "spamming" racial slurs. The most inflammatory thing I see is videos of young groups of African-Americans behaving badly. In the replies, I see comments like "usual suspects," or various memes tha
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I worked as a teacher for a little while. Discount my anecdote if you like, but it always seemed to me that girls are more likely to be grade grubbers than boys. (For those unfamiliar with the idiom, it means someone who pleads to the tea
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by mariodiana 4y ago
You're right. But, one, those parents are unlikely to homeschool. And, two, it would seem from looking around that it isn't a core competency for a lot of schools.
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Kanye makes me think of someone I knew. I knew a young woman once whose conversation was impossible to follow. She was a college graduate, and seemed intelligent. But, I think either her mind wandered, or else she simply lacked the capacity
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Ever read Bradbury's "The Veldt"? Makes you wonder if Bradbury wasn't a real life John Titor.
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How are the bagels and the pizza, where you live? Go ahead and call it a feeling of entitlement, but that's a deal breaker.
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I don't care so much about paying rent. What I care about is what happened to me, back in 2020. During the pandemic, the wealthy fled Manhattan and created a buying frenzy in Upstate NY, where I live. My landlady decided it was in her
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It would be largely independent if interest rates represented market rates. However, given the power and actions of the Federal Reserve, that will never be so while that institution exists.
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I have only one data point to go by, and that's from memory, but I'm not so sure about what you're saying. The house I grew up in is a raised ranch ("high ranch") in a suburb within easy commuting distance to Manhat
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The average rate since 1971 has been over 7 percent: https://themortgagereports.com/61853/30-year-mortgage-rates-...
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Yeah, I'm no psychologist, but I thought the same thing. It seems related.
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> In a better world, I would have built this in a day, using some kind of modern, flexible HyperCard for iOS. > > In our actual world, I built it in about a week, and roughly half of that time was spent wrestling with different fla
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I recommend the travelogue Arabian Sands, by William Thesiger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sands

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