mellow2020

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by mellow2020 6y ago
> they seemed to indicate that because we still use other types of cookies (again, including cookies to say "don't show this person any ads"), we had to put up the notification anyway. A cookie like "show_ads:false&qu
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> These are relatively simple steps that would improve public health dramatically And nuking a city stops all crime in it. If you only look at one tiny aspect and ignore everything else, just about anything can be made to seem sensible.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
"communist bandits" doesn't refer to communists in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_bandit
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Anybody have a really bad negative feeling toward the deconstruction of science ? C.S. Lewis for one, this is from "The Abolition of Man": > But you cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to b
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by mellow2020 6y ago
From trying to teach the masses to empower them to "fuck you, got mine".
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I didn't say it's easily doable, I say while making up arbitrary factors, at least attempt to make it a good one. If you pick poverty as the criterion, convincing anyone isn't even a question, the coercion is a given, so
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by mellow2020 6y ago
hmm. https://i.imgur.com/A7r77Pb.jpg
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by mellow2020 6y ago
To me the problem is only injustice and distribution of resources, not how much or little we have in absolute terms. And if we must make up a measure as to who gets to have kids, maybe make it empathy, not wealth, which is a much worse indi
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> The idea of making conscious AI scares me, because we could potentially create an AI that just experiences constant suffering at a level unimaginable to humans. Really scary from an ethical perspective. Looking at what we do with breed
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> What happens when they silence an unpopular voice that is nevertheless true? We're well past that, even popular voices that say true things are silenced with regularity now, e.g. this interview with Chomsky: https://www
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Fine, but that kinda falls under "without even caring what mountains of code end up running as a result". You use 10 GB instead of a few MB, and get an easy installation vs. an easy installation. It's like driving a huge truc
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by mellow2020 6y ago
"React is bad in your case, drop it." I know it's far out idea in tech, to flat out tell someone "you don't need this, you just save time and money and get a better result of you don't use what we made", b
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by mellow2020 6y ago
He said, "Now you just fought one hell of a fight And I know you hate me, and you got the right To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do. But ya ought to thank me, before I die, For the gravel in y
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I talked a lot with my mother, and as a result we could talk about pretty much anything, including stupid prototypes ^^ I think if I had only talked to her once or twice a year, she wouldn't have become as much of a friend and confidan
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress. Men who
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Mine is firstname@firstname-lastname.domain, never had that problem. Plenty of email addresses require spelling out the part before the @ anyway, spelling the part after it out too poses no fundamental challenge to anyone I interacted with
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> That feels a bit like saying there were a handful of major upsets Only if you assume "general strike" is the only form "major upset" can take.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I prefer form to follow function. Make it as pretty as you can, but not at the expense of the function.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Anyone who doesn't isn't thought of as any better... Not until proven innocent, no. We need hardware and software we can inspect, that's not an unattainable goal. It may seem far away, but any other direction is even w
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Imagine Germany successfully putting pressure on American movie makers to make Jewish figures in their stories be no longer Jewish, because in it's official German policy that Jews do not exist, they've always been just Germans or
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Could you please stop breaking guidelines by commenting on downvotes? "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." Downvoting without argument is the equivalent of calling names, so the answer is
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up
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by mellow2020 6y ago
But go not "back to the sediment" In the slime of the moaning sea, For a better world belongs to you, And a better friend to me. -- Voltairine de Cleyre, "And Thou Too"
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by mellow2020 6y ago
the most recent one is, "The cost of reopening the economy, in lives", then there is a bunch of stuff that is not relevant and just happens to have the word "economy" in it, in the topic "Covid-19: Impact on busines
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> The comment was asking for something that exists. It was only a google search away. There are hundreds of commments each day that do the exact same thing. They might get ignored, they might get an answer, and in other contexts, it&#x27
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> If you think that discussion of the economy is somehow a hidden message about 5G, anti-vaxx, NWO I suspect that's exactly the mechanism, which someone described very well here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I wonder if the people who just downvote you without comment don't realize that they're just proving your point, or if they just don't care about being that blatant.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Yeah, by default it's accelerated anyway, at least if depending on browser and hardware. So, at least for something as basic as drawing a lot of things with the same color, engines and additional code can only make it slower. Generally
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Because something you can't even specify rubbed you the wrong way, no person in the world loves me? That's just wishful thinking on your part.

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