FrontierPsych

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by FrontierPsych 2y ago
Yeah, but it all depends. I live, work, and shop all within a few blocks, so traffic for me is the exact same as any other mid-sized city suburbs. Oh, sure, occasionally I get caught in traffic on the freeway because I have to go somewh
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by FrontierPsych 2y ago
Absolutely.
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by FrontierPsych 2y ago
Takes all types. It's the best thing I've ever done and I'll never move from here.
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by FrontierPsych 2y ago
How much can they make from selling this type of information?? Hundreds of billions? It would seem to me that the amounts would be pitifully small as compared to making their customers angry. Even if it was $20 million, or $40 million, or $
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Nah. How would any civilization be able to distinguish it from any other tiny piece of material moving through space. As far as radio waves go, no way. Anything that we have sent out from Earth is indistinguishable from background noise of
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
>First, more people means more outliers—more super-intelligent, super-creative, or super-talented people, to produce great art, architecture, music, philosophy, science, and inventions. There might be 1,000 certified geniuses per billion
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Workers, yes, but mainly consumers. A million dollar fine, if you sell 500,000,000 cartridges (just a guess, but in 2012 I searched and saw they sold 315 million worldwide) means they would have to charge .2 cents per cartridge to pay for t
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
You are bringing up the exceptions. If everyone you know played Russian roulette, well, that is a stupid game to play, even if nobody you know landed on the chamber with the bullet in it. "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" as
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Personal responsibility plays probably 80% of it, and that really points to the company one chooses to keep. When one keeps drug addicts or drug-friendly people as friends, that is the worst possible decision that one can make, of all decis
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
whatever you say, dude.
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
whatever you say, dude.
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
oh, wow, ok. 19... I went to university and didn't get out until mid-1980s. We're the same age. About 5 years ago, I did work in a tech company startup with 21 and 22 years old. On my side it was just fine. Don't know what th
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
ChatGPT is the bomb. I use it to create content, to help me find weird words, to help me find films that I totally don't remember the name of but just describe one scene that I remember, just the other day, I needed to find out how to
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Cool, good on you. I did write: "except for exceptions." which of course, there always are. Even back in the day when you and I were getting our first jobs in tech in the mid-1980s. I'm sure you were very aware of the whole t
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
>I didn't claim otherwise here, either You implied it, you didn't say it. >I literally didn't mention political beliefs or forcing people to accept what's best for them at all To him and to me, you didn't l
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Because "privilege" is a code word and a slur on those who do not agree, and a way to try to shut down rational conversation. Words can have more than one meaning, they can be nuanced, and they can mean something else entirely to
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
>This is a comment that originates in privilege. This sounds like a comment about privilege that originates in privilege. The person just expressed his or her opinion, and bandying words like "privilege" shuts down communicatio
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
>discriminate against older and more experienced people -- a practice so widespread in tech we joke about it. Hint: seniority usually implies higher pay, lower chance of getting blinded by free pizza and dry cleaning, and more independen
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
oh, yeah. That was a bonehead move on the part of Digg. I was happy with it until that disasterous change. It reminds me of a bar I used to go to in San Francisco called The Rat and the Raven. There was a bartender there named Storm Large a
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
I would be, except for the fact that a religion like islam will cut off your head if you decide you don't believe in a god anymore. And christianity was like that as well, until the Western World secularized. With the ugly head of evan
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
what system isn't?
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
> if "time" is infinite And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass every time he hopped. But back to reality, there is not infinite time and matter. All that heat death of the universe and everything. The arrow of
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Being an atheist, I vehemently disagree with his assertion and give reasons for why I disagree: >Religion is not “ancient superstition.” >The great religions caught on because they successfully communicated something vital about the h
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
I read about an experiment where they had people draw a pencil. However, with each iteration, the next person to draw the pencil had to do it in a new way that was not done before. The first drawings were regular drawing of a pencil, but as
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Because there are a ton of ill-informed consumers, not just in regards to automobiles, but everything. There are only 4 cars that I ever shop for. Toyota Corrola, Toyota Camry, Honda Civic, Honda Accord. It really makes it easy to shop, too
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Why worry? Nobody is going to stop driving their car, nobody is going to stop taking plane trips. And those are utterly nothing as compared to the largest generators of CO2 --- children. Every single thing that a person can do is miniscule
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Because fine artists are something cultural that adds beauty and a new way of looking at the world around us. The Mona Lisa is different from a 1982 Ford Escort. I mean, maybe you don't see it that way, but most of humanity does.
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
Same. Used Firefox from long ago, but switched about 3 years ago when I just was getting way too many problems with firefox not running SaaS stuff. Couldn't run Salesforce on Firefox. Maybe there was some way that someone knows of here
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
But was he doing a great job on Firefox before being fired?
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by FrontierPsych 3y ago
After watching Russia's performanc in Ukraine, I'm sure the thought has flitted across Xi's mind once or twice.

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