troops_h8r

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by troops_h8r 2y ago
This is really cool, I gave it a try this morning at work. Unfortunately, as much as I like it, I can't see myself using this regularly precisely because it's a webapp. I'm sure there's a lot of folks out there that woul
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by troops_h8r 3y ago
You might like the scifi novel of the same name by Peter Watts
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by troops_h8r 3y ago
Ah, the bottom right corner of the prisoner's dilemma rears it's ugly face again. The bane of capitalism.
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by troops_h8r 3y ago
Hard agree. I'm really trying to figure out how to inject this idea into my friends' heads effectively. The main struggle I'm facing is how to convey the danger behind it. Why can it be deadly exactly? What can a program actu
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by troops_h8r 3y ago
I don't think I see enough discussion about what this means for privacy. There was some protection in the fact that it was prohibitively expensive to get someone to listen to every single one of our phonecalls/read all our emails&
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by troops_h8r 3y ago
Ah but then you'd have to explain how God started, and the problem is that whatever explanation you concoct here might as well be used to explain the very thing you invoked God to explain in the first place
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by troops_h8r 3y ago
I disagree, and I think you should take a longer view. As automation approaches total replacement of labor, capitalism will cease to work at all. This view is best summarized in this (probably apocryphal) exchange between Henry Ford II and
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
I agree and really empathize with you on this. It's frustrating how hard it is to get people to care, I've even had someone throw McLuhan's tetrad at me, as if this is the equivalent of the introduction of phone apps. We&#x27
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Heads up, it's failing to let me subscribe ('failed to send magic link email')
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Hey look I'm really trying to engage earnestly here. I did provide specific examples, but they were in the wiki article I linked and you didn't look at them (which is fair, no one likes being tossed a link like that). Let me summa
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
No. I'm just pointing out that the free-market isn't perfect. I think we should be open to improvement. Let me ask you something: do you think this is how we're going to run things for the rest of time? Feudalism came and wen
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
That's my point. It doesn't necessarily mean it is in their best interest - the free market doesn't optimize for people's best interests, it optimizes for people's perception of their best interest (which is usual
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Naively, one might say "ah but that ended in 1971!" - but let me put it this way: if you spotted a cockroach in your house, you'd be a fool to think that was
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Note that customer satisfaction != customer well being (i.e. heroin)
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
So you're saying the only thing keeping the economy together is the fact that not too many people have decided to strike? Considering that strikes are acts of desperation, I guess that means we should hope, for the sake of the system,
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
metabolism is just a means to self-sustaining
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
>We don't even really have an agreed-upon definition of life, so the question is basically non-sensical. I disagree. The most common definition used by working astrobiologists goes along the line of "chemical system that can se
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Good point, I was only thinking of myself. Might end up picking this up for a friend :))
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Yup, runs Anki. It does have a camera, fingerprint sensor, and SD card slot. It's a decently capable Android device: haven't ran into any stutter or lag. The only issue is the occasional UI glitch with apps that aren't design
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Honestly? I'm a fan of this company. It seems like they just make phones that break the universal "palm-sized glass rectangle" meta that's completely subsumed all designs. I remember when I was a kid, there was so much d
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
I played this game once at a friend's house and I've adopted it into a version I play with my chemistry students before I hand them an assignment about experiment design. It's very elegant and I think it leaves a mark on them
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Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?(acoup.blog)
52 points by troops_h8r 4y ago|80 comments
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
This is much easier to say if you're not living in any of its victim states, or under the boots of any of the vicious autocrats the US props up. Also, it's not like nuclear proliferation is solved. It's still breathing down o
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Duolingo is very gamified yes, but really the main idea here is spaced repetition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition My friends that are in med school all use spaced-repetition to cram information into th
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
I was recommended the therapist by a friend. We both struggled with depression. The therapist engages in alot of research on psylocibin-assisted therapy, and unfortunately the only way they're able to legally do the trip-sitting thing
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
Just popping in to say that psilocybin shrooms + therapy permanently changed my life for the better and I STRONGLY recommend it to pretty much everyone if their therapist specializes in that kind of thing
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
I agree of course, it's not a violation of any laws. I just thought you were asking for some moral principle to justify pressing a developer to make an API available
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
The same principle behind antitrust laws: dismantling monopolies is good for the public and good for innovation
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
This is unfortunate to hear, I'm still crawling through a chemistry PhD and I was hoping I'd be able to transition into software and get as far away from touching any more glass as possible. Do you think the situation is different
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by troops_h8r 4y ago
To balance out some of the negative testimony about psychedelics in this thread, let me say that they've helped me resolve deeply entrenched emotional issues and helped me crawl out of depression. I've only done a handful of large

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