scott_paul

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by scott_paul 7mo ago
I disagree with almost all of your political opinions, and some of your positions I very much hate. But we should be free to have the argument, without the thread of handcuffs or the threat of starvation. Although I use my real name here, s
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by scott_paul 3y ago
20 years ago boredom wasn't a thing and we weren't addicted to screens? No, no. This dopamine-addiction screentime crap has been a thing for several generations. It's what fucked up the Boomers, I think, and it was definitel
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by scott_paul 3y ago
That's a feature not a bug. A few thousand years ago we used to literally set them loose in the wilderness with some wolves for a few years, and it was fun & educational. We understand reason and organization because we have explor
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by scott_paul 4y ago
Yeah, sounds like it's just a rehash / re-compilation of Christopher Tolkien's work. I'll pass.
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by scott_paul 4y ago
The claim is "filter-free", but the device also uses an "electromembrane". So... how is that not a filter? Because it's electrified? The selling point of this device is that it doesn't need filter changes in th
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by scott_paul 5y ago
Anyone else amused just reading the commit comments?
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by scott_paul 5y ago
Well, for starters Gab is banned from the App Store for their near-absolutist stance on free speech. More than that is the general culture of suppression of the "wrong" view of reality. Most people who were merely to the right of
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by scott_paul 5y ago
I use a variant of Emmymade's variant of Maangchi's recipe. It works really well. Rinsed pickle jars work great, a head of Napa cabbage usually fills about 2+1/2 ~ 3 jars. If you're not into high spicy, dial back the red
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by scott_paul 5y ago
I showed this to a non technical guy who is trying to learn git. He said he liked the cats but this didn't help him understand it any better.
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by scott_paul 5y ago
Article is gibberish. Link to the actual study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03767...
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by scott_paul 6y ago
Anyone else notice that Calcifediol is the most expensive vitamin-D analogue on the market? What a huge surprise that the study chose that form of vitamin-D specifically.
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by scott_paul 6y ago
I'm not commenting on how anyone else does it, or saying that there aren't bad patterns out there. I'm telling the room about a strategy I found that lets me twist the bad into good.
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by scott_paul 6y ago
When I interview a candidate, I'm explicitly and intentionally looking at how they respond to stress, how (if) they're able to say "I don't know", and how they communicate complicated ideas. I open with soft-balls t
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by scott_paul 6y ago
It's just red meat for the base. The administration doesn't actually want to restrict immigration, they just know that they were hired to restrict immigration, so they have to appear to be working on that. Notice that every single
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by scott_paul 6y ago
This mostly shows me what other customers of my VPN in various countries like to download.
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by scott_paul 6y ago
Ah well WP is WordPress, of course. Truly an evil thing that we must all apologize for, forever, or until it's perfectly bug-free. As for lolcow, you'll be more entertained if you google it than if anyone explains it to you.
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by scott_paul 6y ago
Yes, humans eat animals. "Top of the food chain" means something. It means lunch. Delicious lunch. Oh man, now I want a chicken sandwich with bacon on it.
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by scott_paul 7y ago
The projection in this article is strong. This is the product of a very alien mind, to me. Intentional signaling is irritating to others, and often self-destructive. I really doubt most people's actions are driven by signaling, except
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by scott_paul 7y ago
It's worse than the Eternal September. It's definitely more toxic than it's ever been, and people are definitely more polarized. The 2016 election news cycle got a lot of otherwise normal people really radicalized and hostile
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by scott_paul 7y ago
And yet, they are observably evil.
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by scott_paul 7y ago
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by scott_paul 7y ago
If the combination of high intelligence and high drive generally leads to gaining more wealth, and if those qualities are generally highly heritable, then we should expect rich kids to, on average, inherit their parents' intelligence a
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by scott_paul 7y ago
It remains to be seen if the methods used by monero, dash, and various zk-proof based coins are enough to prevent de-anonymization when a motivated state actor is involved. Gotta say though, this is one of the few times I'm glad to see
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by scott_paul 7y ago
I increasingly think the US should look into adopting something akin to Estonia's voting system. Perhaps with some added zero-knowledge proof layer so that it can be known that all votes were valid, but not exactly who voted which way.