verbin217

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by verbin217 11y ago
I've come to exactly that conclusion about my family. I love them but frankly their concern for me translates into very little benefit for anyone. Also their criticisms were largely born of themselves and served primarily to limit me.
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by verbin217 11y ago
I believe your notion of "belief" is false. Empirically in fact. As evidenced here. I would suggest that you ask yourself if your current idea of "belief" is actually serving you. If you did that you might see why you&#x
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by verbin217 11y ago
Why: "While the unexamined life may not be worth living, life cannot be comprehensively examined." I have chosen to believe that I am more finite than life . Further I believe that I can only examine a subset of each passing mo
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by verbin217 11y ago
I'm choosing to believe that our notions of "belief" differ.
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by verbin217 11y ago
You can choose to believe that there is meaning in life or that your relationship with it necessarily generalizes to all other human beings. It's just sort've annoying.
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by verbin217 11y ago
I consider myself to be a nihilist and suspect you may misunderstand it. The full scope of nihilism subsumes the smug and misanthropic blackhole that people seem to relate to it. It's just, as you put it, another robot executing a prog
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by verbin217 11y ago
Sure there is. A person of enough collective benefit becomes valuable enough to the surrounding world that they can be ignorant of their own selfish needs. They will simply be satisfied. You needn't be sacrificial about it. That wouldn
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by verbin217 11y ago
Tradition isn't the solution.
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by verbin217 11y ago
We practice a strange perversion of meritocracy. Sure. But there are a number of egalitarian ideals we do subscribe to. We're really a culture built on self-enhancement. Unfair advantages take people out of a self-enhancing mode. They
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by verbin217 11y ago
I love these sorts of negative assessments of greatness. I fucked over so many kids in math growing up. They came to believe they'd never be good at it because I worked ahead and they didn't realize it. Maybe I can't make up
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by verbin217 11y ago
Lol. This was a fantastic comment. I love the ending. We really are living in strange times. It's as if everyone is utterly intent on working but can't find the time to figure out what they ought to do. Everyone seems increasingly
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by verbin217 11y ago
I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm very pro-globalization. It's an engineering problem and that's the right solution. But I do fear this world order.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Real scientists know the colloquial notion of atheism is false and are, in fact, atheists.
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by verbin217 11y ago
I suspect he means one-man-set-and-forget-production.
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by verbin217 11y ago
The degree to which kids get fucked with before they're even allowed to enter society necessitates people like that exist. Working at a school isn't exactly esteemed. You were both smart enough to see through the situation and to.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Yeah, after reading this again I think you're right.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Why infer derision from a statement that needn't necessarily have been? That something required a small amount of code or effort is valuable information. And actually, among hackers, usually positive.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Maybe I'm not familiar with enough of the backstory. Where he has landed is fame. Not indie developer fame. Fucking fame . He very apparently wasn't ready for it and is making it worse by visibly floundering now. I feel fucking b
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by verbin217 11y ago
I feel bad for him. I might not tell him for fear my pity might incent such a state. It's still sad to see him essentially ejected from his life and otherwise incompatible with the social strata in which he's landed.
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by verbin217 11y ago
That's a bit pedantic but sure. Here it is fixed: > If you can do numeric arithmetic on it, it's a number.
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by verbin217 11y ago
It looks like it could also be useful for seasteading but maybe you feel the same way about that.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Isn't that mostly an artifact of deeply nested callbacks? With promises, generators, and what not I've been seeing a lot of new Javascript going back to 4. Is there a pragmatic reason for 2 going forward? I realize it's mostl
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by verbin217 11y ago
Right, I agree. Towards the end of my comment I tried to express that there is some value in not having one. Like entirely in addition to the benefits of, what I believe is, a superior education and lack of student debt. If you're ac
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by verbin217 11y ago
In my personal experience a solid work history is much better than a degree. Once you have it the value of a degree decreases significantly. Its almost entirely redundant. The only problem is you often need the degree to get the work histor
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by verbin217 11y ago
It's a generation with a deeply internalized notion of opportunity cost. That and given most people care primarily about the actual music the ratio in effort to ship/rip a cd versus download a torrent is enormous.
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by verbin217 11y ago
If micro transactions break into public awareness it might get significantly better. There could be a joint meter app like mint to track usage. You could just sort by a few things like recent cash flow and trivially manage your transactions
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by verbin217 11y ago
I'm young so this may get better with time but I've had a hard time finding environments that support the slower style. It's often derided as being the "waterfall" method.
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by verbin217 11y ago
Sure I pretty much entirely agree with you but the caution I stated earlier is the notable one for that mindset. There's always a step where you have to decide what the data means .
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by verbin217 11y ago
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
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by verbin217 11y ago
The amount I have to think about is considerably less. All the complexity just melts into Functions and Objects. There's similar stuff happening in React with inline styles. Mixins, variables, custom-properties, state-dependence, autom

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