overthemoon

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by overthemoon 4y ago
With the caveat that I very much believe in civil, good faith discourse, I find that in being a formal critique of the discourse, it can nevertheless introduce the author's own ideological preferences (fine) in a way that appears neutr
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I'm continually shocked at how technically incompetent academics can be. Otherwise brilliant people with the most batshit technical workflows I've ever seen.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I think this is right. In addition, IMO ultimately it feels hollow if you can't piss anyone off. Twitter makes it possible to search for the living avatar of whatever you hate the most so you can tweet invective at them until your head
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by overthemoon 5y ago
We have a weekly standup with detailed notes, a 30 minute 1:1 with the engineering manager, and a 1 hour shoot the shit meeting midweek, and a 1 hour all-hands every other week. We post a sentence or two daily on what we're doing every
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by overthemoon 5y ago
They are, in this very comments sections!
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by overthemoon 5y ago
Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me-- "A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particle
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by overthemoon 5y ago
If Facebook deciding not to run ads in Basque means that language is being suppressed, then there are larger problems than Facebook's ad policy.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
The photos of the EDGES antennas are beautiful. Tools used to study something so remote, set in remote places.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
Absolutely, that one specifically got me. Didn't that turn out to be a Russian soldier or something? Regardless, the firehose of social media content isn't tuned for accuracy, it's tuned for volume.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
I'm an American, living in the US, and for situations like Ukraine specifically, I don't believe anything right away. War is chaotic, and social media makes it more so. It costs me nothing to reserve judgement, because nothing dep
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by overthemoon 5y ago
It's interesting to compare this to the WEF future projections: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... Especially with regards to this passage:: "In 2022 [economic
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by overthemoon 5y ago
Is mobbing really better than pairing? I've never done it. Sounds awful. I got into this game to have long stretches of solitary work, that's when I'm at my best. Not entirely obviously, I still work on a team. Anyway, pairin
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by overthemoon 5y ago
As a marxist, I will certainly concede that hand-wavy diagnoses of "capitalism" with no other analysis or consideration being applied to everything from mental illness to the domination of Marvel films is grating and meaningless.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals... Give me a break.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
My father in law passed earlier this year from cancer. We ended up taking him into our home for the last week and a half of his life. Lots of good advice in this thread (imho chief among them: therapy, asking for help from people you trust)
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by overthemoon 5y ago
I play Magic: The Gathering, and I think about this a lot: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/j38nv9/former_art... I'm a pretty frugal player and not competitive at all, but I still feel a l
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by overthemoon 5y ago
That is the argument of Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
I'm making a browser game. It's an idea I've had for a long time and had several false starts on it. I've had a lot of trouble in the past seeing personal projects through, but I just passed a major milestone and I could
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by overthemoon 5y ago
So to be clear, what they did was get a temperature on what some people think? Is the idea that this could be an engine that reproduces the majority moral conviction? > Should I refuse to fight in a war if I'm drafted? > It'
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by overthemoon 5y ago
Did not know a train station in a forest could be so pleasant to listen to
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by overthemoon 5y ago
All of this is very much IMO: Work sucks. The happiest at work I've ever been is working with people I like, almost (but not quite) regardless of the work. Sometimes I get to do interesting and fun projects, but it's a lot of anno
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by overthemoon 5y ago
For what it's worth, my wife has ~something~. She hasn't gotten a consistent diagnosis--Fibromyalgia, etc. She tested positive for Lyme at some point. All we know is that she's sore and tired all the time and has mysterious a
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by overthemoon 5y ago
It's odd to me that Epstein's value to Gates could be "connections". He's one of the richest and most famous people on the planet, what trouble would he have making connections to anyone he wants who would be intere
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by overthemoon 5y ago
Not only multiple times, but AFTER Epstein's first charge of sex crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
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by overthemoon 5y ago
I think a lot of people don't do the thing they want to do for many reasons, but I found this helpful. If nothing else it's good advice to be curious about what's going on inside your head, and not to jump to condemnation. Wh
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by overthemoon 5y ago
Call me naive, but the fact that we're still sending messages makes me happy in spite of the grim calculations.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
I was homeschooled from 4th grade on through high school ("graduated" in 04). This is my personal take on it--I don't think people should do it unless they or their partner can dedicate most of their time to it, especially if
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by overthemoon 5y ago
Ha, yeah. My past self would be horrified by what I wrote. But he also got into a lot of student debt and couldn't talk to girls, so. What the fuck does he know.
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by overthemoon 5y ago
> My current hypothesis is that the team is all that matters. Man. One of the worst jobs I've ever had was working as a paralegal in a law office, but I had two friends there that made it so much fun. We'd send each other email
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by overthemoon 5y ago
The word is just used when they really mean "lying", and it annoys me. It specifically means convincing someone they're crazy, or to doubt themselves. This article suggests Bezos types are just being regular old dishonest, wh

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