burrows

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by burrows 4y ago
> My personal rule is just not to disrespect people and parts of their culture they find important. What even is named by the word “disrespect”? Is disrespecting me just any behavior that I call “disrespectful”? Seems like bullshit to me
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by burrows 4y ago
What is the downside to you for being an asshole? Especially if no one is aware of it besides you?
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by burrows 4y ago
How many self-help books and YouTube videos does it usually take before someone starts offering advice like this? absolutely great stuff
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by burrows 4y ago
> We're making a better world for consumers, but sometimes I wonder if it's a better world for people. Have you actually on multiple occasions wondered about this? Or has your brain just been colonized by pithy statements?
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by burrows 4y ago
> You can perceive something, but what you perceive is not necessarily a comprehensive and accurate representation of what may be there. I don’t understand what point you are making here. Please clarify. > True, and the fact that thi
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by burrows 4y ago
> For many, many people, their sense experience has included some interactions with what they perceive to be the supernatural. How can you perceive the supernatural? If you perceive it, then it’s sense data. So photons and sound waves.
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by burrows 4y ago
But don’t I benefit most by covertly defecting (crypto-assholing) in a well functioning society? Then I get the standard benefits of the society and some stolen ones.
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by burrows 4y ago
Is there a reason it is better to attribute to incompetence? Or are you just mindlessly parroting shit
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by burrows 4y ago
> The NSA only cares about you if you are talking to a small number of known hostile foreign people who are already a party to a FISA warrant. Why are you so confident about who the NSA cares about? COINTELPRO anyone?
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by burrows 4y ago
If your car has a networked computer it’s probably bugged/backdoored imo. (Talking out of my ass)
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by burrows 4y ago
Yeah, people are just imagining the NSA led global surveillance apparatus.
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by burrows 4y ago
Okay cool, imo the desire to avoid hurting her feet is a good justification. What does she say if you ask her, “Are there good reasons for not cleaning up the toys?”
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by burrows 4y ago
And you know this how?
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by burrows 4y ago
Just ask me out already, I’m an easy lay.
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by burrows 4y ago
So you think he would be more deserving of credit if he only did SpaceX? instead of SpaceX, Tesla, NeuraLink, etc?
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by burrows 4y ago
> In which case, be the opposite of an asshole. Why?
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by burrows 4y ago
Then what happens if you ask her why she is saying the stuff she says?
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by burrows 4y ago
> You sound like you enjoy your freedom to live in squalor. Right. And more generally I just enjoy freedom. > Did you know that clutter leads to stress and anxiety? Thanks Mr Gladwell > I teach my kid to fight for worthy causes Rig
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by burrows 4y ago
And you desire this to continue? Isn’t she just mindlessly parroting what you say?
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by burrows 4y ago
> It's about reflecting on what it takes to be a good person I don’t think invoking the usually incoherently used word “good” is very helpful.
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by burrows 4y ago
Balwani has a future in teaching text game to young men.
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by burrows 4y ago
Mission accomplished.
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by burrows 4y ago
> but kids actually benefit from having responsibilities. Do they? I’m not sure what I learned from my parents insisting that I “clean” my room.
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by burrows 4y ago
Who is adrift?
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by burrows 4y ago
> I'd readily grant that most (maybe all?) supernatural claims cannot be falsified, but that doesn't prove they're false. What is the meaning of a claim whose truth has no impact on my sense experience?
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by burrows 4y ago
You are not conscious, stop pretending.
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by burrows 4y ago
Yeah, operations and execution are fairy tales.
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by burrows 4y ago
> Do you want to know what success is? You’re not describing what success “is”. You are just describing something then calling it “success”. The whole setup is like bad Platonic philosophy. Socrates: what is success? Useful idiot: Money
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by burrows 4y ago
> I'm not sure this is Linkedin's problem to solve. They are just a directory. If the issue reduces user metrics, then they will want to fix it. Ultimate responsibility seems irrelevant. > It's ironic that the security
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by burrows 4y ago
What does this mean?

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