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by pasabagi 5y ago
Perhaps it's more attitude, then? What you said does sound interesting - I just never think like that when I'm solving puzzles. When I think puzzle, my mind goes to something like a rubics cube - an object where there's some
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm also ADHD, and I'm completely on the same page as you regarding stuff like leetcode. How do you feel about puzzles in general? I have a really strong antipathy towards 'solving' anything that I know is (a) already so
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by pasabagi 5y ago
A lot of historians seem to see Kissinger as more the guy who thought of himself as 'horrifically adept', than the guy who actually was.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Or, as the volkswagen scandal showed us, necessary for most of today's ICE's to pretend to be more efficient than they are by cheating emissions tests :).
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It's not conflation so much as a plain assessment that cars sit at the nexus of a lot of interrelated problems: congestion, local pollution, global warming, public space usage, and access to transport. If I'm ignoring a '10%&
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think you're underselling Java and C++. The JVM idea is clever because it means you do all the portability stuff as part of the language, rather than asking programmers to do ifdefs for every platform. Making it a safe, memory-manage
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Would it be the dark ages, though? I don't think it would be so terrible if we were all thrown back to PDP 11's or something, and there's no way it could ever be anywhere near that drastic. Hardware advances are nice, but the
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, the normal thing to do is to read art magazines, follow artists you like on twitter, then respond to open calls. The response can vary depending on what sort of show/residency is being advertised - if it's just an informal,
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the roads would be well served by getting rid of cars - it would obviously cut congestion massively. You would probably have to run a lot of buses in the transition period, but my guess is that cars degrade the experience of cyclist
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Where I live (Germany), the majority of deaths are non-car-occupants[0]. I'd also be interested to see the age-vs-death stats for the US split up by user group. In Germany, the pedestrians and cyclists most likely to die are over 75. [
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't think making a new language is so much more crazy than making any other piece of tooling. Obviously, it's going to have to have compelling advantages to convince people to move from the tools they know and love. But, if yo
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Let me frame it this way: “Guns don’t kill people. People do.” I think it's actually worse than your framing suggests, even though it's generally recognized that widespread gun ownership is very poor for public health. Guns
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by pasabagi 5y ago
They are a massive driver of pollution, death, and injury, all while providing poor-quality transportation for a high price to a subset of the population.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
A title like "practicalities of $torture_practice" is pretty much self-flagging, even if you don't know offhand what the blood eagle was.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The Soviets actually had an entente(?) with the japanese right up until the end of the war. Presumably, if the US hadn't asked them to break the entente, they could have just continued that indefinitely (although it's pretty likel
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by pasabagi 5y ago
For what it's worth, that's what the vast majority of artists do today. Spending most of your time and energy doing stuff that doesn't make money doesn't typically lead to a comfortable lifestyle.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
In general, I think the conversation is sort of warped by the fact that the really problematic statues (all those confederate generals in the american south) are basically explicit attempts by white supremacists to ensure that the street fu
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the idea that germans are the victims of history (and that's why they're so sensitive about oppression) is actually older than the stasi, or the nazis. Hitler, for instance, uses the theme an awful lot in his speeches. It
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by pasabagi 5y ago
On the other hand, the proliferation of hacking and fraud could drive a swing to the opposite direction. It's got to the point where being hacked, blackmailed, or being the target of fraud is a regular occurrence, and a lot of that is
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Statues were about, and have always been about, celebrating individuals, groups, and values. That's how they functioned in the greco-roman world. That's how they function today. In this context, it totally makes sense to remove st
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Presumably that won't matter so much in 50 years, since either Shell will be bust, or civilization will have collapsed.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It would be kinda interesting if somebody actually implemented a law like this: all citizens without free speech get automatic asylum. You'd have half of the world turning up on your doorstep within a month. More seriously, it's a
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by pasabagi 5y ago
If you just check google news 'china secret' you can see an enormous number of articles, many from credible sources, talking about various 'secret' doings of the CCP.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess I'd see it more as a continuation of the whole 'kremlinology' trope. Granted, access is difficult in China atm. On the other hand, most of the press doesn't like to do deep investigative journalism in any case, s
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> 1. was done in secret Was it? Reading the article, the only 'secret' component was the lobbying, which is obviously done behind closed doors. Everything else is public commitments and public statements - which makes sense, si
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Who of us ever really cares about every single aspect of another person? Even your spouse or close family member will have parts of them that you don’t care to engage with. In fact they may choose to keep those aspects private from you
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>consistency ... would be nice I'd say necessary. People will assume (correctly) that this is human rights being used as a stalking horse for realpolitik. Which is frankly worse for human rights than no action at all.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the problem is 1. incentivises the exploiter to dehumanize the exploited. They are interested in the productive use of a person, not the person themselves. As such, exploitation has an inherently and strongly abusive tendency, wheth
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> all people All people. That's the point. All the people have two arms[0], legs, and eyes. Half the people are wearing big dresses, the other half are wearing funny-shaped hats and tight white trousers. The alien anthropologist w
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> I don't even know what that means. I just mean if you were an alien anthropologist, and you were trying to understand napoleonic europe by looking at paintings or time-travel-photographs or whatever, you'd almost certainly no

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