joquarky

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by joquarky 4d ago
And why wouldn't nature take advantage of such a relatively simple and effective pattern, given all of the emergent behavior it produces, plus the ability to adapt? Human egos are probably the reason we also resisted the concept of hel
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by joquarky 4d ago
Yes. In fact, nearly everything is perceived as tribalistic us-vs-them team sports now, including politics.
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by joquarky 4d ago
You'll get more buy in on your ideas if you didn't present them so bitterly. Your comment seems like you were let down after getting highly attached to the theory.
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by joquarky 4d ago
Yep, alcohol is one of a very small number of recreational drugs that can kill addicted people who quit cold turkey. Even hospitals have to provide ethanol to heavy drinkers to prevent withdrawal.
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by joquarky 4d ago
Terrence McKenna had a theory that psychedelics jump started civilization by making us more open to cooperation.
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by joquarky 4d ago
> It requires employer time and effort and has a cost associated with it. Intentionally obfuscating the data¹ also requires time effort and costs. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674097
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by joquarky 6d ago
Community sounds nice until you notice that any organized collection of humans inevitably succumbs to the will of sociopaths.
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by joquarky 6d ago
There are substances to let you debug/rewire your brain, but they are usually illegal because if enough people used them, it might threaten those who prefer things to stay they way they are.
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by joquarky 6d ago
Adults justify everything they do by relating how it adds to their productivity. Even a vacation anecdote must include something about how the break is justified by increasing net productivity.
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by joquarky 6d ago
> I'd be happy to send them back there and let them see for themselves. I'm curious how you intend to do this.
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by joquarky 6d ago
> I also purchased fistfuls of silica gel packets, and I toss one into each bag when I seal it up. Keep in mind that not everything stores optimally at very low humidity. I was surprised to learn (from a recent thread here) that books wi
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by joquarky 6d ago
There was once a wise man who said the devil surreptitiously added two words to the dictionary: "should" and "ought".
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by joquarky 6d ago
"Your potential" is part of a greater fairy tale told to gifted students to make them contribute significantly more to society at the cost of their mental health, especially when the promised rewards never materialize.
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by joquarky 7d ago
You're trying to apply logic to religion.
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by joquarky 7d ago
Who gets to define those moral rights?
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by joquarky 7d ago
If anything, the more popular the work, the faster it should be put into the public domain. A kid growing up obsessed with a franchise is unlikely to ever be permitted to create and sell derivative works within their lifetime.
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by joquarky 7d ago
Nearly every convenience of modern civilization is funded with taxpayer money, so that reasoning is without merit.
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by joquarky 7d ago
What is fundamentally unsustainable is the positive feedback loop of maintaining secrecy or exclusivity on information.
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by joquarky 7d ago
> the permit process for medical compounds takes years and costs billions Seems like we are coming up on a limit where if they put that much more money into R&D + marketing, then won't be able to afford the product anyway. So th
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by joquarky 8d ago
> A friend of mine (who’s a very brilliant mathematician) once told a story that, in the beginning of the ages, God was making up a dictionary of all the words that would be used in language. And one day he visited the Archangel Gabriel,
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by joquarky 8d ago
If Tipper Gore weren't such a prude, there might have been enough votes to overcome that butterfly ballot issue.
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by joquarky 9d ago
I seem to recall Church of the SubGenius had something about this.
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by joquarky 9d ago
Same goes for a job writing closed source. This whole industry has gone off a cliff.
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by joquarky 9d ago
Laws aren't enforced against large companies.
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by joquarky 9d ago
When are the victims going to start getting significantly compensated for these breaches? They will keep happening as long as the consequences are just the cost of doing business.
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by joquarky 10d ago
Perhaps Brandolini’s Law might apply here.
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by joquarky 10d ago
It will wind up more like 1.5% once the lobbyists have reached a point of diminishing returns.
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by joquarky 10d ago
>I went through this Ford engine plant about three years ago, when they first opened it. > There are acres and acres of machines, and here and there you will find a worker standing at a master switchboard, just watching, green and yel
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by joquarky 10d ago
How do we prevent UBI from becoming as corrupted and convoluted as taxes? Governments will use UBI to drive behavior and it will always favor the well connected.
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by joquarky 10d ago
What I am surprised about is that even with all of this effort that is put into tracking us, the majority of ads that I see don't even fit my demographic.

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