Tao331

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by Tao331 4y ago
That's the "pay someone else to do it" option. It's this way because "archive and then forget about it" isn't really a thing. It turns out an archive that is not maintained is no archive.
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by Tao331 4y ago
> Everyone is destructed in the end anyway. Is this true? How do you know?
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by Tao331 4y ago
I can't remember the last time I used an office restroom.
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by Tao331 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if restaurants found a way. I've seen folks go to great lengths to "marry" half-empty ketchup bottles.
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by Tao331 4y ago
As Foxmilk's talking lion tulpa, I can confirm the post is mostly BS. He/she (I can never tell because you all look the same to me) doesn't even know I'm on HN.
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by Tao331 4y ago
> there are self-interpretations that seem pretty self-destructive That's the counter argument to your previous assertion. A self-interpretation is wrong if it destroys the self. By destroying the interpreter (the self), the interpr
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by Tao331 4y ago
It's r/tulpas without My Little Pony
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by Tao331 4y ago
I don't think it's necessarily what I'd call narcissism. We look back on history and see people championing causes and things for real victims, e.g. the civil rights movement. I think a lot of people feel a weird guilt at not
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by Tao331 4y ago
> Ethereum uses uint256 for many things to avoid having to do floating point math. Wow. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to Solidity, so it hadn't previously occured to me that it doesn't have floating point. It stretches
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by Tao331 4y ago
I'm positive that most people who mean the former will backpedal, provide conditions and loopholes, or become outright angry and start calling you a nazi if you make them actually think about it.
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by Tao331 4y ago
What's so bad about it? If someone says they are against banning books, asking "what do you mean by that?" may not get you an honest response due to the claimant not necessarily considering their position thoroughly. Checking
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by Tao331 4y ago
> Elie Wiesel's Night I read that during my junior year in high school. It was the last straw that launched me into a depressive episode that wrecked my grades for the year that mattered most on college applications and I barely m
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by Tao331 4y ago
If you want to see the list for real, here it is: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/search?booklist=booksunbanned
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by Tao331 4y ago
It seems to have had a big cultural impact.
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by Tao331 4y ago
It just happens, apparently. Here's a decent rundown: https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/What_to_do_with_a_swollen_batter...
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by Tao331 4y ago
> let's make it harder for the people who have to clean up after security incidents Uh oh, sounds like you might have to actually do your job too!
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by Tao331 4y ago
> I really, really doubt almost anyone had racist or problematic visualizations in their mind. Reminds me how we used to have Backlog Grooming meetings, but we had to change the name because apparently "grooming" is something p
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by Tao331 4y ago
Can you please not use the word s____? My ancestors were Slavs, and when I see the word it is a painful reminder of how they were treated as property by Romans who bought and sold their "ex slava" captives. Your use of the word is
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by Tao331 4y ago
I prefer sovereign and vassal. No one has called me out on it.
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by Tao331 4y ago
But isn't the name Amazon inherently exclusionary, and one of the oldest distorted stereotypes? The mote in the employee's eye vs. the log in the company's eye
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by Tao331 4y ago
How about "motherboard/fatherboard"? If we just use that everywhere they'll all be happy. No fatherboards will feel left out. Mother-of-pearl can just be nacre, and I don't know what you'll have to call mother-
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by Tao331 4y ago
> Cutting phrases like “whitelist/blacklist” ...out of our vocabulary... addresses years of habitual bias in tech terminology Vice, you are not helping. Unless your ancestors had lands confiscated or graves desecrated in a manner
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by Tao331 4y ago
I've been using a Zoom meeting of just myself, locked, audio and camera off. Worked like a charm when I needed to discharge a swelling battery.
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by Tao331 4y ago
I think your real anger should be directed at the studios that aren't fairly structuring your benefits and compensation, as well as the union that is not getting these for you.
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by Tao331 4y ago
This essay was nearly impenetrable for me, so I suspect I'm nowhere near educated enough in the humanities to understand his book. This zinger really stood out to me: "The only appropriate use of social media, beyond simple announ
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by Tao331 4y ago
I've heard the game of Twitter described as follows: "Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it."
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by Tao331 4y ago
I was in Paris for 1-1/2 sleep deprived days, so I think I can clarify. See, in much of Europe, the toilets have a little flush button and a big flush button. My understanding is that the big flush button is for le double mouvement .
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by Tao331 4y ago
Is this a counterargument?
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by Tao331 4y ago
Those categories aren't mutually exclusive.
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by Tao331 4y ago
This illustrates the worst thing about Play Store: I can search for an app that I know exists, but if it's not supported for my device /OS version, Google will pretend there's no such thing. Surely there's a reasonable U

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