yowlingcat

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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   Love this description, 'very fast idiot' is poignant and accurate. May have to steal that one from you. In a similar vein, my mom and dad forked into different paths but are both intelligent in very different ways. The intelligenc
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   I see this and it's very frustrating. The things you mentioned are what make it such a difficult problem, especially "competition from disability, welfare and black market income sources." So often, it's papered over and
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   I keep wondering about this. It's so obvious that trade schools are a good thing. I have nothing against code academies, but where is the similar kind of shiny kind of get people employed for the sake of society and do social good&quo
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   We also spent millennia believing the earth is flat. I see your point that "Religious people who live according to traditional gender roles then outbreed the atheists" which is definitely a worry of mine too. I've recently be
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   I've always heard Moldbug referenced indirectly, but I never made the more direct connection, nor the Taylor commentary. Thanks. I suppose the question here is whether it is possible to escape the Cathedral; that is, whether the Cathed
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   Interesting. I'd love to read some more about keto -- could you recommend any good sources?
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   Agreed, but that Sword of Damocles cuts both ways. The thing you do with your data which starts out useful at first can and will easily erode into infrastructural debt if not built on sound foundations, which cannot be found off the shelf i
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   [2] is fantastic. I was just thinking about strategies to voice lead a set of block chords correctly while minimizing overall intervallic distance.
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   by yowlingcat 10y ago

   I don't think it's an unreasonable position, and I have read similar arguments on the mailing list. I think you're correct that there are much better game engines out there. But, I like that BGE is open source, I like how wel
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    by yowlingcat 10y ago

    "Better news: the Blender Game Engine project might be getting a revival. The UPBGE team is very motivated to keep Blender engine work, and help with aligning BGE with the goals we set for 2.8 – at least to use the new viewport and pbr
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    by yowlingcat 10y ago

    Am I the only one that gets nostalgic for university while reading this? Ah, I think back to university many years ago and it almost makes me a little sad. A time when I spent so much of my time learning that these techniques would come in
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    by yowlingcat 10y ago

    Wouldn't say that $X is not proportional to $Y/Z%. It's the other way around, that $Y is proportional to $X/Z%. If Z% decreases, that value increases. The utility of a property can serve multiple use cases -- it could be
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    by yowlingcat 10y ago

    You might be conflating overall rental demand activity with overall real estate financing activity. Keep in mind that low interest rates create continuous opportunities for financing, bandlimited to the minimal interval between credit knock