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by nyolfen 3y ago
it is basically analogous to porn -- what porn serves for your sex drive, acid and psychedelics generally do for your desire for meaning and insight. occasionally you will hear of someone who finds it therapeutic for trauma or something, bu
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by nyolfen 3y ago
the actual impact of the 60s counterculture was that the hegemonic mainstream culture had its legitimacy broken -- but it was not replaced by the counterculture, or anything else
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i think if you take a look at human history, the animal kingdom, etc, you will find that in fact it is you who has something strange going on in your brain
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i think AI boyfriends have a brighter future, consider who prefers to consume text-based content
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i love this feature to be honest
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> On X, formerly Twitter, he wrote “SCALPED,” as if Gay was a trophy of violence, invoking a gruesome practice taken up by white colonists who sought to eradicate Native Americans. is this a joke?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i was just wondering yesterday what happened to this guy
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by nyolfen 3y ago
conspiracy is simply private coordination
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by nyolfen 3y ago
the naval intelligence officer from albuquerque is actually interviewed in an adam curtis film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUf2VSiAcRM
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by nyolfen 3y ago
fashion is downstream of power.
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by nyolfen 3y ago
speaking more broadly than defi, there is an intrinsic tradeoff between decentralization and efficiency that is probably something like natural law or tautology. the promise of decentralized tech built on cryptography, to me at least, is th
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> If the test was done, the results were sent, and then my test data/info were destroyed on their end, they claim, at least, that this is the case if you delete your account; i got my results, downloaded my data and deleted my accou
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by nyolfen 3y ago
any excuse to bring up gnu taler again https://taler.net/en/index.html
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by nyolfen 3y ago
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i would urge you to compare the current state of this question to appx one year ago
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> (tick bite while jogging -> lymes disease -> schizophrenia, yes that's a thing) women with schizophrenia actually tend to develop symptoms in their 20s, much later than men; lymes disease is real but also often a fixation fo
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by nyolfen 3y ago
trusting is indeed probably always more efficient than not-trusting -- however, the crux of the matter is what your options are when trusting is not possible. you can always choose to trust in the presence of a trustless mechanism, but it d
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i will be happy to accommodate this when speaking in japanese
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by nyolfen 3y ago
oh man, i was telling my wife about this a few weeks ago, i was certain this had disappeared with the flash web
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by nyolfen 3y ago
they are very clearly the most powerful technological innovation i've witnessed in my adult life. we don't even know what they're capable of yet, we're like one year into discovering practical usecases and they are impro
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i appreciate your apology and i didn't mean it as an attack on you personally, it was just meant to highlight the irony. perhaps i could have phrased it more sensitively
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by nyolfen 3y ago
"you need more than anecdotal evidence" "have some anecdotal evidence"
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> The color of the messages isn't the main one. maybe not HN readers, but this is actually a major factor for a huge number of ordinary people in the US, particularly teenagers and young people
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by nyolfen 3y ago
wow, closed source, manual sync, and i get to pay for it?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> There are instances where consumer drones were used to drop bombs in Ukraine this is underselling it a bit -- armed COTS drones are being fielded by the thousands, by both sides
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by nyolfen 3y ago
this discourse is like people reading an invisible script every time i've seen it online for the last 20 years -- "weed causes <some negative effect>", followed by a chorus of, "oh yeah well what about alcohol!?!&q
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> to control non-children[...] Think victims of human trafficking or adults in odd relationship situations. uh, by preventing them from seeing sexual content?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> the best college level introductory course probably should not have been SICP based but Python i saw this linked on here recently: https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/
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by nyolfen 3y ago
did you stay married?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
we just need to ask it to say a slur

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