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by tosser0001 5y ago
I feel like I must be in a distinct minority because I personally prefer painted bike lanes over any other alternative. It's pretty rare in my own experience to have cars ignoring or being impatient with them (maybe because I like in
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by tosser0001 5y ago
> seemingly the bible (or similar religious textbook) You seem to be going out of your way to demonstrate your atheistic bonafides by expressing an affected ignorance of some of the most important texts in human history. Understand that
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by tosser0001 5y ago
Buzz Aldrin took communion on the Moon. Not everything is Either/Or
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by tosser0001 5y ago
The slight lag that I encounter constantly when interacting with devices and on-line services. Since working from home I become acutely aware of how often I'm dealing with spinners waiting for things to load, pauses, lag, etc. I feel l
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by tosser0001 5y ago
I always hate the freaking Thunder Sentence: ... blah blah blah blah blah. UNTIL NOW. It's everywhere nowadays and it makes me wince every time I run into it. And for whatever reason it's especially annoying when I can f
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by tosser0001 5y ago
That advent of tooth decay has long been seen as a marker of a society's transition away from foraging and to agriculture which generally brings a lot more starch into the diet.
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by tosser0001 5y ago
That is a mischaracterization of what Facebook is doing. Facebook has a giant ontology of subjects. Based on their "stalking" of you, subjects in this ontology are connected to the user profile; i.e., the FB user's "int
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by tosser0001 5y ago
I picture them that way mostly because of all the games of Stratego I played as a kid. I was surprised not to see it mentioned in the article!
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by tosser0001 5y ago
I wish the link could go to the actual source: https://www.rose-lynnfisher.com/tears.html
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by tosser0001 5y ago
This is great. Historical newspapers are one of the largest corpora of information that has yet to be adequately brought on line. In the U.S. the Library of Congress has digitized a fair number, but at the state and local level it's re
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by tosser0001 5y ago
I don't believe dowsing is real - but Arthur C. Clarke had made a statement at one point that it didn't seem completely outside the realm of possibility that there could be an evolutionary advantage for people to have some subcons
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by tosser0001 5y ago
I recall it was almost axiomatic that the more expensive the content management system, the worse the URLs it produced. I completely believe in the spirit of TBL's statement, and wish the internet had evolved to followed some of the id
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by tosser0001 5y ago
I worked for a company that was making a large CASE tool way back when and even at the time it felt like nonsense. Internally it never even crossed our minds to use it as a means of building the tools themselves. I remember bringing this u
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by tosser0001 5y ago
It's funny to think that if Buddy Holly were alive today he'd be 8 years younger than Mondale. People who've lived a long time connect to a world that seems so distant it feels like an entirely different era of existence.
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by tosser0001 6y ago
Being able to model consciousness mathematically opens up some grotesque possibilities. Human suffering presumably has some sort of limit based purely on our physical makeup. Suppose though the very concept of subjective suffering could be
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I really hope that in the near future, we can look back at this period as a moment of temporary cultural insanity.
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by tosser0001 6y ago
It also reminds me of Tschiffely who spent 3 years riding on horseback from Buenos Aires to New York City in the mid-1920s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_F%C3%A9lix_Tschiffel...
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by tosser0001 6y ago
This feels like the latest round of moral panic that we'll look back on with bewilderment
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by tosser0001 6y ago
This is just a wrapper around: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-billion-galaxies-lurk-in-a-1... Probably should change the link to that
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I'm sure there is some core set of people that want to "stick it to Wall Street" but the vast majority are probably just along for the ride. The irony is, once this stock finally comes crashing down, it will be the small reta
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by tosser0001 6y ago
My company has a program specifically designed to bring in new blood probably because there are so many older folks. Part of it involves spending time with different teams to get a feel for the various things that are going on. How well i
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I’ve only ever experienced salary-ism which is just a side effect of being in the industry for so long. The issue with getting decent reviews and salary bumps is that eventually you’re making more money than many people are willing to take
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by tosser0001 6y ago
Twitter can feel like YouTube without the videos, just the comments. I especially despise the “trends” sections. It ignores any keywords and sites that you’ve blocked and seems designed to inflame. Dorsey at one point made a big statement a
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I opened this in Firefox and Chrome on a desktop and nothing happened other than some blocks floating by. No keyboard or mouse activity had any effect. It was only when I tried it on my phone did I see it was a game
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by tosser0001 6y ago
Are you saying you removed every single item from your "Interests" in ad settings? If you haven't done that before it can take a while to remove all the accumulated topics. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I think they're a bit to aggressive in naming tropical storms as it is. Currently any tropical storm that reaches 39mph/63kph gets a name, which to me is pretty low threshold. Maybe if every two-bit storm didn't get a name p
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by tosser0001 6y ago
This was the first thing I had ever read by him about the time of the Yale controversy. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004): http://abahlali.org/files/Graeber.pdf It struck me as some really original thinking
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by tosser0001 6y ago
It’s not really the rate of accidents so much as who will be getting sued. I think it will take legislation to protect autonomous vehicle manufacturers against certain lawsuits otherwise the cost of liability will be so high the vehicles wi
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by tosser0001 6y ago
While that does freak me out, I'm also somewhat disturbed by the idea of leaving no trace in the universe. In today's world there is a lot of information about us that has been recorded. In some sense we're not completely fo
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I remember Scientific American had an article about what would happen to New Orleans if a hurricane hit several years before Katrina [1]. I recall having a bit of a hard time believing it could really be as bad as they said: surely people

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