OneWordSoln

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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
FF on Debian and Ubuntu.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Not on my boxen. Never again.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
What was old is new again, embrace and embed may succeed where extinguish failed.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Dunning & Kruger's work is far from petty; I merely gave him a dose of his own "How's that for nuance" attitude. He is wrong and his confidence is perfectely explained by D&K's groundbreaking work.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
And the result is that the comments are really of very little use anymore. Time was they used to be enlightening. Too bad Paul Graham doesn't give a rat's ass. He has the opportunity to create something beneficial to world society
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The negativity on this site towards people who express any opinion beyond the herd is making this site a groupthink echo chamber. This karma system has failed.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
So Microsoft has the chutzpah to create a github repository trying to dupe people into contributing enhancements to components of their for-profit spyware?
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
And related: "Know your enemy."
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
I didn't say any previous time period was better than today; I said that our societies being created by the most ruthless is absurd, and it is. Humans at their best work cooperatively and it happens all the time and has happened at all
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The corporations have bought our governments and are destroying the environment for their short-term enrichment. The obvious positives of technology and capitalism must be weighed against their long-term drawbacks. The unfettered capitalism
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
What if we all treated each other with respect and compassion? What if creating happiness in others was our fundamental objective as individuals and societies? Only with compassionate honesty can we root out the truly bad seeds and strip th
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
That's a really nice try. I'm sorry no one has ever told you a joke that made you laugh or treated you with concern and kindness when you were down or gave you a gift. The chain only ends when one link is left unconnected to anoth
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Because our Creator is the ultimate loner, utterly peerless, absolutely Unfathomable. We alone can choose to contemplate It and Its incredible Majesty, and we, as creatures, can only grasp tiny aspects of its Being. It would prefer that we
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
One can't be a Scotsman if one's ancestors don't come from Scotland. There are things that are true because they fit the proper description and there are people who use "No True Scotsman" because they don't wan
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
No, in the US. It's a crappy small cage, maybe 20' square.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
He mentions in the Horizon "Fermat's Last Theorem" documentary that Taniyama was "not a careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes, but he made mistakes in a good direction, so eventually he got [to] th
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The excellent Horizon documentary, "Fermat's Last Theorem", about Wiles' proof has some great interview footage with Shimura where he even discusses his sadness and being perplexed at Taniyama's sudden suicide. When
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Reading is fundamental. Let me quote myself: >> Happiness is an upwelling feeling in our being.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
>> How's that for nuance? You are too stupid to know how stupid you are. Is that you, McArthur Wheeler? Dunning & Kruger send their appreciation for inspiring their groundbreaking work.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Yeah, we have one (or maybe two?) at our local zoo and the setup is such that I was able to be eye-to-eye with one of them from less than two feet. That thing held my gaze with zero fear whatsoever of me. Unbelievable experience. It's
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Happiness : Pleasure :: Unhappiness : Misery. The former of each are karmic, the latter of each are physical. Happiness and unhappiness are not "chased"; they are earned as a result of one's treatment of others.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
That is not happiness, it is sadistic pleasure and it only increases their unhappiness. [Editing because I can't make a new reply for a while]: Happiness is an upwelling feeling in our being. Pleasure is a purely physical sensation. Su
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Let's say that, before Einstein and Boltzman, physicists thought they understood how the world worked but not only did those two expand our understanding to a much deeper level, very few of their peers acknowledged the truth for decade
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
There is a difference between happiness and pleasure and happiness requires no unhappiness to result in others. The only way a sadist can earn happiness is if they are only dealing with masochists and everyone is getting precisely what they
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
People are free to misunderstand anything they choose, but words have meanings and reality can be accurately described using words with specific meanings. [Editing because I can't reply for a while]: The dictionary writers are not the
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Freedom is our fundamental human right, self-determination is limited by material means, and dignity is knowing that you seek to both understand and embody the highest ideals. But sacrificing the freedom to cause misery to others? What a sm
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Happiness is not the same thing as pleasure. Happiness comes from within and is unrelated to external circumstances. Pleasure is a purely physical feeling and there are certainly people who take pleasure in other people's misery.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
That is not happiness; that is sadistic pleasure.
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But you are missing the very ethos of their hiring and wage practices: greed above humanity. It is what I call the "Cult of the MBA" and it drives our current world economic system is is destroying the Earth and effectively enslav
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Competition is for animals; cooperation is solely human. That our capitalistic system is competitive has good points (like keeping prices low, keeping markets efficient), but without compassion, generosity and fairness it becomes a tool of

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