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by zzzbra 5y ago
And why not?
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by zzzbra 5y ago
I dunno. I think OP may be right about changes in meme culture, but I don’t think OP is being anything but nostalgic in any of the examples given. memes are more sophisticated insofar as they’re more self aware and self referential but th
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by zzzbra 5y ago
underrated reply
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by zzzbra 5y ago
Some added data to back up what you're saying: https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homi... Increases in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Kentucky would indicate to me a lack of correla
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by zzzbra 5y ago
Speaking from personal experience, it makes for an excellent Christmas present.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
seems like a bad take
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by zzzbra 5y ago
I always find it annoying when people or media breathlessly circulate something that is “written by bots” and then it patently is not in any meaningful sense. this is clearly the work of someone imitating what they think a bot might produce
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by zzzbra 5y ago
Firefox is also really worth checking out again.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
Was it just me or was this article a bit pedantic? Of course just playing trees alone isn’t going to solve climate change—but is anyone saying that?
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by zzzbra 5y ago
this is completely unrelated to the content of the post, but, since when has lesswrong have such clean web design? 0.o
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by zzzbra 5y ago
lack of infinite scroll != no scrolling.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
I would argue that there is something about the physical interaction that is scrolling. you can scroll at the same time you are reading--this makes the text more of a moving target, and then your "reading" becomes mere scanning. i
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by zzzbra 5y ago
thank you for the link! I'm happy to see other people making this point--raises my hopes some future UX designers will bring it to the platforms someday.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
I think part of the problem today with individuals trying to figure out how to moderate their social media usage is that it's not clear what specifically within social media constitutes harm. Is it the like/upvote mechanism? Hacke
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by zzzbra 5y ago
Ian Bogost a luddite...? interesting.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
not relative to their time. in a world of weak institutional and little in the way of medicine, most children die before adulthood. those that do are your only insurance policy in old age.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
Please, do elaborate
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I think the main thrust of the article is that Peter Thiel's libertarianism is hugely unprincipled and inconsistent with itself. which might describe of lot of the more famous libertarians out there actually...
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by zzzbra 5y ago
the correct timeline
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by zzzbra 5y ago
“breathless fulminations” — this is such a a great expression, thank you!
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by zzzbra 5y ago
Because normies generally aren’t aware of Zappa, Beefheart, et al., whereas Yoko’s improbable connection to what was probably the most popular musical group in the world for much of the 20th Century out her squarely on their radar. Also, ho
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by zzzbra 5y ago
greatly appreciate that this could make it to the top of hacker news.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
no idea why this isn’t more popular.
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by zzzbra 5y ago
to think that some people called the new godzilla movies dumb…
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by zzzbra 6y ago
I guess Snyder is all the remains of the Beats before they are, properly speaking, history...
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by zzzbra 6y ago
Century of Self is pretty self-contained and portable as far as having takeaways go.
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by zzzbra 6y ago
Rosa Parks was a militant activist and part of a large activist network that was consistently staging public acts in defiance of Jim Crow segregation. This is misleadingly left out of most folks’ intro to her most successful action.
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by zzzbra 7y ago
always hated that this company had the same name as the already established open source SRS software
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Hacker News for Animators(mixed.parts)
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I'm offline(blog.vinneycavallo.com)
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