sheer_audacity

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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Sure, but why do you have to know it? Who taught you it? Why is it important? Do you just absorb things without context?
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
I’m just hearing Charlie Brown teacher muah muah muah noises here, what did you say? Let’s just have no moderation at all then - HN for people who believe in the market of ideas (that’s what you lot like calling it, right? Some nerd shit li
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Go wild, the NYT has platformed some inherently questionable people and that should be questioned (let’s start with all the alt-right people they platformed over 2014-2017 making them out to be these friendly talking heads and go from there
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking this equation, what is the theory behind it, who are the auth
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
The hard truth is that farming/homesteading is difficult, dangerous work which is even more difficult if you’re doing it cut off from a community. You have to be doing it for your own satisfaction rather than anything else, as the glor
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Aye, I used to live somewhere like that as well. It’s still ridiculous when outside is 40C and inside is 16C, there’s no need for that.
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Okay, but if an office is so cold that people are putting scarves and jackets on, that’s a problem. It’s also a huge waste of energy.
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Letters change shape depending on where they are in the word, so almost certainly! :)
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Interesting they used Arabic for this example - I grew up learning it at school but it’s only recently that smartphone keyboards are good enough to implement abjad. Most of the time you used to just switch to arabizi https://en.m
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Buddy, the article was about moral relativism from different cultures and western grandstanding. If you want a good primer, go and read Edward Said/Franz Fanon/Huda Sha'arawi/Kim Tallbear like the rest of us. Why are you
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Haha, it would not be the worst headline out of England this week - I meant to say funding in that last paragraph somewhere!
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
And as someone just mentioned to me just now - Unherd is funded by the same people who do GBNews, who are trying to set up a Fox News style service in the U.K. Also might be related to the Mumford who resigned from the Sons recently as well
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
The type of article like this is in the U.K. often at the moment - presented liberal with an awful lot of ‘here’s my wonderful argument that sounds liberal and intellectual but if you dig and think about it for about half a second you reali
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Why are conservatives so keen on wanting to shag animals? Can anyone enlighten me? What’s the allure here, people? All I’m going to think of when I see a link to unherd.com is ‘Horse shagger’ in the future. In any case - yes, they do. There
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
There are some great services out there for people who want their designs made at that level. Speaking as someone who has worked in fabs - there are so many ways it can go wrong and so many ways you could kill/poison/burn/ele
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
I don’t consider the Quillette to be a good source of anything and it’s well known to be good at peddling right wing interests. It’s a student newspaper for weird right oddballs. Signed, an ex solar researcher/semiconductor researcher.
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
It’s true for all genders. Girls with things like adhd and autism are generally over policed in their behaviour compared to boys.
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Speaking as someone with ADHD that is being studied by a big international university- adhd has a huge sleep disorder component. Your septum will have contributed, but generally people with adhd have problems sleeping due to dopamine regula
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
I agree with all this. It’s one of the reasons why so many products get built and fail - engineers of all sorts, not just computer programmers, need to consider why things need and get made and who for, even if they’re only concerned about
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by sheer_audacity 5y ago
Sigh. Speaking as someone who has spent the last six years of their career working on advanced physics in various technology sectors (including biotech) and then trying to make various 2D-xene materials work for semiconductors, I’ll tell yo