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by rosser 7y ago
Dunning-Kruger and Impostor Syndrome are polar afflictions. One has you over-believing in your competence, and the other under-believing in it.
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by rosser 7y ago
"Skepticism"?
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by rosser 7y ago
> But I would instead say “Cliff Stoll is a national treasure”. Indeed. The man has more than earned a few eccentricities.
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by rosser 7y ago
> Since people who use those term is usually well aware of the reaction, it must be assumed that it is the speakers intention is to cause harm. People who talk about "toxic masculinity", in the academic sense, shouldn't
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by rosser 7y ago
> The word has different meaning depending on... All words do, to some extent. "The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has happened at all." — George Bernard Shaw I'm not sure it's much like t
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by rosser 7y ago
I have had numerous conversations with all manner of avowedly feminist-leaning folk, where both "toxic masculinity" and "toxic femininity" were under discussion, including particularly the ways they exacerbate and reinfo
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by rosser 7y ago
> As I understand your definition toxic masculinity is the pressure society puts on people to conform to negative masculine roles. > My personal definition would be people expressing there masculinity in a way that is hurtful and b
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Quantum Computing for English Majors(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by rosser 7y ago
They said a military was necessary to defend the claim , not to assert sovereignty over the claimed territory. It's neither.
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by rosser 7y ago
Two things: 1. Sealand is built on an old defense platform, not an oil rig. 2. Countries become accepted as countries exactly by declaring themselves as such, and then having that declaration recognized by other countries . Being able to
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Apollo 11 in Real Time(apolloinrealtime.org)
783 points by rosser 7y ago|133 comments
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Saving the Planet with Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert(bloomberg.com)
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by rosser 7y ago
> language is the main thing we have that other animals dont. There are plenty of animals with at least rudimentary forms of language. The thing which I think sets H. sapiens sapiens apart is the fictive use of language: we seem to
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Paul Vixie: I Want a New Drug(infosecurity-magazine.com)
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How DHS Uses Digital Data in the Name of National Security [pdf](brennancenter.org)
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by rosser 7y ago
> Maybe not, it feels like to me that the Overton window[0] has been sliding left. The Left-Right Overton Window has definitely moved Right, in that reductive to the point of uselessness, single-axis characterization of American politi
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Apple instructions for mitigating ZombieLoad, up to 40% performance hit(9to5mac.com)
2 points by rosser 7y ago|1 comments
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by rosser 7y ago
My current and prior cats were both street rescues, as adults. The former was found in Syracuse, NY, and the current is from Iquitos, Peru. Both have reliably demonstrated a depth of bond to me, and to people they interact with regularly, t
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by rosser 7y ago
> “science fandom” See also Scientism [0], especially in the sense Popper meant it. The place I keep getting stuck is trying to understand how we went from skepticism meaning, "I will neither believe, nor disbelieve, without evide
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by rosser 7y ago
And then we so often get mad at the world for our own guess not being accurate...
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by rosser 7y ago
One can not be the kind of racist that raises their children to hate, while still being the kind that leverages the racism in the broader culture against social and political movements that run counter to your own. I'm not sure which i
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by rosser 7y ago
While that's (partly) true, it's also pretty irrelevant to whether one can reasonably infer "AoA sensors agree" from the lack of an error notification indicating they don't, when the system that should be providing
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by rosser 7y ago
First, thank you for responding in a manner that invites a response, rather than demands refutation. I understand your perspective, and appreciate your recognition of my own. That said, if you think I'm putting the situation in an unfa
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by rosser 7y ago
I am a huge skeptic of most of what we've done around "blockchain". Almost every new project that I learn about in the space confirms my bias that people are profoundly, debilitatingly myopic when it comes to the technology.
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by rosser 7y ago
We may be talking past one another here with the word "format". I read and responded to what seemed yet another round of irrelevant (or at least low-signal), "This site looks terrible on mobile" style noise, which HN dis
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by rosser 7y ago
Speaking only for myself, I am vastly more interested in seeing commentary on the content, than on its formatting.
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by rosser 7y ago
I did not say "all trust". Please don't presume to inflate my explicitly stated position — especially while also minimizing the impact this incident had on me, and others. I did not merely "lose some tabs"; those, I
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by rosser 7y ago
I use container tabs extensively. Today, more than half of my open tabs disappeared in an instant , and were not even an option to re-open until either I waited around ("up to six hours...") or manually installed the workaround.
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by rosser 7y ago
This petulant antagonism ("You are the malware!", "No YOU ARE!") between users and security is contrary to everyone's interests. Go sit in separate corners, both of you. Think really, really hard about how both of y
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by rosser 7y ago
I'm not sure I care how unfair the characterization is. I heavily use container tabs — ahem, 'usecontainers — and all of my open container tabs disappeared at once , with no indication of why or what to do about it, when this hap

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