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by thisCtx 5y ago
IMO most of the “exceptional” people in a country “by of and for the people” are hypocrites for waiting on billionaires to fix things How is political capitulation by the masses exceptional? Covid offered a perfect opportunity for info work
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Yeah who cares though? I thought the story was apocryphal altogether. I was using it for the concept not the specifics.
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by thisCtx 5y ago
That’s because email providers have it backwards. They could deny by default unless the sender is in a contact list. But I mean the messenger list has to be updated to allow people in every time you meet someone worthy? You are still doing
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by thisCtx 5y ago
The problem is just a presentation one. Email is thought of as grandpas business tool. Look at Spike for IOS. Messengers are just whitelisted users. Email providers or clients simply provide a shit interface for managing that list. To me it
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by thisCtx 5y ago
So your messenger app read your mind? Pretty sure you create a whitelist on that too, yes? Of phone numbers, usernames, or …email addresses… depending on what the app uses, that you wish to hear from? Check out Spike for IOS. I’m not saying
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Nil != 0 :-p
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by thisCtx 5y ago
When I’m trying to do computer tasks, I want to get them done, not decipher some design wonks metaphor and hyperbole. You want thinking different? Try trotting out a line that doesn’t start out like an old man pissed at them kids for not be
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Oh I just remembered neuroscience has revealed we “sync” brainwaves just being in a room with another. We can take on others processing patterns. No reason to assume similar can’t occur between species. Perhaps the bird “read his mind” in s
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Yep, maybe. This is an endlessly circular discussion without falsifiable experiment. Which is my whole point. You have fun falling into the abyss. I’m gonna go see what reality is made of.
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by thisCtx 5y ago
So all the people alive that are uneducated in US history can’t step foot in America unless they learn about George Washington? It’s literally impossible for us to be where are without history as it was. It’s not an obligation for us to kee
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Dogs and smell were one example. Maybe it’s sight related. Maybe it’s electromagnetic field sensitivity. I’m not seeking meaning, I’m seeking falsifiable experiment to conclusively rule out the possibility.
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Many online retailers have UPS pickup as part of the service. Amazon for sure, but I’ve used apps from clothing stores directly and some provided the option. Unfortunately that was a while ago and I don’t have the apps installed to know whi
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by thisCtx 5y ago
To the store? Not me. With a free UPS pickup because it was included with the purchase? Me.
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Evolution is a property of reality itself and imbued humans with the abilities you highlight. We’ve done absolutely nothing to “beat” reality. Personally I’m leaning into the idea more and more that technology how we think of it, machines,
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by thisCtx 5y ago
I think I confused which feature they were talking about. It’s far fetched maybe but dogs can smell Parkinson’s and cancer before the person develops medically detectable symptoms. So maybe not so far fetched. Doesn’t have to be a pet. Does
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Same motive you have when smelling something rotten; embedded biological response.
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by thisCtx 5y ago
I didn’t mean “hide it”. It can exist in books but why must we point to it in public today? The truth is humans behaved as they needed to survive given the world at the time. The rest is analogy and metaphor handed down as song and story. W
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by thisCtx 5y ago
I did not see you propose a solution so much as regurgitate one.
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by thisCtx 5y ago
I grew up rural. I buy into a lot of the “bird” wisdom. Science is discovering dogs can smell disease. Our modern world isn’t more complex, just more distracting with asinine theory chasing. It’s always been ridiculously complex in ways we
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Given that Facebook as a UX has become user hostile, they are absolutely banking on clueless masses assuming “big data” is being used to produce magic. Larry Page was one of the keys to selling that story years ago. Find me a web app with a
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by thisCtx 5y ago
To be fair the gerontocracy is pretty much saying that to all millennials in the US. They invested all those years ago and we damn well best recognize their sacrifice with eternal servitude, and be thankful our buying power is deflated to p
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by thisCtx 5y ago
The market compensates the future for real consumption? Or are you thinking in purely abstract models? I’m more of a physical sciences type. I feel no obligation to coddle completely made up, self re-enforcing garbage. How is the market com
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by thisCtx 5y ago
Historically correct but do we need to tell that part of the story going forward? Can we not set the idea of “human rights” on its own pedestal and decide what those are and carry them forward in tradition and song? Why do we have a literal