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> Joel run yon Nominative determinism

That exact video changed my life in exactly the same way. Thank you for putting it so well. RIP LiveLeak. Its loss is a tragedy that is hard to quantify. Perhaps a catastrophe, tha…

Some existing discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/mh8ebs/econ...

"Once we kill all the terrorists, there won't be any more terrorists" Please put a little more fucking thought into this than "why don't we just get rid of them, then they'll go aw…

Despite its name, half the value of `youtube-dl` is that it Just Works on every (free-as-in-beer, and non-DRMed) video site known to man. Every obscure Youtube alternative, every l…

I don't know enough about the history of microtransactions and loot boxes to evaluate your charge that they "pioneered" them, and that indeed could be quite important to any calcul…

There are some fantastic TDs that allow you to build your own walls in an open field, they just need to be explicitly balanced around that. Besides Desktop TD, the other main class…

Thank you for reminding me of the magic of all of this stuff. For whatever reason it's been lost to me for a long time. This is history that deserves to be remembered.

Regarding other things "never smokers" may not understand: Before I started smoking (relatively late in life), I didn't really grasp that smoking is non-trivially immediately psych…

It seems a little silly to talk about how some particular instance of desperate measures will effect some particular polity, without considering the context of that these measures …

Yeah, the "this one spreads through eyes!!!!!!!" shit I keep seeing pop up is actually helping to moderate my panic, somewhat. It reminds me how much of the "panic!" signal I've be…

1. "Hot"-style ranking 2. Non-dogshit UI

TIL: https://mfafinski.github.io/Turboslavs/ We wuz, etc

I know this is not quite on topic, but: Giving some particular construct in your language the official name "Concepts" is just unbelievably fucking atrociously stupid. Inexplicably…

The tyranny of the rocket equation has done an order of magnitude less damage to the progress of human space exploration than the mind-blowing waste of the Shuttle program.

KSP's stock career mode does have missions involving retrieving individual pieces of debris. Though it's not framed or incentivized as "removing space junk" in exactly the way you …

There's a lot of confusion out there due to a relatively brief appropriation of the term "alt-right" by a political tendency that is now more commonly termed "alt-lite". https://ww…

I'm already on extremely high alert for an apparently rapidly-growing political movement whose primary demand is that I be forcibly expelled from my home and society for the crime …