monktastic1

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by monktastic1 2y ago
So by your definition, anyone who isn't an orphan is a beneficiary of generational wealth? In fact, even orphans are, because they inherited genes, weren't left to die, etc.? I suppose that is a definition, but it doesn't see
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by monktastic1 2y ago
It's hard to understand what you're saying here. Being better off than your parents implies that you are a beneficiary of generational wealth? Connect the dots for us.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
I also had one night of fever and incredible chills, followed by two days of no symptoms. No Paxlovid. (But then I did get bad cold-like symptoms for a week, and what seems to be long Covid...)
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by monktastic1 2y ago
But only in high-risk patients, it should be noted.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Surprisingly not: https://youtu.be/0WlmScgbdws?si=k28GyfN5wXmSsf6i . Some things just work better in stand-up format.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Can you help me understand your comment? Being the best at one thing is very different from being good at everything, so it's unclear how that advice applies to your children. Also, what does "do some" mean?
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by monktastic1 2y ago
It's broadcasting on every valid ("odd") frequency. I guess it still depends on if you have an analog or digital dial.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
I think I'm slow. Can you explain this again, maybe with more words?
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by monktastic1 2y ago
It's hard to discern whether you're misreading this whole thread on purpose or not. Nobody is claiming that trans content in general is NSFW, but that a certain subset of content therein, displayed openly on the site is -- whi
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by monktastic1 2y ago
For anyone else not well-versed in the lingo, I thought I'd share this Smithsonian article and attendant Reddit thread. I found them informative: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-study-on-mice... ht
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by monktastic1 2y ago
You might appreciate Charles Eisenstein (or he might be too "hippie" for you). I posted one quote of his as a top-level comment, but here's another: Clear-cutting aside, the decline of one after another species of trees all
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by monktastic1 2y ago
I am reminded of a passage from Charles Eisenstein's "Climate, A New Story": Explorers and naturalists of previous centuries give staggering testimony to the incredible natural wealth of North America and other places before
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by monktastic1 2y ago
No, if you read the article, you'll see that he addresses this point.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
I interpret it as saying that at least the system hasn't just degraded into a rubber stamp (where someone like Tao can publish anything on name alone).
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by monktastic1 2y ago
In case anyone else was mildly confused by the wording, it seems the author simply missed a few words: "had to change the default prefix from..."
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Yes, it's a question, but you haven't answered what you read that makes you suspect so.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Can't even log in. I get "Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON"
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Yes, I was never confused about that. It's just that I've never heard this particular phrase, or anything like it. In retrospect, it appears to be a transcription error.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Yes, but why one and 1/100th?
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Did you mean just "one hundredth?" (i.e., 1%)? "One and one hundredth" suggests 101% to a native English speaker. Edit: ah, you probably spoke "one one hundredth" and got a transcription error.
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by monktastic1 2y ago
It doesn't "imply" nanometers, it literally reads nanometers. The standard abbreviation for nautical miles is "NM."
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Interesting. I didn't read it as aggressive, and certainly not "very" aggressive. I read it as polite and perhaps mildly defensive. What about the response suggests aggression to you?
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Are you not "totally dependent" on the air you breathe, the water you drink, the sunlight that gets turned into your food, ...?
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by monktastic1 2y ago
It's not just "used in many ways," it has several definitions. The one that almost everybody uses -- including the Fed[0], US Dept of Labor[1], and the ECB[2] -- is about rise in prices. Nobody is saying that your definition
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by monktastic1 2y ago
So if you're trying to write code and mistakenly ask it how to use a nonexistent API, you'd rather it give you garbage rather than explaining your mistake and helping you fix it? After all, you're clearly just roleplaying, ri
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Piggybacking on this to share my BIL's company https://www.meetnirvana.com/ . It helps therapists look up patients' insurance details quickly and easily. Not just a shameless plug, either: I really believe in their
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Yes, the person would have to both call out and take in corrected squares, or else put the onus on Kasparov (which is what I was somehow imagining they did...).
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Moves are played by square names, and with the board turned around, the king and queen are on the wrong squares (not to mention all other pieces, at least given their color). I imagine it would be an utter nightmare, but have no experience
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by monktastic1 2y ago
I suppose there's levels of mediocre. For the vast majority of us, the level of mediocre we could accomplish across many fields may not enable us to do much connecting at all. But I realize this is all very vague and depends on individ
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by monktastic1 2y ago
At first I was imagining this was a blindfolded game, in which case this would have been especially surprising and impressive!

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