tristram_shandy

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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
I think you might be having a completely valid emotional response to your consciousness being called false. False Consciousness, like Dictatorship of the Proletariat, are specific terms within Marxist thought that are popularly misinterpret
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
You would have to understand class in the academic sense, as opposed to what you've been told your entire life, so being confused is entirely understandable. Class is a term that relates to an individual's relationship with the me
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
>The Fact Remains That Your A Guy From Reddit, And Im A Guy Who Posts On A Website Thats Somewhat More Prestigious Than Reddit Dril is the Shakespeare of our age.
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
One might imagine China wants Xinjiang to remain Chinese, just as the US wants Texas to remain American. Let us construct a hypothetical situation where our geopolitical adversaries (Russia, China, parts of South America) had spent the bett
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
Policing in America is a mostly modern invention, and the first public full-time police force is less than 200 years old: before the police, towns would typically have a night watch made up of citizens who volunteered for certain nights and
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
More reasoned analyses of 20th century performed by actual academics tend to view the collapse of the Soviet Union as a complex process with multiple confounding factors, including heavy losses in WW2, meteorological tragedies such as droug
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
Is it really evil if a few children die in the factory? Is it really evil if the work week is 96 hours? Is it really evil if we go hungry while the profits of labour are captured by people who are already millionaires and billionaires? Unio
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
It is obvious that we do not live in an actual democracy. Consider this: Do you actually get to vote on anything? Do you get to vote on major national issues? Did you get a referendum on any issue, e.g. Gay marriage? Iraq? Do you get to vot
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
I am also an optimist and a techno-utopian... BUT: 1. This has not been tested on a single human yet, as it has no FDA approval. 2. Preliminary trials in full quadripilegic patients are several away (these are also not yet approved) 3. Shou
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by tristram_shandy 7y ago
These are all simple platitudes, provided without reference. Imagine believing that 'socialism is just a phase' -- as if the entire history of the USSR, the Eastern bloc, most of Asia, and the 20th century history of labor and soc
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by tristram_shandy 8y ago
The point is that the government doesn't need to borrow any money in the first place. The government needs money only to buy the goods and services of the private sector in the service of the public interest. There is no other utility
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by tristram_shandy 8y ago
I haven't had any HiDPI issues -- the WQHD (2560x1440) display is quite usable at both 100% and 200% scaling. I've tried laptops with 4K displays and this is a far better experience, basically on par with my rMBP. It's also m
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by tristram_shandy 8y ago
The external 1080Ti will run pretty much everything flawlessly. I play Overwatch, Rocket League, GTA V, etc, and run everything with max settings and get consistent 60FPS with vsync and no tearing. Of course, you can always upgrade the grap
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by tristram_shandy 8y ago
ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD main display, two USB C ports + two regular USB ports + a
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
I got started with a girlfriend, specifically. For the first month, we agreed to do the following: 1) No breakfast 2) Only coffee (no sugar, sweeteners) or tea during the day 3) Go out for dinner every night. No cooking. Don't eat to
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
I can actually speak from expertise on this! I've done fasting for the last five years (daily, eating once between 6-9PM), but this advice mostly comes from endurance road biking. You can find "Salt-Free Salt" products in mos
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
Don't write anything on your resume that would indicate "number of years experience" -- list your jobs, explain key achievements, don't distill anything down to a number. Your resume should NOT explain who you are, or go
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
China has also banned Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Bitcoin... The lesson here is to invest in any technology that China bans.
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
I'd prefer not to gamble millions of lives on the theory that people or states (especially states that are effectively just one person) are going to act completely rationally. Here's one example where "rational self interest&
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
If one studies history, even casually, one might note that nearly all wars in history have not started as a result of rational actors making optimal decisions in accordance with game theory. Why, then, do we continue to believe this falla
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
>As a CEO, I see each day the direct contributions that talented employees from around the world bring to our company, our customers and to the broader economy. We care deeply about the DREAMers who work at Microsoft and fully support th
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
1. Every business that's running on GCE. They can't just "move off the service" in 30 days. This is a big one. Billions of dollars. Coca Cola obviously couldn't move in 30 days. Nor Airbus. 2. Every business that&#x
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
There's a lot of us, apparently, who independently came to the same conclusion at the same time. My YouTube account is deleted, my Google+ page is deleted, my emails are wiped. There's an anti-trust suit against Google looming. Th
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
Market capitalization is simply units * price. It has nothing to do with companies (or stocks), specifically: market cap is a simple formula that provides the total valuation of a commodity. Frankly, it's a misnomer to refer to Ethereu
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
SaltStack for configuration management, absolutely. We use it to manage our Linux servers, Macs, and the few Windows desktops that linger around the office. We also use it to bootstrap Kubernetes, audit configuration of some clusters, and p
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by tristram_shandy 9y ago
The difference, of course, between Galileo and Kolmogorov is that people are aware of Galileo. Acquiescing keeps intellectuals comfortable, but that's about all you can say for it. There's been a few of these articles linked on HN