MFLoon

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by MFLoon 6y ago
Yea it's super neat. More journals/articles should have those to appeal to lay readers.
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by MFLoon 6y ago
I agree that the world is a complex system, but I don't actually agree that all or most of my actions as a private individual have wide reaching consequences. If you're below a certain critical threshold of wealth, power, social i
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by MFLoon 6y ago
I used to be baffled at the use of "SJW" as a pejorative, but comments like this reveal it's aptness to me. It's not the fighting for justice that's negative, it's the adoption of the warrior mentality. Which,
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by MFLoon 6y ago
It appears to be a literal troll account - "Peter Weyland" is the villain from the Alien cinematic universe.
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by MFLoon 6y ago
Apologies for the somewhat pedantic aside, but I want to point out: "literal Nazi" is a borderline oxymoron. There is no Nazi party, nor is Nazism a coherent political ideology to which one can seriously ascribe. I suppose people
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by MFLoon 6y ago
Was just perusing the Hoon tutorial out of curiosity, and it's wild how alien of a language it is. To my eyes it's like a bastard child of brainfuck and common lisp; look at the "simple Hoon program" they give in section
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by MFLoon 6y ago
Is it really? It seems like an enormous amount of effort for a prank. 18k commits on the main repo, tens of thousands of words of explanatory blog posts and documentation, etc.
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by MFLoon 6y ago
I highly doubt, if they even had a dedicated "security team" at the time the platform was architected as such, that they would have told the rest of the company they "had best-of-breed security". They would have understo
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by MFLoon 6y ago
Mine are mostly offers for a pre-approved $250,000 loan, available in less than 48 hours, for my non-existent small business. Curious what stolen mailing list I'm on that makes scammers think I'm a small business owner. Flattering
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by MFLoon 6y ago
> relatively minimal resources Uh, they're the most well capitalized corporation in the world (or hovering in the top 3 plus or minus a few quarters). They have the resources to make it work if they wanted. There are undoubtedly t
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by MFLoon 6y ago
Yea, the build quality is the biggest area it's lacking. I have Lemur from 3 years ago or so (and they still look more or less the same) - and the body is very uninspiring chunky black plastic, and feels flimsy/flexy. The keyboard
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Strange that App Academy was left out, considering it was one of the earliest (if not the first?) ISA bootcamps. Full disclosure: I attended in 2015, as did multiple friends in a +/- 1 year window around then. All of us had good experi
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by MFLoon 7y ago
That's an inane take. Even in the absolute worst case scenario of 3% global mortality, how would that possibly result in a 50% global decrease in economic output?
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by MFLoon 7y ago
There's a multitude of good reasons to close the dorms. People are sharing bedrooms, common areas, bathrooms and kitchens with far more people than they would be in the average private domicile. The network effect of communal living, c
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Here's the thing though, if I'm not already an effective political actor (i.e. someone with a lot of money, or a significant network of people who listen to me, or in a position of control over an institution with proxy access to
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'm criticizing the assertion on it's logical merits (or lack thereof). You're ignoring the substance of my critique, and making a borderline ad-hominem attack on me, including attempting to guilt me for my presumed identity.
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by MFLoon 7y ago
That's a shallow reading of his character. Trump loves few things more than being petty and vindictive towards his perceived enemies, and if big money is involved all the better.
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by MFLoon 7y ago
This assertions along the lines of "it's a privilege to be able to be politically disengaged" is just an empty slogan weaponizing empathy to guilt whoever it's directed at towards supporting your political leaning. It&#x
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Calling it 'conversational prostitution' isn't really an accurate analogy; or rather, it shouldn't be if you're taking the therapy seriously, though a lazy therapist/patient couple could certainly devolve into
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by MFLoon 7y ago
> deadlift's are quite dangerous for the untrained. This is just false. Sure, the untrained should get some instruction on proper form, and start with manageable weights, as with any exercise. But deadlifting is the least dangerous
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Yea I'm a bit frightened for the creators. I guess if they just comply with the inevitable C&D they won't get sued into oblivion?
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Seems very unlikely for safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#/media/File:Fa... Cost, who knows.
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'm no adtech expert, but I'm pretty sure he would not be getting .50 cents per user per year - that's what WebMD, one of the top 1000 most trafficked web sites in the world makes, so I assume it can sell it's ad space a
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Yea, I don't doubt they would remain closely entangled with the US Government even if we changed the IFF incentive structure. But even so, the present incentive structure is particularly perverse because it's creating a positive f
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'm sure they are, but do the European governments equivalent of the GSA also have incentives to actually drive up the price of consulting contracts they source for their governments? It's not just the coziness that is concerning,
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by MFLoon 7y ago
This isn't a matter of unconscious bias. People can (and, arguably, should) have a conscious, intentional bias, against inexperience, when it comes to selecting for skilled work. Age drops off as a useful proxy for experience once some
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by MFLoon 7y ago
Sort of a buried lede here. There's nothing shocking about overpriced, underdelivering consultants. But the bit about how the GSA is essentially profit sharing with said overpriced consultants at the expense of the rest of the govern
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'd agree with the spirit of your assertion that both the state, through surveillance and beauracratic control, and the market, through ever increasing share of our attention and hold over our appetites, are having harmful effects on m
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'm not saying not to tell people about your experience, or encourage inquiry or research, I'm saying don't overstate the weight of your singular experience and encourage others to believe that keto is likely to be a miracle
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by MFLoon 7y ago
I'm glad that's worked for you. But I don't think you should go around telling people that a keto diet will cure them of their psychosis; there are too many potentially confounding variables to just recommend a keto diet as a

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