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by scandox 5y ago
And less tasty. One of my in-laws started an organic garden solely to supply a local hotel down the country and she gave us a big box of vegetables when we were leaving after a visit. It was very revealing. Everything she gave us had distin
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by scandox 5y ago
I am in a somewhat similar situation. I've come to the conclusion that the relationship, the human connection, keeping that open is the most important thing. Some part of their brain knows that what they're into is deeply flawed b
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by scandox 5y ago
Overall, I got everything wrong. Technically, commercially and socially: wrong, wrong and wrong. I thought things would develop along lines that were of interest to me or which appealed to my personal aesthetic of computing (textual). And t
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by scandox 5y ago
That is not hubris. That is a statement of fact: that Ponzi scheme is backed by the military, industrial and economic power of nations. Hubris is thinking you can make some shit up and get people to accept it ... Without force.
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by scandox 5y ago
I knew a lad who went to buy a field from an elderly farmer. The old man quoted 1.2 million euros and my acquaintance, thinking what harm could there be in chancing his arm said he'd give him 1 million. The old man said the price was n
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by scandox 5y ago
Have you heard of Grindr?
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by scandox 5y ago
The solution is worse than the problem if you live with this attitude. In addition it is too reductive and doesn't represent the very complex (even enjoyably subtle) interactions that go on between humans who do want something from eac
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by scandox 5y ago
I had a friend many years ago who was very smart but also quite paranoid. I noticed that even mentioning the name of someone he perceived as his enemy caused him to become very cool towards me. Anything less than a total character assassina
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by scandox 5y ago
With that attitude eventually there will just be cockroaches, rats and humans.
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by scandox 5y ago
Gotta agree here. Only Americans think University and brains are directly correlated.
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by scandox 5y ago
Added this to my favourites just so I remember it did exist
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by scandox 5y ago
This definitely should not be flagged.
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by scandox 5y ago
It is not what we put into ourselves that is dirty, but what comes out of us.
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by scandox 5y ago
The problem with Vidocq is that the main source of information about him is ... Vidocq.
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by scandox 5y ago
I think extending longevity is a negative with regard to human beings as a collective. I think it would be intelligent from a group point of view to create disincentives for individuals to live beyond a certain age.
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by scandox 5y ago
I meant that wealthy people should not be too defensive about it.
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by scandox 5y ago
I grew up very wealthy and it is what it is. I read that list and some parts of it make me sad and some make me laugh. There's been times I've been that asshole, and times I've not been. Some of the things are very American -
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by scandox 5y ago
This is all true, but it's a truth that omits the things that really matter. You can write a perfectly "functioning" novel that is dead upon the table. This is because a good novel has something beyond both its form and its c
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by scandox 5y ago
A bit more detail in The Irish Independent. References the Conti ransomware. https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/serious-and-sophisticate...
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by scandox 5y ago
A profound terror of their own personal insignificance and mortality?
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by scandox 5y ago
It takes a long time to get over the kind of Stockholm Syndrome an employer like this creates. The OP is at the first stage: disengaging and trying to get perspective. At some point hopefully they will see that they were being psychological
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by scandox 5y ago
The link here between the individual psychology and the broad political thrust seems very unclear to me. I haf the feeling of having a bias confirmed with very tenuous logic.
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by scandox 5y ago
I get the impression English is not their first language. I will say I've seen articles with worse reasoning and better language also. So as distracting as the errors are, this is far from the lowest quality article I've seen here
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by scandox 6y ago
Thomas Ligotti proposes a theory which I will paraphrase badly as "people who like horror need a horrific reality they can cope with, because the horror of actual existence is something they cannot face". This rather neatly makes
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by scandox 6y ago
I thought you were going to provide the math(s)? A little disappointed.
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by scandox 6y ago
I like what you're doing with Shepherd.com. I think the idea of curated reading lists is a good one and I've often contemplated it. The most important thing I was given at University were reading lists. I often wondered if getting
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by scandox 6y ago
To me it's always seemed like money grows from the barrel of a gun. Detaching money from military power sounds wonderful but it makes no sense to me. It seems to defy the very basis of what money is. Tokens handed out by warlords. Only
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by scandox 6y ago
> fantastic, expert, lengthy, niche content on stuff I care about I wonder how you'll find out about stuff you didn't know you needed to care about. I feel like this approach pushes us all deeper into our in-groups and away fro
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by scandox 6y ago
We use something similar to this for a team of 5. We can coordinate about 30 repos, manage issues, have deployment from source mechanisms and so on. It's definitely got a use. Personally I would be much too cool to actually socialize o
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by scandox 6y ago
Never tweet. It may be meant ironically but it's a really excellent piece of advice to keep in mind, even as you do in fact tweet.

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