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by slibhb 3y ago
Sounds like a manic episode. Symptoms include extreme grandiosity and hallucinations. Often a manic person will believe he is God, is in contact with God, or has a special part to play in history.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I'm strongly in favor of experimental drug trials, most of which will fail. "False hope" is a small price to pay. According to the article, the evidence for this drug was never substantial. We know it doesn't work now, o
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by slibhb 3y ago
The drug didn't hurt patients, did it? This kind of failure seems relatively benign.
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by slibhb 3y ago
This has nothing to do with feudalism, "techno-" or otherwise. This is an embarrassing, tabloid level article.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's funny that Google's response here is to frame this in terms of bias. Presumably bias against whites. But it's concern about bias that got Google to this point. The solution is to be less concerned with bias i.e. tone d
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by slibhb 3y ago
Worth a watch if you're interested in McCarthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUy1Vn2KdI The gist is that he liked smart people. He was good friends with Murray Gell-Mann and others at The Santa Fe Institute. I abso
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by slibhb 3y ago
The article reads like "yes the Earth is greening, yes this is probably mostly good, but it's not all good and besides we aren't allowed to say anything positive about the environment".
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by slibhb 3y ago
You're ranting about marxists...but the question is whether markets can fail. Milei says no. But there are plenty of examples of markets failing so, if we take that idea seriously, it reduces to something like "free markets have n
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by slibhb 3y ago
That whole debate wouldn't have made sense to the founding fathers. Yes they were liberals, but "capitalism" wasn't coined until the 19th century. Milei is quite extreme when he claims that markets can't fail. He&#x
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by slibhb 3y ago
I wasn't saying it's a new discovery. My first link mentions Darwin who wrote about in the 19th century. It is a discovery for people who are taught that the distinctions between species are very clear and then learn otherwise.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Biologists discovering philosophy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_(metaphysics)
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by slibhb 3y ago
JS sets are plenty useful. Sometimes you want reference equality for objects (though letting programmers choose would be ideal). As far as the pace, I think they do it about right. JS has hard requirements to be backwards compatible and has
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's not always a tradeoff. Americans made big budget, artistically accomplished, highly successful movies in the 60s and 70s. As far as the rest of your comment, I'll just repeat my view that Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies are
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by slibhb 3y ago
I also enjoyed the ritual of coffee but stopped about a year ago due to sleep issues and anxiety. As far as anxiety goes, I found it was a question of baseline. I'm normally even-keeled to a fault. But at that time, I was anxious (due
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Through Endgame, it was an unprecedented undertaking involving the hard work of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of talented artists and technicians across the globe, marshalling untold resources over the span of a decade Just imagine wha
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by slibhb 3y ago
The whole "children are so expensive" meme is overrated. College is expensive but attendance rates are high. Real estate is expensive but people keep buying homes. Some alternate reasons for declining fertility: 1. Decline in reli
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by slibhb 3y ago
> As someone who grew up in the 80s, this type of minimization of personal suffering was the norm. It's a tricky problem. Some people need help. But there are a lot of people for whom "holding it in" and adopting general-p
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by slibhb 3y ago
Interesting article but I'd be more cautious about projecting current trends into the future. If history teaches us lessons, one of them is surely that the masses sometimes prefer war. Americans may be doves or isolationists today (wit
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's unclear to me how "non-engineering types" can make use of stories about e.g. "caring for a dying parent" in the context of a job interview. I mean, can anyone (layperson or not) actually "psychologically e
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by slibhb 3y ago
> He would at least be on trial. I don't exactly know how incitement to murder is treated in the US. That's very clear! In no way is "die slow motherfucker" incitement to murder, whether or not the person is question
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by slibhb 3y ago
There is zero chance he could be indicted for a threat based on that tweet. No responsible prosecutor would try. Even if you take "die slow motherfucker" literally, it's not a threat. A wish that someone dies is not a threat.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Morphine helps!
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by slibhb 3y ago
> I had a catheter and was on morphine, but I was determined to have a good time. At one point, I decided to go on the biggest slide. When I got to the bottom, there were about 70 people clapping for me. Somebody had shouted: “Rob’s goin
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by slibhb 3y ago
Depending on where you live in the US, you can get free cell phone/internet if you're poor enough. E.g. https://www.assurancewireless.com/lifeline-services/states/d...
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by slibhb 3y ago
I suppose you couldn't be certain but if you had an experience like that, I think you'd be more likely to believe it than not.
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by slibhb 3y ago
You can't disprove it but if the Deity in question lifted you into his world and allowed you to experience it, I'd say that would constitute proof.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Maybe people aren't scared because they disagree with your wild, unscientific assertion that "the chances of humanity surviving are incredibly slim, IMO"
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by slibhb 3y ago
The IPCC 6 says "It is very unlikely that gas clathrates (mostly methane) in deeper terrestrial permafrost and subsea clathrates will lead to a detectable departure from the emissions trajectory during this century". Your pessimis
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by slibhb 3y ago
I don't know any young philosophers I find interesting. But that's not so surpising, Wittgenstein wasn't known in his lifetime outside of philosophy circles. Also, the thinkers in the linked piece were obsessed with language,
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Japan was not allowed to have a military for decades after the US occupation ended in 1952. The constitution of Japan, written during US occupation, explicitly makes war illegal! Japan still depends on the US for defense and hosts US milita

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