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by newby 5y ago
> How do we know the current authority is legitimate/illegitimate? That is a very good question and I do not have a good answer. Maybe subjectively... that legitimate power is perceived as justified. I grew up in a communist regime
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by newby 5y ago
The problem I see in anonporridge's argumentation is that it seems to ignore the question of legitimacy. Using terms like "gangs' implies criminality, right? (not native English speaker, correct me if I am wrong). Not all vio
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by newby 5y ago
It might be enough. Like open source - not everybody needs to read the source code, it is enough when one knowledgeable person does that and makes a stink when they find something fishy.
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by newby 5y ago
> Increases in computing power alone can't render SHA256 insecure; that can be proven by thermodynamic/size-of-the-universe arguments. Fascinating. Could you please recommend a source where a curious layman could learn more abo
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by newby 5y ago
You seem to be conflating also biological with purely biological. The parent was arguing against reducing depression to biology only, not claiming that biology plays no part in it. The link you provide does not prove that "medical
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by newby 5y ago
I am not an American and I do not live in the US. However, I try to keep up with what is happening in the US and I would not be so sure about what is universal and what is fringe. This is really hard to estimate without some serious data an
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by newby 5y ago
I would love to have a book about brain that separates the abstract guiding principles from the random details of implementation. Every book I have tried quickly devolved into "calcium pumps" and similar stuff but I feel these are
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by newby 5y ago
>> I feel like this is greatly exaggerated. I did half of that in 3 days (500km) with the last day being 250km (because I was sick of doing it) and I didn't feel any such "caloric furnace" I think this depends on your f
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by newby 5y ago
>> Conflating N95 respirators with masks indicates you are not arguing in good faith Why? I am not the parent and also not a native English speaker - is it not common to call respirators also "masks"? Does that term refer to
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by newby 5y ago
> There are hundreds of studies. And, it’s pretty conclusive that masks have zero efficacy for stopping viral transmission Could you link some? What I have read seems to suggest otherwise, for example "Efficacy of face mask in preve
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by newby 5y ago
> after addressing my perspective Could you please elaborate on that?
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by newby 5y ago
It is way too easy to remove that limitation. At least in the Czech Republic where I live it is common and it is one of the reasons I have love-hate relationship with e-bikes. I love the idea of e-bikes replacing cars to commute but they ar
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by newby 5y ago
> Feel-good rhetoric aside, your impact as an individual is limited and your defenses are fragile. Genuine question - you are from the west, am I correct? It seems to me (just my feelings, no hard evidence) that there is something that p
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by newby 5y ago
You just reminded me of something that surprised me when I visited the US - sweet foods seem much sweeter than in Europe. One would say that chocolate cake is sweet anywhere, but the american chocolate cake was on another level. It felt so
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by newby 5y ago
I grew up in Czechoslovakia and I remember vividly how we visited Austria shortly after the fall of iron curtain. Everything seemed so clean and colorful and well maintained - it was shocking. I saw billboards for the first time in my life
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by newby 5y ago
I think it depends... I really dislike brutalist architecture but I have seen same concrete buildings that I really liked. I remember university library where I used to spend a lot of time reading - it was made from raw concrete but in more
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by newby 5y ago
Well... I am glad that nowadays they often paint "paneláky" with some vivid colors. When I think about cold and gray winter days surrounded by huge blocks of cold and gray concrete - it is like personification of depression for me
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by newby 5y ago
I think they are stunning because they are so ugly. Looking at pictures once is one thing and living or working there is another thing. Add the unwanted associations with the totalitarian regime... I have to admit that I am in favor of de
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by newby 5y ago
> I honestly feel like 'if this is the future, I want no part in it.' I feel like that about ever larger part of the whole tech world. I am torn - I can still muster a lot of techno-optimism when I think for example about poss
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by newby 5y ago
I agree with you that social context matters but I want to provide one data point on how psychological setting of that person matter too. I am an anxious person prone to depression. In one especially bad period of my life I was prescribed L
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by newby 5y ago
>> They are disabled to understand metaphors, no? No. I think the problem here is that some metaphors are used so often that people forget it is a metaphor and take it literally. You seem to inject the meaning (physical?) "disabi
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by newby 5y ago
>> It saddens me that we live in a culture in which movies showing violence (including torture and murder) are acceptable, whereas ones showing consensual, non-pornographic intercourse - aren’t. I just remembered accidentally seeing t
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by newby 5y ago
>> Not too sad, though, because I feel like the exact opposite has happened with TV, where the rise of streaming services has ushered in a "Cambrian Explosion" of sorts with all types of varied topics and interesting content
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by newby 5y ago
Uh, bra-on scenes - I hate them, not because I need to see the boobies so much, but because of the intense feeling of fakeness that takes me out of the movie to seeing just two actors pretending something. I hate the bra-on scenes almost as
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by newby 5y ago
Why not? I am not the OP but I recognize myself in the above, I would also call myself introvert and I don't see anything contradictory.
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by newby 5y ago
That kind of sounds like the british "arse" in my mind. Better than the SS one though. I am not trying to be negative, my intention is to provide feedback.
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by newby 5y ago
Exactly my thought - the first association that popped into my mind was that it is some kid of airborne SS unit. I am not a German but I am of eastern European origin and I would say having capitalized SS in your name would not be good idea
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by newby 5y ago
That reminds me of the "deviance in the dark" psychology experiment - they were describing similar effects, sometimes even more personal, like strangers hugging, touching or even kissing if I remember correctly. I learned about th
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by newby 5y ago
Interesting, this is exactly what my psychotherapist recommended. I have not tried it yet, partly because I am tight on money right now and this is not cheap, partly because I was not entirely convinced it would be worth it - more convinced
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by newby 5y ago
I probably should have mentioned that programming is not my job now. After that burnout experience I found a job that is not very demanding and I have no trouble performing that... except maybe it feels a bit boring after a few years and th

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