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by zwkrt 5y ago
Men are so special we can’t even be confined to a single sex! Women are mostly all kind of like normal housewives, right?
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Based on your posting here I’m guessing you actually have enough freedom to be doing almost anything you want but you’ve “trapped” yourself in some awful situation that allows you to abdicate responsibility based on how terrible it is for y
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by zwkrt 5y ago
“That’s free will: were you to rewind the tape of world history, to the instant just before you made your decision, with everything in the universe exactly the same, you’d have been able to make a different one.” Let me posit a different wo
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Well if you’re still here to read my response, he believes really strongly that a strong sense of individual responsibility and personal freedom (as in liberty) is the only path to happiness. I live in a kind of a commune and I’ve never bee
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Progressives don’t like responsibility because it is complicated to balance talk of personal responsibility with that of social justice. The hardest part of being a minority is that one can blame almost all of ones ills on the state of soci
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Thanks. I try to take the medicine from the poison with regards to JP. Maps of Meaning really helped me fling myself out of a depression as an aspie-kind of a guy. I had such calm and reasoned thoughts of meaninglessness, a kind of zen-depr
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Jordan Peterson (red flag, I know!) talks about how disgust is actually one of the oldest emotional centers in the brain and is an incredibly distinct emotion from fear. He mentions that most people think that reactionary conservative think
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by zwkrt 5y ago
People keep saying this but I don’t understand the difference. Engineers only want to have constructive arguments with each other if they feel committed to the project and happy about their place in the organization. If people feel that the
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I completely agree with you and every point. I will also admit that I was being intentionally pessimistic but to get a point across. It’s funny you mention my cutthroat teams as a negative, because those are the teams that made me realize w
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I just can’t help but think of this movement as a kind of gaslighting. Your reports are either engaged because the work is interesting or the product is meaningful, or they are not. Attempts to sugar coat will fail just like how constructio
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Up until approximately 100-200 years ago (99.999% of humanity’s existence) it was a possibility in most of the world to retreat into complete wilderness and live as a hermit. Now there’s nowhere left to go. We have wilderness but it is owne
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Running is very hard on your body. I say this as a runner. I’ve been doing it consistently since high school and I have the bones and tendons and form, yet still I hurt myself sometimes. Even though I feel great after running I never recomm
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Which drop of rain caused the dam to break? In the book Good Omens there is a demon who considered himself the best not because he was the best deceiver or torturer, but because of his ability to cause mass malcontent. The real evil isn’t i
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by zwkrt 6y ago
It isn’t about sex with strangers. It’s about any sex with anyone who isn’t /exclusively/ and /indefinitely/ having sex with only me.
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by zwkrt 6y ago
The normal procedure here in Seattle anyway is to get a blood panel, rapid HIV test, mouth-, and anal-swab every three months as a requirement for being prescribed PReP. They check for syphilis, gonhorrea, HIV, chlamydia, and other blood-re
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by zwkrt 6y ago
You’re not stupid you’ve just never had to deal with a real actual problem in your life. Unemployment is a cause of or certainly concomitant with having very high stress and a very poor outlook on the future. In a town like Bessemer the tho
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by zwkrt 6y ago
> Our savings accounts can be thought of as the sum value of the energy output of our life’s work. What a lofty and out-of-touch viewpoint on personal value. I suppose the vast majority of people on this planet who have no meaningful sav
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Nope, actually it is wrong! Even if being an immigrant is correlated with higher rates of some crime, an algorithm cannot take that into account without bigotry. Imagine being an innocent immigrant. If the algorithm tags you as guilty, no a
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Well your scenario is obviously playing out to be true, this doesn’t mean that we need to degrade privacy on all fronts. It’s reasonable to me that someone might have to disclose that they have a communicable disease yet still have privacy
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by zwkrt 6y ago
You could contribute on GitHub!
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by zwkrt 6y ago
While this is technically true I don’t think that that means that the many worlds theory is the simplest or the most straightforward. In other areas of science we don’t take our mathematical formalisms to be real. Scientist don’t fret about
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by zwkrt 6y ago
How would Apple pull subscriptions off? Centrally manageable subscriptions are a part of the PayPal product API, not of general finance. How is your credit card supposed to understand if a recurring payment is due to a subscription or a reg
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by zwkrt 6y ago
How would Apple pull that off? Centrally manageable subscriptions are a part of the PayPal product API, not of general finance. How is your credit card supposed to understand if a recurring payment is due to a subscription or a regular habi
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by zwkrt 6y ago
I think it’s even more complicated than you lay out. There are so many ways to exist on this earth and many of those ways approach consciousness or intelligence “but different”. We could say the brain is conscious but what about all the unc
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by zwkrt 6y ago
The point still stands. Spotify is providing a platform to further enhance the grip of capital.
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In one sense, light experiences no time during travel, so anytime you are hit by radiation (like from a star) there is frame of reference in which the event was instantaneous. On the other hand, if you were on Earth and I was in between Ear
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Don’t so quickly discount mystical descriptions of dreams, even if you aren’t a religious person yourself. The thing that is special about dreams is that unlike our conscious waking experience you have no control over how they manifest them
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by zwkrt 6y ago
There’s a second Christian-esque type of self help which states, “you are a broken and pitiful person, your fundamental nature is flawed. Take these steps to salvation.” Jordan Peterson is like this with all his requests to empathize with g
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by zwkrt 6y ago
I really enjoyed the comparison with brutalism here. One of the goals of brutalism was to show off how large public spaces could be constructed for and by the masses out of basic materials. Really fits in with the intent of the lined projec
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by zwkrt 6y ago
> it's not racist, it's just Hanlon’s razor is no excuse for discrimination. In fact it’s the most common excuse, but it is never acceptable.

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