Agamus

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by Agamus 4y ago
There is a guide to the API here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
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by Agamus 4y ago
Do any experts know if there is any overlap in this research with the study of quantum fluctuations in empty space? https://youtu.be/zNVQfWC_evg?t=1260 (David Tong: Quantum Field Theory)
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by Agamus 4y ago
If I have it right, she feels a great deal of frustration and betrayal. But apparently not enough to give up hope that her idea is the best course to achieve progress for society.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Good medicine! I hope there are scores of us who see this and feel the immediate inspiration to recreate our old freak sites.
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by Agamus 4y ago
My sampling is diverse and big, in my bad opinion. I'm in the US, born in New England, and have lived in five states throughout the Northeast, Texas, and the Northwest. I've spent a collective three years living in Germany, Switze
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by Agamus 4y ago
> I reckon that even at its height the type of people likely to be labeled conspiracy theorists and white supremacists were more common offline than online. My ~50 years of life experience leads me to suspect the exact opposite. New fanc
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by Agamus 4y ago
I manage a small wiki, and would never just open it up to the bots. But fast is relative, no? E.g., I still use snail mail extensively to keep in touch with my friends.
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by Agamus 4y ago
You're right, people don't care. Surely, we're at a point where more well-loved quotes are represented creatively in some way than not? That has been my recent experience. I had a friend who corrected a celebrated Ivy League
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by Agamus 4y ago
Asking for a friend? Or did you mean antagonist?
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by Agamus 4y ago
Precisely my thoughts, though I think this is more problematic than simple, nefarious malice. Sometimes it is the case that no one behind the decisions is being malicious - e.g., perhaps just trying to accomplish a task at hand on a tight t
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by Agamus 4y ago
I disagree, but would rather converse on the topic than argue, so that's thats.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Thank you for the reply - I very much appreciate the counterargument. If I have it right, the claim would be to undermine (the ontological basis of) logic itself, as the flaw is found, not in math, but in the underlying assumption in materi
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by Agamus 4y ago
Agreed - mathematics is predicated on the idea that there are individual things, but as we are learning, through things like quantum field theory, there are no individual things, hence, no individuated 'things' to count. As such,
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by Agamus 4y ago
While I certainly would not want to discourage anyone reading Fichte, doesn't the discussion of the distortion of "self" assume an ontology that cannot be demonstrated? Social Media has not distorted our sense of "self&q
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by Agamus 4y ago
If only it were that easy! The only way to win is to bend over backwards to block all of their various tracking garbage that is hiding in the majority of internet websites. And I suspect that even the most stalwart soldier in this fight is
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by Agamus 4y ago
This made my day, and thank you for documenting everything so well. The visible latency brings back warm, early childhood memories.
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by Agamus 4y ago
It's a losing battle - people are wise not to jump in. I'm even restraining myself from providing my own reasoning. "eppur si muove"
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by Agamus 4y ago
Awesome link, thank you. Nietzsche's career was an exercise in creating and promoting the concept of 'creative nihilism' as an alternative to existential pessimism, which works for me!
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by Agamus 4y ago
Another version: no I am not. I'm impressed with how many people really do not understand the meaning of these terms. The idea that the US is culturally divided makes a lot more sense to me now, reading all of these responses.
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by Agamus 4y ago
No, I am not.
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by Agamus 4y ago
It's poetic, but a reader will likely understand 'hard drug' = something like cocaine, where 'soft drug' = something like marijuana.
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by Agamus 4y ago
I agree entirely, and thank you for providing a more thoughtful analysis. My experience: when tech support are (very) competent, (very) patient, (very) people-loving people, left to do their work in a low-turnover place with no ticket syste
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by Agamus 4y ago
If you've ever worked in IT support, you know that the ticketing process is about the only thing that keeps the idiots at bay, spamming support directly with the most inane issues. You may be quite adept with computer machines, but wor
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by Agamus 4y ago
These are probably the people who work in IT, who love to fix things and solve problems. Their workplace productivity and morale may be enhanced by the inevitable IT problems that befall others.
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by Agamus 4y ago
I too would like to see this. This strange work tracks ontological implications of QFT, and extends into metaethics: http://www.katabane.com/mt/ontology.html
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by Agamus 4y ago
Excellent site - thank you! Perhaps it is the way we think about the internet that has also changed... Back in the day, when I wanted to find something on the internet, I knew I was going to have to dig and search and explore. My mind expec
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by Agamus 4y ago
I assumed it was a reference to the slang movie title "Mo Better Blues".
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by Agamus 4y ago
But doesn't fundamentality in fields imply something quite different than fundamentality in parts (particles)? I sense that the next step in physics and ontology can only happen when we have created a new linguistic approach to capture
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by Agamus 4y ago
Because ego is the enemy.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Five years! I've been screaming that for at least 15 years, and I'm pretty sure I'm a noob to the discussion.

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