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by oska 4y ago
People giving serious credence to 'the flat earth movement' is always a bit of a tell for me. There is no genuine 'flat earth movement'. There are a collection of people who enjoy pretending to believe in a flat earth, w
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> but Japanese people will go extremely out of their way to help you You are setting an expectation.
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> but Japanese people will go extremely out of their way to help you > I got the world moved for me I'm somewhat uncomfortable with these characterisations of Japan and the Japanese people. Yes, Japanese people can be helpful to
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Never attracted me and the aesthetics of the city and its surrounding immediate environment put me off. (I would still like to visit other parts of New York state though.) There's a weirdness to the city, at least how I see it from afa
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by oska 4y ago
You are 'applying Occam's razor' to a fiction, not reality. Anyone can dream up a fiction (or take one supplied to them) and then draw a simplistic conclusion from it.
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I've known practically all my life that I never want to visit NYC. I would like to visit a city like Pittsburgh though, or Charleston, or Milwaukee (and other US cities and towns smaller than these three too).
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Occam's Razor tells us that the Russians acted to 1) stop the constant bombing and cultural suppression of the Russian speaking people in the east and south of Ukraine that had been ongoing since the US backed coup in 2014 and 2) to fi
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I know there is a seemingly endless stream of people who are going to make 'Russian propaganda' allegations under any substantive comment that goes against the dominant Western media narrative, with facile and shallow rebuttals of
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> There should be a way to speed up this cycle to make them fail faster One way is to consciously leach off them. Use their resources while blocking all of their user tracking and display of advertising. A strategy somewhat stymied howev
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> What had not been foreseen was the Russian invasion of Ukraine The Russian reaction to the eastward expansion of NATO right up to Russia's borders has been foreseen and warned about since the 90s, including by top level US officia
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Glenn Greenwald's 1 hour show on The Twitter Files : https://rumble.com/v1yjc4a-secret-twitter-files-on-censorshi... (Show starts at 19:55; lots of weird noise before then)
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I'm pretty sure that he'll write this up as a proper article too. Edit : just listened to the podcast episode he linked at the end of the tweet thread and it appears from what he's saying there that he might only write about
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It's definitely not dead; there are some amazing projects being hacked on right now. But I do think it's valid to say that hacker culture is increasingly under-represented on Hacker News, which has, over time, become more and more
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> She’s a bit of a charlatan A fairly serious accusation to make, which you did little to nothing to back up.
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Making some sort of error in a sports game is not a criminal act; fraud is.
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Societies have periods of (population) growth and (population) decline. Wanting, and managing for a steady 2% growth rate is technocratic, unrealistic, and will lead to more trouble than having natural periods of growth and decline. (Same w
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A single transaction uses the trivial energy it takes to power the device that signs the transaction and whatever trivial amount is required to transmit it to the network. Your quoted sources make the egregious error of considering the ener
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You can read a book aloud to another person, as parents do of course with their children but what sometimes couples do with each other.
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The big platforms are being heavily leaned on by the US government to ban and censor users of those platforms. It's not a clear cut case of 'private businesses are under no obligation to do business with you'. And the US gove
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Your first two points are great. However your third point advocates lying, which many great moral/religious thinkers have explicitly warned against, and for good reason (it rots the soul).
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Happens regularly in the Free Software & Open Source world, where software projects are often forked by a single individual. Obviously enterprise software is on another level, but the principle remains that reduction to a smaller develo
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We had an obituary for Fred Brooks on here just the other day. I'd suggest that his thesis in The Mythical Man-Month conflicts with your comment above (that reduction in staff count for a software project has a good correlation with
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I strongly agree with what you're saying here and having been thinking along similar lines while browsing this thread. Taste is an important factor in food appreciation and one that most people already have and can develop further, to
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I don't mean to sound patronising but my take on this is simply that he's a good salesman who levered up the personal relationship he's established with you
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And has prompted some interesting responses
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In school I used to find that a lot of teachers talked to the class while looking at me for largish periods of time. I think it was because I kept eye-contact with the teacher a lot (or more than others in the class). Not that I was a &#x27
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Keet (still in Alpha) is also doing P2P encrypted messaging (and video calls). https://keet.io/
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The difference is very clear. One is saying whatever you want to say under your own public identity or under a pseudonym. The other is pretending that someone else is saying something. It's not 'lying about your identity',
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This is not being banned for what you say, however controversial (i.e. prevention of free speech). This is being banned for pretending someone else is saying something. Such bans are not a free speech issue. Fraud is fraud. (As for the jo
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I'm a Free Speech advocate. What I hoped Elon would do is stop the permanent banning of people from the platform and the removal of tweets. He appears to be at least somewhat delivering on that hope. Having a tweet 'deboosted&#x27

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