lostconfused

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by lostconfused 7y ago
There is a useful edge case to this. In my case I was searching for a specific bit of content that had too few results in English so Google started returning results based on similar search terms in another language. It took a bunch of quot
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by lostconfused 7y ago
You can train a skill and improve on it. You can't train your head shape or arm length nearly as much. The brain is more malleable than some of the other body parts.
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by lostconfused 7y ago
"Ideal state" is inserted by your own bias. There are plenty of changes made by humans to the planetary system and some of them will be undone once humans are not around to maintain those changes.
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by lostconfused 7y ago
Ok fair enough. What is it about China that makes it explicitly not capitalist? Since it's absolutely not communism, what makes it absolutely not a capitalist economy?
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by lostconfused 7y ago
Then I didn't fully understand your initial post, I am sorry.
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by lostconfused 7y ago
And I don't want to start that discussion. I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit. It's not unthinkable for a state to miss represent it self wh
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by lostconfused 7y ago
There are plenty of exclusive communities on the internet because it's just as useful of a tool for any illegal activity as it is for corporations trying to drive more profits.
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by lostconfused 7y ago
There's a pretty simple definition of communism and it's "workers own the means of production". That's the one defining trait of communism according to any communist.
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by lostconfused 7y ago
We Must Dissent
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by lostconfused 7y ago
Need to call it something. Marx went with "estrangement". Alienation seems to be more commonly used today.
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by lostconfused 7y ago
Japan is supposedly having a wave of popularity written by elderly featuring older protagonists with the target audience being older generations.
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by lostconfused 7y ago
You'd need to specify an age group since it shouldn't be too hard to find supoort for Russia from the older generation that grew up under Soviet Union and is now feeling nostalgic for their past.
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by lostconfused 8y ago
Just look at bash.org Short, terse comments are not new. The systemic factors that cause it are somewhat different for twitter. But it's not a new occurrence.
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by lostconfused 8y ago
You got trapped in the car driving mode of thinking. Commuting and traffic is a necessary burden to most people. Most see automation as a way to reduce that burden by letting them spend the cognitive resources necessary for driving on somet
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by lostconfused 8y ago
Well that's translation and localization for you. The end result is always filtered through the personal biases of the translator. Although to some people evil and criminal might be same thing as well.
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by lostconfused 8y ago
Ah that sounds pretty much the same type of management philosophy as espoused in "Clouds Above The Hill" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_no_Ue_no_Kumo The author attributes the successes of early Imperial
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by lostconfused 8y ago
The title of article was more interesting than it's contents.
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by lostconfused 8y ago
Point and call https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j... Someone linked this article in a thread related to worker safety or hazards. There always seems to be ways to improve safety or reduce fail
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by lostconfused 8y ago
Well it's just meat and potatoes, it's going to be similar to any other dish with those two ingredients. Here's how it looks from one of the local places that makes em here https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph
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by lostconfused 8y ago
I don't think I've ever encountered Russians claiming they invented borscth. It's more of a case of the west attributing most Eastern European culture to Russia. The other Easter European cultures obviously put some efforts t
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by lostconfused 8y ago
Referring to https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/04/305-car-registrat... Which is kind of a feel good story, point and laugh at those Russian idiots bungling things again.
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by lostconfused 8y ago
The article doesn't succeed in presenting a good argument. There's a lot of attempts at making examples and using thought experiments but it doesn't actually present any sort of mechanism or model for the mental process invol
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by lostconfused 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Clouds-above-Hill-Historical-Russo-Ja... A historical novel from Japan fully accounting the events leading up to and during the war. It was translated into English this decade.
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by lostconfused 8y ago
I can't imagine why that would be intended to be humuoruos. The content of the post seems like a genuine attempt at trying to point out the potential flaws in purely text based communication via internet. To expand on such, text doesn&
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by lostconfused 8y ago
Im sorry, I’m not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can’t answer that question. Unfortunately, I can’t really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling kits, probably because I’d be eradicated from the industry
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by lostconfused 8y ago
"It's not clear how the plastic is getting into the bottled water — whether it's the water source itself or the air or the manufacturing and bottling process. "Even the simple act of opening the cap could cause plastic t
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by lostconfused 9y ago
At the level where you cite the work of others.
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by lostconfused 9y ago
Does he have any relevant to the topic in the first place?
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by lostconfused 9y ago
The article it self focuses quiet a lot on the mental framework required to create the value. The consumer has to endow the bar with value by creating a complicated mental image of the process of creating the product and then consuming it.
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by lostconfused 9y ago
Bad driver, time to remove it.

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