Parmenidea

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by Parmenidea 2y ago
This is a comment for a rather niche audience, but Barth basically had two literary stages: in his mid to late-twenties, he wrote straightforward modernist fiction (The End of the Road and Floating Opera). The bulk of his career was spent w
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by Parmenidea 3y ago
Honestly, yes. I had a deep skepticism of a lot of VC-backed moonshots/SPACs in 2021. However, it’s hard to deny that these moonshots were at least aimed in the right direction — way more capital going to EVs, biotech, quantum computin
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by Parmenidea 3y ago
Why do you think ZIRP won’t come back eventually?
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by Parmenidea 3y ago
How would you host the Bob’s Restaurant website?
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by Parmenidea 3y ago
What is your definition of a human right, and why does AI access meet it?
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by Parmenidea 3y ago
Do you give any credence to the reports that creatine can cause hair loss? It seems like one study found a link, but nobody has tried to directly replicate it since. Anecdotally, Reddit is filled with stories of people claiming it caused ha
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by Parmenidea 3y ago
I’d be worried about using ChatGPT for this given its tendency to hallucinate. Did you have to verify each response it gave you, or were you willing to trust the output?
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
This is such a strange take. From a legal standpoint, why is it a qualified use of government paternalism to outlaw gambling? We should not be asking the government to set laws based on morality. Practically speaking, and apologies in advan
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
Where are these leaked emails?
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
Not just any religion, it’s a Seventh Day Adventist Hospital (an offshoot of the Mennonites, who believed the end of the world was predicted in the Bible). This has all sorts of weird implications; from my memory, they can’t serve caffeine
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
My hot take is that this story is highly overrated. It’s boring, poorly written, and lacks nuance. The reason people remember it fondly is (1) everyone loves Vonnegut because he’s funny, so they don’t want to criticize it and (2) everyone r
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
Vine, Yik Yak, and Google+ off the top of my head went the way of MySpace.
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
The counter argument is that a lot of those games reward “skill”. Through study/statistics your odds improve, in the same way that equity research can lead to a good stock pick. The lottery is naked chance.
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
A revolver is a line of credit that companies use for financing. You can think of it almost like a credit card for a company — they make some general purpose agreement with a bank for $X of credit at y% interest, and can use that at their d
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
Completely agree. I think the prevalence of sequels in Hollywood underscores the point; successful content begets popular content at a higher rate than a complete unknown.
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
Spielman was my favorite CS professor as an undergrad! Glad to see his work getting some recognition. Funny anecdote — Spielman was awful at spelling. Every time he went to the board it was 50/50 on whether he’d spell all the terms rig
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by Parmenidea 4y ago
Haven’t read Hoffman’s work, so I could be misinterpreting, but if you enjoy thinking about the self as ontological grounding I would recommend reading Kant. He pioneered a lot of the ideas mentioned in your post.