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by wussboy 5y ago
I echo others here and encourage you to just delete your account and get off it. I did so with Facebook many years ago after getting sucked in to so many arguments and so much angst, and now, when I log in every year or so to check if an ol
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by wussboy 5y ago
Males aren't sexually selected for attractiveness. They are selected for their ability to provide for a mother and baby. So, human male's desirability increases with time, peaking at some point where their peak wealth crosses thei
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by wussboy 5y ago
My bad.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Well, this takes me back. I’ve probably spent hours staring at the download queue in eDonkey then Overlord and eMule. I might spin this up just for old time’s sake.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Hey, no worries, rlgullis. I get heated too. :) I don’t know if it will be fruitful to continue this discussion here either, but I appreciate your comments and I suspect that if we spent an afternoon trying we’d find our common ground was v
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by wussboy 5y ago
Thanks for your reply, rlgullis. The extremes of my example were only to show that there could be real and serious consequences from misinformation rather than silence. If we dial it back from "killing my neighbour" to "lost
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by wussboy 5y ago
If my kids were late coming home from school, and I asked you if you know what has happened, and you either: 1. Don't say anything because my neighbour tapes your mouth shut 2. Lie and say, "They were brutally murdered by your nei
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by wussboy 5y ago
This is one of those posts that really hits me as a "maybe we can do this, but should we do this?" I suppose that if/when the ability to jack yourself in to a completely virtual environment comes, humanity will split between
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by wussboy 5y ago
Maybe it's a shame that nothing of consequence hinged on it. If someone was aggrieved, we're more likely to get a court case out of it and the law changed.
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The world is complex and nuanced, and any "best possible world" will therefore be complex and nuanced. I did not advocate for the complete removal of all anonymity, which might have prevented important historical events. I advocat
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by wussboy 5y ago
Thanks for your reply. I think you're touching on a different issue as well: "Everything I say is knowable by everyone, forever." For most of human history the words and ideas that came out of most people's mouths were n
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by wussboy 5y ago
Your reply (and many others) assumed that I was advocating censorship, but I did not and I am not. All I am advocating is that whatever your idea is should be reflected on your reputation. I do find it interesting that there is such a stron
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by wussboy 5y ago
It is solvable by punishing anyone who posts fake pictures. Since the problem of bad actors in society has existed for millennia, we anyway know a dozen ways to deal with it. We just haven’t really bothered to apply any of them to the Inter
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by wussboy 5y ago
I used to think that the internet would be the greatest tool for human peace ever invented. But I was wrong. I didn’t know that humans don’t use reason to determine their position. The use it to justify their position and Google provides th
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by wussboy 5y ago
I think the architecture of “censorship resistance” must appeal to developers, which is why so many of these platforms exist. Unfortunately they’re solving the wrong problem. Censorship isn’t what make social media and blogging so toxic to
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by wussboy 5y ago
It's such a nuisance in choral music as well. There are about 1 million canticles, by hundreds of composers, to hundreds of settings, sung by hundreds of choirs, scattered across hundreds of albums. Good luck finding anything even slig
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by wussboy 5y ago
Many years ago I was a huge fan of Music Brainz. I found a mis-named album info one time, submitted a request with changes to correct them, was rejected out of hand for an innocuous reason, and never went back. Which is too bad. As an idea
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by wussboy 5y ago
Yes, I’d love to make the colours big and bold. No more mixing dev and production…
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by wussboy 5y ago
Bookmarked. Will try immediately upon arrival at work.
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by wussboy 5y ago
How many employees does a corporation need before it can act unethically?
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by wussboy 5y ago
Emotionally charged gets more likes. It is the fundamental problem of social media. You cannot avoid it because you will lose in the competition for attention against an organization that embraces it.
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by wussboy 5y ago
Do you have links or suggestions for stats about “hours worked per bushel of grain etc.”? I’m interested in this area.
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by wussboy 5y ago
“I’ve yet to see it used successfully…” As far as you know. By definition, wouldn’t its successful use mean you didn’t know it was successfully used?
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by wussboy 5y ago
Your comment is neither an example nor evidence.
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That is an incredible leap.
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by wussboy 5y ago
I experienced something similar, but never realized anyone else might as well. Thanks for writing this.
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But surely this is precisely how people begin to believe in any conspiracy theory? How many flat earthers would tell exactly the same story? How many anti-vax? Clearly humans begin to believe the evidence for something when they are expos
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by wussboy 5y ago
I hear you, and I regret that the Environmental movement feels the need to ratchet everything up to a catastrophe. But surely if “peak” means anything it means that we used to grow, now we contract, and therefore peak oil has already occurr
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by wussboy 5y ago
Yet here we are. Our current trials and tribulations are nothing compared to the Black Plague, the Hundred Years‘ War, WW2, even the stress of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet here we are. Maybe it’s not so fragile after all?
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by wussboy 5y ago
Have you seen the weather up here?!? For most of this country, growing things indoors in completely artificial environments is the only option. There may be regulatory issues at play, but mainly I would think it’s a climatic necessity.

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