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by crotho 1y ago
HF can reflect off the antarctic, which can be heard as a kind of warbling effect when communicating over the pole between US and Australia for example.
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by crotho 1y ago
Getting paid for work in not capitalism. Capitalism is a private person owning the work someone else does that they put up the capital for.
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by crotho 2y ago
This is not how artists work at all. I don't think any school of art has done that, other than for very rough composition (where objects go in space). Most schools of art from deep history all the way to today train with copying/s
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by crotho 2y ago
If this were true all siblings would have similar anxiety issues, but I'm willing to bet this is not really the case. IMHO most mental illness is genetic, or at least the predisposition is, which can than be triggered by upbringing, bu
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by crotho 3y ago
There's a big difference between looking at reality through a bad filter and looking at a completely different constructed reality.
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by crotho 3y ago
The Harman target 3k peak renders Trumpets unbearably shrill to me making Miles Davis or any Jazz with a trumpet unpleasant, which is quite the feat.
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by crotho 4y ago
It's a decision with the grading and it's a zeitgeist. https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-d... There's another article I can't find on it. It's got nothing to do wi
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by crotho 4y ago
Have you any idea what it takes simply to maintain a machine such as twitter, let alone make even minor alterations? There was a recent telling interview by someone who used to work there who thought it wouldn't be long until the whole
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Behind Russia’s War Is Thirty Years of Post-Soviet Class Conflict(jacobin.com)
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by crotho 4y ago
It seems the problem the author has is twofold: 1. Having failed to recognize that mutual aid is an objective truth of evolutionary successful behavior in social animals and is absolutely rational behavior and that so-called self-interested
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by crotho 4y ago
Lithium is still the fallback drug of choice with the best track record. In some countries it's as much as 50% of patients. I was first put on lamotrogine and it's mental side effects were far more debilitating than lithium's
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by crotho 4y ago
The advantage is not NASA's, but SiFive's, or any other company that wants to make their own chip: they don't have to pay a license. I guess it is NASA's advantage too, because their software shouldn't be tied up wi
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by crotho 4y ago
Kiwi farms has lead to the deaths of multiple people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Suicides_of_harassm...
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by crotho 4y ago
I had it extremely young, like age 5. Really disturbed my parents, talking about how I wish I'd never been born. LOL. They never thought to get me help, so that's what you get. But actually I'm thankful I didn't go throu
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by crotho 4y ago
As the person said, they still had qualia while without the ability to form a narrative, and another person has said it was hard to remember, because narratives act as a mnemonic. Having experienced ego-death myself, I can confirm that I st
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by crotho 4y ago
Many libraries have conference rooms and small rooms you can book for silent work or meetings. Many have separated silent and social areas in which you can get away with a call if you're on headphones and not being a loud douche. Just
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by crotho 5y ago
An uber driver is not a bullshit job as defined by Graeber (and most certainly NOT a term to define a job that has not yet been automated). It's a shit job, but not a bullshit job. Short of reading the book, this is a good primer: htt
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by crotho 6y ago
> most people tend to agree with me that at least to a degree more money = more happiness, it's the reason that capitalism works What do you think capitalism is exactly? What's your definition that fits the context of that sta
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by crotho 6y ago
He was talking about the children's book version "What are Kings?" by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32177115