Techn0logist

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by Techn0logist 9y ago
How does welfare possibly hold people back when they're required to look for a job on it? Someone who risks homelessness may have more incentive to find a job, but they're also going to have more difficulties. It's easier to
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
Holding people accountable for their actions is important, but we're still at a point where the internet is considered by most to be inherently benign. Putting all our attention on a few individuals allows us to pretend that the intern
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
Exploring the repercussions of what is happening is far more important than the character of whoever notices them.
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
I suppose I'm not an 'advanced musician', but I've been playing piano for 22 years and have never practiced a scale in my life. I think it's a detestable, anti-creative task and heavily rooted in the rigid, mechanis
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
Well, besides just getting a cheap place? 1. Live with other people. Hopefully you should already be doing this. Every sane single person in their 20s in New Zealand does. 2. Go further, and share your room with another person. It's no
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
That's actually an extremely fascinating experience. I only have two comments, both of which you've probably already considered: 1. Become a freelance web developer 2. If fish oil helped you, then avoid consuming vegetable oil (wh
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
Isn't that merely the slippery slope fallacy? Firstly, the internet does not permanently and completely eliminate our agency, it reduces our agency due to the fallible nature of self-control. Secondly, all of the other activities you
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
This is a naive and harmful view of self-control. You can love something to pieces, yet still find yourself unable to do it, merely because the draw of the internet is too powerful. We are not optimized to deal with the stimulus of the inte
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
I read about it in the newspaper for the small town my parents live in, and I have a completely non-technical friend duped into a weird Bitcoin ponzi scheme. It's getting there.
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
What job field are you in? I think I've been in web development too long, because this is not my experience.
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
It's obvious why: 1. How much does an electric guitar cost? Comparatively, how much does it cost to pirate music software on the device you already own? 2. How many people do you need to form a rock band? Comparatively, how many people
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by Techn0logist 9y ago
For those making snarky comparisons to "eating food" or "waking up in the morning"... If I had a group of people, and wanted to find out the terrorist, which would be a more useful metric for raising my probability of di