spritefs

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by spritefs 4y ago
> and requires continuous free-riding off of the US across a wide swath of sectors including healthcare and tech. Don't forget the military as well It baffles me why any tech business would bother expanding into the EU when other fo
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by spritefs 4y ago
Because the added bullshit doesn't actually accomplish anything. Sites that add bullshit for the sake of adding bullshit are more likely to insert anti-user features and unnecessary JS
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by spritefs 4y ago
> It was a little stressful but I had a breakthrough and afterwards I found that I stopped compulsively reliving embarrassing/painful memories. I'm really happy that you got something positive out of them My issue with psychede
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by spritefs 4y ago
I see most of the comments here expressing skepticism getting downvoted (like what you would expect on reddit) Personal hot take: I've done this stuff before. I've seen the before and after of people who've done it. None of
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by spritefs 4y ago
People don't make decisions in a vacuum. I'm personally less worried about myself and more about children who don't know any better and fall for all the reddit-tier bullshitting with respect to these substances
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by spritefs 4y ago
> But it feels like the country has turned rotten. You feel it any time you interact with a customer service person. Restaurants, stores, especially any kind of "gig economy" service like getting food delivered. They hate servi
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by spritefs 4y ago
What's the point of private thinking if it isn't going to find some kind of public manifestation? (whether that's in the form of words, action, or deliberately refraining from the two) All private thinking really is is the di
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by spritefs 4y ago
> I would take it even farther and claim that very little in experimental psychology / sociology has any value whatsoever. Oh no they definitely have value, in the same way that metaphysics has value
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by spritefs 4y ago
1. Being able to derive bottom up dynamic programming leetcode solutions. The only way I really "figured out" how to do this was by reading the dp chapter out of the Cormen algorithms book. It's crazy how illuminating (and ra
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by spritefs 4y ago
I think they mentioned Virginia Thomas being in a cult in a recent article and that lead me to this somehow, maybe wikipedia
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by spritefs 4y ago
> A business that has a oxytocin-rich environment might not be the best place. This is a little tangential, but it reminds me of this archived Washington Post article from the 1980s* about a self help cult > "I wasn't at pea
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Then did everything in his power at home to play WoW. He became hopelessly addicted. I was like this and spent a shit load of that time on a computer. Everyone around me said it was a waste of time until I realized I wanted to work in
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by spritefs 4y ago
> and it is perfectly possible to create a stable statutory definition of hate speech Doesn't sound like it. If the washington post is saying you're going too far in this category, there's a good chance you've already
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by spritefs 4y ago
> As a negotiator aspiring to excellence, you must, at all costs, avoid showing need. In order to avoid showing need, you must never feel it. I cannot say this enough: You do not need this deal. Isn't this a contradiction? Because w
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Try to bribe them with delicious food, wealth, sex; and you'll get nothing. They do not desire it. Sounds like an enlightened person to me > Could this entity using their perfectly intact faculty of reason derive a system of et
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Thus ethics must be derived from some other notion about how the world should be. Yes, but bringing in is-ought only tells us that the ethical realm is self contained. It doesn't tell us that the ethical realm is reducible to emot
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Right, so what most people do when faced with a lack of knowledge is go out looking for it or maintain weakly held beliefs. Exactly. This is why I've spent the last ten years of my life trying to find a real unicorn in nature. Wea
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Ethics too is rooted in emotion. Says who? Can you prove it? This is a pretty big claim to make
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Applying wanton black and white thinking is a sign of a mind incapable of nuance, and rich, deep thought. Can't think of one instance where a group was able to politically accomplish something on the basis of "nuance" If
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by spritefs 4y ago
Correct in theory but completely wrong in practice
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by spritefs 4y ago
Whether or not privacy is "OK" according to some random closet authoritarian NYT columnist is completely irrelevant If X columnist thinks encryption is a problem, they should be willing to live with the consequence that the Texas
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Most people in SF have cars, most streets are lined with garage doors. Ok. But what about cars getting broken into? Isn't that incredibly common? If I hypothetically lived in SF, I definitely wouldn't bring a car just bc I do
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by spritefs 4y ago
What's this? An SV newspaper posting copium about office space in SV?
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by spritefs 4y ago
I personally wouldn't have a problem living in a city like SF if crime and homeless were less common But since this is a literal nightmare in SF, being less "car dependent" or appeasing these whining activists is the least of
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by spritefs 4y ago
tl;dr Kathy Hochul sabotaged the version of the bill passed by the state legislature so that it requires only what Apple and Samsung are already doing The version that came out of the legislature would have required OEMs to sell individual
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by spritefs 4y ago
This just sounds like bad management. If people don't feel comfortable communicating their own skills then everyone is worse off
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by spritefs 4y ago
considering recent bad press the cost of the additional transaction fee seems like very cheap insurance
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by spritefs 4y ago
Question: why do people keep coins in exchange wallets when you could just keep them in personal wallets and not have to worry about losing them? What's the appeal?
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by spritefs 4y ago
> privacy settings (it used to be "set what you want to share" and now it's "learn what is shared") What I like to do with this is have two versions of hosts file and two versions of /etc/pf.conf In one
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by spritefs 4y ago
The one thing that macbooks do exceptionally well are the trackpad gestures and accuracy. This is the one thing that I can think of off the top of my head where I'd be surprised to see any match from any other machine/OS combo. Ev

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