thevardanian

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by thevardanian 4y ago
You expect kids to not heed the advice of the adults around them? And when those kids grow up to be adults and realize that the advice they were given was all bullshit to suddenly not see the utter waste of time and energy into worthless
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by thevardanian 4y ago
Would NYT publish scathing remarks about itself, or publish leaked internal data on itself? If not, I don't think such a thing should be expected of twitter either.
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by thevardanian 4y ago
If anything the problem used to be that we overestimated the importance of memorization. Maybe it's changed now, but trying to free cognitive load is important. It's the same reason why literary societies beat oral ones. The empha
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by thevardanian 4y ago
I would argue that we have much more original content today than ever before and so it's far more difficult to actually make anything truly groundbreaking. The narrative landscape today is far more complex, diverse, and refined than fr
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by thevardanian 4y ago
Household economics were often controlled by women, as well as structuring/securing social alliances or solidify social status. So it isn't hyperbole, so much as this aspect is entirely lost with more "modern" ideas abou
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by thevardanian 4y ago
Privacy is about maintaining an inviolable personal space, and the fourth amendment is very explicitly about limiting state violation of the individual person, their property, papers, or effects. Papers in particular is important because it
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by thevardanian 4y ago
I really don't understand why people don't get the idea of "digital native". Just because verbal agreements worked for thousands of years doesn't make written contracts pointless. Similarly the banking industry tech
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by thevardanian 4y ago
And I would like to see that minimum wage worker in America say they're "burnt out" to third-world country workers. You would think the old "think about the starving children in Africa" retort would die out by now..
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by thevardanian 5y ago
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by thevardanian 5y ago
Because other countries like Singapore or Japan, which have world class cities, actually care about their citizens and provide them with real support. This kind of dogmatic thinking in America will literally be the end of it. "Beatings
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by thevardanian 5y ago
This is literally not new and has been the case even in the west for centuries. In fact in many ways it contributed to its domination. It's just that the post WW2 era was entirely an anomaly, and one that we got too comfortable with.
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by thevardanian 5y ago
The idea that "if the company makes money" is taken as a universal here is false. In the real world it is entirely contentious, and the source these sorts of conflicts. The fact is no one knows for sure the future prospects of a c
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by thevardanian 5y ago
You just need one. Vanishingly small or not.
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by thevardanian 5y ago
The more hilarious thing was the hate for it. I would much rather have more usb-c ports that can do anything and add dongles, than have ports that are functionally limited.
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by thevardanian 5y ago
What might be missed is that black and blue are not necessarily differentiated. I know that, at least among Indian languages specifically Sanskrit, black and blue aren't as differentiated as they are today. A dark color/black was
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by thevardanian 5y ago
A lot of early voyages funded by the various crowns was actually put under extreme secrecy so much so that many sailors would only later be told of the real voyage... At least that's what I recall reading awhile back. If anyone could c
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by thevardanian 5y ago
Scientist: We need a machine that can fly so we can travel faster. Universe: You have feet. It took me a few billion years to craft the perfect long distance running machine, and tuned it for your purposes and called it human. In other word
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by thevardanian 5y ago
The idea that only testable predictions are valid is... short sighted. Seriously considering extraordinary ideas with as much rigor as possible, with the tools available, is something that has propelled science. If not then ideas about the
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by thevardanian 5y ago
Resilience. Being multi-planetary means your species is fundamentally protected from almost all catastrophic events. Having presence among multiple stars systems would mean not even planetary level destruction would be a threat to a species
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by thevardanian 5y ago
Having better guides is exactly what will solve the issue though. Unless you're making some kind of inherent argument, where all meditation is inherently nebulous and impervious to methodological approaches. The guides may or may not
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by thevardanian 5y ago
I mean... That's exactly what the "you're just doing Buddhism wrong" crowd is saying. There's a vast variety of methodologies and approaches to meditation, that come with their own effects, some bad some good. This
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by thevardanian 5y ago
Most Highschools currently don't really require math beyond geometry and algebra.
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by thevardanian 5y ago
I don't know how this would produce less educated people. The High School degree, like the higher education degree, should require a set of unit from various subjects to be completed. The only difference is how those classes are consum
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by thevardanian 5y ago
...your tone?
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by thevardanian 5y ago
lol $40 for full tank...
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by thevardanian 5y ago
Ya... And the internet is used for pirating media, porn, wasting time browsing, gaming and the other millions of "useless" things that it's associated with. The amount of sheer time wasted on the internet is incredible, let a
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by thevardanian 5y ago
In many ways it's far worse. Kinda like the RM mind parasites.
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by thevardanian 5y ago
You're already living it. This is just about openly accepting it.
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by thevardanian 5y ago
The differentiating factor here will ultimately be about quantifying how much energy is spent, and therefore how "official" such an interaction is. Less energy = very unofficial, a lot of energy = very official. This has a lot of
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by thevardanian 5y ago
Yup! It's fantastic place to write, organize ideas, and get responses from other people. And then respond to those responses. The chain structure of reddit conversations is very interesting, imo, and an invaluable tool.

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