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In the early 2000s, I built wonderfully complicated 'business intelligence dashboards' for a company, which pulled together large sets of data into charty views that could be confi…

There is a guide to the API here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Do any experts know if there is any overlap in this research with the study of quantum fluctuations in empty space? https://youtu.be/zNVQfWC_evg?t=1260 (David Tong: Quantum Field T…

I once picked up a very old Loeb edition of Aeschylus, and there was a four-leaf clover stuck between almost every page.

Have they ever really existed in relevant numbers? Is fiscal conservatism more of a guiding concept than a flag? It is a guiding principle for conservatives - humans who, like ever…

Yes, and do you see how roughly the same thing can be said about the Democrat party, in that most people have a hard time identifying with either party? At the end of the day, peop…

If I have it right, she feels a great deal of frustration and betrayal. But apparently not enough to give up hope that her idea is the best course to achieve progress for society.

I disagree. I have a good friend who is conservative about application of government (a 'fiscal conservative'), and very socially progressive. She is a registered Republican, and c…

Good medicine! I hope there are scores of us who see this and feel the immediate inspiration to recreate our old freak sites.

My sampling is diverse and big, in my bad opinion. I'm in the US, born in New England, and have lived in five states throughout the Northeast, Texas, and the Northwest. I've spent …

> I reckon that even at its height the type of people likely to be labeled conspiracy theorists and white supremacists were more common offline than online. My ~50 years of life ex…

I manage a small wiki, and would never just open it up to the bots. But fast is relative, no? E.g., I still use snail mail extensively to keep in touch with my friends.

You're right, people don't care. Surely, we're at a point where more well-loved quotes are represented creatively in some way than not? That has been my recent experience. I had a …

Asking for a friend? Or did you mean antagonist?

This device is seducing me to learn new skills that I wish I already had so I could justify submission to the seduction - a familiar, odd loop. Do want!

Precisely my thoughts, though I think this is more problematic than simple, nefarious malice. Sometimes it is the case that no one behind the decisions is being malicious - e.g., p…

I disagree, but would rather converse on the topic than argue, so that's thats.

Thank you for the reply - I very much appreciate the counterargument. If I have it right, the claim would be to undermine (the ontological basis of) logic itself, as the flaw is fo…

Agreed - mathematics is predicated on the idea that there are individual things, but as we are learning, through things like quantum field theory, there are no individual things, h…

While I certainly would not want to discourage anyone reading Fichte, doesn't the discussion of the distortion of "self" assume an ontology that cannot be demonstrated? Social Medi…

If only it were that easy! The only way to win is to bend over backwards to block all of their various tracking garbage that is hiding in the majority of internet websites. And I s…

This made my day, and thank you for documenting everything so well. The visible latency brings back warm, early childhood memories.

It's a losing battle - people are wise not to jump in. I'm even restraining myself from providing my own reasoning. "eppur si muove"

Awesome link, thank you. Nietzsche's career was an exercise in creating and promoting the concept of 'creative nihilism' as an alternative to existential pessimism, which works for…

Another version: no I am not. I'm impressed with how many people really do not understand the meaning of these terms. The idea that the US is culturally divided makes a lot more se…