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by thotsBgone 6y ago
You misunderstood. They said the current link is possibly obscurantist, not the German one.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
The US does not have concentration camps full of religious minorities. The US media is only lightly censored, as opposed to the fully censored Chinese media. The US has not implemented a social credit system to turn its own population into
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Surely, for a business, things like advertisement, tracking, etc. may also be essential.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Your definition of "relevance" seems to be that which advances the arrival of practical quantum computers. Why can't something be interesting in its own right?
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
RSS feeds are common, but most readers are mediocre. I'm stuck between some proprietary "pay to remove ads and subscribe for premium" crap, an emacs mode that randomly sometimes takes up to an hour to open, and Thunderbird, w
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Typical mind fallacy: thinking what is obvious to you is obvious to everyone.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
I can absolutely guarantee that when I was severely depressed, an all expenses paid weeklong camping trip would have: - Not been enjoyable, as I was much less capable of feeling pleasure/joy - Been way to difficult for me to accomplish
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Note that depression is a highly variable disorder, and not every depressed person is in any kind of "vicious self-destructive circle".
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
As someone with experience with both therapy and psilocybin (while severely depressed), I would guess the psilocybin is the main ingredient in this concoction, and the therapy is just being added to make the study more palatable, the same w
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
For me, emacs is also 2 keystrokes away and starts instantly (as long as the daemon is already running). Doom emacs has sane (good!) defaults. My main valid gripe with emacs is the slow rendering engine.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
It wasn't in taxes or tax breaks, but the ISPs were given exemption to regulation on prices in exchange for deploying a fiber network they never deployed. This basically happened twice, which is why I talk about 400 billion when the li
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Most people aren't aware... why? I'd guess because the media is controlled by some of the same people who want us to remain unaware. They block information from reaching the media, and flood media with sensationalist stories to pr
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
This is the result of government corruption. For example: the government paid ISPs $400 billion dollars (!) to create a nationwide fiber network, and the ISPs pocketed the money and didn't do it. No investigation into what happened or
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Can you find an example of a tech goodbye article which has been wrong?
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
A reminder that we did not evolve "up North". Also, we can barely see at night, and that's probably why we sleep when we do, for as long as we do. To keep us safe.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚄𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎. 𝙾𝚑.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
The introduction of the Fraktur font introduces different meaning. 'R' in Fraktur would mean something different than R in another font in the same text.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Yeah, Bill Gates should stop saving thousands of lives and instead fix a few bugs in Windows 10.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
> I'm sort of joking, but not quite. I can't think of an objective reason why being a 'night owl' is biologically an abnormality/deficiency. It leads to being awake during dark hours, and humans do not have night
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
The Whine Law: There will always be someone in every Hacker News comment section to whine like a baby. Every topic, every thread. Someone will whine.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Denial of the validity of IQ is one of the main factors that justifies the biggest form of discrimination in existence: discrimination based on intelligence. I was born wealthy, and some people are born homeless, purely based on IQ. This is
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
IQ, however, is the most robust psychometric.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
In my school (Canada), the math classes for the smart kids have stuff like matrix multiplication, and for the less ambitious kids there are units on finance.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
> What are you going to get rid of to open up some time in the kids schedule to teach finance? Half of the English curriculum now is literary analysis. Split English into a grammar class and a literary analysis class, and let students ta
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Criticizing the Chinese government is racist, don't you know that?
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Personally, I only understood logarithms after memorizing the log laws using spaced repetition. I had been taught logarithms before descriptively, but only once the equations were in my head could my brain make sense of how they work.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Note to self: don't get a Multi-Factor Authentication By checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MFA , I presume you meant Master of Fine Arts.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
This is not true for everything, like speaking. If you don't learn language in the critical period, you will never master it.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
Given the fact that we can build a computer in the game of life, this breaks down to a simpler question: can we have intelligence in a computer? If so, it can also occur in the game of life.
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by thotsBgone 6y ago
So basically, the exponential function is the function whose slope at a point is equal to the value at that point.

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