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by toofy 8y ago
> ...yet it’s still a taboo area for people to speak about in the main stream... This would be a result of how many people immediately jump to absurd conclusions that something evil absolutely must somehow be at play. It’s bizarre how
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by toofy 8y ago
> Yet to speak of anything even remotely similar gets you labeled a crackpot conspiracy theorist This is likely due to how it is being discussed. Too often, when secret societies are brought up, many people have convinced themselves th
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by toofy 8y ago
In my freshman creative writing class at university, my professor recommended using stream of thought and it seemed to work very well. Just literally start writing everything you think, as you think it, everything, just write it. Don’t fret
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by toofy 8y ago
I'm guessing they meant "No spellcheck in forms without jumping through more hoops ."
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by toofy 8y ago
Absolutely. Apologies if I indicated my list were the only possible issues at play.
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by toofy 8y ago
I would love to see more content which falls in the between this and the extremely overedited-for-excitement stuff which seems so pervasive now.
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by toofy 8y ago
It seems that for a large number of industries, at some point, the priorities largely shift from innovation to blocking competition and manipulation of various types.
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by toofy 8y ago
The Partially Examined Life and Philosophize This! are both entertaining.
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by toofy 8y ago
It’s a whole lot of things, but first and foremost and probably the simplest explanation, security is hard. Incredibly hard. Once you understand how difficult attack mitigation is, then you can pick and choose from a variety of factors: - e
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by toofy 8y ago
> Since when was HN anti-privacy? The Citizenry should have privacy while the government should be transparent. Tangent: Somewhere along the lines this has flipped and we've somehow stumbled into a situation where the government bel
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by toofy 8y ago
> This seems like part of the insect apocalypse story... For those who aren’t aware what they’re referring to by insect apocalypse, a story came out a few days ago about some seemingly very important insect research: NYTimes: https:&#x2
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by toofy 8y ago
Fair point, I definitely should have been more charitable in my reading, I got stuck on this: > The most effective rape drug ever, turning adults into children who can be exploited I was looking to tease out some clarification, because t
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by toofy 8y ago
Other than this article, I’m pretty much unfamiliar with Ram Dass, so I’m curious what leads you to believe some form of rape took place. Is there something in Ramm Dass’ past that the article doesn’t cover? I feel like I must be missing so
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by toofy 8y ago
I’m a far cry from an economist, but I’m curious if the sharp rise in tourism over the last couple of decades is an indication that people have much more disposable income than we previously had access. As the article mentions, travel and l
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by toofy 8y ago
I think this is the point many people are seemingly missing. Ask any family restaurant/bar owner in a seasonal tourist destination and they’ll explain why locals must be one of the first considerations before you make drastic changes
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by toofy 8y ago
Do they control for economy? Is the definition of “fill time musician” the same? I imagine full time musicians would be impacted by a faltering economy at least somewhat more than most careers and probably one of the last careers to bounce
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by toofy 8y ago
While in my personal version of a just world all artists would make a livable salary and I think this is what you mean, however if what I’m hearing from music industry friends is accurate, there are far more artists now making a modest but
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by toofy 8y ago
I imagine it is only a matter of time before we have alternatives to things such as Uber or Airbnb which arr driven by open source and cooperatively owned infrastructure. It’ll be so frustrating to watch the current leaders in these industr
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by toofy 8y ago
As someone who has spent the better part of their life advocating for openness, decentralization, etc... it pains me to believe this, but I'm not sure we can have both open decentralized communities and simultaneously a community that
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by toofy 8y ago
Indeed. We need a new and more comprehensive set of metrics by which we measure value add or success. When considering how successful a thing, a person, or a project is, innovation and market success certainly should be weighted heavily but
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by toofy 8y ago
I thought we were as well, but here we are :/
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by toofy 8y ago
I’m not sure this comment is entirely fair if we consider they’re responding to a comment which refers to the wider internet, multiple times. > It harms all the industries where the content is ad supported, which is the majority of the I
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by toofy 8y ago
I think what you, the parent post, and the grandparent post are showing is: When the signal indicates a high likelihood of risk involved with hiring someone convicted of nonviolent crimes, we have a fairly significant flaw in our system. A
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by toofy 8y ago
> ...but it does prove that you fear his message and it strongly suggests that his message might be correct. I find it strange that one would believe this A) means people are scared, and B) means the message is more likely to be correct.
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by toofy 8y ago
Yeah, behaviors alone can definitely work for some people, no question. But as research seems to be indicating, there are many factors aside from just behavior or hours of sleep needed. devexpy discusses some of it above. Some people’s c
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by toofy 8y ago
That’s amazing that worked for you. I know it works for some people, but there are a significant number of us who have tried all of those things and it doesn’t work for us. What does work for me, consistently and amazingly well, was to acc
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by toofy 8y ago
This is likely because the threat model does not include a threat for data which is collected for advertising purposes, but rather prioritizes the threat of random hackers or mid-high-range resourced state level actors. While Google is cert
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by toofy 8y ago
> Albert Most discovered this bizarre compound a few decades back by smoking the venom from the glands of a Sonoran Desert toad... I wonder what sequence of events leads to one deciding "I think I'm gonna smoke the venom from
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by toofy 8y ago
It is definitely not fair to say “treehuggers, every single one of them. There are a lot of environmentalists who are absolutely pro-nuclear. Just like any mass of people, blanket generalizations are almost always just wrong. We can do bet
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by toofy 8y ago
No, it absolutely did not overturn protected status of LGBTQ. To quote Justice Kennedy, Colorado "can protect gay persons in acquiring products and services... the law must be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion".

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