athroway

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I used to be alt-right(reddit.com)
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by athroway 7y ago
There's a staggering lot we don't know about plants. It's partly due to their nightmarish genome complexity (often polyploid), their slow generation time (taking often decades to mature and reproduce) and the impossibility to
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by athroway 7y ago
This is certainly not unique to America but it's true the "poor people suck" vibe seems especially prevalent there.
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by athroway 7y ago
Yes, and actions movies are silly entertainment for teenagers. Hopefully adults don't actually think the tropes found in action movies should reflect the real society.
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by athroway 7y ago
Depends where you live. Many clubs display prohibitive/punitive fares on purpose, by the owners' own admission - not everyone is a rational market agent. In many clubs there are also areas (usually smoking ones, but also backrooms
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by athroway 7y ago
Alright, I'm intrigued. What use case isn't filled by most nightclubs? -Bouncers often compulsively search you in order to make sure you don't bring extra alcohol inside -Prices are at a ridiculous premium, typically to profi
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by athroway 7y ago
Dropbox has been operating at a loss since its creation and is currently not making a profit, so the jury is still out on whether it is actually successful (or just a VC-subsidized service that got advertised a lot).
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by athroway 7y ago
Yeah, they're called nightclubs with outrageous prices for drinks, or juice bars. Been to a few myself. But somehow I doubt your idea of "a space where people dance without alcohol" involves loud rave-type music. Maybe you co
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by athroway 7y ago
People don't dance when they're sober, period. Even in cultures where alcohol isn't traditonally consumed, either another substance is used or very energic and rhythmic music is performed in order to induce trance-like states
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by athroway 7y ago
Alcohol, like all drugs, is about socializing. You get to experience strong sensations (energizing, relaxing, uninhibiting, etc.) but most of all you share these sensations with people. That's why sober people tend to get bored in a
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by athroway 7y ago
You aren't going to have much of a nightlife if you don't drink. Most people would rather go to sleep after 1 am if completely sober.
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by athroway 7y ago
This just reeks of first world problems. People who "don't drink" (you know the ones), take pride in it, and when it turns out they don't have as much fun as their drinking friends, complain that alcohol and partying are
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by athroway 7y ago
In that case I guess it's up to Wheaton's law. It is much less distressing to accept designating people with pronouns one believes to be wrong, than to be designated with pronouns that mismatch one's inner identity. Purpose
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by athroway 7y ago
The vast majority of mathematicians hold platonist views. There are interesting alternative views (e.g. ultra-finitism) but I'm not well-versed enough to tell you if they yielded interesting insights or have a significant audience.
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by athroway 7y ago
If Facebook disappeared overnight, my life and that of most of my social circle wouldn't change that much. I think the issue of Facebook penetrating everyone's aspects of life is perhaps unique to your side of the Atlantic. They o
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by athroway 7y ago
Nobody is entitled to a Twitter-sized audience. I agree monopolies are bad but the fact that right-wing tolerant platforms are shitshows and niche compared to more mainstream ones is perhaps not the fault of the left. Maybe, just maybe, the
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by athroway 7y ago
The platform shouldn't exist as a monopoly for discussion in the first place. If all people, when facing a website that sucked, just stopped using the damn website like GP and me, the platform wouldn't have this much power. Seri
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by athroway 7y ago
That's the case for many abstract notions no one seems to agree on. Art, culture, nation, justice... No one really agrees on what they're supposed to be, only on single instances. Doesn't make the more encompassing abstractio
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by athroway 7y ago
Before you go on disparaging the author and philosophy in general like the proverbial xkcd physicist, take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
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by athroway 7y ago
I remember trying out Julia for the first time. There weren't many libs but I found out about @pyimport and I was like "cool, let's try some stuff" and I found out that pretty much all I wrote was calls through Python bi
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by athroway 7y ago
DCSS has been incredibly streamlined this decade with tons of quirky features being removed. You can spend most of your time playing it spamming the 'o' (auto-explore) and 'tab' (auto-engage enemies) key without missing
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by athroway 7y ago
Interesting. Many people I talk to about this stuff tell me they basically only like whatever they used to listen to when they were teenagers and have a hard time getting into other musical genres as an adult. You also see it in non-niche n
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by athroway 7y ago
I wonder how much is it due to general attitudes towards profanity and generally colloquial speech being increasingly relaxed. They only analyzed the word content, not the meaning of the songs per se.
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by athroway 7y ago
"It's cheaper to just die." Interesting argument at least.