big_curses

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by big_curses 4y ago
Doesn't look deleted, or do you mean a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258
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by big_curses 4y ago
I agree, but I'd also like to defend Jackson on this one. He was brought in after Del Toro dropped out and the movies had been in production for years already. He had no prep time and seemed to exist on little sleep for years. You can
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by big_curses 5y ago
If I really need to remember something I use spaced repetition, Anki being one of the more well known tools for that. Spaced repetition is particularly useful if you need to retain information indefinitely; you can do so as long as you stic
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by big_curses 5y ago
As far as I understand, we do have the physical capability of housing that many people, but a significant number of the homeless are drug addicted, have mental illness, or both, and attempts to provide housing in mass like that leads to man
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by big_curses 5y ago
Unfortunately, if this is serious, it just makes me lose respect for him. The Enlightenment was the greatest period of human history ever with regards to philosophical and intellectual progress since ancient Greece.
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by big_curses 5y ago
I think the focus on sentience is misplaced. Rather, the value should be rationality, meaning here the ability use one's mind to survive and to live by reason alone. This is valuable to any other rational living creature because ration
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by big_curses 5y ago
But at the same time, I think it's doing a really good job of what it's trying to do. Google search is not trying to be a repository for all the world's information. It's just trying to get people to what they're
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by big_curses 5y ago
Exactly, so this would be a legitimate reason for us to support biodiversity.
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by big_curses 5y ago
Yes, but if biodiversity loss and changes in the land caused by some action we've taken leads to civilizational collapse, then obviously that's not good for our lives and we should stop doing it. If biodiversity has effects that a
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by big_curses 5y ago
> The good news is that what is good for humans is to maintain biodiversity and what's good for biodiversity is good for animals. Exactly, which is why I'm generally in support of building things in a way that maintains biodive
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by big_curses 5y ago
This is going to come across as a nitpick on the title, the idea is taken farther in the article and I think it's an important distinction. No, we should not build for wildlife. We should only build for people and what is good for peop
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by big_curses 5y ago
Why abolish patents rather than just fix their implementation? Patents are very important. Without them, incentive to bring things to market falls as all your hard work of designing and creating something can just immediately be taken and r
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by big_curses 5y ago
I'll give a perspective, although my specific knowledge of math is not very deep at all, I've thought a lot about concepts and abstractions. I think the difference here is that math is much more abstract than physics. The concepts
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by big_curses 5y ago
The only two options are not either that the FDA screens and approves drugs or it being down to individuals (or even these individuals' doctors). We could have private screening and trials companies that the drug producers themselves w
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by big_curses 5y ago
Do they attack education through funding or through rhetoric? I imagine funding is where they would have more power. I already believed that education should be outside of the purview of the government, but this even more reason to keep the
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by big_curses 5y ago
I would say in the event of experimenting on non-voluntary humans, specifically prisoners, the issue is mostly about the fallibility of the law and setting a dangerous precedent. It's the same reason why the death penalty either needs
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by big_curses 5y ago
Yes, given that the evidence in support of it being cleaner is not only slim, but has been shown to suffer from extreme methodological errors, the resulting situation is that of cultural or religious genital mutilation. And I should add tha
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by big_curses 5y ago
It of course matters how far they went in interacting with him, but if all it takes for someone to try to bomb a building is another person online going, "do it, I'll sell you a bomb", they should probably not be free and are
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by big_curses 5y ago
Regarding weather and showering, I think the person is thinking more about the times of year when it is 100 degrees F outside and 60% humidity for 1/3 of the year.
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by big_curses 6y ago
If you literally mean in a checking account, I'm curious what your reasoning is for keeping seven figures in liquid assets. Aren't you just losing money to inflation?
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by big_curses 6y ago
I would argue that the original original sin is the fact that the government would bail out the banks writing these mortgages. The fact that the banks knew this encourages them to do take reckless actions in the name of profit. Why wouldn&#
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by big_curses 6y ago
For what reason are we considering these platforms "conduits of free speech"? They are simply private services, private property. In the same way you can legally remove people from your home that you don't want in there, they
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by big_curses 6y ago
If the first amendment and your concept of freedom of speech don't line up, then one or the other need to change I would think. If a right is not recognized by others/the government, then it effectively doesn't exist. That&#x
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by big_curses 6y ago
> This is a distinction without a difference. I disagree, there is an extreme difference there. Freedom of speech is specifically in regards to the government giving you the negative right of being able to say whatever you want without g
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by big_curses 6y ago
I wouldn't say no signal at all. If I have data that they are the best doctor from my options and are obese, yeah totally, I'll go for them. But if I just see a lineup of doctors and all else is equal, I'm definitely picking
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by big_curses 6y ago
"Similarly, companies won't generally elect to weaken their bargaining position with employees" Agreed, but I think the force to combat this should be unions purely through collective bargaining rather than either side using
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by big_curses 6y ago
It does make it unfair, but I don't see that as an issue in itself. For the image in your first link, I don't see the issue as Standard Oil being powerful in itself, but rather the government having the power to create regulation
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by big_curses 6y ago
Hilarious that Yelp is criticizing Google in any way given their history of manipulating reviews and ratings, something that I find much more egregious than promoting internal products and services. Aside from that, can someone explain to m
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by big_curses 6y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but I could see there being harm in lying to children about how reality works. When children are first growing up, they have no clue about the nature of reality, of what is and is not possible, but their b
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by big_curses 6y ago
Do you just sleep in a dark room until you wake up? I too want to ditch my normal alarm clock and I've been looking into light alarm clocks. These slowly grow brighter over time to try to wake you like natural light would, rather than

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