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by griffinmahon 10y ago
The speaker's previous presentation at a different year of the same conference, about using online records to fabricate your own death or the birth of a made-up baby, is also worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by griffinmahon 10y ago
He's probably better described as an anarcho-syndicalist (I don't think "social libertarian" does the radicalness of his politics justice): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism#Noam_Chom
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by griffinmahon 10y ago
Just as a heads up, the adjustment of putting your heels on a 5lb plate is actually used to train depth in the squat. "Ass-to-grass" is the squat standard for weightlifting (i.e., like in a 3rd world squat, you should want to be a
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
The absurd award of the Peace Prize is not without precedent, though. Consider that Henry Kissinger was a laureate in 1973.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I read an NYT article a while ago that made the argument that the effect of people who did not support the Vietnam War evading the draft was a military that was, twenty or so years later, when the people who did join became senior, very c
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
This reminds me of the Fleming Bond novel Moonraker , in which a whole chapter is devoted to the idiosyncrasies of the villain who is being challenged by Bond via bridge.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
At first glance there seems to be pieces that could be simplified. E.g., in this image http://community.wolfram.com//c/portal/getImageAttachment?fi... , there are 2 1x1 bricks in multiple places (on the top le
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
Clapper came to my school to talk and I asked him "to speak about the allegations of perjury". He was not amused, and repeated the line about having forgotten about the PATRIOT Act .
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
In addition to your misreading of Homage to Catalonia , you also misattributed -- the author you're looking for is Thomas Friedman.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
An interesting problem that came up during development of the Navy version, which has to land on carriers: when the landing gear and hooks were first tested, the placement of the back wheels was such that they created a sine wave in the arr
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
How did you know what he meant then?
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
Saw "5000" in the title and immediately thought of this book.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I actually don't think it's much of an ode to war or anything. I go to the Naval Academy like Heinlein did, and when I read the small details of military life and the grandiose calls to serve, I read them as criticisms or as satir
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I read Starship Troopers and The Forever War back-to-back in like three days, and I wasn't so much of a fan of Haldeman's book, the writing just didn't seem as good to me as Heinlein's and in any case they're ne
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
Fish oil yay, multi-vitamin meh.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I only made a clarification, not a stance on the matter.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
The plants dying point is somewhat irrelevant in this context as 80,000 Hours's philosophy stems from Peter Singer's brand of utilitarian ethics that interpret suffering as it relates to experience, or consciousness.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I love his writing in his essay "The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh" [1], regardless of its political/journalistic merits [1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2001/09/mcveigh200109
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
Also relevant is the reversed phrase, "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by X (some other reasonable cause)."
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
One of their counter-arguments to your second sentence is that if you, the ethically-minded person who will donate a significant portion of your income, aren't in that position at the potentially exploitative job, odds are someone else
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
You could say though that USAID is not Americans, per se, but the American government caring about African people, and anyway it could also be raised that in relative terms not that much goes to foreign aid, and also that not all of it is e
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
Hitchens fan?
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I like your distinction, and for the same reason think that there shouldn't be separate laws for the assault of a police officer -- there should just be laws for assault.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I go to the Naval Academy, and am currently a plebe so I am in the first mandatory cyber course, this one, right now (and have my exam on Wednesday!). "Cyber" is truly a technology word you only hear in the gov't/militar
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
Yes.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
Shouldn't the act's terribleness, or if it actually qualifies as abuse, be related to how long the ride was? Some people put their dogs in cages at night, for instance.
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I thought the same thing. Why couldn't they just make the ground green?
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
"Callous" is probably an imprecise word choice for the sentiment you're trying to communicate. And anyway it's not necessarily immoral to go to war for this reason depending on how you perform the calculus, e.g., dependi
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
This is like that one TED talk on longevity that found green zones where people lived much longer. One factor found in these people's lives was an ambulatory day, just generally walking a lot -- but, surprisingly, none of these groups
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by griffinmahon 11y ago
I like this a lot -- I love the idea of poring over Ulysses -- but the clicking on the reading page doesn't feel responsive enough for me and I wish annotations were displayed better (I'm used to Genius..)

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