musage

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by musage 9y ago
> I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a gre
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by musage 9y ago
> State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." -- Friedrich Nietzsche Of course, Nietzsche wrote this before companies with "no
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by musage 9y ago
> a continuous drag on developing new technologies Any and all of them? Because of anonymized IP addresses in server logs? I wouldn't even buy that when it comes to the web, but certainly not to mention talking about computers and s
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by musage 9y ago
I made a little Elsagate scraper thingy, scrapes video metadata and thumbs of channels and takes note of featured channels, channels mentioned in descriptions and channels videos that get mentioned belong to; then I go through those, tag th
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by musage 9y ago
> I was all-too-frequently chosen to go bang the chalk dust out the erasers, becoming coated from tip to toe in said dust. Our teachers had a small bucket of water and simply cleaned the sponges themselves, if we had to do it it was fun
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by musage 9y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a bias and as such deals with probabilities. It doesn't mean any given individual says they're the best (in their neck of the woods) at something is definitely wrong.
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by musage 9y ago
> It is very sad then that so many children are hurried along and not given time to think about themselves. People say to them when they think that they have been playing long enough: "You are no longer a child. You must begin to do
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by musage 9y ago
> Cathartic for people who want to rant about Americans and guns and ACAB How are such straw men intellectually gratifying? How is that not tedious boilerplate? How is you reading something a hundred times even a factor compared to hundr
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by musage 9y ago
Air with 0.00002% oxygen isn't technically the "opposite" of breathable air either, but if it fills the lungs ("quells" the space for other air), the effects are the "opposite" of the purpose of breathing.
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by musage 9y ago
Thanks, but "yes" would have sufficed. The operative keyword in your comment still remains "seems". Seems to you, I would add. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrF7v6jfLw
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by musage 9y ago
Talk of a knife getting stabbed into a kid? Are you for real?
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by musage 9y ago
I rode in plenty taxis and never in ones that had either of that. The drivers seemed pretty relaxed about the whole thing, as was I.
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by musage 9y ago
Speaking of scary, check out this breed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913342 > Having lived through the horrors of the pre-smartphone days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913665 >
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by musage 9y ago
Nah, they won't be able to wonder anything anymore. The spaces where human personality might develop will all be filled and sealed shut.
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by musage 9y ago
What do you do when you pay with 20$ for something, but get change for 10$? Why are "argue with them", "accept the loss and move on", "karate chop" and infinite other things not among the options? > You need
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by musage 9y ago
They don't need to be crooks, either, doesn't seem to stop them. They don't need to come up with childish logos combined with super cereal latin text, but they're still doing it; something like "Total Information
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by musage 9y ago
We can't even make it on Earth without horribly fumbling it, how would moving out to dead rocks help? This is how we play for time, this is the whimpering with which we fade out. Looking straight at the iceberg, saying "it'll
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by musage 9y ago
> "To them, violence, power, cruelty, were the supreme capacities of men who had definitely lost their place in the universe and were much too proud to long for a power theory that would safely bring them back and reintegrate them i
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by musage 9y ago
> Imagine you go to a restaurant, and the waiter just repeatedly brings you the wrong order, repeatedly. I agree with you in general, but that's a bad example IMO. If they are stressed out and make honest mistakes, even if they&#x27
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by musage 9y ago
Are you sure? Surely they realize that someone saying the lines are blurry "these days" does in no way imply that they have not always been blurry.
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by musage 9y ago
Are you claiming all journalists are corrupt? "This file may be named image.jpg, but there is no JPEG data in it to be parsed." "I doubt there was ever a golden age where technology was perfect." "A very keen observ
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by musage 9y ago
X amounts of pollutants per mile might be fine, X * N amount might be "destroying the world". Encapsulating it in a boolean doesn't make it magically that simple.
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by musage 9y ago
Why not link that account? Mentioned in another comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program > Military intelligence officer K. Barton Osborne reports that he witnessed the following use of torture: > &
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by musage 9y ago
Google translates it as > Property obliges. Its use should also serve the public good. which is more or less accurate. > If you want to spend your resources on public good, find a good charity. That's kinda like saying cars shoul
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by musage 9y ago
Making people less fearful of machines by derping around and normalizing Google Home and et al, how is that something to write home about, proudly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab47XHidvwQ&t=1m55s You might as well c
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by musage 9y ago
Just show all things from all subscribed sources in chronological order, add pagination, filtering and sorting, and you might have yourself something .
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by musage 9y ago
> They’re inanimate letters. Cats don't actually starve when they don't get to eat those. And why only say that now? What does the "compassion for the cat" have to do with it it either way? What German fairy tales abo
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by musage 9y ago
It's about the fate of the letters, not the cat. At the end, non-conforming letters get made just so they can get exterminated. Great.
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by musage 9y ago
To me "trust" is an absolute thing; it comes in degrees, but the anchor is absolute, and in you. "rather trust" in contrast is relative and something entirely different. Yeah, sometimes we have to bite bullets or choose
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by musage 9y ago
You know, part of me just wants to mirror that, and ask "what is your actual question?", but okay. Just in the sentence I quoted, "complicated" crimes is just padding, but of course, you can't sell "getting m

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