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by thefaux 2y ago
These come across as rationalizations to justify your lifestyle.
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by thefaux 2y ago
The concept and feel of Loom were wonderful. I wish it had been longer, but probably my personal favorite of the group.
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by thefaux 3y ago
How exactly do you realistically think we are going to survive in outer space? And even if we could, why would we want to? I don't think the rest of society should subsidize the escape fantasies of a small minority who find space trave
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by thefaux 3y ago
Reason is found in the balance between idealism and skepticism.
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by thefaux 3y ago
What I think paulg might be getting at is that programming is a way of thinking as much as a practical skill. The job market fluctuates with economic cycles but the mindset that one develops when mastering programming is transferrable and u
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by thefaux 3y ago
What is the deeper meaning of being a world champion fighter? I pursued a risky sport for many years myself until I was struck by the utter hollowness of it. How would my winning benefit anyone besides me? What was the purpose beyond self e
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by thefaux 3y ago
Summary: thing people complain about is actually great except when it isn't.
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by thefaux 3y ago
This comment comes across as arrogant and dismissive of authors. Maybe this is a common attitude in theater but it doesn't come across as very collaborative from the outside.
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by thefaux 3y ago
I don't think capitalism and the concepts of property and trade are synonyms. It is also not clear that historical understandings of property or trade or universal amongst human civilizations and I'd be wary of dismissing other ci
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by thefaux 3y ago
I think we should be careful about the word Christian. It has different meanings to different people. Christian anarchism seems quite consistent with the words and actions of Jesus as written in the gospels. But if looked at from the perspe
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by thefaux 3y ago
I think this is both right and wrong. Granting Sturgeon's law, most code is bad and hard to read and type annotations will usually help. On the other hand, in code that is very well written, type annotations are largely redundant visua
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by thefaux 3y ago
Yes and that is yet another case for encapsulation. For me, it is an antipattern for a short lived task to be directly creating long lived resources. Async work ideally is scheduled using message passing to the task manager which may have i
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by thefaux 3y ago
(noun Explicit) (verb is) (adjective better) (conjunction than) (noun implicit).
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by thefaux 3y ago
I really don't understand how Musk gets away with egregious fraud. I feel like we've become desensitized to it, but that doesn't make it ok. There is an enormous difference between a robitaxi and a car with partial self drivi
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by thefaux 3y ago
For me, SBF's fraud is a comorbidity but not likely the underlying cause of the suicides. By similar logic, should we imprison all tobacco executives? Personally, I'm glad SBF is being held accountable but this sentence seems very
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by thefaux 3y ago
It seems to me that it is important to communicate that you can injure yourself easily if you do deadlifts wrong. With any weightlifting exercise it is important to start with an easy weight and make sure that you are confident that you hav
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by thefaux 3y ago
The whole point is that it isn't enough for him to be recognized for his contributions. He must rewrite history to paint himself as the singular genius while discounting the work of others who were also a part of the story. There is a
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by thefaux 3y ago
It could also be that they have had modest growth from normies offsetting the losses from earlier users. This could explain why it appears to be in steep decline for many of the people here but may look almost ok from the outside. Or it cou
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by thefaux 3y ago
I don't think you should exclude a single voice singing alone from truly human music. There are things that only a single individual can do musically as well as things that only a group can do. But I will say from experience that singi
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by thefaux 3y ago
Everyone has a bit of NIMBY in them. I don't think it's a useful or constructive pejorative at this point. No doubt we need more housing, but not every growth plan is a good one and perhaps we'd get closer if we stopped the n
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by thefaux 3y ago
> DEI initiatives are inherently sexist and racist We live in a sexist and racist society (and always have). One either takes no action which is passive acceptance of the status quo or we attempt to take action which will inevitably have
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by thefaux 3y ago
The jazz/classical split is a false dichotomy. Bill Evans more or less implies that he saw himself as coming out of the classical tradition: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXAqIaUahI This video is an excellent musing o
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by thefaux 3y ago
yes, see the cobra effect.
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by thefaux 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
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by thefaux 3y ago
Voluntary is carrying a lot of weight there. Do we voluntarily trade money for bread or freely choose starving as an alternative? What is to prevent those who control the bread from coercively taking every penny you have? A free market with
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by thefaux 3y ago
Capitalism fundamentally depends on government enforcement of contracts and property rights. It is not possible to have capitalism without government interference in the economy.
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by thefaux 3y ago
Disagree on Feynman. He seemed extraordinarily invested in showing off and self-mythologizing.
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by thefaux 3y ago
I think having occasional law enforcement compliance checks at auto mechanics (with escalating fines for performing illegal installations) would probably be more effective at reducing the problem.
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by thefaux 3y ago
Personally I find private land ownership a kind of ridiculous concept. Our current system provides the convenient and necessary fiction of land ownership but ultimately to the extent there is an owner, it is always the state.
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by thefaux 3y ago
I see your DOOM and raise Viktor Vaughn :)

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