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by psyc 4y ago
I have tons of empathy, but I won’t coddle strangers on the internet over their dramatic rhetoric. It’s not sincere, it’s polemical, and I’m not buying it. If it is sincere, they need therapy not empathy. Get some perspective on your situa
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by psyc 4y ago
Holding a desire to do violence is even more protected than saying it out loud or writing it down, which are also generally protected if they aren’t imminent incitement. Also, by now I've seen so many breathless statements by leftists
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by psyc 4y ago
I don’t get this. I got a cel phone when I was 22. Before that, I didn’t have the faintest idea that I was missing anything. I ranged as far as I could, first by bike, then by car. I kept quarters in my car for pay phones. I had a book of p
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by psyc 4y ago
Funny, I came in here to write this exact comment, but I was going to use Word. Wonder why our minds go to MS Office... First thing that comes to mind when we think "big and complicated?"
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by psyc 4y ago
Same here. Close enough for me.
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by psyc 4y ago
I’m the same, and I’ve been struggling with it for a couple of years. I’ve even addressed it in therapy, and it hasn’t helped. The only thing that has helped at all is a site blocker. Twitter and HN mostly fill me with frustration, loathi
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by psyc 4y ago
Well I’m still here. But when I learned low level systems programming, it was just called ‘programming’
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by psyc 4y ago
It isn’t individualism unless the individual is determining their own goals, and deciding what’s best for themselves. As soon as you have policy deciding what the public good is, you’re no longer discussing what individualists mean by indiv
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by psyc 4y ago
There’s no ‘we’. We don’t coordinate. We don’t design up front. Did Brendan Eich consult ‘us’ before he unilaterally made JavaScript the fucking ‘assembly language of the web’ for the following 25 years? No, he just got it in there, and the
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by psyc 4y ago
Those days are not gone. Forums mated with IRC and became Discord.
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by psyc 4y ago
And? A collection of individuals isn’t an individual. That’s why we don’t say that collectivist societies are all about the individual. They aren’t. It’s the opposite.
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by psyc 4y ago
VR is incredible, and it's only going to get better. Meta's stuff has improved by leaps and bounds in the past several years alone. See what happens in another 5, then another 5.
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by psyc 4y ago
IMO it is perfectly possible for a person to be as good as a programmer at problem solving, and thinking abstractly about user-facing solutions and workflows (maybe even some non-user-facing) and yet have no interest at all in learning a t
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by psyc 4y ago
The Phantom Tollbooth. I knew what a dodecahedron is years before the other kids, many of whom still don’t know.
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by psyc 4y ago
Maybe the happening faster part is actually the most important thing.
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by psyc 4y ago
I know what you’re going for with ‘culturally determined’ but it’s just so unconvincing. When I was 20, I was part of the culture that went to clubs. Now I’m part of the culture that thinks it’s trashy as all hell, and a fleeting millisecon
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by psyc 4y ago
I was super lucky to live near a call center that handled front line support for Microsoft. A few of my nerdier friends got jobs there before me. When I was 20, I applied for the Win32 MSDN group. Devs called with questions about anything W
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by psyc 4y ago
One thing about TSP is that even if you think it's not the best treatment of a game that talks about itself out loud, it is the only game that talks about itself out loud. If you weren't looking for such a game in the first plac
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by psyc 4y ago
A new Stanley Parable!!?? Well I know what I'll be doing for fun today. That's an automatic buy for me.
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by psyc 4y ago
That’s exactly what the MOT is. Did you think they were going to say they had a nefarious intention for establishing it?
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by psyc 4y ago
At those dollar amounts, they probably made out roughly the same. David would also be worth about a billion (similarly, mostly from Seinfeld), if he hadn't divorced.
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by psyc 4y ago
Ministry, esp. old Ministry. Hypnotic and repetitive.
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by psyc 4y ago
At least I get to see quite clearly how and why people differ. And it looks irreconcilable to me, and based on deep political and civic values.
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by psyc 4y ago
Are you kidding me? Read the second half of those sections. Come back and tell us what the rest of the sentence says.
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by psyc 4y ago
Because we’re about a step away from such 1984-isms as “Free speech advocates hate our values and way of life.”
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by psyc 4y ago
The phrase 'threat to democracy' in this context at this time ought to be a red flag that someone's trying to pull a fast one. Remember when people only wanted to add 'hate speech' to the exception list (things that
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by psyc 4y ago
Why is it a problem if Uber drivers have to roll a 1D20 when they pick you up, and drive away laughing "owned!" every time they roll 1? They're a private company. It adds a little harmless fun and excitement. There's no
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by psyc 4y ago
It seems like when I read something like that, my imagination converts it into a movie scene. So I have a little live-action scene of meeting a person on a street. Its the same as when I read fiction. The "3 Av/E 117 St" par
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by psyc 4y ago
This is all I've ever asked for. Just give me the tools to moderate for myself / choose my own filters, and I could not care less who deserves to have what sized megaphone FFS.
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by psyc 4y ago
The only time I ever think in words is when I’m specifically thinking about how I would say or write something, and when holding Socratic dialogues with myself. Otherwise it’s all pictures, usually 3D, and usually moving. Oh, unless it’s mu

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