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by pkinsky 9y ago
I moved money out of CB on the 22nd and it's in my bank account now.
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by pkinsky 9y ago
It's probably important to remember that despite the anti-Catholic hysteria the Church did have a few issues. For example: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-mass-grave-ireland-201703...
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by pkinsky 9y ago
TAD EDC. It's extremely overbuilt but between the integrated dry bag laptop sleeve and the MOLLE attachment points it's worth it. http://store.tripleaughtdesign.com/FAST-Pack-EDC
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Germany has free speech, except if you want to criticize foreign dictators [1]. I think I'll stick with our extremist variant, thanks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I've always used example.com for this purpose, but this is cool. Thanks!
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Not that I take the whole Bostrom superintelligence argument too seriously, but this is an incredibly weak argument (or more accurately, bundle of barely-related arguments thrown at a wall in the hope that some stick) against it. Feel free
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I'd prefer links to stories about new ventures, their strategic impact, etc, but given that anything worth discussing usually produces multiple stories it's better that all the discussion occur on a single thread with a link to th
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by pkinsky 10y ago
The Culture themselves aren't terribly interesting. What really makes the books shine (for me) are their interactions with lower-tech societies.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I'm confident that heavily armed hicks trying to found some sort of confederacy 2.0 could offer at least as much resistance as the Taliban. The US government doesn't exactly have a great track record of successfully suppressing in
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Thanks for putting this together! As someone interested in cognitive biases, I wonder: how many of these effects have survived the recent replication crisis intact?
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Based on your inability to provide a citation my immediate assumption is that your assertion is untrue. This is generally a reasonable heuristic. If only for the sake of convincing bystanders, can you please provide a citation for this clai
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by pkinsky 10y ago
There's an extension called Delayed Gratification that just introduces a 30-second delay for the initial loading of sites for which it is enabled.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
L-Theanine (amino acid found in green tea) supplements solve that problem.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Right, right of course. Your totally secular belief system is what led you to a moral viewpoint in which it is immoral to rent the mouth, vagina or anus, of another human being, but (one assumes) renting their penis is totally fine. So as a
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Maybe you can start purifying your soul (because clearly there's some sort of puritanical religious thing going on here) by abstaining from the use of electronic devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan_mining
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Where would all the sex workers who disagree be without you to tell them how they really feel!
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by pkinsky 10y ago
If you're deliberately misinterpreting my post, we're done. If you're not, I see no point in engaging further with you. Once again, if only for the peanut gallery: you are asserting that no sex workers have agency in the matt
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by pkinsky 10y ago
>some of the people ignorant of the shifting nature of prostitution are actually prostitutes and prostitutors themselves Sounds awful paternalistic. Have you considered the possibility that people who make choices you disagree with have
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Then replace selling fruit with backbreaking manual labor: coal mining, digging ditches, whatever. Something that causes real and permanent damage to one's body over time. Is selling your labor in such a way morally wrong?
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by pkinsky 10y ago
When you say resistance, you mean 'implementing a locally controlled version of the problematic US-controlled system they're resisting', right?
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by pkinsky 10y ago
That's absolutely right. I suggest a simple experiment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12420407 It should be possible to come up with ~10 'clone' games (slap trump/hillary with a fish, hit tru
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by pkinsky 10y ago
For those flagging this, why not try an experiment? Put together two pallette-swapped games, perhaps 'Slap Hillary with a fish' and 'Slap Trump with a fish'. Submit these games to Apple and Google for app store approval.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
If it were just a matter of creating two political apps, one anti-red and one anti-blue, and observing that the anti-blue one is banned, I'd agree. The article cites 3 different games focussed on simulating violence against Trump, thou
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I try to center myself. For example, I focus fully on breath for a few breaths, think 'I am breathing in, I am breathing out'. Focus on how your feet/bum/spine are supporting your weight, readjust slightly if your postur
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by pkinsky 10y ago
They'd probably just fire you for 'not being a culture fit' or similar.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Reminder that Gawker has a history of doxing, defaming, outing and posting explicit videos of not just the powerful but the powerless. edit: had, not has, and doesn't it feel good to make that edit
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I think we're getting hung up on 'function' here: the article is really about the benefits of type systems (either runtime or compile time) as applied to the argument and result types of functions. The actor implementations I
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by pkinsky 10y ago
My concern is more about the many foreign civilians killed by America's drone program than any real belief that it would be used against the Jonas Brothers.
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by pkinsky 10y ago
I've been reading the word unprecedented a lot today. For reference, here's Obama unambiguously joking about drone-murdering the Jonas Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4
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by pkinsky 10y ago
Hopefully we'll see less tabloids outing people for advertising revenue in the future.

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