obscurantist

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by obscurantist 8y ago
That's quite an interesting take on how to counteract depressive states. Do you know if there are any academic publications that have similar findings? I think this needs to be explored further, because this sounds prima facie credible
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by obscurantist 8y ago
I've lived in the Bay Area since before starting kindergarten. No way the average IQ of software engineers here, or anywhere, is close to 130. Software engineering might be one of the only STEM disciplines that gives credibility to the
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by obscurantist 8y ago
> From a street hobo, that gets you instantly dismissed, but there's a counter-intuitive aspect where if you're a Jaron Lanier, it just further underscores that you're Jaron Lanier and can do as you like. Because he is not
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by obscurantist 8y ago
Unlike my laptop battery, he has a long lifespan and I'm sure he'll stick around for the next few years. Just enough time to finally award the man.
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by obscurantist 8y ago
Those studies have generally shown liberals to be only somewhat less tolerant, as an aggregate. Most liberals are still tolerant, as are most conservatives.
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by obscurantist 8y ago
He made pretty okay art and cared about the suffering of animals.
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by obscurantist 8y ago
The lack of overhead bins makes me go WOW.
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by obscurantist 8y ago
Finding a good tenured position is comically difficult now. I know an assistant professor of engineering at Princeton who just left for Renaissance Technologies because he couldn't secure a long-term professorship there.
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by obscurantist 8y ago
The USSR achieved more than just the same thing. When you say more hostile environment, I'm assuming you mean they were in an essentially autarkic condition, unlike contemporary China. But beyond that, the Soviets produced far greater,
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by obscurantist 8y ago
In America they're called brand ambassadors.
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by obscurantist 8y ago
Was this guy the inspiration for Mr. Bean?
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by obscurantist 8y ago
Excuse me, but Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia was Italian.
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by obscurantist 8y ago
"Jamie, pull up the video of the chimp getting run over by a Tesla."
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by obscurantist 8y ago
People in other parts of the Bay Area still don't move to San Francisco or have any desire to, even if they have the means.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
Facebook's ability to prop itself up and exist as it does, despite all the animus against it, reminds me of the essay Meditations on Moloch.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
I can assure any megamind in here that Socrates offended more than just 50% of Athens' population.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
I also remember Back to the Future Part II
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by obscurantist 9y ago
I'm taking none of your ancestors or grandparents lived during Stalin's reign?
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by obscurantist 9y ago
I can also imagine walking through 1.5 miles of Phoenix sprawl is dreadfully boring, compared to somewhere like San Francisco or Berkeley.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
It's different 60% of the time, every time.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
>There's a long tradition of political extremism among engineers in cultures around the world Funny you say that, as most of the major Islamist terrorist groups were founded by or led by men with engineering backgrounds.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
That's true for most European countries, but not America.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
There are maybe four people alive I would class alongside Einstein and Tesla in terms of sheer cognitive power: Murray Gell-Mann Grigori Perelman Ed Witten Saul Kripke
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by obscurantist 9y ago
Not to mention much taxes, particularly the state income tax.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
I don't get why more developers don't take notes from CD Projekt.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
There is a massive, massive asymmetry between men and women when it comes to sex or romance that exist even when you're not in an area with a skewed gender ratio.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
This just further proves how incoherent the entire unidirectional left-right spectrum is.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
It's profound what utter doublethink (not cognitive dissonance, because these people can literally say two egregiously hypocritical and contradictory statements in the same breath and not consciously recognize the inconsistency) people
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by obscurantist 9y ago
I read her stuff in my cultural anthropology class years ago. I enjoyed that class a lot.
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by obscurantist 9y ago
This guy is one of those insufferably left-wing Jews who are borderline tankies most of the time. Most Jews, both my mom and dad, for example, either are indifferent or outright dislike other groups more than they do modern day white suprem

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