boxmonster

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by boxmonster 4y ago
What's the opposite of imposter syndrome? Some people like Holmes, SBF and Trump are so convinced of their superior knowledge that they can't see that they are really bad at what they do Edit: megalomania delusion about one's
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I took a look at your comment history and matched you to Stepford Smiler https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StepfordSmiler
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Musk Warns Twitter Bankruptcy Possible as Senior Executives Exit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/musk-tell...
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Elon Musk tells Twitter staff that bankruptcy isn’t out of the question: report(nypost.com)
10 points by boxmonster 4y ago|3 comments
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Zuckerberg plans to make it impossible for remote workers to hide from bosses(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by boxmonster 4y ago|0 comments
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I'm going to be mad if California spends any of my tax dollars because a few derelicts who moved to the shore might get some unhealthy dust in their lungs. Most of them are smoking meth anyway. Move them and let it dry up. It's no
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by boxmonster 4y ago
The Metaverse is a sexless, joyless world, much like Mark Zuckerberg himself. Sure, there's happy fun time, similar to the forced fun of office birthday parties if you're into that.
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by boxmonster 4y ago
This is cringe. So much wrong with this. Doesn't he have grownups around him that could figure out how to fund this system in a fair way without him throwing a tantrum on Twitter? Elon, delete this.
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I was around in that time frame but don't remember McKuen, but I do wonder what happened to Zamfir Master of the Pan Flute
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by boxmonster 4y ago
It's not an urban myth. It's a rural myth.
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by boxmonster 4y ago
"Translation: the Swedes are 100% sure they can prove the Russians bombed the lines, but they don't want the Russians to know HOW the Swedes know." Peter Zeihan https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan/status&#x2F
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I'm joking but I expected to get [dead] so it's nice to see HN has a sense of humor sometimes!
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by boxmonster 4y ago
"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." @debihope (Boosted by William Gibson)
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by boxmonster 4y ago
There's more interesting info in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softalk
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Seems like this case would involve some sex along the way somewhere
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I've lived long enough and been around children enough to know that the curiosity of most children only goes so far. The existence of the phrase "curiosity killed the cat" implies to me that we feel there should be limits to
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Yuval Noah Harari says civilization was a mistake but doesn't follow up with any plan for getting rid of it
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by boxmonster 4y ago
California either needs to grow less water intensive crops or build desalinization plants. Recovering water from tomatoes and grapes won't put a dent in the problem.
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by boxmonster 4y ago
You might want to rethink your approval of spreading misinformation
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I like the prose poetry of this article. It flows in a nice way. Well done.
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Musk is an amazing polymath. I'm not sure there has ever been a person in history who is an expert on so many things. I'm sure it only took him a weekend to become a nuclear weapons expert. I feel lucky to be alive at the same tim
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Holodomor (to kill by starvation) was a famine orchestrated by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin’s Communist rule in 1932-33. Holodomor took eight to 10 million lives of ethnic Ukrainians; yet, it has been silenced and denied at all tim
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Trauma from the Holodomor genocide continues down through generations(calgaryherald.com)
31 points by boxmonster 4y ago|7 comments
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I watch movies to relax
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Sure it can. Give me some way to build a virtual location on my desktop machine - virtual server vs. web server - and then design a protocol that lets people visit it, plus a discovery service that let's people find it. The discovery s
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by boxmonster 4y ago
The early internet was funded and created by the US government and DNS was run by them too. Then open standards committees were created to make sure everyone spoke the same tech language. No one owns the internet. There's no reason thi
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Cool, this is closer to what I think will ultimately be successful. From the FAQ: What is OpenSimWorld? OpenSimWorld is a directory of 3D worlds that use the open source OpenSimulator software and are connected to each other via the hyperg
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by boxmonster 4y ago
That's my second disappointment. I prefer programming to playing games. Programming is my game. If I could stake a claim in the Metaverse and build Spalding Gray world (boxmonster comes from his Monster in a Box) so that Spalding was p
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by boxmonster 4y ago
> brutal and gritty world I think that's the attraction for early adopters who build much of the foundations. Sort of like crypto, web3, DeFi and all that right now. A Wild West were only the smart survive and you can buy drugs and
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I've read "cyberpunk" novels so I had a certain vision of what a virtual world would look like that I probably share with a lot of people. Believe me, it's not the worlds biggest online cyber mall with cyber mall cops te

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