proksoup

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by proksoup 9y ago
It's unfortunate that we must be this paranoid.
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by proksoup 9y ago
The game you play when you retire, get the lowest score.
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by proksoup 9y ago
I believe the title is misleading out of context, I think it is meant to lack conclusions or clear statements and simply outline some areas for discussion ... a proposition paper? I'm not familiar with what that really means, just jump
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by proksoup 9y ago
Perhaps the most sustainable way. It would reduce my stress to imagine a world where my grandchildren didn't die from atrophy during the great power outage of 2079, where only the 10% of humanity that weren't reliant on exercise m
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by proksoup 9y ago
> In our culture, people suffering from schizophrenia or other forms of psychosis are more likely than members of other cultures to recognize their hallucinations as a symptom of pathology, but they also tend to have hallucinations that
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by proksoup 9y ago
I was asking for a function that converted a number (auto incremented id) to a string, such that all possible shortest urls would be iterated through. E.g. given character set a-z, 0: a 1: b 26: aa 27: ab etc. I probably had no idea what th
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by proksoup 10y ago
A lot of information can be conveyed with body language, context and emotion, to the point where it's difficult to distinguish from telepathy. Most especially with folks who've spent a great deal of time together. I'm maybe n
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by proksoup 10y ago
Took me months to realize (on macbook) ... no one believes me until I power it off and have them try again. Spooky is the word.
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by proksoup 10y ago
I enjoy reading things that have more time and intellectual energy put into them. This is not true of a lot of twitter ... but the short constraint I think is the only thing that really moves the needle in that direction on there.
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by proksoup 10y ago
"IBM CEO Personally Offers Company’s Services to Donald Trump" [1] https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/ibm-ceo-personally-offer... [2] https://twitter.com/yogthos/status/79
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by proksoup 10y ago
Trump supports free speech? He promised to strengthen libel laws (pretty sure there aren't any such thing at the federal level now ...) He said a lot of things freely, and a lot of them are interpreted by many as racist or otherwise ca
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by proksoup 10y ago
Seems pretty cruel to me. Would be nice if we had some sort of standards or guidelines or laws against this sort of treatment of prisoners. Would one need a safe word at all if we did?
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by proksoup 10y ago
To be specific, we mean like a chrome plugin or something at that level, right?
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by proksoup 10y ago
Can't they both be immoral? Whole problem is catholicism is a state supporting religion that says "your government doing evil isn't your problem". I pay my taxes, but I consider it the least moral thing I do, for my own
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by proksoup 10y ago
Wow that's an unfortunate conclusion. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and whatnot though eh.
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Million Dollar Handcuffs(aminariana.com)
31 points by proksoup 10y ago|3 comments
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by proksoup 10y ago
I disagree with Hobby Lobby's decision, but support their right to make it. There are different types of contraceptives, and that we use the same word for all types is disingenuous and muddies the argument. The day after pill is very d
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by proksoup 10y ago
That social approval is what defines what's socially acceptable everywhere. Twitter has expanded the boundaries of politically correct / acceptable speech, by enabling that brown nosing and echo chamber re-enforcement and not crac
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by proksoup 10y ago
And they would have given up control of the experience, and the types of discussion and interaction would have been different, and the "X and Y fought on twitter last night" would have become "X and Y fought on Zthingthatinte
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by proksoup 10y ago
Just editorial control over the line of "what's acceptable here" is a huge power to control the boundaries of debate. That power can be used to make massive amounts of money.
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by proksoup 10y ago
They became the defacto place for public discussion instead. The focus on 3rd party api's hindered that and would have hurt their growth in that regard maybe? Journalism happens on twitter first, it's where famous people talk to e
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by proksoup 10y ago
Like a world without lawyers, one shudders at the impossible dream. http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/9/9b/Bes... Can you imagine?
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by proksoup 10y ago
There are qc simulators online like http://www.davyw.com/quantum/ but my naive understanding is that dwave is a bit different from this. It might be the same kind of thing though ... I'm curious if it is.
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by proksoup 10y ago
I'm not sure what the threshold is for being able to downvote stories, but it's pretty high. Those that have that power have a great deal more control of the front page than those of us that don't. We're relegated to try
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by proksoup 10y ago
In my mind, the most fair would be something that didn't grant a monopoly on an idea to one player. I don't think rewarding patent owners is a goal, except that we already decided the way to reward inventors was patents and sellin
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by proksoup 10y ago
Also, this is the most interesting conversation I've ever had, please feel free to email me at derekbreden AT gmail.com if that's easy. Have a good one either way.
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by proksoup 10y ago
Yes that's perhaps our disagreement as well, the odds of a being being involved.
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by proksoup 10y ago
What need is there for purpose or morality and why ask that of your god? That is where we disagree I think.
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by proksoup 10y ago
And for the record, finding the god within doesn't have any connotation of worshipping ones self, for me personally, the idea that it might I think is a vestige for those that see a value or need to worship a god without.
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by proksoup 10y ago
The search for purpose and meaning assumes there is one. It's hard to understand how one can ask that question with presupposing that there is some thing as an "objective meaning and purpose" and it's just really confusi

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