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by starkd 4y ago
>> I don't think we should define days around the petty need of humans. Why not? Are you being considerate for alien life? As far as we know, humans are the only ones who are going to use it.
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by starkd 4y ago
I think people stop caring, because it is impossible to keep up a high level of vigilance for an extended period of time. Plus the risk becomes normalized. People are not very good at evaluating risk. From an evolutionary perspective, we
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by starkd 4y ago
That may have been a sensationalized media story. I think that regularly happens in normal times as well, due to lack of services.
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by starkd 4y ago
If that did happen, I think it could have been a civilization ending event. There are some viruses with 50% fatality rate. That would have been non-deniable, pushing people to wearing full hazmat suits for daily activity. It is hard to see
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by starkd 4y ago
Perhaps I am mistaken, but most of the supply chain issues seem to have been caused by the reopening more than the pandemic. The economy cannot be shutdown and re-opened on a dime. I think it was a big mistake to think it could be.
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by starkd 4y ago
Interesting idea. Something needs to be done, because right now, the US can't even construct a nuclear power plant in Georgia on time and within reasonable budget range.
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by starkd 4y ago
Not to mention the existing debt problem. Just the interest alone on the debt is beginning to exceed the amount spent on the military alone. Something needs to be done, and sooner or later, the usual throwing more money at the problem is
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by starkd 4y ago
It does speak to a lack of imagination, doesn't it? The impulse to alter these works maybe even suggests a lack of confidence in your own ideas.
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by starkd 4y ago
Generally, the updates are minor textual modifications that are done to remove confusion. Not to protect the audience from being offended. Very different. Renaming "pussing galore" to something less offending of modern sensibil
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by starkd 4y ago
<< James Bond is not great art Besides the point. A significant audience found value in its stories. Are you the arbiter of what is good or bad? You go down this road, there is no limit to what will be censored or deleted altogeth
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by starkd 4y ago
That might be true if it were just about being more polite. But this is about control by establishing an approved vocabulary. Why else the need to rewrite past literature? It is a very condescending attitude to think you can protect peo
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by starkd 4y ago
Even if the revisions are fairly innocuous in themselves, it is still altering history in a way that impedes future generations from an honest legitimate view of history. Imagine a world with a filtered awareness for history. It is a clos
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by starkd 4y ago
It would be unfair to evaluate twitter according to current features. It is now being actively developed, looking for new features to give it more value. The pre-elon twitter stagnated on a static set of features. For instance, they rece
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by starkd 4y ago
But writing implementing some of those basic data structures is some of the funnest things to do in uni.
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by starkd 4y ago
It would seem this would be the perfect kind of class for online learning. Perhaps even as a wiki to crowd source helpful contributions. Most learning doesn't even have to be directed, but just point students in the right direction.
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by starkd 4y ago
average tech companies don't have to worry about costs?
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by starkd 4y ago
Seems like having revulsion for all earthly things can backfire in unpredictable ways. I have a suspicion that the early Buddhist may have been onto something, but something vital was lost a long time ago.
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by starkd 4y ago
I suppose there's some value in them for supplying some kind of structure.
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by starkd 4y ago
I can think of better ways I would want to spend a vacation.
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by starkd 4y ago
Never understood the need for meditation retreats. The only purpose of gathering would be to meet and converse with other people. Not to sit and listen to them breathe.
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by starkd 4y ago
There is something very cultish about it. An indication of it being a cult is the tendency to get caught up in definitions of new words. It is easy to think that once you learn the vocabulary (like "vipassana", "sati&quot
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by starkd 4y ago
So, could this meditation craze actually be making people autistic?
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by starkd 4y ago
I think the ones that "go deeper" are doing so because they don't know what else to do, what the next step is. But they have achieved some "success", so they keep doing it. It also feeds the rise of new gurus that
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by starkd 4y ago
I have a theory that meditation/mindfulness is essentially just an excercise in self-erasure. This can be beneficial to some degree in that we all need to erase those negative associations and question our assumptions. However, carrie
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by starkd 4y ago
This probably makes the most sense to me. But I also think depending on caffeine to wake up keeps the brain from transitioning from sleep to a full waking state. I can't seem to give up coffee, but I notice if I cut back it is not as
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by starkd 4y ago
But if policies delay those early morning classes, won't those night-owls just go to bed even later? I have had the same trouble, but any effort to address that by not scheduling anything in the morning has only led to sleeping in eve
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by starkd 4y ago
So, you think those enormous speaking fees are because of his "kindness and character" ? Sure, they are legal. But let's not pretend they were for anything other than what he did for them while in office and the influence h
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by starkd 4y ago
Way to pull out one sentence while ignoring the rest of the comment. Inflation had been a problem long before Carter. Neither Nixon (with his disastrous price controls) nor Ford (with his WIN campaign) was able to solve it. Volcker was a
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by starkd 4y ago
Maybe your next work can be a sarcasm verifier.
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by starkd 4y ago
There are a lot of people who deal only in cash. I knew someone who was a shop mechanic. Completely self-employed and only took cash. When he died, he had stored savings in random places all over his house. He had thousands squirreled a

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