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by yawpitch 2y ago
First thing she mentions is a 6 figure income… she has a big buffer between what will absolutely be a brief inconvenience and actual hardship.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
There’s a reply very near the top of the thread from eBay asking her to reach out in a DM for a resolution… her life isn’t destroyed by any measure, and no one fucked up, she shouldn’t have been selling an antique (or modern) pill press o
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I suppose self-induced when the weapon is food is, technically, natural. I’m reading someone (very sadly) doing destructive testing on their own cardiovascular, pulmonary, integumentary, and alimentary systems, seemingly without a control s
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Is the author actually trying to commit suicide? Cause this kind of severely disordered eating is a very good pathway there. EDIT: I ask this as someone who has spent a literal lifetime struggling with both disordered eating and suicidal
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ahh, good to know as a workaround.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Exactly.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Nice idea, but same results and also breaks formatting (on iOS Safari, at least).
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yes, but it’s pot luck if the term appears in the title at all… change from Popularity to Date and you’re just looking at every post that has an http/https URL, regardless of title.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> George Carlin nailed it when he said, the face of true existential horror is when you get to middle age and realise that all those idiots you went to school with are now running things. True existential horror is when you get to old ag
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I’m missing no point precisely because there is no point whatsoever in asking people’s views on free will while first assuming determinism is, which is prima facie relying on facts not in evidence AKA assuming the conclusion AKA begging
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Could HN search special case "HTTP"?
3 points by yawpitch 2y ago|9 comments
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Most people taking determinism seriously is exactly the same as most people taking God seriously, when neither determinism or God is provably known to be present or absent from the situation. Any attempt to decide the question of free will
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ahh, Sufism… shame it’s not as well known as the other branches on the tree of Islam.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
You can explain much of reality using Newtonian physics too, especially the portion humans operate in. Of course you run into enormous problems at high energies and velocities, so you need something more, and then you run into really inte
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Given deterministic causality Assumption of facts not in evidence, given open questions in quantum mechanics.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
My substantive criticism is that the author makes no substantive argument or point at all; she starts by preaching to her choir and she ends with it, at no point does she attempt to communicate anything whatsoever to anyone who isn’t alread
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Sure… as there is in any and every area of medical research. But from the “post-truth” in the title to the faux-air quotes around the entire concept of gender identity to just all the circular reasoning that suffuses every word of this
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by yawpitch 2y ago
http://archive.today/QnLAz
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The confirmation bias is thick with this one.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Point out what [constitutionally valid] law it’s broken; if it’s audible to the ear from a public location in San Francisco (or anywhere in the US) then you’re allowed to record it (similarly if you can see it from a public vantage point, t
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I love this. Beautiful, simple, but just a little subversive. :chef’s kiss:
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ok, it’s painfully obvious to that these Kentucky boys are desperately compensating for something. If nothing else, the recoil.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
“Competing views of sex and gender” is an interesting example of doublespeak. Most people still clinging to their competing views eventually publicly retreated from their homophobia because society moved on without them, now they’ve retrenc
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by yawpitch 2y ago
For the non-boaters, “heaves to” means “has stopped” in this context.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> [Curly b]rackets are awesome, don’t use them. FTFY. Also, for the sake of disambiguation, just call them braces. ( ) == parentheses | round brackets [ ] == brackets | square brackets { } == braces | curly brackets
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Well, “great”… I still remember the taste of hairspray.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yep, so expect that in 2040 “retro” will mean the iPod and 1st gen iPhone. A working blue and white Mac G4 will be worth a fortune .
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by yawpitch 2y ago
At a guess, because that’s roughly the time most people currently in a mid-life crisis consider their childhood? My guess is “retro” moves on roughly as fast as we do.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
If there is a job that attracts psychopaths, we should seriously reconsider the existence of that job. If, on the other hand, there is a job that makes psychopaths, we should really seriously reconsider the existence of that job.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I have no particular opinion on the matter — though, full disclosure, I did join the mailing lists of both groups when I was trying to start a Master’s degree program and found the resulting messaging and an AI safety study group in particu

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