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by smhost 9y ago
Isn't Google amorphous by design? I thought Google was supposed to exist everywhere hidden in plain sight, and its many products are just the interfaces it uses to connect to us. At least that's the impression I got from listening
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by smhost 10y ago
Hey now, the U.S. isn't Mexico. We don't kill domestic political targets. Some just conveniently die on their own. Rather patriotic of them, if you ask me.
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by smhost 10y ago
It's a long long way down to the bottom of the uncanny valley.
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by smhost 10y ago
Raising awareness of internetaholism doesn't seem like a terrible idea.
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by smhost 10y ago
How much of that is a result of being forced to change due to outside pressure? The fact that they did it well is secondary. I took a course at Yale where they taught the Western canon of literature as Satanic text, where Western culture wa
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by smhost 10y ago
What do you mean by "becoming" more mainstream? To me, it feels like scifi has been mainstream for a good 10~15 years.
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by smhost 10y ago
I'm talking about the DLC. And you're conflating complexity with creativity and narrative depth.
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by smhost 10y ago
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep. Resident Evil 7 in VR. Bioshock. The Wheel of Time (yes, really). Thief: The Dark Project. If you're saying that these games are shallow, I will fight you irl.
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by smhost 10y ago
You can know scientific truths about parts of your life, but you can't know scientific truths about the whole of it.
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by smhost 10y ago
Probably T <= 0, multiple universes, inside a black hole, etc. You also can't run an experiment on your own life, not really, since you only have one life and that's not a large enough sample. So questions like "what is tr
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by smhost 10y ago
The book you're looking for is Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. (Act 3)
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by smhost 10y ago
Step 1: Observe your breath. Step 2: Don't get distracted. If you get distracted, go to step 1.
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by smhost 10y ago
> Intellectual humility was associated with a greater willingness to believe and vote for a candidate who changed his position on an issue. Being open to the possibility of changing their own beliefs, people higher in intellectual humili
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by smhost 10y ago
From the article: > Of course, the Just War Ethic suffers from a problem: The normative ideal in this case is the absence of war, yet the reality of war precludes that ideal. Therefore, any applied ethics of war are by definition morally
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by smhost 10y ago
Hahaha, I doubt anyone would be shocked at all, to be honest.
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by smhost 10y ago
When I was in combat training (U.S., mid 2000s), a corporal who was teaching a munitions class one day started pointing to things and listing off random objects. Clothes, chairs, computer, projector, weapon lubricant, etc. He asked what all
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by smhost 10y ago
This is what is meant by a cult of ignorance. They want to insist that the only purpose of knowledge is to fulfill one's practical economic role.
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by smhost 10y ago
http://www.radiolab.org/story/trust-engineers/ They're not evil. They're ignorant, reckless children.
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by smhost 10y ago
It's the insanity defense for lacking human decency. Pretty hilarious, in a morbid kind of way.
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by smhost 10y ago
> (For the record, I haven't looked beyond the titles.) I have. Porn quality is pretty standard, which is to say, god awful. The one titled "Great teen sex, worst plot ever" is misleading because Krystal Boyd was 21, maybe
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by smhost 10y ago
A better strat would be if we all agreed on a single name for everyone to use.
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by smhost 10y ago
It's not just a changing of one's perspective. It's the destruction of your whole identity. It feels incredibly jarring and like you're going insane. It's what people with personality "disorders" have to g
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by smhost 10y ago
No, it's neither. It's analyzing the consistency between the different levels of narrative. Meaning and understanding don't happen merely at the level of denotation. This is why we need to listen to the advice of poets.
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by smhost 10y ago
> The legal system frequently disregards intent when ruling and punishment for even small infractions can be quite severe in the US. Is this actually true? I'd like to learn more about if it is. My personal experience has been that
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by smhost 10y ago
This is the most optimistic thing I've ever read. I hope you're right.
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by smhost 10y ago
Is Braille actually harder to learn/use than normal writing systems? > When listening to an audio book I can do many other things like study for an exam or program. Why don't you just study for your exam and write code in audio
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by smhost 10y ago
If you actually read what I said, you'd realize that you're arguing against something that you made up in your head. At this point, there's no reason for me to believe that you will even bother trying to understand my point o
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by smhost 10y ago
> By focusing on what they would have done in the victim's place, they're re-framing the event as somehow the victim's choice and thus, at least partially the victim's fault. That is a form of victim blaming. Full sto
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by smhost 10y ago
> Does anyone else feel that way? Absolutely. I notice it most with math. I try to reconstruct my intuition by sheer force of will, then give up in frustration because my mind will not move. When I wake up, the intuition is just there, a
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by smhost 10y ago
I agree with you: > Your boss stating that he wants to have sex with you is stupid, unethical, and unprofessional.

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